Bill’s Rants/ Raves and Warnings

You know the ones… They start out at 5 to 7 bucks and go up 5 to 10 cents every half hour.

Most times they are a bundle of 4 to 10 Ebooks and scripts and hyped up to look like they are worth a fortune, “BUT” YOU! can have them for just pennies on the dollar.

Well guess what folks….. 90% of those (If not ALL), are “FREEBIES or Donationware” that you can have just by doing a simple Google search and many times they are ripped-off clones.

I use-to-be on a list from a guy in Canada; every week he has a bundle of products for just 7 bucks. Well about two Christmas ago he had this Super-Duper Packaged deal “Just for his Loyal Subscribers”, As a Christmas Special…. YEAH RIGHT!!!!

He bundled up a bunch of FREE products and tried to sell them for $97.00!!!!!

WOW! What a nice Christmas present he was having at your expense!

Understand something: “They don’t care about you!!!! They only care about their wallet and maintaining their fat 6 figure bank account — AT YOUR EXPENSE! They will do whatever it takes to get the money out of “YOUR WALLET” and into their bank account.

Here’s a good example I just got in… one of those Friday Specials.

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(Not the whole ad — just the title and the last paragraph)
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Product 1: My Download Area
(Master Resell Rights Included)
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Even if you already have a thank you page, you can
replace it with the ‘My Download Area’ script to save
you time and have your products available to sell
within the shortest possible time!

(Here’s the Alert I got in the same batch of emails)

PRODUCT ALERT!!!
It has been reported by several sites that the product ‘My Download
Area’ a rip-off of someone elses product which you can d/l for free
from: http://files.lordmattandyou.com/my_downloads/

If you’re selling it - well you know what to do……
And if any of your customers or peers are - please let them know…
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This is happening EVERY WEEK! You are being RIPPED-OFF!

As I’ve said in other posts the good guys are hard to find because of all the scam/rip-off artists that are out there.

It really goes back to that old saying: “BUYER BEWARE!”

To Save yourself a bunch of money…. “IF” you see something that you think you ‘MUST HAVE’ then jump over to Google and search for it and make sure to check out several sites as they might be all promoting the same product at the same price…. so go deeper into the results pages maybe 10 to 15 pages deep…. you just might find out it’s a freebie or 10 to 30% cheaper on another site.

Another thing is to wait a couple of weeks and watch how fast the price drops.

One other thing is to watchout for the “Fear-of-Loss/Greed Trap” (they pull this a lot!) “Buy it now cause it’s going up to a billzillion bucks tomorrow!!!!”

HEY! If the dam thing is over priced to start with, why would I buy it at a higher price?!?!?!?!

Bill

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’.

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