Bill’s Rants/ Raves and Warnings

It never fails… Week after week — day after day I get hammered with sales from the GRUUUROO’s that “HAVE THE ANSWER” to make you filthy rich over night, if you just buy their super-duper widget.

“My ‘WIDGET’ will do everything to make you wealthy — make your morning coffee - and service you breakfast in bed… and it ‘ONLY’ 297/397/497/997/1997/ etc…etc.”

I even watched this so-called marketing woman yak for 90 minutes and then without batting an eye asked for $9,997.00 For ‘HER SYSTEM’!!!

But what really amazes me is that most after just two weeks go by:

• A) It’s now selling on eBay for 5 bucks
• B) The ’system/technique’ doesn’t work any more
• C) They NEVER mention it again.
• D) They’re sell some ‘new’ widget!

I wonder how many actually ‘READ’ the disclaimers, (you know that fine print in faded out gray type so you either can’t read it or just ignore it.)

In short, it’s basically: “I lied; the only one who’s going to be making any money is me because you were stupid enough to buy this crap.”

I ran across one of the “FEW” honest guru’s articles about how he was at one of the hyped up seminars and the guy was there selling his super-widget email program and the people were fighting to throw their money on the table for a copy…. The Honest Guru ask the other … aahh? person? Why he did that? and didn’t he know that technique of emailing didn’t work any more??? He’s reply: “Sure! But a got a garage full of the crap and I got to get rid of it!”

Another GRUUROOO said he paid only $250 to get an ebook ‘AND’ the sales page written by a ghostwriter and made over a million bucks thru hype! (It wasn’t worth 10 bucks — OH Right! You never sell anything for even money, It’s always has to end in a “Seven” ($9.97))

Then you’ve got the “CLONE PEOPLE — THE COPY CATS”; They take whatever is ‘hot’ that week — buy a copy, (And many times it’s thru their own affiliate links), then ship it off to a freelancer to tare it apart and make their own cloned copy with less features. And again sell it at a hyped up price. (There’s one guy in the UK that’s done that several times. He made one cloned product, (totally buggy)… made 1.5 million and left everyone sitting while he went on holiday to India. About 3 to 4 months later he was at it again.)

OH! For all of you out there trying to make it in the marketing business — You ever get those emails that say: “Sell my widget and keep 100% of the money, Paid directly to your PayPal account!”

Well guess what?! You do that and you just built up that guy’s eMail List and not YOURS! Cause ‘HE/SHE’ gets the customer’s name and email address not you!

One guy lost hundreds of his customers, cause the GRUUROO he was promoting/selling for got all the names and email addresses of his list.

And that brings up another point that ‘piss me off’ — You’ve PAID for the product, BUT you can’t have it until you give them your name and email address…. in a sense hold something you’ve already paid for for ransom. If You don’t put the info in there; you can’t download the product even thou you’ve paid for it!

YES! There are still a few good/honest marketers out there, but they are dam hard to find.

Well the brain dead 9,000 pound eBay gorilla does it again.

First they killed off all sales of eBooks and downloadable materials in regular auctions and told the sellers that they had to use their ‘eBay Classified Ads’ feature to sell their digital products.

Their (eBay), claim is that it would be cheaper for the seller and that for the small fee of just 10 bucks for an entire month, they could sell as many products without any limits, (as in an auction you had to put in how many items where available), and they would not have the cost of the “Auction Listings and Final Value fees”.

Well now, That’s all fine and good, until they just ‘Blind Sided’ the seller AGAIN with the new restrictions for the Classified Ads.

You CAN NOT have a “Buy it Now” button in your ad.
You CAN NOT have a link to your website to buy your product.
You CAN NOT have an opt-in box.

SO!!!??? What good are those classifieds?!?!?

You have noway of closing the sale.
You can’t get them to your website.
You can’t get their contact info.

SO! What am I (The Sellers), paying for!?!?!?!

OH YEAH!!! TO PUT MILLIONS MORE INTO EBAY’S WALLET AND REMOVE IT FROM THE SELLERS WALLET!!!

It sure makes me want to go right out and place dozens of worthless ads on eBay!!!

PS: If you want to read about this on eBay have fun trying to find it — It’s buried (Hidden), deep inside eBay’s Workshop posts by ‘Trust and Safety’.

Attention All eBay Buyers

If any of you are using and relying on “AuctionSniper” to place your bids… Be forewarned it just might cost you your winning bids!

Several days ago I wanted to snipe a very “Rare/Hard to Find/EXPENSIVE” drill chuck made by Jacob Mfg. on an eBay auction.

I clicked the “SnipeitNow” button and got nothing… blank, so I went over to their website, “404’s” page or domain not found…. OK; I had time, so the next day I tried it again and this time the snipe and the site came up — Fine I’m in…

For 6 days I watch and adjusted my snipe so I KNEW I would win that drill chuck. It was at $51.00 with only 56 minutes left and my Sniped Bid was set for $76.98…. I GOT IT FOR SURE!!

The auction closed and I lost the auction by 11 BUCKS! BUT! Not over my bid BUT BELOW MY BID! It went for $66.00

AuctionSniper never even placed that snipe/bid!

After days of searching I’ve found a few at retail suppliers; The Price? Over $200 to as high as $389.00

What did AuctionSniper do about it “NOTHING!”… oh, but they did give me two free “WORTHLESS” snipes….. YEAH RIGHT!!! Like I’m ever going to use their worthless service again.

Moral of the story is NEVER use this service “IF” you really want to win the auction item, use eBay’s Auction Bidding Assistant.

Thanks Joel,

What a great show.

Joel gave and gave — His “ONE HOUR” show turned into something more like “TWO” hours. (The people just won’t leave until they
absolutely had to.)

(OOPPPS! Sorry Dan didn’t mean to forget about you as well.)

The info just flowed, so much so that at times it was a little
hard to keep up with it all, but that’s a lot better than to little.;)

Joel give out:

• Web Site Links
• Product Info
• Marketing Tips
• eBooks
• Tips on eBook writing
• Important Services that are available
• Hints on upcoming products/projects still in development
• and so much more

Looks like this might turn into a weekly event. Think I’ll be
bookmarking that web site for sure.

The Ustream feed was having problems, but still well
worth watching.

Hope Ustream.tv fixes their problems by
next week.

The only hardest part is the time frame; (Noon Central Time), with most people working the “DAY JOB” it’s hard for so many people, who want to be there, just can’t.

But if you can …. by all means BE THERE! it is worth your time.

Bill