Re: Ya gotta read the reply to his critics..

I do understand his gripe, though. The one complaint said that he was disappointed because...

1. The seller claimed that he could teach internet marketing.
2. The seller required "a ton of work" out of his "student".

These are highly invalid complaints. How on earth is one supposed to learn? By just slapping the writings on a disk, strapping the disk to your head for 3 days and hope that the knowledge and info seeps into your brain and makes you an IM guru virtually overnight?

But the only reason why I can't feel bad for the seller is because he, like many others, use those hyped up sales letters that play on the emotions of exactly this type of person.

You see, the reason why they target the this type of person - "complainers" and the "lazy" - is because they are the biggest market and they are quick to hand over their money for a "quick fix", which makes them profitable and worth targeting. If all these gurus and "coaches" selling this stuff were 100% truthful and did not use fancy words and phrases to plant an unrealistic scenario in the buyer's mind, they would only make a small fraction of the sales they make targeting this market.

So this is the cycle you get with all these products...

1. Seller has a product (let's say it's actually a good product)
2. Seller sells product catering to lazy people with unrealistic expectations because seller realizes that this is the most profitable market hands down.
3. Buyer reads sales letter, gets starry-eyed, and buys product.
4. Buyer, being lazy and only wanting easy money, calls product a scam or a sham because he found out that the product does not actually make money for you and that you have to do work (which is actually outlined in the product and is the actually function of the product - an information source).

So whose fault is it?

IMO, both the buyer and the seller. The seller is guilty because he played on the emotions and fed the unrealistic expectations of the buyer. The buyer is guilty of pure ignorance and lack of common sense, which leads to his lack of ability to be a responsible consumer able to fend for himself within the marketplace.

But I guess ultimately and realistically you have to put all the blame on the seller/marketer, though, as it will most likely never be a crime to be an uninformed consumer with no common sense nor will it ever be socially unacceptable or politically incorrect. Afterall, is it too much to ask of marketers to actually tell the truth and not hype anything up?