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Discussion in 'General Business' started by visioninfotech, Oct 17, 2005.

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    Every now and then we see lot of things on internet and people get carried away with the thoughts of making more money. Making money on internet is not as easy as these websites and programs claim.

    I saw one advertisement on a website and i was also intrested in one such program, started recently by GoogleMadeEasy.com

    The website claims lot of money using google adsense and they are talking about promoting some spammy url with lots of Google Ads pasted and no content. Now if one uses their system and some how gets lot of traffic on such page. Be rest assured that Google Adsense team will get back to you and tell you to remove those ads, or maybe they will delete your account and then you loose all you have earned so far.

    As far the things go, the website sells ebook, but when i made a small payment of $ 22, it was an instant download of the ebook. Well i dont know if it should be called an ebook as it was having a single page.

    I would like to tell others to keep away from such ebooks and the scams that are running on the internet. I have published this article here for benefit of others and in a view to tell everyone that making money isnt easy on internet.

    Some Quotes from Their website

    Having an automated tool that earns money for you daily is the most exciting thing you will ever experience. Making money without lifting a finger is now a FULL BLOWN reality thanks to Google Adsense & this powerful automated system. Adsense Income 24hrs A Day!

    And if you think of making money using adsense, i would suggest people to move to Forums at Digital Point (link) or at Webmaster World (link).

    After i had a bad experience, i just asked the person to give me the refund as he had stated on his website and i got a reply saying that i must use the program for one full month, then send him the screen shot of adsense account income. and then he will give me the refund. The following is the text on the website of the person.

    Paypal For Skeptics! If You Do Not Earn As Promised Ask For A Refund! It's As Simple As That!
    You Can Easily Have Over $100.00 By The End Of The Day!

    In case someone still feels the need to see the ebook, just email me and i will send u the ebook to have a look and tell others about this scam. you can email me at
     
    visioninfotech, Oct 17, 2005 IP
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  2. aeiouy

    aeiouy Peon

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    It is unfortunate that you got taken in... There are a handful of worthwhile e-books out there, but if you take the position that the whole lot of them is worthless, it is not a bad route to go....

    And remember people don't sell million dollar ideas for $25.00
     
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  3. yfs1

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    I thought this was a Costas Dedes affiliate but it appears to be a different one. I see those one page sites and it make me think twice.

    Costa Dedes is safe....for now
     
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  4. aaron_nimocks

    aaron_nimocks Im kind of a big deal Staff

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    I personally would never buy an ebook off of a website. If for some reason i REALLY wanted this ebook then I am pretty sure you can find it on eBay for .99
     
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  5. visioninfotech

    visioninfotech Banned

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    i have seen lot and lots of ebooks so far and never bought them, but this time as the cost was low, i thought i should just give it a try, not to get some idea to make more money, but to gratify my desire to buy something of this kind and then kinda repent, infact its not about feeling bad about wasting 25 bucks, as its not a big deal at all.
    but am sure that now onwards, i wont even think of having a look at ebook kind of things :D
    so by paying $25 i think i have saved my time to apply in making good websites.

    But for others who are new in adsense, i would suggest to not buy such ebooks and even if you buy them once for just sake of curiousity, just dont try them on your website / adsense account.

    And in addition, i think this will be a guide for those who might have seen this ebook on internet or any other ebook of this kind that gives quick cash.
     
    visioninfotech, Oct 17, 2005 IP
  6. Eric Giguere

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    It's funny, I saw those ads recently and I assumed they were selling some kind of software to build something one of those "autoblog" sites. But apparently it's not even that sophisticated...

    One single page? It's hard to believe that someone would stoop low enough to call it a "book". That's not even an "e-pamphlet"!
     
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  7. visioninfotech

    visioninfotech Banned

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    yes, a single page, nothing more and that page even has the same information as on the website with just few more lines and a link to some stupid website on traffic generation
     
    visioninfotech, Oct 17, 2005 IP
  8. Eric Giguere

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    Ouch. You know, as far as I can tell most of the e-books out there are legitimate, in the sense that you get more than a single page of content! Certainly, the books that are bought through ClickBank (the main reseller of those kinds of books) are fully refundable without that kind of hassle.

    In many ways, the e-book market is still in its infancy. With a printed book, you can at least look at it in the bookstore and see if it's worth the money. It's hard to do that with e-books. I suppose you could distribute an e-book for free and ask for payment if people find it useful (like shareware), but I think you'd end up making much less money that way. (People do this, actually, but they make their money through affiliate links embedded in the document itself.)
     
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    That's the one thing where real books are much better than e-books. For the most part, a publisher has to have all the facts in the book checked to an extent, so you know you'll get more or less accurate information.

    Personally I prefer real books, over e-books.
     
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  10. Eric Giguere

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    The publisher of a conventional printed book spends a lot of money up front to produce the book, printing say between 5,000 to 10,000 copies of it, which it then has to warehouse and ship, etc. It's not cheap to do, so of course the publisher works hard to ensure that they're shipping a quality (or at least sellable) product. Not to say that flubs/screwups don't happen, but normally you are guaranteed that by the time you have the book in your hands it's been vetted by a large group of people.

    Publisher Tim O'Reilly always has interesting things to say about the publishing business, such as this recent entry on electronic publishing.

    Sorry, guess we kind of got off-topic here!
     
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    That ebook is not worthless to spending any dollar on it. You just won't learn anything besides what you can get here at this forum.
     
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    How did you pay? If by paypal you can probably get a refund. I have a few ebooks that I have for sale that are better than what that one probably is. That guy seems like hes full of himself.

    Also note that "Not One Single Refund Request Since Day One!" statement. What a load of crap.
     
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    Time to add another one to the list.
     
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    visioninfotech, I don't mean to sound mean but it makes me extremely angry how webmasters/surfers fall for these types of scams, which are obviously rip offs. But then when someone like builds a good site with a solid affiliate program, or come in a forum and offer a service, no one is interested? I can never get sells through affiliate programs?

    I bet the people you paid are probably rich, more wealthy than many people in this forum. It is sad we live in a world where the average person seems more likely to fall for a scam than an honest business deal. It makes me wonder of the old saying "nice guys finish last" is true. It seems like the most dishonest pieces of trash in the world get the most money by ripping people off.
     
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    same my thoughts :)
     
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  16. visioninfotech

    visioninfotech Banned

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    you have said it right, but i saw nearly 30 ebooks so far and never bought any. but this time i thought, lets see what its all about. and it was just out of curiousity. and i did it cause it was a thing of just $ 22. but it was too bad as it had just one page :D, had there been 3 -4 pages of that crap, i would have said the price is bit more justified :D
     
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    If you were at his site before and go back to revisit it now, you'll see that the adsense earnings stats have changed. The guy actually stole the graphic from another site and posted it on his own, was caught red handed and asked to remove it.

    The adsense stats weren't even his own.

    K
     
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    visioninfotech Banned

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    Now this is really funny. i think the person who is selling the ebook isnt even aware of what an ebook means. i even suggested him to visit these forums and get some real good ideas shared by people here and collect them in a meaningfull and better way and sell the ebook with those real concepts and not just make fool of people with such scams. after all he has started a scam, so why will he think ethical.

    maybe he got alert after the message was on this forum :D
     
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    Search on the book before you buy it. Serach on the write. The problem with Paypal they do not give refund on electric goods. I order some ebay ebooks one time and got harry potter secrets! RIDICULES!!! or something like that.
    If you buy with credit card and NOT CLICK BANK you can always say its a scam and get the money back.
     
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  20. aeiouy

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    First thing I did was check and see if it was Costas Dedes. :)
     
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