Let me explain to you how exactly this company is ripping off a lot of people. There is another one called MarketingTips.com which is even more blatant in their ripoff, run by a guy named 'Corey Rudl', which may or may not be his real name. Doesn't matter.
Ripoff #1: AuctionSecrets.com
Tremendous time and effort has been spent on the sales webpage. It promises all kinds of secrets about eBay selling and buying, and they offer a refund. So I order the thing and what I found was the most simplistic 2 hour video about how to list auctions on eBay. It covered all the minute things that nearly every eBay user already knows. Total cost for video? $100 + shipping. I was thoroughly disgusted. I sent for a refund, and never heard from them, until I emailed them 3 times and threated them. Refund was issued, minus the shipping.
Ripoff #2: TrafficSecrets.com
This has got to be one of the world's biggest ripoffs. This guy John Reese conducts a 'traffic secrets' seminar and hires a guy to videotape the whole thing. He splits it up onto many DVDs and sells the whole package for a whopping $1,047 plus FedEx shipping! So first of all he is charging the attendees of the seminar $3,000 or more, and on top of that he is simply redistributing it on DVD for that much. And to top it off, the books that come with it are simply transcripts of the whole seminar! They add a few VCDs, putting only a little bit of information on each one to give the illusion of a lot of 'stuff', but it is so transparent what they are doing. They offer money-back guarantee, but they refuse to respond for my return even though I have delivery confirmation.
Ripoff #3: MarketingTips.com
Okay, the last one was a ripoff but this one is the ultimate ripoff. 2 medium-sized books for $1,047 + FedEx shipping! Holy crap! And then, they upsell you a 3-DVD set called 'Ultimate Seminar' in which all they do is promote their products. And I mean that's ALL they do. There was not one tip in there that was independent of their products. In fact one of the DVDs was entirely devoted to showing you how to operate one of their programs. The man makes $6 million a year, and now I can see why. Returning it was easy, but they take advantage of people's lethargy and laziness. If only 50% of the people make returns, they are still FAR ahead of the game. DVDs and packing which cost probably under $5 for the whole thing brings them over $1,047 plus thousands more from each buyer in sales of their software. Yuck.
Please DO NOT buy from these companies that go with the name of InfoBack Corp. as they have the same tactics for selling all their products. Free information packaged in a hefty DVD-set with lots of paper to increase the fluff. Be very cautious. This reminds me of the real estate gurus, where they repackage the same information and upsell their own real estate analysis software (I have Russ Whitney's deceptive selling techniques in mind).
Nick
Seattle, Washington
U.S.A.
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