Spam in the WSOs
After I bought my last WSO, in part based on all the war room members that just raved over it and realized it was one of the worst $17 I had ever spent for telling me to use freaking fiverr to outsource, My gf that hasn't ever written a single website laughed at that.
I unsubscribed from the WSO offer of the day emails after this.
Are War Room members supporting each other with testimonials that is nothing more than spam? It now appears that way to me. I doubt most of the time they bought the product. I'm certain the reviews I saw from expert Internet marketers was TOTALLY unwarranted.
Now, when I see someone raving about a product in an WSO, the first thing I do is look over and see if they are a war room member, if so, I TOTALLY discount the review.
WF has a clause in the rules about negative comments on an WSO when the comment didn't actually buy the products. I've seen cases of negative comments being removed. On the other hand, my negative comments on a product after I actually bought it were not removed. Cudos to WF on that!
WF, make a clause about providing positive comments by people that have not bought the product too. I know policing it would be next to impossible, the offer maker isn't likely to report it.
I've bought five WSO offers, two were fantastic, one was good, one is passable but highly over in the comments by other war room members and one warranted a refund.
It isn't going to take long for your customers to realize that a lot of the positive comments on a WSO appear to be highly suspect and it is damaging to WF. When I see a lot of new accounts posting positive comments, then I know to stay away from the product, that reflects poorly on the member making the offer.
Yes, yes I know, due diligence. Due diligence shouldn't include having to figure out I need to discount what other War Room members are saying by trail an error, that is by buying a product.
And WF, your hands off approach on refunds followed with a warning about escalating a refund request to Paypal, that ain't right. If a seller doesn't honor his refund request, you should be preventing further listings. Maybe you do, but if so, I missed that when I looked into my refund request. I was shocked to see, basically, take it up with the seller. He finally did refund after I told him I would escalate. Paypal will not force a seller to refund on a digital product, you're at the sellers mercy. Remember the says when Paypal even ignored chargebacks, till they got their butts sued off and rightly so.
Please don't beat me WF, surely I can't be the first person to say this. There are clearly some good products in the WSO, These issues are keeping me out of the WSO's most of the time and I can't be the only one. I
f I ever offer one, I'm going to make it a point to ask war room members ('m not one yet and maybe never will be one after this post) to not give a review if you didn't buy it. I better not join soon, I suspect I'm going to have some War Room members hating me too. Oh well, I need to say this. It has been bugging me for weeks now.
Now, I avoid looking at WSO's because of what I perceive to be bogus testimonials in the form of comments. Is this a game of tag? I'll comment on your WSO if you comment on mine? I can't be the only one WF. You're the premiere marketing forum now, I want it to stay that way, well, unless of course I could do better. ha ha (I don't have an IM forum)
However, there is a WSO I plan to buy soon.
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