Comments on: Online Scams – The Dirty Laundry Edition

By: Dr. Evil

Dr. Evil — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:47:22 +0000

“…scummy marketers…”
That may be redundant. I’ve seen too many marketers of all sizes who seem to have as their only standard for what’s acceptable is how much money they can make.

By: Dan Thies

Dan Thies — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:51:07 +0000

Please Andrew – we have to complete the process of extracting all video related knowledge from his brain first.

By: Andrew Sweeney

Andrew Sweeney — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:46:30 +0000

I take it your never going back to SN. But the question is when are you going to create a rival product to it? I loved your presentation style and how you always seemed to be having fun while at the same time empowering us mortals with a wealth of marketing knowledge delivered with a sprinkling humor and a large slice of commonsense . Your doing the whole internet marketing sector a disservice by not jumping back in to the ring.

By: Jim Allmon

Jim Allmon — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:36:44 +0000

Also there is usually a clause that says: “you will be charged at the then current price”. Did you notice the “then current” part? This means if you paid $29.95 for something they can (and usually do) jump it up on the next bill. Yes… I was a telemarketer for about a week. Talk about hell on earth!

By: Zach

Zach — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:44:23 +0000

@Romson – Check your adsense ads, lol. What are they pimping?

By: Zach

Zach — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:43:27 +0000

250 million? That’s a complete joke.

I know advertisers who do that in a year. Don’t kid yourself by listening to people who know nothing about the CPA world.

…Some offers are alright, some offers are bad. It’s a known fact that continuity programs that enroll you in more than one different program are very unethical. But due to the competitive nature of the CPA world this is what advertisers feel they need to do to give the biggest payouts and get the biggest affiliates.

Simple as that. Things need to change – or they’ll be changed by heavy lawsuits. All big affiliates agree. The model isn’t bad, the practice in which it’s carried out is bad.

Regardless if you really want to know what’s going on don’t listen to Dennis Yu or idiots who think that think they know the CPA world. Until you make 6 or 7 figures in the CPA world you can not make a post trying to “out” all the “dirty” aspects of it.

…Everyone is such a fame whore. Damn it.

Zach

By: admin

admin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:14:21 +0000

Thanks for the feedback Mike!

I don’t think “Forced Continuity” has the right name. It should really be “Trial Continuity”, right? Having said that, I think HIDDEN Continuity is an Evil that scummy marketers should burn in hell for.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:53:28 +0000

The cell phone rip-offs where you get enrolled somehow in answering surveys, etc,
for $9.95 per month must be related to this. I got caught in 2 of these scams with AT&T Wireless. Fortunately, if you wade through your 25 page cell phone bill and discover the charges, they will refund the money if you call them on it.

Forced continuity = Deception and Fraud. No rationalizing from anyone, including internet marketing gurus can change that!

By: Romson

Romson — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:15:29 +0000

Scandalous!!!