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    Gotcha! Flippa seller affiliatecraig

    He lists internetcashtoday.biz for sale here: Flippa thread

    The "site" itself - and the business idea - is very simple. When you land on the homepage there's a big bold claim saying he's retiring and giving away his "multi million dollar company". All you need to do to enter is give him your email address.

    Except as the Flippa auction suggests, there's no multi million dollar company and that claim is made for the sole purpose of getting people to sign up to his list.

    On his home page he's very reassuring about the email address, "It's not a scam and you'll never receive spam". However in the Flippa listing he says that he makes his money from spamming the heck out of them.

    Do you want to be rich and have nice things?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Clinton View Post
    He lists internetcashtoday.biz for sale here: Flippa thread

    The "site" itself - and the business idea - is very simple. When you land on the homepage there's a big bold claim saying he's retiring and giving away his "multi million dollar company". All you need to do to enter is give him your email address.

    Except as the Flippa auction suggests, there's no multi million dollar company and that claim is made for the sole purpose of getting people to sign up to his list.

    On his home page he's very reassuring about the email address, "It's not a scam and you'll never receive spam". However in the Flippa listing he says that he makes his money from spamming the heck out of them.

    Do you want to be rich and have nice things?
    I remember having a long discussion about this business model somewhere in the past. I guess it's still going strong.

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    Yeah, the "business model" depends on people believing in "too good to be true" offers and also buying the stuff he spams them about. It will probably continue to work for as long as there are greedy and stupid people around.
    More Menu Madness - it makes you want to ask for the "check please".

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    And for today's report from the You Can't Make This Up Department, Flippa's latest blog post, prominently displayed when I went to look at this listing, is entitled, "Case Study - Honesty is the Best Policy."

    That deserves a thread all of its own: http://experienced-people.net/forums...9970#post29970

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