How cheap do you have to be to steal a $7 report

Let it go!

You will only cause yourself stress, as they obviously have no problem pulling a stunt like this.

I just got another email promoting a product teaching people how to steal (ethically, they even claim!) any ebook or report being sold via either PayPal or ClickBank!

My attitude is that the odd stolen download is just the cost of doing business.

As always, just MHO...

Just like retailers in brick and mortar stores know there will always be those who just have to shoplift, we will always have those who waste their time and energy looking for something for nothing.

I've wrestled with this myself and have come to the conclusion - at least in my case - that they're not worth the waste of time and energy to go after.

Dang.. I never thought of doing that. Can I get a refund? I"M KIDDING!!

There is a setting I believe in the $7 script that requires someone to be a customer first in order to be an affiliate. I've never tested it, I just noticed it the other day. Perhaps that is a solution.

I would be willing to bet they didn't take the OTO did they?

See, that's the sort of mindset I do NOT understand. When I was a Restaurant Manager, there would be peer managers who would be livid at people asking for a cup for water and then getting soda pop. It happened ALL the time. Yeah, it's a "cost of doing business", but it's still shoplifting.

We were only about a block or so from Wal Mart. Now, Wal Mart has all their merchandise 'out', too...right where people can get to it and take it, if they want. But if someone takes it, they get arrested for shoplifting. How is shoplifting soda pop any different? After all, if I want a candy bar that costs LESS than the price of the soda pop and I simply put it in my pocket and walk out of Wal Mart, I'd have a criminal record. So it's not the price of the item in question.

It's how the theft of the item is handled. On one hand, restaurants simply "deal" with customers who steal soda pop. On the other hand, retailers press charges.

Which is it? Is theft of our products something we should 'deal' with, or is it something we should try to stop when we find it happening?

The pyschology behind this kind of thing is pretty interesting if you think about it.

Someone signups up for a 100% affiliate program and pays themself for a product.

Someone asks for a cup of water, and then gets soda instead.

(A side note: the second example is outright stealing. The first is more an ethical question rather than a legal one, I would guess.)

Is it because they won't want to pay the $7, or the $2 (or whatever soda pop costs)?

I doubt it - I think it's more about "working the system". It's almost like an ego boost, outsmarting big business, sticking it to the man.

Of course a lot of people don't realise that when they're "bringing down big business" on the internet, they're usually bringing down one person who is trying to make a bit of extra cash to help support his family.

If we all remember that there is a real human, just like us, trying to make ends meet, behind the businesses we deal with on the internet, perhaps we'd all be a lot happier?

My two cents for the day,
Sam

Consider moving up to Rapid Action Profits. It has fraud detection mechanisms in place (people who try to buy through their own affiliate link, two PayPal accounts, etc), as well as turn off the affiliate option. It will also import your 7DS data.

Why don't you think of converting these guys into future customers?

If your $7 product is very good, they may buy from you later. when you send them a mailing for a more expensive new product, especially if it is more secure.

In other words, think you are preselling them with your $7 report, and follow up with a mailing of a related affiliate product or your own product.

I have had people somehow buy my product for .01cent on an ebook that I use the $7 script. It is annoying, but as said above, its going to happen. I know there are other scripts and things to use that are more secure, but it doesn't really happen that often, so I just don't let it bother me when the occasional theft comes along.

Hey - at least I can sleep at night without having to worry about Karma catching up with me

Anyone know what PayPals attitude is to this sort of conduct? It may well be that this individual would get his account(s) frozen or even canceled.

Brian

I built a list from people who thought they were stealing from me with a download page that I made public.

That list made me a packet because other links in it needed a purchase where there was no getting around paying.

I am currently setting up another 'trick' download page to build another list.
Even 'thieves' have to pay for some things.

There's opportunity everywhere.

Yup, I understand your feelings. I have my own 7 Dollar product as well, and I know in one way or another people are gonna share/steal it. Digital products are being passed like candys nowadays, can't really do much about it, can we?

I agree with what many are currently saying here. Unfortunately, people are always going to try to "beat the system" it really is not worth getting upset about let it go.

that is sad, but yes you will find the freeloaders, they are out there.