Get rich quick schemes you bought

[Brad Gosse]

We have all done it. Tell us what get rich quick scheme or product you bought.

I will start. In the 90's I bought Don Lapre's "Tiny Classified Ads" system. I should have known from his whiney voice it was too good to be true. I DID end up using his classified ad dept contact sheets for another biz and it worked so I never asked for a refund.

Some of you may not be old enough to remember these ads.

YouTube - Don Lapre Sells Tiny Classified Ads

[FilthyRich]

I once brought a pack of DVD's for MLM marketing from Andrew Reynolds. Spent around £2000 on it! What a big mistake well this was in the 90's aswell!

I have learnt so much since then and realised that what these peeps were selling is just junk!

[Dollface]

Haha! God, his voice is annoying! I have spent countless dollars on get rich schemes like this, and they never worked. But just like you, I bought one, and branched out to something else from it, and here I am, selling articles I write so my clients don't have to! I love to write, so this is a great job for me. I'm glad you found something that works for you!

[George Wright]

Hi,

I don't mean to play devil's advocate here but if you got something out of what you bought (as 2 have said so far) What's the problem?

I'm not a fan of DL but I do know his methods worked on various levels for some people.

No business, not eBay, not Don Lupre, Not Amazon, not Shaklee, not Amway, not Robert Allen, NO business works for the majority of people who buy in to it. Why? I'll not raise a controversy here by repeating the "why." . It's stated over and over in this forum.

However, All of them work for some. The "Why?" is the opposite of the "Why?" above. Again people get angry when we say the "Why?s"

Anyway, Congratulations on taking action (oops) on a segment of DLs program and making it work.

Oh, in answer to your question, I got into shaklee, sold two bottles and went out and bought a new car based on future earnings. Those darn downline people never sold another bottle of the stuff so my car payments never came in.

The other thing I got into was a soap/cleaning products company. They went out of business but not before I proudly became a "General" based on my PV Those products lasted us for a few years. I even used them in my cleaning business and turned them into thousands of dollars based on the money my janitorial accounts paid me. (How's that for rationalization?)

Nice Thread, Thanks,

George Wright

[shmerns]

The Zaken Corporation, yikes!

[Dollface]

Originally Posted by George Wright

Hi,

I don't mean to play devil's advocate here but if you got something out of what you bought (as 2 have said so far) What's the problem?

I'm not a fan of DL but I do know his methods worked on various levels for some people.

No business, not eBay, not Don Lupre, Not Amazon, not Shaklee, not Amway, not Robert Allen, NO business works for the majority of people who buy in to it. Why? I'll not raise a controversy here by repeating the "why." . It's stated over and over in this forum.

However, All of them work for some. The "Why?" is the opposite of the "Why?" above. Again people get angry when we say the "Why?s"

Anyway, Congratulations on taking action (oops) on a segment of DLs program and making it work.

Oh, in answer to your question, I got into shaklee, sold two bottles and went out and bought a new car based on future earnings. Those darn downline people never sold another bottle of the stuff so my car payments never came in.

The other thing I got into was a soap/cleaning products company. They went out of business but not before I proudly became a "General" based on my PV Those products lasted us for a few years. I even used them in my cleaning business and turned them into thousands of dollars based on the money my janitorial accounts paid me. (How's that for rationalization?)

Nice Thread, Thanks,

George Wright

I suppose you're right. I did get to start my article writing busniess, so I did get something. I didn't think of it that way.

[Brad Gosse]

Sorry I guess my thread brought out a spammer. Post reported

[Dollface]

Originally Posted by Brad Gosse

Sorry I guess my thread brought out a spammer. Post reported

Haha! That will happen. Like little mosquitoes...Buzzz!

[Gail Sober]

Let's see, there's been so many.

William J. McCorkle's "No Money Down" Real Estate System

U.S. Mortgage Bi-Weekly Mortgage Simulation

Don Lapre's "Tiny Classified Ads"

SMC (Specialty Merchandise Corp)

John Beck's "Free and Clear" Real Estate System

That's all I can think of right now.

Don't leave me alone late at night with a credit card nearby!

[Dollface]

I tried the John Beck thing too...I still live in my apartment, if that tells you anything.

[George Wright]

Originally Posted by Gail Sober

Let's see, there's been so many.
Don't leave me alone late at night with a credit card nearby!

LOL now I must run to get a towel to clean the Earl Grey Tea from my teaboard uhh keyboard.

Thanks for that,

George Wright

[Sipboy3000]

SMC was mine.

I still have some of that crap in storage I need to get rid of.

I did get something out of it though, gave away a lot of little gifts.

[Paul McQuillan]

Originally Posted by shmerns

The Zaken Corporation, yikes!

My worst was about 15 years ago- Carleton Sheets

[Gail Sober]

LOL now I must run to get a towel to clean the Earl Grey Tea from my teaboard uhh keyboard.

Don't worry, if they ever run a late night infomercial for a cleaning Earl Grey Tea from keyboards... I'LL ORDER IT!!

[FilthyRich]

I have to admit though it was Andrew Reynolds that first brought my attention to internet marketing and the click bank website so in that sense i did gain something from him but for £2000 pounds i still do not know if it was worth it!

[MKons]

haha that video is awesome!

90's: "make loads of money posting tiny classified ads..."

08: "you can now make money by simply posting links on google"

priceless.

[Dollface]

Originally Posted by Sipboy3000

SMC was mine.

I still have some of that crap in storage I need to get rid of.

I did get something out of it though, gave away a lot of little gifts.

Ah man...I hate to hear that. I was gonna order that! Haha! Glad you said something. Did it work at all?

[Veredfu]

I think that the only problematic thing about "Get rich quick schemes" is the "quick" and the fact that they make you believe that you will not have to work.

When they say "take action" they talk about buying the get rich quick scheme, they don't tell you that you will have to do so all along the way, and that riches will not come that quick, or at least that it will depend on how much time and energy you will put into it.

[MommyEnterprises]

I bought into some get rich schemes many years ago. My first one was some thing that I was supposed to get for collecting names/addresses for a mailing list or something. I don't think I ever earned anything from it.

[InternetMarketingCenter]

This is honestly one of the funniest threads I've seen on here.

But I agree that sometimes difficult circumstances put us in the path of lessons or experiences that end up being the foundation of what we actually succeed at.

Although Tiny Classifieds sounds more like a Disney cartoon...

[virtuallywork]

The Rich Jerk
Internet Millions
Make-N-Dollars
Data Entry Typist
Carleton Sheets
Real Estate Auctions
Grant Crap

I bought more but this has gone on so long that I actually do not remember the other schemes' names. At least I learned my lesson after a while instead of still playing the sucker.

[JasonC.biz]

I don't think most of mine were schemes really, just that they didn't suit my personality so I didn't work their systems.

I bought Don LaPre's Tiny Classified Ads too.

I also bought into SMC. Sold a few products, but not enough to make a profit.

I also bought a product by McKorkle - it was a government auction thing.

Dave Del Dotto's real estate package, whatever it was called.

Charles Givens' thing, whatever it was called.

Melaleuca - MLM - household cleaning & nutritional supplements. They actually had (have?) some very good products.

Quorum - MLM - personal alarms.

Formula 1 - MLM - ephedrine-based energy supplement - shut down by the state several years ago.

Primerica - MLM - insurance/investments, formerly A.L. Williams. Only had one sale, but that made most of my money back.

There were others I can't recall the names or details of.

Now - there was one thing I fell for that was an absolute scam - envelope stuffing. I was young and stupid, oh well.

Jason

[Lindsay Brynn]

I have purchased some things that haven't turned out to be great but I usually feel that I come away learning at least something.

Anything advertised on the TV always scares me so I would never buy from there (at least in the make money niche). I remember seeing that real estate guy in the middle of the night when I had to stay up with my newborn early last year. The next day I went online to see what people were saying about it because it looked like a scam and sure enough that is what people were saying. It is just sad that some people gave him 1000s in follow up courses that did nothing.

[jasondinner]

LMFAO!!! I just found Don Lapre's Twitter account.

And it DEFINITELY is him.

I'm not going to post it though bc I feel by not posting
it I'm doing a lot of you guys a favor. :P

[Gail Sober]

LMFAO!!! I just found Don Lapre's Twitter account.

I found him too.

He tweeted

"I am looking for the best person who can show me how to get my website rocking? Who knows an internet expert? Thanks in advance!"

I'm tempted to suggest posting a bunch of tiny little ads in a bunch of newspapers.

[eshera]

Don Lapree
Summit (collectors/baseball type thingy)
Carlton Sheets
"No Money Down" Real Estate ($8,000 on AmEx for that puppy)
Oh, almost forgot, anybody else get sucked into Equinox? Another silly $5,000 investment....did I say that?

Have looked at so many others, but started to learn my lesson by then.

Funny story to add:

I was going to meet with restaurant owner a couple of weeks ago. I had already met with him once, I was going to revamp their site...blah blah.

So, he wanted me to meet his business partner who is a chiropractor. A few weeks passed as we tried to get a date and time that would work for all three of us. I thought it very odd that he kept shooting for 7 o'clock on Thursdays....hmmm I thought. " This seems familiar..."

I drove to the doc's office before 7 o'clock only to find a ton of cars...way too many for that time of night. There were guys hanging outside talking. Needless to say, I did not go in. I have left a couple of messages, but I am still not sure what he was "peddling".

Too funny....side note...I left a cool link on LBB if anybody is a fishing fan!
Huge Northern...caught by huge northern

[jasondinner]

Originally Posted by Gail Sober

I found him too.

He tweeted

"I am looking for the best person who can show me how to get my website rocking? Who knows an internet expert? Thanks in advance!"

I'm tempted to suggest posting a bunch of tiny little ads in a bunch of newspapers.

Not if I beat you to it :P

[jasondinner]

Too late I already did.

I wrote this -->

RT - @DonLapreTV - here's how to get your website rocking. Post a bunch of tiny classified ads on the web and your traffic will SKYROCKET :P

[mike52683]

I bought so many of these I can't remember the names! That probably sounds bad...but I've learned my lesson

I do remember

Rich Jerk
Data Entry (couple different ones...I'm a slow learner!)
Some Ebay system that didn't work

I'm just glad to be past all of that!

[jasondinner]

Let's not forget about "Paid Surveys"

I think it was my first exposure to a clickbank product
and it took me about a month to realize it was one of
the biggest crocks of sh*t as I stated on my blog. LOL

But Data Entry is crap.

So was Angel Stevens. TOTAL GARBAGE

I think they got shut down. At least that's what I heard.

What a joke. LOL

[dorim]

Specialty Merchandise Corporation is the one I remember most. There were a few others in the late 1990's I purchased, but I can't remember them now.

[RA123]

When i just finished school at the tender age of 17 i bought into:

1) Stuffing envelope schemes
2) Work at home making little electronic gadgets. You would pay £25 and the company would send you some basic materials with some vague instructions. Once built we are supposed to get paid £25 for each one we build.

Of course i had dreams of doing 100 a day. Low and behold every time i made the little gadget it would be returned back saying it is wrong.

Mmmm - my dreams were shattered, lol!

Riz

[Drew Castle]

I'm happy to say that I've never fallen for any type of get-rich-quick scheme. I do remember the 'tiny classified' ads advertisement and thinking 'how in the world does this work...?'

[nemock]

Chris Johnson's Free Grant Money

Even lost a friendship over that one.

Dave

[Puusaari]

YouTube - Don Lapre's Ultimate Road to Success

[misterwrecker]

I will have to disagree with those that said "The Rich Jerk " is a scam. That book is filled with solid information about getting started in IM and the price now makes it a no brainer. I bought it years ago and I'm sure it opened a lot of people up to affiliate marketing.


One scam that I fell for was that notorious chain letter that sounded so great on paper.

I also purchased one of those "assemble products from home kits."

[Michael Mayhew]

Don Lapre, Brad Richdale, Dave DelDotto (i'm givin you a rainbow , Carleton Sheets, The Asian pimp himself Tom Vu (I really miss his infomercials. Bought it and kept watching it for the laughs!) William McCorkle (now imprisoned Ron Legrand & the twin dwarfs, SMC, Mellinger Import/Export, Ken Roberts Commodities course, and a ton more

[TimGross]

There is a serious need to define terms in this thread, because "Get Rich Quick Scheme" means very different things to different people:

1) Highly promoted program making big promises that only a small portion of buyers profit from even though they provide legitimate information (because that's the nature of the beast when you cast a broad net)

2) Highly promoted program making big promises that provides poor information that helps virtually no one because of its low quality

3) Illegal ripoff scam

Posters here are listing envelope stuffing and data entry rip-offs alongside Rich Jerk. If that's the threshold, 4/5ths of WSO's could be listed here as well.

[jasonl70]

I thought newbies were supposed to be broke and penniless - how could you guys afford these programs?

Although I never bought it - tom vu was my favorite my brother and I still immitate him for laughs

[Biggy Fat]

Haha, I remember Don Lapre. I actually bought his crap when I was desperately seeking a way to make money because at the time I didn't believe in myself and thought I could never get a job. I also fell for those stuffing envelopes scams (you actually get a book on how to start a mail order business). I "considered" getting that Carlton Sheets real estate crap as well, but I started donating plasma.

[thmgoodw]

Back in the day I went with my father to a free sales speech from Tom Vu. Thankfully we never bought anything from him, but Tom was a character.

Tom Vu

[Michael Mayhew]

Originally Posted by thmgoodw

Back in the day I went with my father to a free sales speech from Tom Vu.

Me too. At the time I was hoping all the girls from the yacht would be there. They were a no show Quite a few licensed realtors were there and he pissed them off big time. It was quality entertainment for sure.

[Mr Marketer]

That Don Lapre Classified Ads System is actually the SAME exact system i bought like 10 years ago! Funny!

[Mr Marketer]

Originally Posted by Gail Sober

I found him too.

He tweeted

"I am looking for the best person who can show me how to get my website rocking? Who knows an internet expert? Thanks in advance!"

I'm tempted to suggest posting a bunch of tiny little ads in a bunch of newspapers.

ROTFLMAO!! Isn't he like a gabillionaire? You'd think someone if his "status" would have a small army behind him... LOL

[Michael Mayhew]

Here's what happens when you market a fraudulant infoproduct.
Free Chantal: Chantal McCorkle

I remember being in Florida when they were sentenced.
William fainted and was carried away in an ambulance.

The sentence did seem harsh to me?

[Keeslover]

The Jeff Paul underwear thing
Gov't auctions
Data entry
Surveys
And I am really ashamed to say...Horizon Technologies. That one wasn't so much a get rich *quick* scheme, but it was a scheme all right.

[AffiliateTraining]

I could tell you a million stories about this too. Andrew Reynolds, Streetwise Marketing, even a lot of the big IM guys now... all they're selling is "the dream", then regurgitating it and reselling it as "the bigger dream".

Brad - should have made the thread "Get rich quick schemes you bought and got rich quick from".

That would have thrown a spanner in the works

[jgand]

Yeah, I once bought one of those real estate schemes, they even pitched in a cheap watch, I was able to get my money back though. But you live and learn.

[AffiliateTraining]

Did you get to keep the watch?

[jasonmorgan]

We have all done it. Tell us what get rich quick scheme or product you bought.

none.

yeah, they are 'get rich quick schemes' the part they leave out is it's a make them rich scheme, not you.

It's like blowing your money on the Dr. Phil self help book of the week, same information, differnet cover, all common sense and a waste of money.

I'd say something about a few of the WSO's but... let's not get myself banned today.