Comments on: The One Dollar Trial a Gift that Keeps on Giving

By: Des Walsh

Des Walsh — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:35:15 +0000

@thehypnoguy Thanks for your comment. I don’t believe I was suggesting everything should be free. What you say is quite logical. But what I observe is that in a lot of decisions people make or don’t make, logic is often not the determinant. But that’s just sales 101 isn’t it?

By: thehypnoguy

thehypnoguy — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:19:52 +0000

Sounds like everyone thinks everything should be FREE. The people offering the product didn’t get where they are at for free. The continuity part of the offer is in plain site before you say yes. If the product isn’t worth it to you to pay for it then you shouldn’t sample it and whine when you did pay for it after the fact.

When we offer Trials it is to let you try it and see if you like it first. If we did our job right then you will stick around, if not our loss. If you didn’t cancel it is because you are part of the 95% who don’t take action. That is the same 95% that allow 100% money back guarantees. If you were grown up enough to sign then be grown up enough to cancel on your own. No one should have to remind you to cancel. Nobody will remind you to cancel, if they did then what was the purpose of it all in the first place.

My 2 cents

By: Tony Edward

Tony Edward — Thu, 08 May 2008 06:44:45 +0000

Great post. It seems like I am seeing these $1 offers more and more often in my inbox. The latest was the Matt Bacak one. Which I might add, JP Schoffel sent out an email strongly advising against signing up for the offer. Kudos to JP.

Are these gurus out of good ideas that they have the succumb to these low ball tactics? Why would they work so hard to build up their name and brand only to tarnish it with a stupid force continuity scam like this.

I signed up for the Ewen Chia launch super afiiliates launch this year. I cancelled one week before the first month was up. They confirmed my cancellation. But them they charged me anyway. And I see this kind of b.s. over and over again in the IM arena.

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By: Peter Lee

Peter Lee — Sun, 04 May 2008 12:14:50 +0000

I was a victim of such trial sign-ups too although slightly different. I was told it’s completely free to try it for one month. However I made the mistake of not reading the fine prints which had said that after one month they would debit my credit card unless I gave explicit instructions to cancel my membership. Thank God I checked and I got a refund back. I guess we should be careful about such offers, especially for new marketers.