No rights, no cover, why do we still take Affiliate Marketing Courses

Thinking a lot about this recently I have decided that part of the Internet is still the Wild West. If someone comes along and says they are the FRIEND of the great and good. Great and Good who may have given you good advice and helped you on your slow way to make money in the WW. We read their sales page, read their probably Ghost written book and think “well I am only at the beginning of my money trail, this person has made it, I will pay them $500 knowing that if it all fails I will get my money back”.

Sorry – if you are on a 12 week course YOU have 30 days if any to decide if this course is going to work. How the heck do you know – that is why you are on the course!

After 30 or 60 days you are lost and go back to the seller to total silence. You might even get total silence within the 30 day limit. On one course I did.

You go to PayPal – they do not cover non tangible goods so you have NO COVER there (but they do do a bit of stirring with the seller). If you paid by credit card you can at least try to get your money back from them with probably better results. The sellers guarantee that “You will make your money back or I will pay you the cost of the course” has no standing in law, so instead of paying you, they are off on another holiday.

Lets get down to it – if you pay for an IM course, you are taking a chance. You can work your socks off but it may not work for you. You have no rights unless a bound book or CD sent to you were included in the price.

You have rights when you buy a $500 TV or Sound System, why do you have no rights on the Internet.

For a method of training that has been around since the 1990′s it is about time we had some legal rights. You can buy a ‘diamond and emerald ring’ for $1 plus postage and send it back because it is not real. The words ‘laboratory made’ did not sink in. I have a very nice $1 necklace of synthetic pink sapphires but I did know I was getting glass.

Having just been on the worst course ever – I got my money back. I realised what was going on. Others have lost their money and their trust in the Internet. It is time those who have made fortunes from the Wild West Web and given us value for money tried to clear out the dross. More money for them and more integrity for the industry.

It can be worse. A colleague was on a $5K course when the course leader was killed in a car accident. He never got the course or his money back. Beginners, newbies, those starting out look to the best and it costs, sometimes more than money.

Recently I have been getting phone calls from the US asking me to take very expensive coaching and to put the money on my credit card – it is called leveraging? Well as I am of sane mind and guessing that at some time the whole edifice of the modern world would fall over I didn’t and don’t put anything on my credit card apart from small amounts paid off each month, I would not take a chance on an amount of money larger than the limit on my card!

We need a Sheriff. Not of  Nottingham but of protection for the huge amount of newbies that will be coming into the market as their jobs go up in flames. Is there anyone out there in the land of GURUdom willing to put their money where their mouth is.

Those of you who lost your money on the recent course – PayPal say if you put in a complaint and they get enough they ‘may’ do something about it. It is your best chance. They have sorted things for me before.

Di Chapman – who runs 1 free site and co-owns another.

PS – if it does not have an Honesty or some other sticker on the page, but just the sellers guarantee, think long and hard.