Renting leads is a business model. Theirs, not yours.
You buy leads. They cost more every year. The same lead goes to three competitors, so you’re racing to call first and discounting to close, and the margin on a job you fought that hard for is thin enough that one callback erases it.
Stop paying and the phone stops. That’s not a customer acquisition channel — that’s rent. And the whole time, the asset that would replace it is sitting there unbuilt: the reviews you never asked for, the three hundred past customers you have no way to reach, the map listing nobody has touched since the day it was claimed.
Meanwhile the guy who shows up first in the map pack on a Tuesday afternoon isn’t paying for that lead at all.