Are product creators responsible for your results?

Totally agree... People are encharge of their own actions, if they don't take it then its their own fault. Aslong as the product actually gives good value and teaches what is promised, there isn't much more a product creator can do.

Funny you should mention this - because I just had an email for a refund request and the reason was "I don't think this will work for me, and I have no intention of using this method".

Oh really? Then why did you buy it? Clearly, a message like that, which is sent a couple of days after buying the product, is an indication that NOTHING was attempted.

I don't mind. Refund or not, it's cool...

...but I just wish people had a more serious attitude for making money and running a business online.

Oh well, can't win them all.

It almost as if people are like....OK, I bought your product and now you must prove to me that it works. I am not willing to work or take action though, I just want it to make money without effort.

Funny, if people would just stop trying to scam and cut corners and use that time to actually build a build a buisiness, they might find that they will make money.

I agree with this 100%. I have jumped from program after program, system after system but one thing I have never said was that, the program doesn't work. Because I was young and dumb and if I didn't see money in my bank account within seconds of opening the package or visiting the member's area, I would haul a$$ to something else.
I am wiser now that I have grown up and learned that nothing happens without my effort.

Well, if the product creator markets the product by claiming that the buyer can/will get certain results, buyers expect that they will get those results.

Obviously, if the buyer doesn't use the product in the prescribed manner, that's another issue...

I strongly agree with you.

People in general have the tendency where they think that the product in question has to prove itself to the potential customer, for instance, making money for the potential customer before the customer invests in the product in question.

This point as to why so many fail was covered in great detail in an interview hosted by Tony Robbins. Tony interviewed two great marketers, Frank Kern and John Reese in relation to this topic.

You can find this interview on Tony Robbins Blog.

Your success is determined by your beliefs and by the amount of action you take.

It's a bit like learning to paint and then smashing the paint shop windows because the brush you bought didn't paint the next Picasso for you, and your work didn't get accepted into the local gallery.

I do accept that marketers have a responsibility to represent their product in a real light, which is why I leave out hype and let my products do the talking. However, people have been buying Nike running trainers for years, based on the assumption tha it will make them enjoy running, or make them run longer/faster.

People also buy cologne/perfume year in, year out, fueling a multi billion dollar industry, based on the suggestion that by wearing it, they will look like a supermodel and get lots of sex.

Marketing is marketing...but at no point do consumers turn around and say "HEY! This didn't do for me what it did for others! I'm still overweight and anti-social!"

The point is, as I agree, products can give you amazing food for thought, insights and spark new ideas, and sometimes make you money directly as a result of simply following it to the tee...

...what they won't do, is tell you to go take a nap on the sofa whilst they get to work and put things into action for you.

The problem with our society now is that you will never sell a product if you tell the prospect that it is going to take lots of work and effort. People don't want to hear that. For some reason we have become increasingly lazier and as a result marketers have to cater to that.

People want the next big way to make lots of cash while doing minimal work. The only problem with this is if you remove the adversity you also remove the victory. Part of the fulfillment in life is struggling to achieve a goal. No wonder why half the world is on antidepressants.

Are people just lazy or scared?