Beware of Web Sites Bearing "Free Gifts"
by Chris Malta
Published on this site: January 3rd, 2006 - See
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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.
- 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!
- 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...
Chris Malta Worldwide Brands, Inc. We provide sourcing for
legitimate Wholesale Suppliers on the Internet. For more info,
please visit the Wholesale Trading Club: http://www.WholesaleTradingClub.com/
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