"Sucker Free" Internet Marketing?

The solutions government offers to problems like these are usually as bad as the problems themselves.

Maybe people should just stop being so gullible and the problem will go away on its own?

NO, if the government steps in to protect the lazy and the greedy from themselves, it will only get worse.

Any behavior you "reward" you get more of. What we need is more educated people, and that won't come from the government trying to protect people.

We don't need more government. We need to revive the opportunity for people and businesses to fail and suffer the consequences of making poor decisions.

We just need our own way how to be effective and how to work out in our own way. The most important in the long run is being resourceful and creative in order to find new methods.

You better watch those government boys and girls. They will drink your shine ... then take the still.

I see a lot of scam this and scam that post on here. Agreeably there are a lot of offers "too good to be true" online .. offline .. and everywhere in between.

Instead of writing threads and post and beating dime store war drums .. be a true Warrior. Set up a review blog ... expose the "scams" in a true review.

Be the change .... develop products that really work and promote them hard. Don't think for a minute it can't be done. Any product that delivers, fills a need, and gets a small foothold will draw affiliates.

When we talk about protecting consumers, what we are actually talking about is not letting certain vendors sell what they want, and not letting certain consumers buy what they want.

The laissez-faire approach which I tend to favour is to let everyone buy or sell whatever they want without restriction.

The idea is that stupid people who will buy any damn thing rapidly run out of money, which means all the vendors who rely on the business of stupid people run out of customers, and naturally enough they go out of business.

In addition, the social niceties come into play. Joe tells his idiot brother Bob not to buy certain things, and not to shop certain places, and not to trust certain people.

Meanwhile, honest vendors develop a reputation, as well - so Joe tells his idiot brother Bob that if he's not sure about something down at the market, and Joe isn't around for whatever reason, then Bob should talk to George about it because George is a good honest man and will give him sound advice.

The same will happen with stupid or bad or dishonest customers, as well. Vendors talk among themselves, and customers develop reputations, and eventually nobody wants to do business with the crappy customers who steal or cheat or return things after wearing them once.

The problem with the internet side of this equation is that all of the above pretty much requires that we have persistent identity for vendors and customers alike. Which means if we're going to have maximum freedom to buy and sell whatever we want online, anonymity - and much of our privacy - has got to go away.

You simply can't have a functioning society that doesn't have personal accountability and reputation. It won't work.