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Exfilius

15 years ago

Google Chrome has a built-in protection for this. After the first pop-up you can choose to leave.

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Matt.Lake

15 years ago

LOL... it's the site that claims that every traffic generation technique we've been using all these years with success don't work!

I think with a product like that, since the owner's already lost the respect of any prospect with at least a little bit of common sense, then they might as well do what it takes to get the sale. It likely really is the VERY last chance that you'll even read one of his sales pages, so he might as well piss you off!

Unfortunately, it's the gullible suckers (not necessarily their fault) who buy into these sort of offers, that keep such an annoying practice alive.

Yes, it's overkill but don't spend your time whining about it on this forum... you're not the first one. Just realize that it's wrong and continue on your own business.

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Patchworks

15 years ago

I've been seeing this more and more lately.

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Kurt

15 years ago

The Hotel California Pop-up - You can check in any time you want, but you can never leave.

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1WebDiva 15 years ago

Originally Posted by Kurt

The Hotel California Pop-up - You can check in any time you want, but you can never leave.

LOL! Love it!
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- Paul Myers 15 years ago
  
  Reminder, folks... Threads like this do not need to include the link to the "offending" site. That just ends up with a lot of personal bashing that's not allowed.
  
  I haven't even looked at the product, so I can't say anything about it. I would suggest that assuming that anyone who's promoting it is aware of the pop-up parade and endorses that part of the thing is a bit of a stretch.
  
  That's not to suggest you are wrong (or right, or anything else) to unsubscribe over it. That's always a reasonable option, and nobody's business but yours. I'm just pointing out that you may be cutting off a useful resource based on a mistaken assumption.
  
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Michael Oksa

15 years ago

Perhaps they are hoping to get sales by getting people angry and frustrated.

Finally, a fresh way of marketing.

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ChickenMan 15 years ago

Originally Posted by Michael Oksa

Perhaps they are hoping to get sales by getting people angry and frustrated.

Finally, a fresh way of marketing.

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I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but that made me chuckle.
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- Derek_Thomas 15 years ago
  
  Even though I'm not a big fan of this method, it only took me 2 clicks as well.
  
  You have the read the text very carefully...sometimes clicking "OK" means leaving the site while other times it means going to a new sales page.
  
  I actually make it a standard practice to close out any product sales page I'm considered purchasing as occasionally there will be a discounted offer. Sometimes you can find a really nice deal here. Dan Raine and crew do this all the time. For the most part though, this method is nothing but irritating.
  
  This and the computer virtual assistant things...you know what I'm talking about?
  
  Anyway, enough griping for me. Off to work.
  
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- WarForNom 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by ChickenMan
  
  I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but that made me chuckle.
  
  I can tell.
  
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  Kay King 15 years ago
  
  If someone says "9 popups" the last I'll do is click on the link to check it out - I must be alone in that.
  
  I would suggest that assuming that anyone who's promoting it is aware of the pop-up parade and endorses that part of the thing is a bit of a stretch.
  
  That's right - those promoting it might not know. That would be because they don't even look at what they are promoting before trying to sell it:rolleyes:
  
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  Paul Myers 15 years ago
  
  Kay,
  
  That's right - those promoting it might not know. That would be because they don't even look at what they are promoting before trying to sell it:rolleyes:
  
  Bzzzzt!
  
  I have looked at products and asked if there was a continuity program associated with them. If the answer was "No," I didn't care about the sales letter. Much less click through the order sequence. Yes, I dislike the prisoner process, but that's got little to do with the quality of a product.
  
  Lots of baseless assumptions being tossed around here lately. I begin to despair of the ability of modern adults to think critically before asserting their surmisals as "facts."
  
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  Vogin 15 years ago
  
  Yet another dude proving my attitude towards exit pop-ups...
  
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Bryan O'Neil

15 years ago

Just wondering how much traffic did this thread send to the said site. I'm guessing a lot. And the best part - I'm sure some of it converted, too!

So really, the owner of the site should now send you a thank you letter for posting a thread that intended to bash them.

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Caleb Spilchen

15 years ago

The first pop up blacked my screen out at school, on number two it let me leave

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Cush

15 years ago

I would like to know if these pop ups have any real conversion value, because I have seen a awful lot of them lately. Has anyone tested?

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MarkAnderson

15 years ago

I don't think, the series of pop ups activity will make any good bargain for the merchant. And, it gives nothing more than increasing the left button clicking speed of visitors.

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Mcrofts

15 years ago

I Only got 2, Using Google Chrome.
Opera Could Close Straight away.

Hahahaha wuww lol Just Used Firefox, 9 Pop Up's not letting you leave lol

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natorob

15 years ago

I experienced this yesterday as well. And like newbim, I counted them as I tried to exit. One or two I can handle; but 9 is completely out of hand.

Not only would I not purchase this product just because of this sales tactic; but I eliminate the person sending me the email.

It's frustrating, and also a waste of time.

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Michael Oksa

15 years ago

While it may be frustrating, we have no way of knowing how well it is working for the person who owns the site.

Granted, it sounds pretty lame to me, but what if the 9 pop-ups are actually an improvement over their previous "marketing" efforts? It's hard to imagine what could be worse, but if somebody is using that many pop-ups, nothing would surprise me.

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Caleb Spilchen

15 years ago

Now that computer was messing up when I left it... That site is screwy!

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Sheryl Polomka

15 years ago

That is annoying, I hate getting one pop up but 9 is just ridiculous!

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Caleb Spilchen 15 years ago

Originally Posted by Sheryl Polomka

That is annoying, I hate getting one pop up but 9 is just ridiculous!

Sheryl,

There was this "kid" at school, who made a site, that was one letter off my domain name.. and on his site he had I think about 100 pop ups for each note in his song...

I had to sit on the spacebar to get off the site.. and that even took a minute...
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JonAlfredsson

15 years ago

Now that's irritating. And I thought experiencing two of them is already annoying. Thanks for the info. will keep in mind not to open that site.

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DeborahDera

15 years ago

Originally Posted by newbim

Hello fellow warriors,

I'm all for letting people find their way to keeping people on your site, but surely this should come by delivering great content, making people WANT to stay on your site.

This morning, I have been greeted by my email client, with numerous emails for [deleted] (Warning - do not visit unless you want to get annoyed, I'll explain why)

This sales page has 9 "Are you sure you want to leave?" boxes. That's right, 9!!
Makes no wonder why some people (myself included) feel sick when they start to see a sales page loading, knowing they will be greeted with popup after popup.

I'm also aware that I provided a link to obtain the code for said boxes for free (http://www.warriorforum.com/website-...free-code.html) but if you do decide to use them, I would think long and hard about having 9 of them on your site, it might have the reverse effect.

Just a friendly warning - If you want it, go ahead and buy it, but make sure you test out the sales page just so you can see for yourself - There's just no way to avoid them - all of them.

Personally, it strikes me that the creator of the product seems a little desperate to sell the product, but that is just my own opinion.

Rant over, have a great day everyone

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Cheers,

Newbim.

I was so ticked off about this offer that I went back and unsubscribed to every single list that sent it to me - many sent me multiple emails about it.

There was/is a discussion on this product in the reviews section as well. It's apparently a terrible product ("product" being used loosely); questionable sales tactics; and people were complaining about the upsells as well. I went to the site a couple of times to make sure I wasn't reading it incorrectly and was also irritated about the # of times I had to click to get off the page.

I am really disappointed. A number of marketers I had some respect for sent this to me...

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simon0803

15 years ago

Originally Posted by DeborahDera

I was so ticked off about this offer that I went back and unsubscribed to every single list that sent it to me - many sent me multiple emails about it.

There was/is a discussion on this product in the reviews section as well. It's apparently a terrible product ("product" being used loosely); questionable sales tactics; and people were complaining about the upsells as well. I went to the site a couple of times to make sure I wasn't reading it incorrectly and was also irritated about the # of times I had to click to get off the page.

I am really disappointed. A number of marketers I had some respect for sent this to me...

Fully agree with this. Anyone sending me this link encourages me to unsubscribe, they are devaluing my time. so it may increase conversions for this product by for affiliates they are possibly reducing their chances of selling me anything in the future. Be interesting to know what the overall picture is between slight increase in conversions against unsubscribes.

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1WebDiva

15 years ago

Originally Posted by DeborahDera

I was so ticked off about this offer that I went back and unsubscribed to every single list that sent it to me - many sent me multiple emails about it.

There was/is a discussion on this product in the reviews section as well. It's apparently a terrible product ("product" being used loosely); questionable sales tactics; and people were complaining about the upsells as well. I went to the site a couple of times to make sure I wasn't reading it incorrectly and was also irritated about the # of times I had to click to get off the page.

I am really disappointed. A number of marketers I had some respect for sent this to me...

I also unsubscribed from several long-time 'gurus.' I went through one's support center, asking if he'd really tested this thing? I noted that the sales page actually says NOTHING about how the thing works. In fact it says just NOTHING. And ended up in a 'sorta feud' with the support help, although my initial email in response to his initial email was a simple, NICE question. So, I reminded her that to replace a paying customer is more expensive than just nicely answering my question. And I canceled the whole thing. And for the first time ever in my 16 Internet years, I hit the button to put me on their do-not-contact list.

I dunno... it has come down to this, for me: If I hit one of those popups that give you an extra discount.. what about the peeps who bought at full price? I would think they'd be pissed (scyuze me). If it has that popup, I immediately am not buying. Are we getting jaded, after so many years? Why are so many IM'ers so bent on making potential customers MAD?

Love this thread, and thanks!

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Joseph Then

15 years ago

Sounds like he has learn this technique from porn sites.

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Sardent

15 years ago

I don't know. I kind of like clicking on through them to find out just how much they'll discount their original price.
I saw one last week that started at like $297 and by the time you made to the last offer he was down to $27.

LOL!

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dremora

15 years ago

One of the reasons to love Linux.
Open a terminal window and killall -9 firefox (or whatever browser...) lol. No more annoying popups!

Anyway, 9 popups is way past the borderline of spamming. It's just annoying as hell. Don't do it!
One exit popup with a downsell is acceptable. 2 is pushing it.

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SergeyZ 15 years ago

When this happens to me what I do is click to stay on the page. Then I go to my browser options and disable Javascript. This lets me click away from the offending site at which point I turn Javascript back on. It's annoying as hell though but at least it lets me know that I avoided buying a crap product.
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Darunner14

15 years ago

I am just curious to know the average amount of time of the user on sites like these? I know I would know this anwser but very curious. Well anyways with 9 popups, I would never be back to that site.

Does anyone conform to the W3C standards anymore?

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Ken Strong

15 years ago

Speaking of marketing... the product under discussion is certainly getting some free traffic from this thread, if only from people who just want to see the legendary 9 popups with their own eyes...

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Superior Content Creation

15 years ago

Originally Posted by KenStrong

Speaking of marketing... the product under discussion is certainly getting some free traffic from this thread, if only from people who just want to see the legendary 9 popups with their own eyes...

LOL I doubt that traffic's converting though...anyways, I only got 2. I kind of felt betrayed. :rolleyes:

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Ken Strong 15 years ago

Originally Posted by dru-man

LOL I doubt that traffic's converting though...anyways, I only got 2. I kind of felt betrayed. :rolleyes:

You may be using the wrong browser... sounds like you need Firefox to get the full experience.
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- davidjames42973 15 years ago
  
  Yeah I went to this site yesterday to read up on what it's all about. I had the same exact problem. I finally decided to control alt delete to get out of the site, which left me a bit bent out of shape...
  
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Superior Content Creation

15 years ago

Okay, against my better judgement, this I've got to see. LOL

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dremora

15 years ago

I think the product creator was split testing it by reading the warrior reactions here... He might have reduced them after reading this thread

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MilesT

15 years ago

9 pop ups means they have no faith in their product or sales letter. Not a surprise, a majority of products / services in the IM space have been crap lately.

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Pluton 15 years ago

I've come across this several times in the past two days.

Needless to say I unsubscribed from their lists!!!
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Mike Hlatky

15 years ago

Feels like I just got the high score in a videogame!

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ce2gain

15 years ago

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who unsubscribes from lists who send me to sites like this. The other one that really cleaned up my inbox was the "Thank You for Your Order" (when you didn't place any orders) headline.

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MatthewT

15 years ago

This thing is really annoying and wasting people's time

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un

15 years ago

I think a single pop-up is usually fine. I personally find them annoying when I'm trying to leave a site but...if the person has already decided to leave and not buy anything then what do you have to lose by going after the sale one last time? Nine more times though is a bit obscene.

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seasoned

15 years ago

What I hate is the ones that say something like "If you don't want to not leave, click OK, otherwise click continue"!

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Rich77sm

15 years ago

I always test these pages before i put them up. 9 is sick!! If it has one im done. Nothing is more frustrating to people i think!

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Butters123

15 years ago

omg I had one of these like an hour ago (maybe same one) all I know is I was clicking no, cancel, a lot of times my finger started to hurt! You would think they would be smart enough to know this would annoy people even more which in turn would make them not want to buy the product at all!

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Kevin Caldbeck 15 years ago

Why are you asking me to buy this crap. Every review I have seen says it isn't worth it.

Do you look at the products you are promoting?
This is a good way to ruin your reputation!

This is the email I have been sending to those who sent me their affiliate links to this thing. I had a lot more in it originally, but decided to be a nice guy today.:rolleyes:
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mojojuju

15 years ago

Originally Posted by newbim

This sales page has 9 "Are you sure you want to leave?" boxes. That's right, 9!!

Well if one box is said to work, 9 should certainly work better, right?

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Kay King 15 years ago

I was clicking no, cancel,

Reading is a skill Most of the time if you read the "instructions", you'll find clicking "cancel" keeps you there....clicking "OK" lets you leave.

Wonder what brilliant marketing mind came up with that - if he got a nickel for everyone who clicked the wrong one, he'd be a gazillionaire by now.
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- kindsvater 15 years ago
  
  Using popups that will not let someone leave is not a smart idea. Once had a case where a porn network kept forcing popups of various sites, explicit of course, which never ended unless you either subscribed out of frustration or turned off your computer.
  
  A court ordered injunction took care of that.
  
  Interfering with someone's use of their computer and browsing software in this manner could also run afoul of criminal laws.
  
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