Adsense Secrets Volume 4

I was reading up on John Chow today, and he had a post on “Adsense Secrets Volume 4 - By Joel Comm”. The E-Book can be yours for just under $10! This sounds like an amazing deal. It promises tons of secrets on Google Adsense, and claims it will make you more money.

I was all excited and really wanted to buy it. He has credibility, and caught my attention by John Chow posting about it. I run Adsense, and of course I want to make even more money. This all seems great, I must read this!

I followed the link, and went to the sign up page. I then noticed something that made me feel uneasy about buying. Here is an excerpt from the Buy Now page:

Please send me a copy of your “Top 1% Report” as stated and do not bill me for the first issue! If I don’t like it, I will call you and let you know. But if it is as valuable as I anticipate, please keep sending it for the discount price of just $29.95 per month.

Scrolling through the rest of the page, I noticed there is no opt-out for the “Top 1% Report”. I don’t want this, I just want the E-book. No wonder why that guy makes so much. It says you can opt out after buying if you don’t want to receive the report. Now how many people remember to do this? A few months later someone is out 60-90 bucks, depending on how fast they catch on that it is automatically charging them $30 bucks a month.

It does make sense, but it is a little on the shady side. You are getting a great E-Book, but how much of that information is available on the internet for free? I don’t know because I didn’t buy the book. He has put some money out there on advertising. His review probably cost him $500 bucks on John Chow, not to mention where else he is advertsing. John gets 150,000 unique visitors per month. Divide that by an average of 30 days in a month, and you are left with 5,000. That means probably 5,000 people saw this guys review just on John Chow’s site alone.

He probably could easily get 10,000 people to buy his ebook at that price (I would say a lot more though). Majority of those people will probably forget to opt-out of the $30 report. A small portion will not catch it for a few months, losting 60, 90, 120 bucks!! But lets just go with 10,000 people bought the book. 5,000 of those people forgot to opt out and get charged one month because they caught it. Just on the $30 charge alone, he made $150,000. Add that on top of the $10 charge for the book. There is $200,000 bucks!

It is easy for him to sell this book now. He has 3 other versions, and the last version was 2 years ago! I don’t think I am buying it. I am unsure of the content within the book, and I am a forgetful person. Maybe if someone could send me the E-book to prove me wrong. If I am convinced that the content in the book is really useful, and not found around the internet, then I really will buy the book. Even though someone sent it to me for free, I will be an honest person and buy it.

Has anyone purchased this E-Book? Did you opt out, and the only thing you spend was $9.95? If so, then I strongly suggest you comment here and let us know. Also, if you send me the E-book, I will buy it and write a follow up. Are you willing to give it a shot? Then you can find it at Adsense-Secrets.