Oh Dear: Unnecessary Paid Subscriptions

[milanbenes]

It always amuses me in today's world how people wonder where their hard earned goes, dripping away and emptying their pockets

a case point, Tom Tom map updates

when I were a lad, mum and dad bought a road atlas every ten years for a tenner, these days Tom Tom want you to subscribe to map updates for something stupid like ten quid a month


and what's provoked this email, received an email this morning from an enterprising agency offering me to be in the premium list for a subscription of £4,99 a month, for that they offer me:




Targeting CV Pool
Stand out at the top and make your CV avaliable to our in house resourcing
team.

Premium Alerts
We send personalized messages directly to you about the contract jobs that
suit your CV.

Exclusive Networking Group
You get access to our exclusive contractor networking group

In House Resourcing Team
Our In House resourcing specialists match your CV against our clients live
roles.

Live CV Webinars
Live monthly webinars on house to write an effective CV for the contract
market.

Premium Status
Get noticed by our clients and recruiters with Premium Status


Terms and conditionsUsers who choose to purchase premium status
will have access to our premium job alerts section, and our resourcing team
will use our award winning software to parse and match there
BEEP-BEEP.com profile with our client?s requirements.
All Job targeting emails are manually checked by our in house resourcing
team. We strive to make our suggested contract jobs as accurate as possible,
if you receive a job target email that does not match you profile please
tell us as soon as possible by forwarding the erroneous email to
[email protected] and explaining how it does not meet you required
criteria.
Payment will be taken monthly (£4.99) or annually (£39.99) through our
PayPal merchant account and you may cancel at any time.



Milan.

[eek]

KUATB http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...tjobs-com.html

[fullyautomatix]

They have to somehow monetise the service. The 'premium' service is nothing but marketing blurb. Even if 1 out of 10 mugs fall for this they still are able to get some income coming in. Worth a try.

[Ignis Fatuus]

They have to somehow monetise the service. The 'premium' service is nothing but marketing blurb. Even if 1 out of 10 mugs fall for this they still are able to get some income coming in. Worth a try.

It's a bit like your local pizza delivery service offering to give you a copy of their flyer menu if you pay for it. For 4.99 a month you get a Premium Service where they will also answer the phone when you call for a pizza.

What they (not the pizza guys) should be monetising is matching contracts to contractors. Their "premium service" is just their cost of doing business.

[BoredBloke]

My CV must be with pretty much every agency in the UK. If I were to use their premium service then the costs would be horrific.

Perhaps their premium service should be to have somebody tell you that the job you have shown interest in is bollocks and was really an attempt to harvest CVs

[SimonMac]

Does this mean that I should cancel my CUK Premium Membership?

[milanbenes]

they should be paying us for leaving our cv's with them

without our cv's they have nout

Milan.