I am not actually surprised if they have gone bust.

If they are actually still going good for them, but if they have actually closed down, then it would have been their own undoing.

I had cold call from them a couple of months ago asking if I wanted to buy advertising and i told them I would happily consider it and if they would kindly email me their media pack or rate card.

The lady on the phone sounded very nice so I told her if their rates were good enough then I would also consider sending it onto my portfolio of clients who are mostly successful real estate companies dotted around the costa del sol.

So I received an email 4 days later, which was one of your standard template emails which unbelievably started with "Estimado .." and then continued in English.

They did not even put my name aftr the Estmado bit, and they did not even say "Dear" or "hi".

I have thick skin and was not completely offended but to be honest it just seemed a bit impersonal, almost like a spam email.

Then, some of the links in the email did not work, the .exe file they sent in the zip file was corrupted and there were a few bad spelling mistakes in the body of the email

I emailed them back, politely explaining that I could not access the link and their ebook and also pointed out the spelling mistakes thinking that they would appreciate some feedback, but instead I received a shirty email from their Sales Manager.

I promptly wrote back and asked the Sales Manager if it was normal practice to send out such a rude email after I had taken the time to let them know that, I,  1) could not open the file they sent, 2) the link sending me to their page on their site gave me  404 error and 3) there were a couple of spelling mistakes.

I did not get a response from him however a few days later, the original cold caller contacted me to check if I had received the email with the media pack etc and asked me what I thought.

What a gas!!

She was a nice lady so I was not rude but I basically told her that she should not contact me again due to her boss being an idiot with me.

Now I find out that they have possibly closed down.

I did not go to any fancy school. In fact I only finished primary school so my formal schooling finished when I was 12, but I have enough noggin to have built up a successful business on my own from absolutely nothing, zero, by working very hard, listening to clients and accepting positive criticism and not trying to act like a big fish in a small pond like so many of these companies we see open and then close shortly afterwards.