The ugly side of "professional Business services"!

I realized long ago that finding good help when starting up a web 2.0 site, is difficult. I have had to deal with so many crooks, liars and fakes I am glad to be about finished by now.

Many Professionals in the business world will take your money and produce little. In the past Myabuy.com had encountered some of the worst types of "professionals"  The ones that promise you the world and deliver nothing.

There is also a dirty little secret when dealing with dishonest "professionals business services" They care about money, and very little about whether your business idea is good. They are too LAZY to even consider stealing a business idea unless they can sell it off quickly. Recovering the money they took from you however can be the most time consuming and hellacious expeirience alive.

It is amazing how many so called "professionals" are out there who are allowed to continuously engage in illegal, immoral activity without repercussions. There are so many it is damn scary the more I think about it. 

It is sad that many entrepreneurs including me, have to learn the hard way which professional providers are good because the majority of professionals you meet or see on search engine ads are not. 

Getting my atypical start up www.myabuy.com going in the right direction was the most frustrating and expensive lesson learned.

I dealt with companies that spent all their money on search engine ads and nothing on customer service or competitive pricing. Many of the large companies I had experience with,  engaged in sales practices that I found out were illegal, unethical and against standard industry practices.

The first merchant account company I dealt with are one of the "biggest" players in the merchant industry. They say so on their site, Their heavy search engine sponsored ads are shown anytime someone types in merchant acoount.  No where on the companies site, or on the web was there any mention of the company receiving a F with the BBB and complaints so numerous that the company had to agree to not mention BBB in any of their operations.

In the old days this merchant account company's actions would probably be investigated and shut down by the government and alas that is not the case. Even as I write the same merchant account company is still heavily advertising on the major search engines luring a whole new generation of inexperienced first time entrepreneurs into their unending trap of bills.

New start ups will meet and may do business with a lot of jackals that claim to offer professional business services.

Best of luck and God speed.

-Chief Myabuyer