What is Joel Comm doing?

Posted by bill

April 21, 2008

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I have been recieving emails from Joel Comm for a year or two. The newsletter is daily and it is called Joel’s Tips, and a few days ago I found from hiw daily newsletter that he was selling his new Adsense Secrets book for only $9.97. The price is great because he has previously sold copies of the ebook for $97.

On Saturday I read that Joel had some kind of negative billing option where when you bought the book for 9.97 you would automatically be enrolled in a newsletter for $29.97per month. I haven’t seen this tactic hidden before although I have seen big name gurus try to stick it to guys by saying

“Buy my $2000 DVD training program and you will automatically be enrolled in my membership site” but they forget to tell you that it is an additional 29 or 99 bucks a month.

In this case Joel his the info in the giant salesletter and no one realized they were signing up for it.

This has been apparently changed now but i have seen nothing in his newsletter telling me that he had this problem or the change…

Now today in the newsletter Joel Comm says that you can download for free the latest Ewen Chia ebook on working from home. He just forgets to point out that the book is 9.97 and it is free if you ask for a refund within 60 days. This is not free at all.

I would love to see if Joel is going to be changing his tactics back to something that is a little more authentic and less devious but I will not get the opportunity to find out.

I have unsubscribed from the Joel’s Tips newsletter.

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