Hi! Long time no write. Sorry to all my millions of readers for the lack of posts. But as I have said before on here somewhere, i aint no writer. 
Just something that has popped up again lately after i started to promote a new product. This product is in the gaming niche and if you are a bit of a nerd then you can find all that it tells you for $0 on the net (like pretty much all ebook packages but anyway). Being in the gaming niche there is a good chance that some hardcore gamers might find your review or whatever and proceed to try to tell you how much of an arsehole (I’m an aussie that’s how it’s spelt) you are for selling something that is freely available with about 10 seconds of pretty elementary Google…ing. (Googling?).
This happened again (has happened on many a youtube video) yesterday and continues today, when my review site was posted on a pretty high traffic gaming forum. When i checked this morning i had 7 comments waiting to be moderated and each and every one of them had some very colourfull language and a thoughtful link to a website where you can download everything for free.
I was kind of expecting this so in my review of the product i actually stated that you can indeed find all this info for nothing if you are prepared to look. This package actually is quite a nifty little bundle which offers quite a bit more which hardly anyone noticed it seems, but i think this is what saved me from more defamatory comments.
So i guess the point of this post is to remember, if you are promoting questionable products, don’t just copy the copy that the publisher offers you in their affiliate tools section, paste into an email or blog post and hope for the best. Have a think about what kind of people are likely to read it and how they might react. Not everyone is a stupid internet newbie and when they find you they will let you know which in turn can harm your sales if every one reads those comments.
Keep comments on but keep them moderated. Comments are an important part of blogs as they can offer testimonials on the products that you promote. I do sometimes let a few negative ones through but i like to respond to those and reassure anyone else that its not all a load of bullshit.
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I agree mate i was a bit colourfull with my language, but the person who set this up crossed to many people who have worked very hard for 2 years bringing this together.
“http://d01.megashares.com/?d01=4ca4409″
Crikey! Ahh…you know that is a good point. Why do people pay for things, because they want to. Look, we could easily grow our own food and never buy it at the grocery store, but we just don’t want to. You are selling a service, information! If people do not want to look for it themselves, that’s on them.
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Yep but in your hypoThesis , your robbing library and then selling it. Thats sounds to me like being a theif ?
the files these scammers are selling… only for free
“http://d01.megashares.com/?d01=4ca4409″
I understand your point. There are loopholes to a lot of things and these are going to be exploited. You yourself are stealing from nintendo (code) and associated game publishers by installing homebrew and (more than likely) running “backup” copies of your wii games. I know there are a few people out there that are probably only running it for the homebrew but lets be honest here. There is a fine line between a theif and Robin Hood.
I am not selling this, i just post a link and someone buys the ebook off someone else entirely.
Don’t shoot the messenger and all that huhu. After 8 sales i havent had one refund! Happy customers wouldn’t you think?
Anyway, please leave this blog out of the argument. You are wasting your time here
i will leave this blog alone, once i know for sure that its an ebook and not the original 48 meg of files which includes about20 peoples work and breaks the GPL licence not to mention the CIOS which is Nintendos work, image burn another item no legaly to be sold.
Yeah well, as i said before, you are wasting your time here man. I’m not the one you should be talking to, this is not my product, i don’t know the guys who’s product it is and i certainly don’t have any control over it. But thanks for bumping my stats for a couple of days
I’ve seen this before and people will put up adsense ads all over the site, make a few bucks, then just disappear. Totally unethical.
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hey Hugh,
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I rarely get offensive comments, but when I do I laugh and wonder why the person spends their time commenting. It probably takes them at least a minute to foam at the mouth and write their comment, but it takes me about two seconds to hit “delete”.
This is my very game too!
It’s so addictive!