Surprise, I’m not spending my money on The Biggest Firesale. This shit is just going to have to burn without me. $97 will get you 100 products and services. Who in the hell will have enough time to use more than one of the offerings? And if the stuff is worth $9,670, then why are they not charging $9,670?
Ok, for $97 I am 100% sure you could get your money’s worth out of this crap. There has to be something from each package that can help you in your business. I just won’t be spending my money to find out. I don’t want to be overwhelmed with more shit than can fit on my hard drive. Honestly. I’d prefer to buy 10 domains for the money. Actually, given a choice of licking a cactus or spending $97 for this I’d rather bleed out from my tongue.
100 products for $97. Do you think maybe that there is a lot of IM shit out there? This isn’t a firesale. It’s a lit match. You’d need a raging inferno to burn through all the IM crapola out there. I don’t know what the marketers get out of this. I suppose they get email addresses for stuff that they couldn’t sell otherwise. Or is old. Or never worked. Yep, it’s a big email collector. The money is in the list. All the newbies are going to sign up for this treasure trove of trash and give up their emails for further spending opportunities.
I’m sure there is some value in some of these products. For those that purchase and get something out of it, good for you. I won’t be a buyer.
Oh and if you click away from the offer that annoying fake chat window will pop up. You know the one. Where you think a hot operator has a deal just for you? Well she has a discount waiting for you if you don’t want to purchase at $97. She’s willing to sell it to you for…$97. That’s right. You can either buy it for $97 retail or get your discount from “Britney” and pay $97. But don’t wait too long. The price goes up in December then
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BTW, if you want to know how to market something, do a search for “Biggest Firesale”. You will see blogs and review sites, Squidoo lens, RSS feeds, videos, free blogging sites. If you have a product to launch you can definitely smother the search engine before you release it by researching what has been done here.
Splork!
“Honestly. I’d prefer to buy 10 domains for the money. Actually, given a choice of licking a cactus or spending $97 for this I’d rather bleed out from my tongue.”
That made my freaking day. Bravo. I’m still reading (RSS) and hope you don’t quit blogging (like I have, at least for right now).
Thanks for the great post and humor. Take care.
Chris
Love this post. I’m not only sick of blogging, I am sick of writing articles. I don’t give a ggd about half the stuff one has to sell, so I appreciated your remark about your articles. No one reads the damn things anyway. They are there to give Google happy and your site high up–this relates to consumer goods. As for info products, I daresay there is more than enough info on losing weight, training dogs, etc., etc., to fill two planets.
In all fairness, there are a few really worthwhile things in the firesale: Mark Ling’s product, the Video Niche Website builder looks excellent, and a few others.
Thanks for a great blog.
Jim
That Britney is a ____ for not offering you a discount. You should have asked to talk to her supervisor!
$97 does seem like a lot. I bought a package of ancient (circa 2004-2005) IM crapola on eBay for under $20. It’s probably the same stuff.
“Carly” isn’t very nice either. I went over there and asked for a discount and this is what she said:
“Carly Says:I am afraid i cannot discount this any further, this package originally cost $197…. and what you receive is worth 40 times that!”
Tough luck Carly. For $87 I might have been sorely tempted but no way for $97!
Jim, I agree. I can’t speak for the lot of the marketers in the offer but I’ve never gotten a bum steer from Mark Ling. If I was going to spend $97 I’d rather purchase his new AffiloBlueprint Course. He walks the talk in this course apparently.
Frank, wonder if this stuff will show up on Ebay after the fire burns out? Bet if there was something you wanted you could get it for nothing later on.
hi Splork ..
I’ve been reading your blog and I really like your honesty thought here about internet marketing..
Hey kirin. Thanks for reading.
I am interested in the AffiloBlueprint Course as well. If you buy it be sure and let us know what you think. I will happily buy it through your link if you you end up reviewing it.
Chris
All right, this is the craziest reason for not buying a product, but you know, I’ve never bought anything from or endorsed by Mark Ling because that flippin’ picture he uses makes him look like an evil bastard.
I almost passed on a killer Jason Fladlien product for the same reason.
Off topic — sorry.
Shaun