Can I Warn People Against Buying A Rubbish Product?

You're sharing your opinion, what you might think is rubbish someone else might think is pure gold.

If you're experienced, the info in the product might seem useless to you but for a newbie it might be exactly what they need.

If you get into the "this product is rubbish" wars be prepared to be the target much more than you will ever be the whistle blower. You might be spending all of your otherwise productive time starting and putting out fires.

George Wright

If you want to compare your product to another - then compare it feature to feature, benefit to benefit - and point out WHY it might be rubbish - but don't call it rubbish. its amaturish and it will only bring you bad karma.

If your product is better - prove it.

If you have dealt with a rubbish product just ditch it and move on, don't waste anymore time than you already have.

You cannot benefit by expressing your negative opinions.

There was a mobile phone advert a while ago which mocked the iphones features and stated things like "idont have a keyboard, idont have a good camera" and so on. The iphone consumers responded with their own passionate response, look for it on youtube. If very difficult to bash someone elses product or service and make yourself look good.

Of course you can, do as you wish.

Keep in mind some of the other points of view here. If it is truly absolutely crap then sure go ahead. If you are comparing it with your own or an affiliate offer then stick with the facts about the two.

One of my mentors told me that one of the fastest ways to lose someones trust is to criticize a competitor.

You gain trust by helping them avoid certain doom but just make sure that's what you are doing.

And people are going to be skeptical about what you say about the other product, maybe even more so depending on the market, so you'll need to back up everything you say with a solid reason for your point of view.

It's one of those things that could blow up in your face but call a spade a spade when you have to.

Cheers,

Jonathan

Can I ask you, are you making the decision only on your opionion!

Please be careful, you can research the story I'm going to tell
you about. There was a marketer a few years back. he was in high
school. He sold a great product for a few weeks, did 4 or 5
hundred thousands dollars.

So far great. Then he started going after JV partners. One of
them was a big player who decided not to promote. The young
guy went off at the mouth at several big forums, like this one.

About 30 or 40 big name guys came to the JV partner defense
and the young guy lost everything he had done right up to
that point.

Long story, short story, this spread across the internet
like wild fire. This guys fame died a horrible death.

So be careful when you think you want to attack someone's
product and name.

And by thw way, I'n not going to tell you that marketer
name.

Bad Mojo. I know this is a long answer, but we marketers have
long memories.

Be warned now.

As far as I know, it's not at all to do with confronting the competitor. It's just regarded as very bad form to rubbish the opposition

I've heard the word before and I don't I've ever heard it in a sentence of dialogue! I had to check the definition just to be sure I knew it's exact meaning!

A London newspaper once described Liberace's music as "fruit-flavoured" and he sued for libel because "fruit" was a slang term for "homosexual." He won the case because he swore under oath that he was not, nor had he ever been, a homosexual.

*COUGH*

Now, the newspaper's point was that Liberace's music was silly and frivolous, and they certainly didn't mean to say his music in some way tasted like a homosexual (and how could you make such a comparison unless... never mind). In the same way, you could say something - perhaps use some slang, or an unpopular idiom, or the like - that leads to you being in court for saying something you didn't say. And as the Radio Times found, sometimes you can lose those cases.

Let me get this straight, you're thinking of starting an email campaign on a foundation of negativity? Not exactly how I'd go about building a name and business. Ask yourself, is that really what you want to be remembered for?

In the past I posted on a blog I run, that a certain product was completely useless.

I was not selling anything in competition with it, but was annoyed at the fact they were clearly scamming people.

I can't be bothered getting into the argument again but the gist is that people were paying for an actual person to view their website, and I caught the "bot" red handed.

What really got to me was the supposed email service where, they post out your advert, and supposedly a certain percent will open it.

I quickly figured out that based on their own figures they would need to be emailing every person on the planet several times a day.

They said they were posting each email ad to 70 million people, not more than 2 solo ads would be sent to a single email address per day, and they supposedly had over 20,000 people using their service.

Obviously they would have needed 70 billion people on their list to pull this one off LOL

It eventually got the boot from Clickbank because they started complaining about what I said, so I sent Clickbank my proof.

I think you should always do your research, but if you are right, never back down.

My 2c
Colin

Not a very productive way to spend valuable time. What works for one may not for another, if you bash someone then they will in turn waste time bashing you back. I either get a refund on my product or just chop it up to a learning experience. Best of luck.

Of course you can. It's a customer review.
I do it all the time (if it is) and praise good products all the time.

If you wish to mention the competition in order to prove you are better then mention them but state fact and not conjecture.

State your competition does "A+B" but state that you do "A+B but also C! At The Same Price!!lol!!1!"

Give people the tools to make an informed decision and actually back it up with fact and that will help you, getting into a pissonyou competition will make you look like the 9 yr old who kicks a toddler for looking at his toy.

If you phrase it in terms of your experience with the product, or as a neutral review of a product in relation to other similar products ...that is one thing.

If you just rip and trash a product or program, well, you could be fishing for a lawsuit. "Freedom of Speech" is not without limits ...or consequences.

-Doug

Caveat Emptor-Let the Buyer Beware

If you take it upon yourself to warn the world...how will they ever learn? I share my thoughts with close friends, members of my mastermind group, business partners...but once you go outside that protected fold, you are stepping into the oven. Like it has been said...if you find a product to be worthless, use THAT experience as your lesson...you learned something anyways. I have NEVER purchased something and NOT gained valuable insight. Usually it is...I should have done a bit more research first.

Mac the Knife

Hi,
I'm new here, and also new to Internet marketing and have a whole lot of learning to do, but isn't an email campaign about promoting your product or service and ultimately you yourself.

Obviously I dont know what I'd do if the person who's list I had subscribed to sent me an email rubbishing some other persons product, but somehow or other I dont think I'd be too impressed.

I have experienced buying what I considered to be a duff product on more than one occasion, and have chosen to flag it up as part of my learning curve, but that's just my way.

As for a product review, wouldn't that be done by listing the pros & cons of the features/benefits (or lack of them) on your blog/website which hopefully would carry much more authority.

much success to you all,

p.s. don't all 'hit' me at once.

arjmack.

There are Product Review sites all over the internet. If done tactfully (without saying, "This product is rubbish, because...") then, I believe it can be done. Share the product's key points & weak points and give it an overall rating of let's say 3 out of 10.

Wording is everything. I personally search the facts about a product before I purchase it.

Peace.

I think what you misunderstood from the whole idea of marketing Snow is that while for the most part even though we are highly competitive in these markets by the very nature of the business as it should be we would never go so low as to purposely sabotage another...we even respect each other for some odd reason because there is always something new to learn.

Doing something like that will simply get you labeled as "black hat" and even if that isn't really who you are reputations stick.

Murderers are all very nice to their families by necessity, but you wouldn't want to invite one for tea would you?

suggestion is always good but sometimes it's not the best

I agree with rosetrees,

If something is garbage then dont tell your members about it. If anyone asks let them know individually. But instead tell them what is good.

There IS "free speech".
There ARE "liberties".

Unfortunately, EVEN if you tell the obvious truth, it COULD mean you have to go to court. BESIDES, if you want to compete, etc... it is best not to go there.

Steve

If I'm not mistaken, Pierce's Whole Truth ebook contained
product reviews which he rated based on his own use
of them and some people who got low star counts
complained but I don't think much came of it.

In essence it's the same thing that movie and art critics
do except they do this for a living and don't sell music nor
art.

-Ray Edwards

I think generally it always comes off bad if you diss other peoples products. I think if you are actually emailing people to tell them a product is rubbish it may not go down too well with some. It's like force feeding a bad review to people which isn't a fair way of doing things. Also, it's a sure fire way of building online enemies which in turn could cause problems for you and your products.

of cause you can, thats exactly what the nets for so people can share experiances, if you think something is rubbish ur entitled to say so !

Woc

lol I can't let George Wright's post be the last on this thread. No one product will EVER be liked by everyone, but there do exist products that are unanimously crap.

Post your honest review in the products and reviews section. There is a section of the Warrior forum that has been put there for the purpose of seeking and giving reviews.

Then others can post their honest opinions on the same product.

You don't need the approval of others to give your honest opinion... even if its that a product is not worth its weight in mud.

Personally I like reading the good and the bad and the rebuttals so that I can make my decisions based on a variety of opinions.

However, the only opinions that matter are informed ones that give clear reasons why... not just throwing tomatoes.

You don't warn people not to buy it... you give your opinion on why you do not think its a good investment and let them make their own decision.

Here is a link to the product review section where you can post your honest and factual review from the perspective of an actual buyer of the product who has done more than sniff its cover:

http://www.warriorforum.com/internet...views-ratings/

If you trash other people's products its tricky, especially if you're active in the IM market... You don't know what connections people have so if you plan on partnering up with people in the future, I'd be careful. If you really want to give a product a bad review just tell people its a general overview for newbies who are just getting started, that usually keeps most people away unless they actually are brand new to the IM game.