05 May 09 Why are sponsors listing “titles” say inter-lake mortgage when they are just marketing companies?
Rommie B asked:
I own the mortgage company - Inter-Lake Mortgage Company in Michigan. The sponsor listing using my company name is illegal. Most of these sites are marketing companies collecting “YOUR” personal information and selling the information to any company willing to pay for the personal information. These are not the best companies to work with since they have to purchase the information instead of advertising themselves. DO NOT USE THESE COMPANIES. A good company receives most of the customers from referrals. You will find that your information is sold over and over. You receive calls, emails for months, and possibly years from all types of companies and most likely third world countries. So next time deal with a finance company directly.
Ada
I own the mortgage company - Inter-Lake Mortgage Company in Michigan. The sponsor listing using my company name is illegal. Most of these sites are marketing companies collecting “YOUR” personal information and selling the information to any company willing to pay for the personal information. These are not the best companies to work with since they have to purchase the information instead of advertising themselves. DO NOT USE THESE COMPANIES. A good company receives most of the customers from referrals. You will find that your information is sold over and over. You receive calls, emails for months, and possibly years from all types of companies and most likely third world countries. So next time deal with a finance company directly.
Ada
Tags: Inter Lake, Mortgage Michigan
Reader's Comments
Marketing companies are doing exactly that, making a market for their sponsoring company. I worked with a company, we will call ABC that searched out contacts for a sponsoring company, we will call DEF. We were contracted to act on behalf of DEF, so when ABC people called we were authorized to say that we were with DEF. When we stirred up interest, then we passed it on “to the big boys”, the high-dollar sales staff at DEF. In your case a marketing company, we will call GHI is working for inter-lake mortgage and is authorized to speak on their behalf to scare up business for inter-lake. GHI employees are paid by GHI, but GHI is paid by inter-lake to have GHI people promote on their behalf.
It isn’t dishonest, unless inter-lake mortgage is really fly-by-night sales, which is to say that they will take your money and run. The hint comes when you write the check. If you discover that there really is an inter-lake mortgage and when you go to write the check they say, “Oh, just make it out to GHI, or make it out to me, I’ll give you a receipt and pass it on to inter-lake”–tear the check up and run.