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I find this flabbergasting…
Look on the internet for any make money online product or indeed for products solving numerous others problems and you will see that the minimum price for an ebook seems to be $47, although something that is fairly new seems to be sold for in the region of $97. Now go to Amazon.com and look for a book with a similar title or covering a similar theme and you will be unlucky if you have to pay more than $25. Don’t get me wrong, sometimes an ebook might actually be worth this much. More often than not however it isn’t and we get suckered into buying it through clever sales copy.
Something is a bit screwy here.
The problem is that to promote the book, which is invariably crap old rehashed information, the publisher needs to have affiliates. The affiliates need to get a decent kickback for promoting the book to their list so the price of the book skyrockets. I have lost count of the number of ebooks I have read, normally given to me as some kind of bonus for something I have bought which has a ludicrously inflated sale price.
This should really stop and you wont find any ebooks being promoted here or given away as a bonus for anything I may decide to promote to my loyal readers unless I am convined it has some decent value. There will also be some kind of review of the book written by me saying why you should read it.
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Hi there. I agree with your sentiments entirely. It’s not that the schemes out there are scams as such, it’s just that in the end they promise (or purport to promise) much more useful information than they actually provide.
I’ve also noticed that many of the ebooks, videos etc bundled in with the 47, or 97 ‘value’ bundles were themselves sold for a similar figure not too long ago.
I wonder what the average ‘life’ of the schemes are – 6 months or so perhaps?
Even now I have picked up dozens of ebooks for free that some people are still trying to sell for fairly significant sums.
For the *absolute* beginner to the marketplace and to the internet too, the information can be quite useful. What is doesn’t tell them is the stuff that will make their efforts hopeless. The ‘mugs’ have to find that out for themselves.
Cheers