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Lamebrained Visitor Calls Out Marketer

Posted by Admin | March 3, 2008 .

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Some online marketers just need to go underground.

Why?

  Top Consumer Reviews is a “review site” that hawks affilitate products.  As review sites go, it’s not all bad.  Are visitors so braindead that they cannot figure out that the sites they are viewing are “passthroughs” to merchant product?

 

In my wildest imagination, I think:  1.) Guy sees Medifast offer on TopConsumerReviews.com.  “Only $275 per month.”  2.)  Guy uses Medifast; guy doesn’t lose weight.  3.)  Guy sees Better Business Bureau trustmark on TCR’s site.  4.)  Guy tattle-tales to Kansas-region BBB.   BBB mediates complaint, and, 5.)  Guy gets complaint “resolved” with TCR.

TopConsumerReviews.com is an affiliate marketer.  I get it, you get it, everyone gets it.  Insult on top of injury, the owner of TopConsumerReviews.com had to answer to one of the more nefarious, diabolical, self-serving, and wicked organizations of all - the Better Business Bureau.

So why do we say “go underground?”  Seriously, guys…  To run this kind of site, pushing these kinds of products, you must get anonymous.  Either raise the site to a hugely reputable level so you can put your name on it.  Or, push it further underground and avoid debacles like this again.

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