The email says “Free with coupon!”, or “Only $1 with coupon”.  With the “regular” price being $97 or $147 (for the templates / private label / articles / whatever…) it seems a bargain. The mile-long landing page is standard - and at the bottom is the price and link to buy. Follow the link, and the catch is revealed - you will be billed $97 or $147 per month membership for Private Label Wholesaler or AdSense Wholesaler.

Yes, you can cancel at anytime, but in my experience they don’t make it easy. You’ll probably have to search through the help file to fing out you need to submit a support ticket. All designed to limit the number of cancellations they get.

In my book this is very deceptive. There is a massive difference between $1 and $147/mo. There is no information provided about the monthly service they are signing up for.

Offering rebates that people may forget to claim is OK.
Offering a monthly service that people may forget to cancel is OK
Offering a virtually free product, and bundling in a very expensive subscription product at the last stage is DECEPTIVE, WRONG & A BIG WASTE OF MY TIME

Examples:

http://marketing.us/supergraphicsplr/

http://www.marketing.us/mrrplrsupersale/

Also, I love the line:
STRICTLY LIMITED TO 50 COPIES AT THIS PRICE!

Most people would have arrived via the “only $1 with coupon” email, so it is easy to limit sales to 50 at full price when nobody is paying full price.

This was in my inbox today:

I just found out page where you can discover how to get google ads
free.

Check it right now before page is gone

http://codymoya.com/getting-google-ads-free/

Thanks
Cody Moya

PS. Make sure to check it Right Now. I do not think Google will
allow this page to be up for much longer

This came out many months ago, and people who bought it were very disappointed. The “free” part is exceptionally misleading, because they say that by making a profit from the ads, they are effectively free. That’s like saying that any profitable business has no expenses, because by being offset by income they are “free”.

It’s wrong, and even wronger to peddle this crap.

It’s being pushed by heavyweights like Joel Comm today. Leung once worked for Google in the AdWords department, so that really helps his sales pitch. And the initial “report” is only $2. Is he giving away a valuable product so as to build a list of loyal fans who will buy his next report for a higher price? Almost - all that’s missing is the valuable product. His $2 “report” takes 34 pages to tell us that Adwords marketing has become more difficult lately, and to survive you more than likely need to increase your knowledge and skills in this area.

Few who heard of this report will find any use for it. As an introduction to this “Recognized expert among the top Internet Marketing gurus” (his words), I’m not inclined to buy his Adwords Heroes report, the actual report he is promoting. If this “Death of Google Adwords” is the teaser, I’ve had a good laugh for $2.

They describe themselves as a “Marketplace for Ideas”, but from the videos/audios/pdfs loaded to date, it looks like a collection of advertorials from net marketers. Which means that it is not “information” but sales pitches disguised as information.

Then again, they have made room for paid content, like this one.

If all this becomes is a WikiPedia of Promotions, I guess that is a good thing

Visit FreeIQ and make up your own mind.

They say it can’t be done - this journalist says it can…

Basically, the Digg filter must look at things like “do the same clumps of users dig an article within 24 hrs, and nobody else”, and look at if they dig anything independently… So to game the system, vary the people in your gang that dig each article, and make sure they dig other things on their own. It can’t be caught, and according to the article these diggers can earn 50c per 3 digs - lots of money for folk in India or Eastern Europe.

Shawn Casey is the promoter, but the responder to my queries was Eric. The offer is a link from a PR6 site (evotechnolgies.com) for only $10+

Check This Out!

I've got site with a Google Page Rank of 6.
(as you know, this is a very high rank!)
We were not doing much with the site so I
decided to turn this into an easy shot
for you to get a high-quality PR6 link
to your site!

...And unlike the people that want to charge you
$50 to $100 each and every month to get and
keep a top quality link like this, I'm not
going to do that.

...This site has 313 backlinks - including 182
in Google - so you know that the spiders are
crawling all over it and will get quickly
directed to any site that you add.

Plus, with incoming links like this, we know
that the site will stay highly regarded by
the SE's and continue to be a strong inbound
link for many years to come.

Well, the Google Toolbar gives it a PR6, as does every PageRank checking site I know of. But when I do a backlink search on Google, I see a whole bunch of sites that DO NOT link to it - you cannot find EvoTechnologies.com anywhere on the page or in the code. The backlinks are precisely the same backlinks for whenigrowup.net (which just happens to be a PR6).

Is this a Google glitch, or is it a new way to fake PageRank?

If every link sells for the maximum cost (big, underlined, in color), the most they’ll make is $4500, so I doubt Mr Casey is in on any dark practice knowingly…

…If it’s not a glitch, buying links based on PR is now much more difficult