Dealer's Buying FAKE Likes on Facebook. v. 50K Fans, Are You Serious..

[kcar]

McCluskey Chevrolet - Automotive - Cincinnati, OH | Facebook

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They bought them through a company that charges $500/month for 5K likes per month. How ethical is that, faking your count.. Also if you look at their status charts, it shows 6, yes SIX likes/month to 5,000+ and for a few months then drops down again. Seems like all the other dealers in their Automall area are starting to use it as well..

, seriously..

 

[Jeff Kershner]

That's crazy. I always laugh when I see crazy shit like that. They'll bitch about spending money on something that performs and helps to sell cars each month but turn around and spend money on something this.

 

[yagoparamo]

You think that is bad, check this one out:

Wikimotive | Facebook

 

[kcar]

You think that is bad, check this one out:

Wikimotive | Facebook

lol. That's the vendor who does that for those two pages above! Also they offer 2,000 Google +1's, yet I would LOVE to see any dealer order that, Google will de-list them from the SERPs without hesitation. (Hundreds of studies on this). I hate vendors like WikiMotive, they have no idea what their doing, even if you want to buy +1's they have to be in a very slow diverse dripfeed, which they know clearly nothing about. Offering a service that can destroy a dealership's website, I dislike the fact, but if a dealer wants to be unethical, I'm all for their websites getting de-listed.

 

[rkazantsev]

The only thing that $500 a month has done is put a negative number in their profit margin, since 5% are real follower. Smart consumer don't decide on where their next purchase will be based on FB likes.

Cheers
Ruben

 

[kcar]

101,000 Likes for a car dealership.. Milford Nissan - Car Parts & Accessories, Car Dealership - Milford, MA | Facebook wow..

 

[yagoparamo]

101,000 Likes for a car dealership.. Milford Nissan - Car Parts & Accessories, Car Dealership - Milford, MA | Facebook wow..

If you look at the images of this dealership they have a Wikimotive (the company I linked above with 50K friends) watermark, so they are probably doing this 100K friends BS.

 

[kcar]

Also, you can buy 5K likes for ~$44 everywhere online.. (And that's a single order, bulk orders get them even lower), and on almost any SEO forum.. Simply send e-mail to random provider, and it's done in 1-3 days. Charging $500/Month is crazy. ex: 10K likes, a $1,000 Bill for $88 worth of products, not to mention it's social so good luck getting any value of it to begin with..

 

[tijerin]

Don't read anything at all into this.. cough.. but if you do a Google Image Search for "car dealer fail", a picture of the owner of Wikimotive is pretty close to the top of the results. Seriously. Just saying.

 

[tijerin]

Oh, I bet you can't guess who worked at this dealership before starting his own business.

Marlboro Nissan - Car Dealership, Auto Body Shop - Marlborough, MA | Facebook