rival website

loyatemu

got a leaflet through my door yesterday

http://www.charleslandresidents.com/

membership only €20 a year - someone trying to make a fast buck?

MyPerfectCousin

I go the leaflet too.

I just went to the site and it looks incredibly amateurish, it has no contact or "About Us" details about who is running it, and the kicker -- my virus blocker kicked in because it identified something nasty trying to download when I opened the site.

I can't blame someone for trying out a business idea, but if the person behind this had done the required research he would have known there is a virtual graveyard of unviewed information portals and message boards dedicated to towns and estates, including Greystones, and they didn't even cost money to use.

Good luck I guess?

Plenty

JamesP wrote:

Check out http://charleslandresidents.websitewizard.com/home

eoin_s wrote:

James, the one link here is enough, please don't put it in every thread here.

Be very careful, that site has a virus!

Eoin

loyatemu wrote:

got a leaflet through my door yesterday

http://www.charleslandresidents.com/

membership only €20 a year - someone trying to make a fast buck?

OK, I am trying to be quite impartial here - and also not pimp my own business (don't want Mike to ban me!)... But:

The design is pretty poor, and hard on the eyes - yet they have a link to a free web template site that they should have used in the first place.

The message board is hosted on another site, and only costs $42 per year. If you don't mind hosting your message board on another site, there are loads that would do it for free anyhow.

The hosting and domain registration for such a small site would be in or around €50 per year. In fact, had they done their homework, that price would have included a message board anyhow.

All that said, I could understand if they were charging business €20 for a listing, but charging would-be members that is a joke. They would only have to sell a couple of business adverts to break even anyhow. In fact, some google adwords would probably cover most the running costs alone.

Plenty wrote:

Be very careful, that site has a virus!

Thankfully, that page seems to be unavailable now.

Charlie-Bravo

So has this company "charleslandresidents.com" been registered with the CRO as a Business Name? Is this a limited company? Wonder who the directors are!

Jabba90

go to cro.ie and check you can search company names..