I knew it was only a matter of time before I had to come up with a Rant category for this blog. What has set me off? False advertising.
I recently got an e-mail talking about online survey sites. How this didn’t work and that didn’t pay out like it said yadda yadda. The point of it was here was a free service you could sign up for and have people pay you for your opinion. OK that doesn’t sound so bad. So I start the sign-up process.
Name, e-mail…same deal as many others. Choosing who I want to take survey’s from. Nothing new so far. Get to the last page and hot damn come to find out nothing is still going to change. The “free service” suddenly has a monthly fee of $39.95, of course I can get in for the first week for $2 and WOW I even get a “Free” bit of software that will auto fill out forms form me…how kind…
I see this garbage so much, it is one of the things that drove me out of Internet Marketing to begin with. People flat out lying about start up or sign-up fees at the front page only to grab you with fees for something you have already done all the sign-up steps for.
See this is another reason I rarely read safe list ads or read sites in traffic exchanges, there is little truth in those that they send out. And that isn’t the marketer’s fault so much as it is the owner who wrote it thinking people will be roped in by the free services tag enough to not mind paying something once to get that “free” stuff.
My first move on ANY website is to scroll down to the bottom and check the price. Anymore than $25 and I don’t bite, pure and simple, and most times I don’t even have that much. Sometimes $5-$10 is to much and boy does that make me feel worthless. All these one time offers or OTO as they are called, on safe lists, traffic exchanges, etc. and not being able to do a thing about it. It wouldn’t bug me so much if the link to move on wasn’t so insulting. Instead of a simple “No Thanks.” They have to write this paragraph going “Oh yes woe is me I’ll never see an offer for a toaster that can tell me sports scores, shine my shoes and surf for me for $50 ever again…oh the pain…”. Sounds stupid doesn’t it.
So yeah that’s my rant done with. I was going to say there is one last bastion of the survey/quiz type site but apparently It Pays to Learn got bought out some time ago and now to join you have to take an offer on their main page. So yeah I goes it does pay to learn, them of course, not you.
Author:Matt Ulmen
Website:Internet Marketer tips
Tags: free services, internet marketer tips, Matt Ulmen, One time offer, OTO, Rant
