John Cota Scamming 100's of Ebayers
Complaint 63822 Details

  • Date Occurred: 01/01/2014
  • Reported Damages: $7,891.00
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The complaint is against an online dating profile

The complaint is a listing fraud posted on public forums or sites against an anonymous entity

The complaint is mobile text spam or smishing related against an anonymous entity

The company or person contact no longer exists

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because so many people have been scammed by john and because most of us have received some sort of compensation only after we left positive feedback I feel its going to be my duty every month to show the community just how much he makes on his scam games.

JANUARY EARNINGS $7891

See results for yourself:
http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBidsLogin&_trksid=p4340.l2564&rt=nc&item=270857693270

http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBidsLogin&_trksid=p4340.l2564&rt=nc&item=280756810384

http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBidsLogin&_trksid=p4340.l2564&rt=nc&item=280754173136

http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBidsLogin&_trksid=p4340.l2564&rt=nc&item=270878216042

He has refunded quite a few people already but if you bought from him id get a refund asap. He has been a SEO expert for years only his website linkexchangeteam.com is not anywhere on the first page of google for top keywords. Does that make any sense? An expert who can get your website to the top of google but cant get his own sites to the top.

Get your refund and report him. I will keep everyone posted of his earnings every month so that we can all monitor this scammer.

Update: 01/25/2012

The more you move in quicksand the more you sink.

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  • MarkWilliams
  • MarkWilliams SBID #49a69b7dd8
  • Posted 01/26/2014
  • I am a customer of John's and I cannot believe what I am reading. I have used his SEO services on my websites for several years and has always generated excellent results for them. He has also built five websites for me that are currently making anywhere from $1 to $7 a day. They all rank very high on Google and other search engines.

    The person who is posting this slander against John seems to have a very aggressive agenda to try to destroy him. Anger and malice of this nature is not something that normally results from a $300 purchase. It is very obvious that the author of this slander is trying to ruin John's name and his business reputation.

    John is very easy to reach by email, and if I have ever had any problems with his service, support, or communication. If there are ever any problems with my website that might cause Google to disapprove of its content, John emails me with details about what my web designer needs to change to make it more Google-friendly.

    I did have a website that I bought on eBay that was cloned from another site, and at first John's SEO service didn't help it any. After looking into the problem to see why Google didn't like it, John helped me get rid of the duplicate content that was on it. Now it is ranking on the first page of Google for a popular keyword.

    What your motives for posting these hateful slanderous posts are, I don't know - but I am guessing you are probably a jealous competitor of his on eBay and trying to get him shut down so you can get more work. Whatever the reason, your vicious posts are way over the top. It is obvious that you are out to destroy John for ulterior motives of some kind. You have even created multiple aliases to act like you are more than one person. Slick. Don't you have anything else to do with your life?

    I just wanted to post this as an actual customer of John's. This is the opposite of the experience that I have had with him, and this is just wrong.
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  • MarkWilliams
  • MarkWilliams SBID #dbb4a7cae3
  • Posted 01/28/2014
  • Dylan, don't you have anything better to do than assault someone by creating a bunch of sockpuppet aliases and acting like more than one person? You are obviously a very angry person with an agenda.

    John is busy working on web development and SEO, and you are posting his earnings. Why aren't you posting your earnings? Let me guess - you probably don't have any, because you waste your days stalking John with a bunch of fake aliases acting like you are angry customers.

    Also, there are THOUSANDS of SEO companies, and I have used several of them such as rankpay.com and others. These companies do les SEO work than John does and they charge thousands of dollars for what John does for less than $500.

    For those of you who think that you can't get a website to the top of Google for specific keywords, you simply don't know how SEO works. Google actually tells you how to get your website in the top rankings. People just try to use unetchical methods to trick Google, and those blackhat methods really don't even work anymore.

    I have a suggestion for you Dylan. Follow John's example and put in a few 16-hour days of web development and SEO work and maybe you can start posting your own earnings.

    Looks like somebody is very envious and enraged if you ask me.
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  • MarkWilliams
  • MarkWilliams SBID #dbb4a7cae3
  • Posted 01/28/2014
  • Dylan you are obviously a mentally ill stalker who is focused on ruining anyone who gets in your way instead of making yourself successful. John has said numerous times on all of the ridiculous threads you have posted that he is not even using that website, so why would he focus on it?

    You have made up dozens of fake aliases and you are trying to act like you are multiple different customers, which is not even true. You are creating sockpuppet identities as part of your split personality to attempt to make it look like multiple people are stalking John... but it is only you.

    Some people work to get ahead, some people work to destroy those who do. Which category do you fall into? It seems obvious to me.
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  • MarkWilliams
  • MarkWilliams SBID #dbb4a7cae3
  • Posted 01/28/2014
  • Dylan, you say you were a customer of John's that got a refund from John when he didn't get it to the top of Google for you. So why are you stalking him?

    The reason that you give for your stalking is that his service is a scam that doesn't work. You are basing that accusation on his inability to get your website to the top of Google. Did you ever stop to think that maybe Google rejected your website due to irrelevant or duplicate content?

    The fact is, SEO works and you are saying it does not. John is saying he has hundreds of clients that enjoy thousands of #1 Google results, and you are saying he is lying. How can you support your claims? Giving the URL of a neglected website is not proof of anything!

    I don't blame John for not posting any of his client's #1 Google rankings here, because you would harass and stalk them.

    Tell me something Dylan... did you abuse animals as a child?
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  • MarkWilliams
  • MarkWilliams SBID #dbb4a7cae3
  • Posted 01/28/2014
  • Keith Dylan Frank, your website www.paysmedaily.com has a sneaky redirect that points to www.networkmarketingvt.com/?id=dylan6 which is a page fll of duplicate content that was "borrowed"from ultimatepaystreak.com.

    How can you blame John for you getting scammed on a website like that Keith Dylan? John is not to blame for that mess. Your website is not Google-friendly. John most likely told you how to fix it, and then you went postal on him and slandered him as being a scammer.

    The real scammer is the guy that you bought that website from Keith Dylan Frank. Not even the best SEO company in the world can get that thing to the top of Google until it gets rid of all the blackhat redirects and duplicate content.

    You don't have to be an SEO expert to know these things. Google makes it real easy by giving you the formula on how to get to the top of Google... you simply follow the Google Webmaster Guidelines, and it works!

    Do you still live in Troy, New York Keith Dylan?

    You are busted.
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  • MarkWilliams
  • MarkWilliams SBID #dbb4a7cae3
  • Posted 01/28/2014
  • Wow... I was right. Within 30 minutes of my last post, Dylan (Keith Frank) changed the DNS on his website paysmedaily.com back to a GoDaddy parked page. Coincidence? LMAO! It really is you Keith Dylan. The whois file still shows it as you also. Busted!

    Keith Frank has been slandering John Cota all over the Internet with lies and malicious attacks that have no merit whatsoever. The excuse that Keith gave John for his reckless assault? "I have been scammed for tens of thousands of dollars on the Internet." So Keith (Dylan) decided to unleash his pent-up rage against John Cota and his family for every person who ever scammed him on the Internet.

    All you had to do was pressure John for a refund and he would have given one, just like he has to many others. But he is not in business to gve away dozens of hours of web development work, backlinking, access to wekly search engine reports, free webhosting, etc. for free or he would be out of business. Therefore he tries to work with clients before extending a refund to see if he can spot the problem with the client's website that Google doesn't like. Can you blame him?

    You tried to ruin this person Keith Dylan. You should be ashamed of yourself for taking out your rage against Internet scammers all on this one solo very-legit SEO expert and his hard-earned reputation that you have attempted to destroy.
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  • MarkWilliams
  • MarkWilliams SBID #dbb4a7cae3
  • Posted 01/28/2014
  • When people become #1 at something they become targets of envy and rage. John has been #1 on eBay for well over a year now, and he became a target. While 99% of his clients were 100% satisfied, all it takes is one angry person to destroy a reputation that took many years and hard hours and long nights and sacrifice to build.

    It's so easy to post anonymously and make up aliases to act like you are multiple angry customers. This is what has happened here. John may not always be #1 SEO on eBay and enjoy 100% positive feedback because all good things come to an end. But he is a great SEO expert who is responsible for generating thousands of #1 Google rankings for his clients. That is an absolute fact, believe it or not.

    Am I John? Well, let me ask you a question - are you Keith Dylan? LOL. Let's just say I know John really well... and now I know all about Keith Dylan. It's a small world.
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  • MarkWilliams
  • MarkWilliams SBID #dbb4a7cae3
  • Posted 01/29/2014
  • Every single one of these posts is by the same person, Keith Frank. He owns a website that was banned by Google, and he is trying to blame John for it and for the tens of thousands of dollars he las lost on Internet scams.

    Here are the facts for anyone who is interested:

    1. John is one of the most well-respected SEO providers on eBay and elsewhere. He enjoys great feedback from his clients because his SEO services are very effective. Well over 99% of his clients and repeat clients are very pleased with his work.

    2. If you have a problem with any of John's work, all you have to do is contact him. If you are his client, then you probably have his email address. All you have to do is email him, and within 24 hours (usuallY0 he will work out any issues you have or even give refunds when appropriate.

    3. Keith Frank is responsible for 99% of the slanderous malicious posts that you read about John. He goes by the alias "Dylan" and he purchased a bogus affiliate website at www.paysmedaily.com that redirects to www.networkmarketingvt.com/?id=dylan6 which is a page fll of duplicate content that was "borrowed"from ultimatepaystreak.com.

    3. Keith (Dylan) Frank is blaming John for all of his Internet failures. Keith has been ripped off by countless Internet scammers for tens of thousands of dollars, and he has directed his rage for this at John, who is probably the only legit vendor out of the bunch.

    4. The website linkexchangeteam.com is not a website that is in use at this time. That is why it doesn't have a top Google ranking. John has many other projects that he is currently focused on, and that is not one of them. So try again - your argument has no merit whatsoever.

    If you have a problem with John, he will take care of it. All you have to do is email him. But this has nothing to do with John's work at all. All of these posts are the result of a mentally ill person who is stalking John and posting malicious lies about him.
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  • MarkWilliams
  • MarkWilliams SBID #dbb4a7cae3
  • Posted 01/29/2014
  • I work with John on a daily basis and he is 100% legit.

    Here's my question to you: Why haven't you contacted John with your concerns? You say he is a "scammer", yet John says that you have never even tried to contact him. He is waiting for you to email him so he can work out any concerns you have with his services.

    This proves that you are not a legitimate customer of John's, you are just someone who wants to ruin him out of your own rage. You are obviously a very negative and depressed person, and you will eventually self-destruct by being consumed with your rage and hatred.
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  • MarkWilliams
  • MarkWilliams SBID #91a9eb6aa3
  • Posted 01/29/2014
  • Wow, what a pathetic existance to sit around on fake ripoff report websites whing and crying like losers. I can only imagine what your home life is like. Probably a bunch of McDonald's bags laying around your mom's basement in a pile of filth.

    Why don't you contact John if you have an issue? He is great at customer suport and would be happy to take care of any issues you have. But Dylan, we know you would rather just throw temper tantrums, throw you fits, and whine like a little baby on fake message boards.

    Get a life.
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  • MarkWilliams
  • MarkWilliams SBID #91a9eb6aa3
  • Posted 01/29/2014
  • Every word spoken here is a lie about John. You have no idea what you are talking about. He has repeat customers that come back to him time after time because he gets results - period.

    You obviously have no life. You exist simply to annoy people and whine about your horrible excuse of a life. You blame all of your problems on others because you are envious of their success. But what you fail to conclude is that their hard work and persistance got them where they are. On the other hand, your negativity and whiney temper tantrums have gotten you where you obviously are - in the gutter.

    Don't blame your failures on others. If you got scammed on some cloned website that you purchased, don't blame John for it. His service is very effective and very economical.

    What a pathetic life you must live.
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  • Dylan
  • Dylan SBID #996bc05388
  • Posted 01/29/2014
  • Mark you sir are an absolute idiot. If your trying to score another date with John then keep defending him like he's your partner. This is ridiculous. Dont you have something better to do than defend a spammer. Is John not big enough to defend himself from his own clients?

    John Cota is a scammer as I have said he promises everything but gives you nothing. In the end you may get a refund but remember the money that your getting is really another person's money who was also scammed by John.

    Its a circus and John is the ringleader.
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  • CaptainThunder
  • CaptainThunder SBID #996bc05388
  • Posted 01/29/2014
  • I just bought a site from him a few weeks ago but after viewing all these comments im having second thoughts with using him I might have to request a refund if my site doesn't start earning adsense revenue soon
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  • CaptainThunder
  • CaptainThunder SBID #996bc05388
  • Posted 01/29/2014
  • I just noticed something every Mark Williams is confirmed to be john cota because John Cota has been banned from this website all of the comments he posted and his entire profile has vanished.

    MARKWILLIAMS=JOHN COTA

    Nobody listen to Mark he is John Cota. John if you try to spam again your just going to be deleted so I advise you talk like a civilized person and control your anger. Your only sinking deeper when you lash out at your past clients.
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  • Dylan
  • Dylan SBID #996bc05388
  • Posted 01/29/2014
  • Wow thanks captain didnt even realize that yea if I were you id get your refund asap. When I requested my refund he said that I paid for advice and that it was not my fault my site had duplicate content
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  • MarkWilliams
  • MarkWilliams SBID #dbb4a7cae3
  • Posted 02/01/2014
  • This is obviously a slanderous attack against John that has no merit whatsoever. One of his competitors or some basement Internet terrorist has decided to target John with slander. What can you do about it? People can slander other people anonymously online with any false accusation they want to. It happens all the time to perfectly legtimate people and companies. This website is proof of it!

    If you have issues with John, just contact him. He is not hiding from anyone, and he is very easy to work with. If Google doesn't like your website for some reason, he can help you fix it - guaranteed. John offers great service and support after the sale.

    Don't believe these lies. There are always going to be one or two angry people who go after successful business people and try to ruin them. It's part of life. These attacks on John do not portray him accurately whatsoever.

    None of John's work is a "scam". He simply helps make your website Google-friendly and develops websites that get top rankings on Google. If you follow his advice, it works. His hard work and research has made him successful, and an envious competitor or hater of some kind is trying to destroy him. It's as simple as that.
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  • Lietuviai
  • Lietuviai SBID #2c09282608
  • Posted 02/08/2014
  • Just to let you all know this guy ripped me off too! :( Because it was more than 3 months ago I can not leave feedback on ebay nor I can claim the money through paypal..
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  • Dylan
  • Dylan SBID #6fa22da900
  • Posted 03/02/2014
  • Alright everyone I have tallied up johns earnings for the month of february across all of his sales this is what I got

    http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBidsLogin&_trksid=p4340.l2564&rt=nc&item=270878216042 (x3 $389) = $1167

    http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBidsLogin&_trksid=p4340.l2564&rt=nc&item=280754173136 (x2 $389) = $778

    http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBidsLogin&_trksid=p4340.l2564&rt=nc&item=280756810384 (x2 $389) = $778

    http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBidsLogin&_trksid=p4340.l2564&rt=nc&item=270857693270 (x19 $389) = $7391

    TOTAL LOSS BY CONSUMERS THIS MONEY = WHOPPING ! $10,116

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  • MarkWilliams
  • MarkWilliams SBID #e5e56fe234
  • Posted 03/02/2014
  • This is silly. I just talked with John and he said that none of you have even contacted him to complain about any of this. He said that he is not hiding, and is more than willing to backup his work. But he is apparently not going to get on these forums and debate with his competitors.

    I have found his SEO to be the best value for the dollar. But then again, it won't work at all unless you get rid of any issues on your website that Google doesn't like. You can't blame him for that. If he told you how to fix your website to make it Google-friendly and you refused his advice, then you are the one at fault - not John. You cannot find a better SEO service for under $1,000 as far as I am concerned. If you find one, be sure to let me know. He is obviously #1 for a reason, and that makes him a target. I guess it goes with the turf.

    This seems like nothing more than a slander attack to me.
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  • Andrius
  • Andrius SBID #7dc6e5f686
  • Posted 04/19/2014
  • You know what's funny. He tends to come back through email if I write something on here (looks like this is the only place I can communicate through lol). But the email is his standard template which I already had few times. Don't copy text from other websites regardless I keep saying I've got unique content on my website.. All bullocks I hope he'll get done for all this one day in one way or another..
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  • MarkWilliams
  • MarkWilliams SBID #e5e56fe234
  • Posted 04/25/2014
  • This is nothing more than some kind of personal attack against John. I talked with him yesterday and he said he is more than willing to take care of any issues that his customers have. He said that none of you have contacted him to resolve any problems you might be having. Maybe you should try contacting him?

    There are literally thousands of SEO companies out there just like John's that guarantee results and charge much more than John does.

    Sounds like somebody has a personal vendetta against John and is posing as several different people to slander him. I know for a fact that he will take care of any issues you have if you will simply contact him. He gives out refunds when necessary. In fact, he said that he has refunded every client that he has not been able to help due to issues that are beyond his control such as duplicate content on a client's website.

    He is an email away if you are one of his Buyers. But it seems obvious that you haven't purchased anything from him, otherwise you would contact him and resolve any issues. He is very good at what he does and his support goes way beyond the sale.
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  • MarkWilliams
  • MarkWilliams SBID #e5e56fe234
  • Posted 04/25/2014
  • Here are the facts if anyone cares to listen to logic and reason:

    1. There are tens of thousands of SEO (search engine optimization) companies in the USA, and probably hundreds of thousands of them throughout the world. They offer a service: they get their clients' websites to the top of the major search engine results. These are very legitimate businesses and most of them charge thousands of dollars up front along with monthly charges.

    2. John's clients enjoy thousands of #1 Google rankings. He provides his clients with weekly search engine ranking reports to confirm this. John does not owe it to you or anyone else to post his clients' rankings or his own rankings for the public to see, but you would be amazed if you saw some of them. Your skepticism doesn't change the fact that they exist.

    3. John cannot change the content on his SEO clients' websites in many cases. This can be problematic if/when Google does not like the content for some reason. When this happens, John informs the client about what needs modified or replaced to get rid of the Google penalty. Sometimes they listen to John, and sometimes they don't. When they listen to him, their websites usually enjoy top Google ranking after a few modifications. When they don't listen to him, they usually stay stuck at the bottom of Google. Some of them work with John to try a few things, and if they don't work after given a chance, John always gives a refund in 100% of the cases.

    4. A lot of the websites John has developed are making really good profits with Google AdSense. Since when is this impossible or a crime? Last time I checked, Google encourages people to make money with their AdSense program! John is building legit AdSense sites that make money, and if for some reason they don't, he buys them back and reworks them to keep for his own portfolio.
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  • MarkWilliams
  • MarkWilliams SBID #e5e56fe234
  • Posted 04/25/2014
  • Dylan's main complaint is that "I would never believe anyone who says they can get a website to page one on google."

    This is his main argument in every bit of slander he has posted, and it is against the entire SEO industry - not just John. The fact is, Dylan's arguments do not hold water. John DOES get his clients' websites to the top of Google 95% of the time, and there is no scam involved at all. He simply follows Google's own guidelines to develop an SEO campaign that gets results. He has been #1 on eBay for a few years, so he has become a target of his competitors.

    Dylan has decided to stalk John for some reason, and probably never even purchased anything from John. He is either a competitor or has a personal vendetta against John for some reason. John would have gladly given him a refund or resolved his issues if he was truly an unhappy customer.

    Not all of John's websites are #1 on Google, and he has never said they were. Not all of his clients are going to be 100% happy, and that is the case with almost every business. However, John will resolve your issues or he will give you a refund - period. I know for a fact that he has been extremely fair with refunds whenever necessary. No one here can dispute that fact.

    This debate has nothing to do with John at all. It is simply one person named Dylan's doubt and skepticism about the SEO industry as a whole. Either that or he has a personal vendetta against John.

    If you have an issue with John and you are one of his clients, simply contact him. He is ready to resolve any issues you have with his services if you are one of his buyers. He asked me to post this and I wouldn't waste my time writing it if it weren't true.
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