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WMG: those strange internet ads...
Y'know some of those ads that claim things of questionable truthfulness, such as "1 trick of a tiny belly", or the shocking new video of Obama that's supposedly gone viral, or the billionaire allegedly warning people of financial ruin, or the work-from-home opportunity that can make people a few hundred dollars a week, etc.? And often promoting corresponding products/services of questionable value?
Well, so I decided to check out one of those work-from-home things. I watched their introductory the video for fifteen minutes, and for that ENTIRE TIME it refused to drop almost any clues as to what it actually did. It just spent the time with the company founder guy showing off how he nabbed random people off the street who knew nothing about the internet and how he was oh so honestly truthful to them and how he made them about $350, about $170, about $500, etc. via the internet in the course of just three hours (just three hours!), and how he was showing the results first intentionally, and how his get-rich-quick scheme is unlike all the others and has no up-front costs, etc..
The only really meaningful information is:
1. that the activity is conducted over the internet,
2. that it could make you a few hundred in a short period of time, and
3. that these results are not representative, according to the disclaimer shown on the screen.
I was wondering...is it actually these sorts of businesses that put up those strange ads? I mean, who else would do that?
(In case you're wondering about up-front costs, by the way, there are probably none to join the moneymaking scheme, but you have to pay US$49.99 to get the information on how to join.)
Comments
You are actually paying attention to banner ads on the internet.
I have nothing left to discuss with you.
Worse. He clicked one.
In my defence, it was a text ad, not a banner ad.
What can I say. I'm always curious what's on the other end of something. Nothing comes from thin air, y'know.
How much for information on what those jobs actually entail?
They seem to involve doing things online. Doing exactly what, I'm not sure, but it was a waste of my time past paying attention to that vid for more than 15 minutes. And amazingly, that site didn't have a redirect page to shuttle me to when I attempted to leave the page with the video; those sites (at least the ones about investment advice) usually do. And it didn't tell me that I was missing out on really good stuff with a pop-up box asking me to be sure that I wanted to ignore this great opportunity.
The video had no video controls that I could see how to access. I would have fast-forwarded the damn thing if only there were. Not sure if bad web design or intentional.
Somehow I doubt that they did it deliberately, otherwise they would have also put in the redirect page and such.
Well, they could have removed video controls deliberately in order to force people to watch positive testimonials and "evidence" of the program's effectiveness first.
It is an interesting quandary. With the exception of the obscenely gullible, no sane person would fall for any of this, but even taking that into account, who thinks that this is a good idea? Who designs the ads? Who pitches the concepts? It is terribly strange.
Highly misanthropic people with plenty of time on their hands, perhaps?
Perhaps, but... really, it's just bizarre.
most of those ads are randomly generated. Especially the "1 trick to [whatever]" ones.
And if you do bite, they're usually recruiting for some sort of MLM scheme, despite the promises of it being "like nothing you've ever seen before".