Please Drop Everything To Help Me NOW!! LOLz

by tpw
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LOL

I get lots of people who ask me to review their products, and hopefully to tell my list about those products.

I am often willing to at least take a look to see if the product is something that I believe my readers will like.

But sometimes, I get requests from product creators to review their products, and if I don't review their product quickly, they get upset that I don't have them high enough up on my to-do list.

It happened again this week.

Someone asked me to look at their new product -- 2 days ago, and I said I would.

Since I have not yet taken the time to look at the product, now the vendor is now upset with me for wasting their time. Now the vendor wants me to delete the product from my hard drive.

Okay... Well, if you want to shoot yourself in the foot, who am I to talk you out of it?
#affiliate marketing #affiliate relationships #drop #product reviews
  • Profile picture of the author Will Edwards
    Originally Posted by tpw View Post

    LOL
    Since I have not yet taken the time to look at the product, now the vendor is now upset with me for wasting their time. Now the vendor wants me to delete the product from my hard drive.
    Excellent - that person did you a favour. He/she is clearly not someone you would want to work with.

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  • Profile picture of the author Cali16
    You know, it's perfectly normal for a 2-year old to think he's the center of the universe.

    But when adults still believe that about themselves, it's just sad - and really annoying. :rolleyes:

    Be glad he got tired of waiting - most likely would have made more demands in the future and given you lots of headaches!
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  • Profile picture of the author rontheitguy
    So, you're telling me that if I ask you to review my product it won't happen for a few days? Are you kidding me? (in sarcasm)

    If I were you, I wouldn't worry about it too much. I mean, in the end, you're the one doing the favor and if it takes you some extra time to get to it, people need to understand that.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mark Singletary
    Bill, no offense but they have a point.

    You have time to post on the Warrior Forum, right? You took a bath the last two days, right (please say it's true). You ate at least 6 times over the last 2 days, right? You slept, right? You spent time with your family, right? You worked on your OWN business and sent out stuff to your OWN clients, right?

    But no time for them? Shame on you. And the worst of it is acting like you don't have time. Look at all the time you've wasted on the above activities that you could've been helping a poor feller out.

    You should be ashamed of yourself and your total disregard for and lack of respect for their urgency.

    Mark
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    • Profile picture of the author tpw
      Originally Posted by Mark Singletary View Post

      You took a bath the last two days, right (please say it's true).

      No, it's not true.

      I am from Oklahoma. In Oklahoma land, baths are for people from up north. :p
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      • Profile picture of the author Mark Singletary
        Originally Posted by tpw View Post

        No, it's not true.

        I am from Oklahoma. In Oklahoma land, baths are for people from up north. :p
        Okay good to know. When I send you my product to review, I'll make sure it's wrapped in special protective packaging. And you better get the review done quickly. The longer it's at your house the longer it will suffer.
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  • Profile picture of the author Peter Ronue
    I guess i know who i won't be sending my product to for a review.. j/k
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  • Profile picture of the author Levintry
    Gotta agree with Will on this, sounds like they did you a favor. People get busy and it sounds like you had a lot of stuff going on. I bet they gave you "plenty" of time to look over it and review it right? I had something similar happen where I agreed to review a product within 48 hours of receiving it and the videos ended up being somewhere around 4 hours. I got it done, but it was pretty rough to be sure. I know once I get to the point of product creation, stuff like this will be at the top of my list of things to avoid.
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  • Profile picture of the author delita
    Originally Posted by tpw View Post

    Since I have not yet taken the time to look at the product, now the vendor is now upset with me for wasting their time. Now the vendor wants me to delete the product from my hard drive.

    Okay... Well, if you want to shoot yourself in the foot, who am I to talk you out of it?
    Well, too impatient to realize what they will lose.
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  • Profile picture of the author BloggingPro
    This is how I feel every time someone PM's me on the forum asking if I can review their product because "I seem to be a very trusted member on the forum!"

    I've taken a few of these requests, but never get back to them in the time-frame they would like. Apparently, I'm supposed to read through their 24 page, giant-font-formatted "report" and deliver my glowing review in a couple of hours.

    Bill, you should do like I do when they get feisty. Tell them that you blissfully read through their report and are kindly requesting a refund for your time.

    I usually don't receive a response after that email. LOL
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    • Profile picture of the author tpw
      Originally Posted by BloggingPro View Post

      Bill, you should do like I do when they get feisty. Tell them that you blissfully read through their report and are kindly requesting a refund for your time.

      I usually don't receive a response after that email. LOL

      LOL

      That is brilliant!!

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  • Profile picture of the author Gene Pimentel
    I'm sick and tired of that mentality too. Now I just tell them up front it'll take a week, and IF it's something I think my list will appreciate, I'll consider offering it. The "week" part weeds out 90% of them right off the bat.
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  • Profile picture of the author Joseph Robinson
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    Did Bill just drop... he DID. Everyone run!

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  • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
    I wonder if he's related to the folks who ask a question in a new thread, and then bump it after a few minutes because no one has rushed to answer them. Some of these fine specimens even get snarky about 'no one wanting help the little guy'.
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    • Profile picture of the author davezan
      Originally Posted by JohnMcCabe View Post

      I wonder if he's related to the folks who ask a question in a new thread, and then bump it after a few minutes because no one has rushed to answer them. Some of these fine specimens even get snarky about 'no one wanting help the little guy'.
      Yeah. Makes me wonder why they think anyone, much more the universe, owes
      them anything at all to begin with.
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    • Profile picture of the author Joseph Robinson
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      Originally Posted by JohnMcCabe View Post

      I wonder if he's related to the folks who ask a question in a new thread, and then bump it after a few minutes because no one has rushed to answer them. Some of these fine specimens even get snarky about 'no one wanting help the little guy'.
      Nobody laughed at my napalm joke made towards Bill, so I'm bumping to get attention.

      Oh, wait...
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      • Profile picture of the author tpw
        Originally Posted by Joe Robinson View Post

        Nobody laughed at my napalm joke made towards Bill, so I'm bumping to get attention.

        Oh, wait...

        You should have been a little more obvious, because even I did not get it until just now. :p
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        • Profile picture of the author Joseph Robinson
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          Originally Posted by tpw View Post

          You should have been a little more obvious, because even I did not get it until just now. :p
          You guys just don't get it because you're a bunch of stupid scammers. I'm out of here!

          *Runs away crying*
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  • Profile picture of the author deelouise864
    Hey Bill,
    Pretty dumb I'd say. But, that's not why I am commenting. I have this PDF I got from you quite some time ago, went over it again 2 nights ago. Wonderful info, still valuable today!!

    You said something in the brief about Frank Kern, I love Frank Kern, and think of him as the last word in everything.....until I read how you also think highly of Frank, but you don't follow everything he says.

    I do....way to often. And I get into areas I am not so happy going. So, I thought to myself, well hell, I don't have to implement every darn thing I get from Frank. After all Bill doesn't!!

    So, this mighty super time consuming coaching program I was about to implement based on what Frank dictated....I scrapped!! An life is so much better!!

    Thanks so much Bill!!
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