JERRY BANFIELD - SCAMMER OF THE MONTH AWARD!!
JERRY BANFIELD gets my first ever scam pump award for all his tireless work spreading BS on youtube and the net about Cryptocurrency, Steemit, and his own University courses he made by watching other people's youtube videos and then selling it right back to you!! Congratulations Jerry!
I'm going to guess that Mr. Banfield won't be upvoting this post. :)
EDIT: Maybe I should start charging noobs for the HODL advice!
Why didn't I see this post before? LOL. Upvoted and resteemed.
Ugh this guy's driving me insane. Someone should make a cartoon of him.
DO IT ! Do a video cartoon too, I really enjoy those.
Cartoon character ha ha ha that would probably become a hit as big as the Simpsons
XD
I pay u 50!!
thanks, at least a few people can see this clown damages the steem brand, teknow seems to disagree.
Each have their own arguments. Some people see the light, some don't.
He gives people so many reasons to hate him. I give him credit for pushing advertising through Google that highlights Steemit, but hot damn, man. One step forward, ten steps fucking back.
Just hysterical : ) Not laughed so much in ages, I actually had tears from laughing.
Gotta love Australian folk, they just wont stand for any bullshit lol
Just a point on Steem though, the price is only going down because of the Bitcoin fork and segwit2x. Traders know that Alts always suffer when all eyes are on Bitcioin.
Steem will rise again, it is early days for steemit as yet.
Remember, Facebook took 7 years before it started making money.
Upvoted and Following : )
All altcoins go down when papa bitcoin goes up. The opposite is also true. I have no worries about steem, it will go up eventually. Despite all the market uncertainties, it hovered around $1, I guess that's a good indication of its stability.
I just wrote something similar in my comment. Steem is going places I have no doubts on that at all.
He has become one of the many jokes of SteemIt. Class Clown, and not the good kind.
no.
I actually went to his site & verified what the Auzzie guy in the video said about him charging hundreds of dollars for bogus courses.
If Steemit doesn't work out for Jerry, he can always get a job as monorail salesman ...
I forgot to mention that it feels like a typical MLM (Multi Level Marketing) sales approach. Uses the same tricks, smells like it, feels like it, walks like it and talks like it!
LOL
Posting some knowledge "borrowed" from other videos might not be as bad as making FALSE FALSE FALSE claims, using misleading and deceptive practices, bait and switch tactics and so on. Feels like selling snake oil. Even those courses are sold on a FALSE premise and states untrue "facts" one after another after another.
If the man Banfield had an ounce of humility, he'd be offering his life 'courses' for free. He's making enough through this platform as it is - from what I can see anyway.
It is one of the marketing approaches. If something valuable is offered for free, people think that it has no value. Charge a very high price for junk and the dumbest public (or overly trusting ones) will buy it believing it that the price must be reflecting the value. Show them that "many other people are buying it" and hoard instincts will make people buy it just because others are buying it and the price seems right for so many people that such a big crowd cannot be wrong...
Then the fake crowd actually becomes the real crowd pulling more and more people in. The trick is to promote it fast enough like a pyramid so that new people would join faster than disenfranchised ones would leave and make their voices heard. Until exodus of unhappy people who make "pyramid bricks" happens in large volumes, the pyramid lives, grows and thrives. The ratio of incoming vs leaving reaches critical mass and the pyramid collapses. CLASSIC.
So the issue here is not about someone's decency, greed, humility or anything else - it is a very well thought marketing campaign that has multiple components, many streams and executed actually quite effectively (unfortunately damaging the community and this platform).
I'd agree with most of what you say above, but in Mr. Banfield's case it obviously is about greed. Who's going to run a pyramid-style marketing system for altruistic reasons? ;)
yes, obviously pyramids are ONLY made out greed and for the purposes no other than what is inspired by greed and every one of them is dishonest, at the very least morally dishonest, even if some of them pass as legal (barely).
People are drawn to the pyramids on false promises for the benefit of the top only. They cannot make their own money until they attract same "follower base" underneath them to exploit them in return. And there it goes the cycle.
Also another factor is that many people are chasing their losses. That is why pyramids have their "initiation" fees, "online courses" fees, "membership fee" and so on. Once they spend it, many people won't cut their losses even after they realise they have been screwed. Some will try to work hard to screw others the same way to get back what they lost and possibly make some more. That is the underlying dishonest principle in every pyramid.
This one seems to me like no exception.
thanks guys for opening my eyes. Anyway, I believe that I can use STEEM as a fundraising tool for our conservation program in Cameroon. So I am probably the example trying to use this pyramid for altruistic reasons. Actually searching for someone who could help me to create a fundraising strategy in cryptoworld. If you are intersted in it check this out @kedjom-keku or @treeplanter or www.kedjom-keku.com Thanks. Nice day
Uhhaha!!! He keeps getting trolled... 😂
I unsubbed from him on YouTube. Gonna stop following and upvoting him too. I thought, at first, he was a well intentioned person, but I am learning and discovering otherwise.
Oh, and I get most of my Crypto advice from my husband and legit people on Steemit.