What not to buy, and where not to buy it.
It’ discouraging to think how many
people are shocked by honesty
and how few by deceit.
        Noel Coward
Scams



There are tons of people out there trying to get your cash with wild-eyed promises.  Here is a
perfect example.  There is a person who claims you can make $439,000 per month connecting you
with specific buyers and selling their wares on the Internet.  First of all, that’s 5.2 million dollars a
year.  The cost of his program is a whopping $10.  Let me ask you, if you were making 5.2 million
dollars a year with a successful Internet business, would you be selling some cheesy $10 software
to increase your competition?  Of course not.  $10 is chump change for someone making over five
million.  So what’s the deal?  The deal is he does not make that much money. He is only selling you
the potential to make that kind of money.  You can potentially make 5 million doing anything you
want.  I could potentially make 5 million selling vacuums door to door.  Will I?  Probably not.  
However I can do whatever I put my mind to.

Nowhere are the scams more abundant than on Ebay.  They are everywhere.  Some sound so
honest and real it’s hard to tell the difference.  Because of this, I treat every potential deal with a
great deal of caution.

Here is a good website to review http://homeparents.about.com/od/avoidscams/
and http://www.scambusters.org/work-at-home.html


Email

Any incredible deal coming to you by way of email is most likely garbage.  You get what you pay
for.  Look out for the two newest scams out today.  There are very clever people who disguise
themselves as Ebay or Paypal and say they need to update their databases.  They give you a link
that will take where you can re enter your Ebay financial information and credit card or bank
information.  In a matter of minutes you will be broke.  Quickly erase them or better yet forward
them to the appropriate companies.  I always forward the Ebay ones right to Ebay at spoof@ebay.
com Ebay will then send you a confirmation email saying they got your concern and are
investigating.  I send the other stuff right to the US Governments Federal Trade Commission at
UCE@FTC.gov
So far I never heard from them whether or not they are removing these people but it feels good to
at least help out.

Ebay has a good fraud policy in place and you can learn more about it on their website.  It covers
everything from a deadbeat bidder, to downright fraud on the system.  Remember they cannot
catch everyone so be careful.

Educate yourself on what MLM programs are and what plans are really “get rich schemes.  MLM
programs are really multi level tiers which rely on you getting someone else to become an affiliate
of the same program.  They in turn go out and recruit others and it becomes a giant pyramid of
potential dollars.  The problem it is usually only potential and does not generate any real money in
your pocket.  The get rich quick schemes are usually easy to spot as well.  That is why I will never
tell you that you can get rich quickly using this manual or this system.  These are only tools that
spur you on to your own victories.  Research is work; hard work is what pays off.  Anyone telling
you that there is an easy shortcut obviously thinks there is a free lunch.
It's easier than you think
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On Ebay Auctions
If you go to the business and industrial section on Ebay, under Websites for sale, you will see a ton of websites that are offered
for sale.  Many look very impressive, but lack giving you the complete story.  I will show you what to look for and what to look out
for.  You may find 1 out of 1000 that would meet any criteria worth thinking about.

Criteria  If you were to buy a website made from someone, it would have to meet some of the following criteria:

  • Unique  Most of these sites are made from templates, which means if you had some experience you could spit one out in
    about 20 minutes.  However after a while, you run out of ideas and then you start making the same thing over and over
    again.  Sure they say its unique, then you buy it, and they make another one with a different template.  If you buy a site it
    needs to be proven and not the same thing you get everywhere else.

  • Old  The older the site, the better.  New sites have zero credibility
  • Administrator   Most will advertise that you can easily learn the administration portion of the site and its easy to learn.  
    They never reveal what program they wrote the program in or where its hosted.  Chances are you would need a high end
    program to manage the site and maintenance could be difficult to learn if you have no experience.  
  • Tagged  Most of these sites have zero meta tags programmed into them.  Without the tags, Google or Yahoo cannot find
    you.  This gets you nowhere.  Its like having a for sale sign in your back yard and you live 40 miles out of town on a road
    with no traffic except the mailman.  You will get no visitors unless you tag it correctly.
  • Linked  If you feel you absolutely must inquire about a site, find out how many links the site has.  If the seller has no idea,
    run for the hills.  links are essential in the search engine world, you must have them to rank naturally in Google.  The
    more the better, and you will spend the greater part of your search optimization efforts in getting links.
  • Priced    If you can buy the thing for $20, and its such a hot commodity, its a red flag.
  • Easy    Anyone that says this business is super easy to operate and takes no time, is an idiot.
  • Amazing  If it was that amazing, they would keep it for themselves and run it as a profit.
  • Stupid promo pictures   If the site has a picture advertised that is not relevant to the business, they are trying to catch
    your eye with a cheap marketing trick.  Chances are high that is has very little substance.  There is a couple of mortgage
    sites for sale with a bikini clad model advertise how great the business is, avoid this.
Here are some actual sites for sale.  I will add my commentary for each to help you get some skills for figuring out the garbage.
Lazy kids don't make money, especially $100 per hour.
Key Word....Easy....and Admin area
Profitable is up for interpretation, it
could make $1 and still be
considerable profitable.
A buck, come on.
No one in their right mind
would borrow money from an
unestablished and unqualified
company.
Chances are you know nothing about hosting and their
staffed 24 x 7 claims are not proven.  There are zillion
hosting business out there and competing in this market
takes a strong stomach.
Business is not Freaky, chances are that a
unique idea has already been thought of.  The
secret to competing is the execution and the
research.  If dealers needed this now, someone
would step up and provide it.
Anyone that buys traffic is not informed about
how traffic works.  You cannot buy qualified
traffic.  Anyone that sells it as a legitimate
source is a bigger idiot.  The only traffic you
can buy is advertising, which gives a potential
customer the opportunity to visit your site.  If
they don't visit they are not traffic.
Pssst, hey buddy want to buy a watch?
Give me a break
There is no Daddy here, someone is selling their
knowledge.  I am giving it to you for free.  Their
system is their opinion.  Buy a book from a proven
seller.
Real Estate keywords are one of the most competitive
keywords you can buy.  If the business is profitable, why
would anyone sell it?  Chances are its not established
either.
Internet travel agencies are
dead.  Since airlines and cruise
lines have the ability for
customers to book their own
travel, their demise is imminent.
NO Work?  Then why isn't
everyone rich?  This one meets
all the criteria.