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Posted By: Bill Cornelius In Response To: Re: LOUIS VUITTON REPLICAS SPAMMER (The Roadie)
Thursday, 2 December 2004, at 4:25 p.m.
I try to keep an open mind about spam. In fact spam is what keeps me coming back to boards like this. On this board or at least one like it, I found a spam ad about a year ago. Through that message, advertising wholeale lots of shoes,I found a source for new and used clothes. To make a long story short, I found someone who wanted what someone else had for sale. Following my Grandaddy's first rule of business (buy low and sell high) I'm able to clear about $4500 per sale and so far that sale comes along every 6-8 weeks. You know what... Anyone else who visits this forum and knows how to spell google could have done the same thing I did and be making that sale. In all I spent 12 hours researching to cultivate prospective buyers then another 2 weeks sorting and qualifying them.
As I said before, I try to keep an open mind about people and their business. If I think someone is obnoxious, I'm not going to let my opinion of them color my objectivity when it comes to being able to make money on a project. When I go into business with anyone, everything is in writing and I do mean EVERYTHING. I don't belive in skimping on the legal costs just to save a few bucks because that will cost more in the end.
> In case anyone's curious, I rang up one of these forum spammers, and got
> them to admit to using software they bought from
> http://www.tradeposter.com/global.htm
> It's called Global Trade Poster, and a list of about 500 message boards
> are hard-wired into the program, enabling the spammer to hit hundreds of
> forums with no effort.
> support@tradeposter.com needs to know you disapprove of their
> spam-enabling product. Since they're in China, hiding behind a fake domain
> registration, they probably don't care.
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