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Posted By: Sandi Moses In Response To: That's Internet Marketers for ya! (Bluto)
Thursday, 16 March 2006, at 9:31 p.m.
> You know what my favorite thing is, though? You have these really
> successful IMers that claim how they can make 50K, 300K, 1M or whatever in
> days or just a few weeks or whatever. So obviously they are rich, right?
> Well, I will not name any names but just recently one of these guys sent
> out a sales letter telling everyone how one of their daughters was getting
> married and she has expensive taste. So in an effort to generate some
> quick cash to be able to pay for it all, they are selling this and that
> and everything else under the sun for one amazingly low price and blah,
> blah, blah.
> My question to them is, if they are so successful and make hundreds of
> thousand or millions of dollars a year, how is it that they need to
> exploit their daughter's wedding in order to make enough cash to pay for
> it? I mean, wasn't the $300K they made on last week's fire sale enough to
> pay for not only the wedding but the honeymoon, too?
> This happened recently with one particular IMer but it has been done many
> times by others as well. Makes me sick to my stomach to think that they
> make millions yet they need to exploit their children's' or their own
> personal lives just to make another quick buck.
I believe that may be the same marketer with whom I exchanged e-mails over semantics - essentially the difference between "free" and "no additional charge." My contention was that "free" means no cash leaves my pocket at any time during the transaction. What he marketed as "free" was really "no additional charge" after dropping $97 (or some such) on the leader product. He never did see it that way, but I still do.
Sandi
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