In my quest for nuggets of income online, I buy a lot of different products. I also ask for refunds on many as they are just crap.
If you look through the refund rates of some affiliates in various networks, I have seen them as high as 62%.
I have seen some wonderful ads with crap products and crapy ads with wonderful products. Very few cover the entire process very well. If you can read between the lines on some you can figure them out where others are just an idea and you can tell it was never actually done in real life.
It amazes me that in most comments you always find the people who got a "review copy" posting, but most never say they actually made any money from the product.
Some product are just shades away from being legal and depending on your moral compass would not be anything you would do. Some are blatantly stealing other peoples content, contact, data, and other juicy items. This is just plain WRONG!
Many other products are rehashes of whatever is the most popular thing online at the moment. Whether it is Facebook, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Twitter, Kindle, or some other new venue to be plucked. These product, for the most part, violate the TOS of these sites and will be you banned if used.
Many are products from years ago that won't work now, at all. It makes me laugh when i see a "brand new" method with screen shots from 3 years ago.
I sometimes wonder is the person who does this honestly has a chance. This is why I am very selective with what I market as I do want to be able to sleep at night. Sure, I have the knowledge to create a pretty substantial online income if I used a lot of the "black/grey hat" methods.
This also means I don't make a huge income since I don't have many products which I can market in good conscience. I have to provide a good value and proper information to meet my moral standards. It all comes down to what you will do for a dollar I suppose.
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