Comments on: LockedIn LinkedIn Premium: a US$24.95 rip-off

By: helix2301

helix2301 — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:52:00 +0000

Thanks for the advice I almost bought this

By: Scott Fitzgerald

Scott Fitzgerald — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 23:00:00 +0000

I had a similar experience Lee. I signed up via the free 30-day trial, but could see not terribly much improvement on the free service.

By: » LinkedIn Premium Report: Much to be desired Ron Marshall Jr's Not Safe For Work

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:56:51 +0000

[...] First and foremost in my mind is a really shoddy bait and switch. A great post by @Jordi_Gili makes this pretty plain: one does not actually receive all of the Premium benefits touted by LinkedIn. Most egregious to me was the fact that I, like Jordi, was eager to see all the people who looked me up on LinkedIn. Instead of that, however, I get to see things like “Anonymous person at XYZ Marketing” and “One of these people looked at your profile.” Thanks. I knew that in the free version. @leehopkins lays that one out pretty well. [...]

By: Pramod Somashekar

Pramod Somashekar — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:56:14 +0000

LOL. Well, you know the vast majority of these premium services are a joke. The amount of people that actually get hired via these services are few, and most get hired through REAL LIFE connections.

Recruiters use linkedin to contact PASSIVE candidates. If they want to contact you, then you'd surely receive an email from them. The last thing a recruiter wants to do is wake up and find 50 people who tried to contact them. This makes their life more difficult. In addition, the vast majority of recruiters I know will not even deal with unsolicited emails or resumes. They will throw them out or mark as spam, and that's the truth. However, in this slow economy I know of a few recruiters who would deal with unsolicited resumes, but only for contingency placements and introductions, but VERY few to say the least.

By: Donna Papacosta

Donna Papacosta — Fri, 28 May 2010 07:27:44 +0000

Good to know, Lee! Thanks for this post. I have wondered whether the premium membership might be worthwhile for this very reason — seeing who has viewed your profile.

By: Barry Vern

Barry Vern — Wed, 26 May 2010 21:16:48 +0000

I joined, thinking I could offer a particular job to an outstanding person I had worked with some ten years ago. His name does appear on many normal searches, but they are all tied in to LookedIn.

So when I joined up, with all the usual details, I find that the next step is to stump up a fee, from which I gather I will not actually be able to get a response, seeing that there is little detail within the site confirming he is either in need of a job, can actually receive any connection from me via the site, or has tried cancelling an account without success, leaving his name on the site.

So a double whammy, two prospectives have to pay their fees and there is still no guarantee they can make contact. I smell a scam. Nothing to do with PayPal I suppose ?

So,

By: Lee Hopkins

Lee Hopkins — Mon, 17 May 2010 11:31:44 +0000

LOL! And do you think I can get the payment stopped? I keep asking their customer service, but it looks like the payment keeps going through… I'd rather just send you the cheque

By: Andy J Cronin

Andy J Cronin — Mon, 17 May 2010 10:11:07 +0000

Yay I got a mention. Save your $US 24.95 Lee.. I'll just flick you an email everytime I view your profile on LinkedIn.

By: Lee Hopkins

Lee Hopkins — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 07:53:01 +0000

Mario – I completely slipped up and forgot to reply back that I'd like to unsubscribe. Now several months have fallen since your initial kind offer — can you organise an unsubscribe, please?

Many thanks,
Lee

By: Mario Sundar

Mario Sundar — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:56:22 +0000

@lee, I'll be glad to walk you through our premium feature set. If you'd like to unsubscribe, I'll let our CS team know and they can help out. feel free to email me with any questions.