So I have to admit it. Even though I am an evil genius, I don't think others are, and I am usually quick to trust them. Especially when they seem so dumb, I just can't imagine they could be thinking of taking advantage.
So, I was watching late night TV and saw an infomercial about John Beck's Free and Clear, Pennies on the Dollar, Real Estate investment system. And I thought to myself, "Self, if I can really buy a bunch of properties for pennies on the dollar, I could amass a great fortune to fund my evil deeds."
Well, of course I wanted to learn more. John Beck seemed like an idiot, but that didn't mean his program couldn't work. Obviously the infomercial is several years old but maybe the actual information they sell is up-to-date. What would this package teach me? Could I be successful with it? Could I just figure it out on my own? Should I buy it? Of course the internet rocks, and within a few minutes I learned much and all my questions were answered.
Right off, I found a bunch of reviews at InfomercialScams.com. 560 complaints! 30 pages! Half of those in the last year. As I was reading through the complaints I realized whomever was running John Beck's program was not only evil, but a genius to boot! Suddenly, I realized that what I needed to learn was not real estate investing, but infomercial scamming.
This company does some great stuff. First off, if you buy the package you are automatically enrolled in a $39.00 a month website that is almost impossible to cancel. Soon thereafter, they get you on a call with a salesman that convinces you of your superior potential as long as you participate in additional training. Then they teach you the value of using someone else's money for your investing (namely your credit card company). As part of that process they have helped you determine your borrowing potential. Lastly, they tell you the price of the training. But here is the great part: the price is dependent on what you can charge on your cards! To expect any value from the program you could pay anywhere from $2500 to $17,000! I am not making this up. I read over 100 complaints, and the price for the training was never the same twice. And the training at best is 10 sessions on the phone at 1/2 hour each, with trainers that may or may not have any idea how things even work in your state.
What a great business model! Even if your profit averaged $5,000 a sucker, if you got 10 of those a day (couldn't be more than 10% putting complaints on that one site) that is $50,000 a day. That is a fair bit more than I could expect if I did the real estate investing myself.
The only trick will be to combat the informational and feedback sites. Maybe I can just get my minions to post thousands of positive testimonials. Perhaps I could just have my hacker-drones change the databases holding the bad reviews. Maybe I don't worry about it, because as every evil genius knows, people are idiots.
Oh wait, I didn't mean power to the people. I meant power to me!
Are you smart enough to read this blog?
4 comments:
Related to this are the ever popular e-books for only $39.99. Talk about your low cost, high income product. All you need are some minion testimonials and google ad words and you're ready to fund hostile world takeovers!
Boydell, you are absolutely right. I just felt I had to post this comment and let you know that I am offering a no-obligation* risk-free** program that teaches the ins-and-outs of infomercial scamming. I will have one of my highly trained minions give you a call with all of the details!
*Meaning no-obligation on my end.
**This also applies to me.
You are still right as rain! I came back here to see if you were right, and you still are!
Congratulations on maintaining your state of being right all this time.
Happy trails, old Smokey!!
So I came back and read this again, I think this post is awesome, as well as ironic:
A system that tricks someone into $39.99 a month, gets them to buy "extra training" and is a sure-fire money-making business opportunity.... sounds so familiar...
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