When did people start posting WSOs over 3 weeks before going live?

I understand this Bill, but for me (and I'm just one small voice) I am personally turned off if it becomes a "normal thing."

I'm hoping it is just a fad.

I'm finding it along the lines of those character symbols being used which have since been banned.

I can't really see how this would work, unless like someone says, you're creating a list to bump of affiliates.

If that's the case, you have to ask yourself if it's going to bring you in more sales in the long term, especially if affiliates choose not to promote you.

If I was to guess, I'd say this is going to catch on like wild fire, affiliates will fight back, and all that will happen is they don't promote.

Of course, it was very creative of the first person who did it: both for actually using it to make more sales, and selling the technique before it became popular and everyone started doing it.

Personally, it wouldn't bother me in the slightest, and would have no reflection on whether I would buy the product.

Hi WillR,

There are 1001 reasons why people were tuning out already, before the advent of the 'coming soon' WSO.

But this doesn't bother those who are proliferating in there because the forum itself is just a very small link in their chain which revolves mainly around email marketing, not Warrior forum.

I was pondering how bizarre it all is while reading a thread yesterday - a common one where someone who is relatively new here made a thread about being burnt out and lost and looking for guidance.

They told what appears to be a common story of getting 'addicted' to buying WSOs in an attempt to MMO, before realising that they were getting absolutely nowhere and that they had wasted their money on junk.

So they turned to the helpful people in main discussion to wipe away their tears, guide them in the right direction (for free) and help them to recover some faith after their previous experience.

It's a bit like different worlds co-existing right next door to each other and there's something inherently unsettling and wrong about it.

An analogy - it's like a proprietor has two bars which are accessed through the same main doorway. As you go through the main doorway, you need to choose which one of the two bars to enter - either to the left or the right.

If you walk into the one on the right, the people are kind and relaxed and will pour you a drink and invite you for a nice chat at their table. It's inhabited by all sorts of people, just drinking, eating and playing a few hands of cards for low stakes. Even if you get legless, they'll organise a taxi home for you and you'll arrive home unscathed.

If you walk into the one on the left, you will be mercilessly stripped of your money, your dignity and your faith in humanity as soon as you walk in there. It's full of hookers, pimps, dealers and gun-toting varmints. You can't seem to go in there, no matter how grizzled you are, without someone trying to take a piece of you.

So the guy in main discussion yesterday had turned left upon entry and after that experience had eventually sought refuge in the bar on the right - bloodstained, stripped of his cash and grateful for someone to just buy him a beer.

Bizarrely, the people in the second bar know about the other bar, comfort him about his experience, but can't say too much about the goings on in the other bar openly because both bars are run by the same person and they don't want to cause offence.

Their advice to him was firstly - stay out of that bar. You don't need what's for sale in there. It's no good for you. You're better off in here.

But bizarrely, they end their advice by telling him that if he stays out of that bar for a while and gets his act together, then maybe one day he can go back in there and do some pimping himself, or make a few bucks pushing some gear.

It just gets weirder and weirder around here, it seems.

See my sig file for hot ladies and cheap gear. :rolleyes:

Hi Caliban,