These guys gave us a great laugh here in the office. A lady called up saying she was from 411business.us and wanted to know if we wanted to renew our listing on that site. After much haggling, we finally got the price out of her: almost $500 for two years. She must have thought we don’t have an accountant because one quick look proved we’d never done business with them before. Ever.

Here are the reasons I put this company on this page: 1. She lied to us about having paid before. That would be enough. 2. Their site doesn’t rank well in search engines, so chances are no one would find us on their site to begin with. 3. The “listing” they give you is the same information people can find for free in Google, and are more likely to find in Google. 4. The price is obscene to begin with. 5. She said we couldn’t see our listing because it had expired last month. Any company worth anything gets a renewal BEFORE expiration, so red lights were going off everywhere.

Avoid them, and 99% of the other “directory” phone solicitations you’ll get.