One of my best friends, someone that I've known since I was
a teenager (which seems like a long time ago!), had a great
collection of T-Shirts with some of the funniest slogans on
them that I've ever seen.
One of my favorites was his T-Shirt that read: "If You Can't
Dazzle 'em with Brilliance, Baffle 'em with Bull****" (You can
probably fill in the blanks quite easily!)
There are a tremendous number of web sites selling Information
on the Internet who are doing just that. Completely lacking in
anything even remotely resembling brilliance, they are spending a
great deal of effort, and seriously taxing their few active brain
cells, in order to Baffle you into buying sub-standard
Information Products.
We are in the business of providing Product Sourcing information
to Home-based Internet Businesses. We publish The Drop Ship
Source Directory, a Directory of brand name Wholesale Supplier
who are willing to Drop Ship those products directly to your
customer from the warehouse, one at a time, at wholesale. It's an
excellent way to do business without spending a ton of money on
stocking an inventory. We also publish The Light Bulk Wholesale
Directory; a Directory of genuine Wholesale Suppliers who are
willing to sell small bulk quantities of products to Home-based
Internet Businesses at larger bulk quantity wholesale prices.
We've worked very hard for years to provide absolutely honest and
complete information.
However, there are other information providers in this business
who are either too lazy to do the time-consuming research this
business requires, or are just outright scam artists looking to
cheat you out of your money.
They have a wide range of methods they use to Baffle you into
buying from them, but one of the most obvious is Free Gifts.
Now, we have to be careful here, because there are two kinds of
Free Gifts.
1.) Free Gifts given to you before the sale are usually a good
thing. We do that ourselves; we offer a very comprehensive
Free EBook that gives you a tremendous amount of FREE
information on starting your Internet Business. We give
you that for free, no questions asked, no personal
information required, and you never have to buy anything
from us. THAT kind of Free Gift is OK, because it
really is Free!
2.) Free Gifts that are promised after the sale are the thing
to watch out for. They are designed to make the offer look
so attractive to you that you simply cannot turn it down.
They are, in fact, given to you because the main
informational product itself is so lousy that it's creators
feel that they have to suck you in with after-the-sale
freebies, or they'll never sell anything to you at all.
However, in order to get all these Free Gifts, you have to
buy something first.
Here's how these scam artists work:
They pitch their junk Informational Product to you with all kinds
of wonderful promises, telling you that you're going to make
incredible amounts of money very quickly.
That in itself is not true! NOBODY makes incredible amounts of
money quickly on the Internet. In the real world, it takes time,
patience, and work!
THEN they tell you that if you order their information, they will
include "$750 Worth of Bonus Free Gifts!" with your order, or
some such ridiculous statement. They tell you that you will get
Marketing Information, Email Generation Software, Important
Articles and Reports, Expensive EBooks, Bonus Wholesale Guides,
etc., etc., for FREE, after you buy their product.
Freebies that you only get AFTER the sale are there for two
reasons:
* They make you think you're getting much more that you are
paying for, when in truth you are not; you can pick up that
stuff for free without buying anything. All that Free Stuff
is just that; it's FREE, it's garbage, and you can find it
all over the Internet for nothing, without having to pay a
cent for anybody's products. The scam artists certainly do
not pay for it; why should you?
* They are a distraction. The scam artists are counting on
the very good probability that you will spend so much time
with, and get so caught up in all that extra free stuff that
you will forget that the original product you paid for is
junk, and you'll never bother to ask for a refund!
So Beware of Informational Web Sites offering Free Gifts after
the sale, folks. There is a reason for it, and it's not a good
one!
Maybe they should also offer a T-Shirt with those "gifts" ...I
know a guy who can suggest a good one...
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