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FIB - Scams 101
Re: At the risk of my Board Buddies thinking I've lost my mind...
Posted By: DaveM In Response To: Re: At the risk of my Board Buddies thinking I've lost my mind... (Gloria)
Date: Monday, May 19, 2008, at 8:43 p.m.(pst)
>> I signed up for Alex's course a couple of days ago and I have to admit
>> so far he has kept his word on everything he has promised. I have received
>> an email every day with instructional information on how to start this
>> venture. At no time have I been asked to pay for anything and he has
>> actually given instructions not testimonials and hype and why I should buy
>> his course. At NO TIME have I been asked to pay for any of the information
>> that he has sent to date. He does reference an affiliate site often where
>> he does advise of a fee to join but he does not state anywhere in any of
>> the course that it is required to go to that site to make money, he does
>> give information on how to get to sites that are free to take the steps
>> that he is advising to do in his course.Hi Gloria:
I'm a little surprised to hear your initial reaction to Alex's "free" course. He may not have come right out and asked you to pay for anything, but he is certainly using his course to promote products & services from which he makes money if you "bite".
I signed up for his course just a minute ago. First of all, the confirmation page had a link to "Return to http://Extra-Cash (dot) com". What the heck is that?? I clicked the link and ended up on a website that has nothing whatsoever to do with affiliate marketing (as near as I could tell).
Then, the very first auto-response email that came from Alex had two promotional affiliate links in it. One took me to Clickbank, and the other was an affiliate link to sign-up with Wealthy Affiliate. That of course costs $39/month, unless you join for a year and then it works out to $29.99/month. And if I would join and pay for an entire year, Alex would stand to make $175 just for me signing up.
Now this is just a guess, but as his daily emails continue, I would bet he's going to be pushing Wealthy Affiliate pretty darn hard. He'll give me enough info to wet my appetite, but of course I'll have to join his "program of choice" to really find out how to get rich doing what he's doing.
>> I have been burned in the past by so many of these promised courses,
>> ebooks, etc... that I'm probably just as skeptical if not more than most
>> of the people on this forum,You and me both!
So far, I haven't found a single internet marketing guru that truly offers free information, or unbiased program and/or product reviews. And why would they? The only reason they are doing this is because they make money when we sign up for the stuff they are promoting.
They KNOW that 95% of the people will do absolutely NOTHING with the information they purchase or that is given to them. So, they probably aren't too worried about the market getting saturated and causing them to lose money to the competition.
Dave
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