With the Internet increasing your reach dramatically beyond the audible range of what you could shout from your waggon in previous times, selling snake oil has become an numbers game.
Sure it's ridiculous - like many phishing mails, it is intentionally so, to filter out the even slightly critical people who would only waste your time. No, you want the really dumb ones, who simply order and be happy.
And you don't need many. How much did it cost to set the whole thing up, website and all? A thousand bucks at most? So as soon as they sell four of these things, they're in plus. We laugh about those fuckers, but they make more money than most of us do. If you can live with the knowledge that you're essentially an asshole, that's not a bad career choice.
Yes, but, they really did put incredible, solid, and savvy effort into doing this. I very much admire them for that skill. There is a part of me that is just flat envious, because they're boiled down the essence of all the horsepucky out there from so many domains, distilled it into a cogent, sophisticated, easy-to-read and grammatically correct (no unnecessary caps, either) website, and like you say, if they sell four USB drives they've made back their investment.
Their pitch and product is the essence of h
"Oh what wouldn't I give to be spat at in the face..."
-- a prisoner in "Life of Brian"
numbers game (Score:2)
With the Internet increasing your reach dramatically beyond the audible range of what you could shout from your waggon in previous times, selling snake oil has become an numbers game.
Sure it's ridiculous - like many phishing mails, it is intentionally so, to filter out the even slightly critical people who would only waste your time. No, you want the really dumb ones, who simply order and be happy.
And you don't need many. How much did it cost to set the whole thing up, website and all? A thousand bucks at most? So as soon as they sell four of these things, they're in plus. We laugh about those fuckers, but they make more money than most of us do. If you can live with the knowledge that you're essentially an asshole, that's not a bad career choice.
Re: (Score:2)
Yes, but, they really did put incredible, solid, and savvy effort into doing this. I very much admire them for that skill. There is a part of me that is just flat envious, because they're boiled down the essence of all the horsepucky out there from so many domains, distilled it into a cogent, sophisticated, easy-to-read and grammatically correct (no unnecessary caps, either) website, and like you say, if they sell four USB drives they've made back their investment.
Their pitch and product is the essence of h