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RE: ⚠️ Rip-Off Alert ⚠️ @jerrybanfield Is At It Again To Rip People Off
How "satisfied" would they have been when they found out they had been ripped-off?
How "satisfied" would they have been when they found out they had been ripped-off?
You mean once they realized they paid above the average market price for the product? It would depend on how highly they valued access to the network.
If someone does really well at marketing it, I don't think a higher price is necessarily a bad thing. In the long run of course, that's probably not gonna work to bring in ordinary users. In other words, it would be a short term strategy in the case of Steem.
In this particular case, Jerry is obviously doing a lot for the network already and without selling accounts on the side. Apparently he thinks this is still worth it and once he realized how high above others he had priced his product he even decided that it would be best to withdraw it entirely.
What I wish he would do now is to consider partnering up with those already existing services, or if he has better ideas, pursuit those.
Mrs. Banfield?
He thought he could rip people off before they were any the wiser - period!
Once he was told to, he withdrew the product. I don't care either way. It's not as bad as you are trying to make it sound. It wouldn't be even if his reason for withdrawing it was false, which would obviously still be bad.
That speaks volumes for me. However, it was the fact that he knew beforehand that it was possible to get an account created for nearly free, or TOTALLY free (as I did). I also suspect that if the money was rolling in at $50 a pop for account creation, he'd be gladly accepting it. That's extremely sleazy, but that's just my opinion, of course. We all have a different set of values. Some call it marketing, I call it being a con-man.
If you watched his 'apology video,' he laughed when he started naming all the sites that he's banned from. There's just something shady there. Again, just my opinion.
This is definitely one of those, 'agree to disagree' situations.
Have a good one.
I'm not saying he's a good person. I don't know the guy.
Be well.
I understand. It's not my place to judge him either, but I thought he was 'different,' is maybe the best way to put it. Maybe that says more about me than him.
Thanks, you too.
@the-ego-is-you his marketing is just like the dollar vigilante's: "look at me, I made $X,000 on my first day/week on steemit" "don't you want to too?!"
What is implied is that you, jane/joe ordinary, can just blog and get rich on steemit. This is disengenuous.
It may draw in 10,000's, but I think leaves 9,000 leaving with a bad taste in their mouth.
It would be better to get 500 or 2000 realist to join and stick it out, than 10,000 that will mostly leave.
And steemit.inc doesnt get it either...with their "Steemit=Money" banner right now. But I digress
I came to Steemit via YouTube after seeing bothe thedollarvielante and jerry's videos. 2 days after arriving at steemit I have not once read another of their Posts or watched their youtube videos because I found their marketing to be misleading and harmful. Just my 2c
To that extent, I do agree that these are not good methods. I've said it before myself, many times. I'd like to see someone else try their hand at it though.