I'm a Scammer now! - (Apparently)

Yeah, I did.

I am running several groups on a major social network.
I tend to send out once or twice a week, a group message.

Suddenly, after six month, I get a reply to one of my messages
saying- I reported your Ass because you are a spammer! Stop
sending me these messages!

just opt out from the group, dumba**!

~Igor

Agh, don't you just love that. I sent out an sutoresponder message the other day to one of my markets in the baby niche...and one of the recipients made a complaint. I guess we have to accept that these people exist..and in fact don't do much more than just exist. The way I deal with that is I feel sorry for them, because they must be really sad...as in losers of course. Glad it's not just me then.

Phil

Well, there are all sort of people out in the world, some are small kiddie and some a people who just like to "downgrade" people. All I have to say is look on the bigger marketer (where the money is from) and just ignore these small portion of people (less than 1%).

Do not get upset about this, because this is usual. Even if you have a great product, someone will say that it's a scam to get attention from it. I have seen people promoting THAT product and he say THAT product is a big scam.

You made me laugh

some people just don't understand that they have the option to Opt-Out.

Tina, I think you're right, I should remember that a lot of YouTube traffic is from kids...sorry, should that be traffik..innit! LOL n stuff AGH!!!!

p.s About Morons, my Dad once said that some people are just born Morons, they only difference when they grow up is they just become bigger morons ha ha Actually, it wasn't morons but a workd beginning wityh W which I'd better not repeat here :-)

That's why email providers have been creating feedback loops. Many people opt-out of newsletters by just declaring them as "spam". Email providers then send an email to the newsletter provider who automatically unsubscribes that particular subscriber. It still sucks though.

Tyrus

SCAMM!!!!!!

Don't worry Phil.
In this world you can deliver the most effective and most unselfish help to others and you can bet there will be the one or other who declares it as betrayal or scam.

But the good side of this is that there are a lot of intelligent and able people who feel attracted by such comments.
If they see someone screaming "Scam!" about something but not based on any concrete facts they rather tend to look at it more closely because "then it must be good!"

Klaus

Obviously this entire thread is a scam!! I'm checking my bank accounts as we speak, and contacting the C.I.A.

...right after my "Paranoids Anonymous" meeting.

The annoying bit is when you know they have opted in and then they send a message "Why did I get this email"?
Lilian

He's a member of a club, and doing a "shout out":

Stupid
Commenters
Aren't
Making
Money

Phil Wheatley, the man who continually spams my forum with videos of hamsters driving cars and other strange dross. Hmmmm

I know how you feel. I think that many people assume that with all the scams about we are scammers. I had a lady i met through twitter put a paypal dispute in and when i informed her that she must have missed the download page as it was automated she said she had received that page but expected me to download it for her and because i hadnt i was a scammer.

thankfully she has since closed the dispute and apologied she is on my subscriber list and i cant believe im saying this but god i hope she doesnt order anything as i cant be bothered to go through it again!


sam
X

You're such a scamm Phil...



LOL... gotta love it... It could be worse, you could have used my mug in the video, that'd be nasty!

Peace

Jay

It does not matter what people say about you. You just have to laugh at it and move on. No matter how legit you are your program are, people will always find something bad to say about you.

Who cares. Just ignore it.

Tal

I like Randy's solution although I'm sure someone would still complain.
I went back to some of my autoresponder messages. It seems I've
been doing this to one group but not to a couple of others. Gonna go
ahead and add that right now.

Tom

HAHAHAHA

Hey SCAMM-busters, that will teach me to leave the Warrior forum for a few hours, I come back to a mixture of abuse and very funny comments!!

Kevin, as for your forum, I wish I could say that wasn't true, but I just know you'll produce hard evidence! ;-) I would love to throw some abuse at you but your product creation workshop is too damn good, and there's rumours flying around that you're upping the price in a few days. People really need to check your stuff out! Hmmm, it's not going to stop me posting pictures of strange animals on your forum though!

Tracy, as for you, your comment was too funny for words!! :-)

Some people's sole purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others. It sounds like you met one of them.

now that I have read all this I am trying to find a way to opt out of the thread...LOL

Sorry Sid, it was free for you to opt in but costs 100000 bucks to opt out...now there's a thought ;-)

Oh, and I just remembered another constructive comment on one of my videos...it was showing how to do some research with Keyword Elite, it was during a hot summer so in the video I had long shorts on and no shoes..so the visitor's comment was: "Put some freakin shoes on".

Just two points of advice I'd like to add (don't bullets actually rock?),

• Take constructive criticism positively. It's only through difference of opinion that you get new insights into something. No one is born knowing everything.
• Ignore blatant stupidity and other unwanted comments as if you've never received them. Don't try to please everyone. It's only these fools that make we intelligent look more intelligent .

And there we have it!

Have a nice day

JustinK

You do have a good point, with so many scammers, you can understand how we all get grouped in with them. In my case though, my video was actually for a blog post and wasn't promoting anything. It was me saying Happy New Year and giving some tips for the year.

Just to remind people of my first post in this thread, I'm not actually bothered about it, in fact it made me laugh. I must admit though, It's hard not to get annoyed when people who have opted in your list complain about receiving your emails, or reporting you to Aweber. Still, that's life...I feel a song coming on! (p.s I prefered David Lee Roth's version of That's Life to old Blue's One, I can't say many will agree)

Never let small minded fools of life get to you-Then they have won! Stay positive-

Haha, I like that Romanus..Ruin them!! That's the spirit. Ah, that gives me an idea for a sales page:

"SICK OF PEOPLE ON YOUR LIST COMPLAINING ABOUT YOUR EMAILS - READ OUR NEW EBOOK ON OUTSOURCING HITMEN - GREAT AFFILIATE SCHEME OFFERING 50% COMMISION ON HIRES"

Hehe, there could be a market for this, maybe my next WSO ha ha

People who abuse you as a scammer, this is how I see them

They have nothing good going for them
They just want to put others down cos they can't do any better
They just stick to what society "expects" them to do

They just lazy and jealous cos they can't do what we IM'ers are doing today

Ignore them, you will be the better person, i just ignore them and I just feel sorry for them, in the end they are the ones losing out.

Regards

Kishor

Hey Phil,

I'm so sorry... but I REALLY had to laugh at this one ) Some people are just out to cause problems unfortunately. Here's a good one for you if you want another laugh at the stupidity of some people...

Last week I was running a small survey of my customers and members. It was three simple questions (after an explanation), asking their preference on our upcoming site/system, for their membership options. (The concept was, including ALL sites I own that are upcoming in ONE membership cost, including all future releases).

His first two responses to the first two questions were "no" he wasn't interested in it. (Fine, no problem, that's why I put out the survey).

Here's the guys response to the third question (copied right from the email)
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"Do you have any requests, questions or comments? (If not, leave blank)"


Response: yes now you give me$500.00 for the servey you are not here for the peaaple youre there for the $$so it is going to my poket now so send it now my time is money so do it.
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Eesh.

a) learn how to spell.

b) don't waste time answering a survey!!

What do you say to these people?

He joined as a free affiliate on one of my sites - never bought (which is fine) - but I mean seriously, for those who are accused of being scammers like Phil, and these other remarks above - I think we all agree, these people are just not looking for their own success, not honestly, are they?

Amber

that is insane, just I have an experience people scammer as a job site as he didn't
even work for me, sometimes people do thing like. They don't like you and want to get
rid of you!

Is there a way you can delete the comment? No use in even replying - that's what they want. It's probably a kid.

I use rentacoder sometimes to find clients and I wrote a squidoo lens about it. Some person kept commenting dropping information about how rentacoder is a SCAM. I think I replied once or twice in reaction to the comments. I just want to set the record straight so that my readers don't get taken in by that crap. I did read the resource he provided and it appears as if he didn't follow the rules and then blamed the system.

Sometimes I do respond back in the form of a lively debate. I love debating - I write about things I am knowledgeable about and love to respond to comments. But in your case, that's totally someone who just wants a reaction.

Maybe they meant to call me scum instead of Scam..or Scamm?? ;-)

Hi Phil

I had someone like this on a teleconference once. They went on and on and on about how one of my mentors was a scammer and they were going to report him to the FBI and have his house confiscated. It was all I could do not to laugh at them before I muted them. LOL.

Enjoy your day!
Terry