Last week, a guy came to the door. That in itself is a notable occurrence – we rarely leave the house and receive visitors even less. Unless you count the mailman, which I don’t. So, when the guy came to the door with a backpack and lacking the requisite suit, partner, and nametag that says… Continue reading Why I don’t buy stuff from door-to-door salesmen
Tag: scams
Back to his old tricks
Disclaimer: Geez, guys…if I realized I was going to inadvertently earn the ire of a nation of Stay at Home Babe fans, I might have thought a moment before I wrote that I thought she might not be a real person. Then again, I probably wouldn’…
Google America
If you were to take a poll today of approval ratings for Barack Obama, I can guarantee that the number of supporters in this country of our President is far surpassed by the number of people who use Google services on a daily basis. How did this happen? How did we become so complacent? How… Continue reading Google America
adventures in the alternate reality universe of upstart blogger
let me preempt this by saying that, although this is posted on april 1, this is not a joke. but it is funny. to me, anyway. the other day i discovered, and blogged about, twitter fireball, which i reported to be the latest reincarnation of twitter r…
all part of my elaborate plan…
extra extra update on the twitter fireball scam i wrote about yesterday. apparently twitter fireball was just an elaborate april fool’s day joke. riiiiiiight. it’s really too bad i only took a partial screenshot of the site and didn’t get the PayPal button at the bottom of the page. alas, it’s too late now as… Continue reading all part of my elaborate plan…
f*** you, clown. f*** you
it kind of makes me belligerently angry when people try to make money at someone else’s expense. it could be argued that this describes all commerce, but it’s a different thing when the methods used to make said money involve deception, fake product reviews and false advertising. (you could say that microsoft is guilty of all… Continue reading f*** you, clown. f*** you
Scam Alert: “Testers needed to test the Apple iPad” – testitandkeepit.com
i got an email last night sent from a client we did a website for about a year ago inviting me to become a tester for an Apple iPad. actually, i got two emails — one sent to each of my main addresses. The subject line of the email was “Testers needed to test the Apple… Continue reading Scam Alert: “Testers needed to test the Apple iPad” – testitandkeepit.com
lightning never strikes twice. unless you’re a spammer.
they say that lightning never strikes the same place twice. that’s a good thing, because if you happened to be an idiot out in a lightning storm holding a weather vane in an open field unlucky enough to get hit once (and walk away), you probably wouldn’t want to be the guy out in a lightning… Continue reading lightning never strikes twice. unless you’re a spammer.
How not to use Twitter
I’m done. Seriously, I’ve had it. I’m done with the lies and the hype and the spam and the spin doctoring. I’m done with “twitter methods” that promise thousands of followers and fame and fortune and all they really deliver is spam, affiliate marketing, and zombies – the precise thing they claim to avoid. You… Continue reading How not to use Twitter
a little argument with myself
[audio:littleargumentwithmyself.mp3] this is the argument i have in my head: upstart blogger has been around for a while. he’s established trust with his honest representation of things. he approaches topics reasonably. he’s also exposed a few twitter scams and pyramid schemes. he’s built a good reputation. also, he makes a lot of money blogging: a… Continue reading a little argument with myself