Have you seen that swine flu ebook?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by rolf, Apr 28, 2009.

  1. #1
    As an author of several ebooks of my own, I marvel at this guy's opportunism:

    http://noswineflu.com/

    The only problem is that F-Secure decided to report on it and so the world's media have decided to call it a con or a malicious site.

    http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001668.html

    This is ridiculous, it's simply a natural health ebook like many out there. Who knows, this guy's advice may be better than taking tamiflu - have you seen the list of side effects for tamiflu?

    What do you think?
     
    rolf, Apr 28, 2009 IP
  2. ~kev~

    ~kev~ Well-Known Member

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    #2
    Ever hear of a snake oil salesman? Well, that is one of them. But instead of selling his snakeoil out of a wagon, he is using the internet.

    The only real difference between that guy and a snakeoil salesman from 1809 - about 200 years. Same thing, just different century.
     
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  3. Inkrepid

    Inkrepid Peon

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    I was at the doctors today and they were booked it took me an hour to see him past appointment--- he told me most people come in to check for swine flu and most of it is just a cough. Though there are serious cases, the probability of getting it is rather low.Keep from making too much contact with people if they look sick and avoid porkish'' products
     
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  4. jasonxav

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    Swine flu is such a serious health issue. People should not be promoting untested remedies for the disease. Good thing that guy was cracked down.
     
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  5. bobchrist

    bobchrist Active Member

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    You can refer this doc for more info about this disease.
     
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  6. yzal

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    F- secure blog entry - is that an affiliate link to amazon?

    don't buy this product.... buy this one instead so we get paid!!

    who's the opportunist now?
     
    yzal, Apr 30, 2009 IP
  7. renlok

    renlok Well-Known Member

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    its hardly something to worry about we have such good defences against this type of academic theres nothing to worry about.
     
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  8. pichalee

    pichalee Active Member

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    the better way is stay at home, dont go out
     
    pichalee, Apr 30, 2009 IP
  9. Fox30

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    It's better to just continue living your life day to day and not worry about things that aren't affecting you yet.

    I think that I have a better chance of winning the lottery than getting Swine Flu.
     
    Fox30, Apr 30, 2009 IP
  10. russellprisco

    russellprisco Peon

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    #10
    I totally disagree.

    First off, where was the monetization in that report? Was he initially selling it?

    2ndly, if you read the report, it was very informative and simply promoted preventative measures to do your best to avoid it.

    I don't think telling people to have a supply of fresh water in case of a pandemic is very snake salesmanish....

    The standard medical society is not there to cure people, it is meant to medicate people so that they are dependent on medication.

    Think about it... Doctors don't go to health and wellness school, or nutrition school, they go to .... drum roll please....

    Medical school. It's all very scammy. They are the worst black hatters of them all lol.. After all, pharmaceutical companies make BILLIONS upon BILLIONS of dollars and if you don't get cured, they'll keep making money off of you.

    There's a hillarious episode of southpark by the way that has to do with Magic Johnson where they find the cure for AIDS... if you haven't watched it, go to south park zone or just google the episode...

    Turns out the cure for AIDS is a large dose of money... lol

    Anyways, I hope I didn't get too off topic here, but I just hate the blatant disregard for human life by these mega corporations and drug companies.

    Hey, does anyone think that this could tie in to the whole FEMA plastic coffin thing? If you don't know what I'm talking about... GO TO YOU TUBE RIGHT NOW and type in plastic coffins or plastic coffins FEMA.

    FEMA has apparently ordered HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of plastic coffins that could easily fit 4 to 6 bodies in each one....... AND THEY'RE STACKABLE.....

    whooohho... gives me the heeby jeebies.

    Anyways, so what if he was capitalizing on it. As long as he's giving valuable content that can help people, who cares.

    Any of you see that episode of Buffy where everyone goes mute and there's people selling whiteboards you hang on your neck... most excellent.

    That's no new tactic to capitalize on what's going on in the news. (oh and i just saw the links (monetization) in the report.

    Sorry if I went on and on... My whole point was that the real snake oil salesman are the pharmaceutical companies and the FDA for approving all the crap. I'm really sorry but there's one more funny... not so funny... thing...

    Did you know that it is actually ILLEGAL for anything other than a DRUG to cure a disease.

    Did you notice that everything is labeled as a disease? It's not just that your fat or your an alcoholic... it's the "disease" of obesity, the "disease of alcoholism".... because once it's labeled a "disease", then legally, nothing can cure it but a drug. Then you see all of these ridiculous commercials that "treat" not even cure something like herpes, but has 15 other side effects...

    I pointed this out to my wife... did you ever notice how INSANELY RIDICULOUS those commercials were when the first started coming out? It was hillarious! If you have indigestion this drug may help but may have side effects of nausea, severe headaches, bleeding out your butt etc... and now there's so many of them out there when most people see them on TV they just think that's the way it's supposed to be and they doesn't shock people the way that it did because we've kind of become desensitized to them. Something to think about...

    Well I promise that was it! lol... Hope some people got something out of this, and if anything, go check out the FEMA thing on youtube. You can see the rows and rows and rows of these coffins.

    Later,

    ~Russell Prisco =)
     
    russellprisco, Apr 30, 2009 IP
  11. Zaviar

    Zaviar Peon

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    #11
    Looks like free publicity from F-secure, haha.
     
    Zaviar, Apr 30, 2009 IP
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    #12
    How's the swine flu? I heard swine flu is getting serious.
     
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    #13
    The guys is truly an opportunist and I do admire it! The media and everyone makes a big deal out of it but the truth is people will want to know more information. Thumbs up!
     
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  14. DigitalSource

    DigitalSource Banned

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    russellprisco,

    That was the best post I have ever read on this damn forum, and thank you!
    You are 100% right in all points.

    Oh and as for those damn fema coffins well they give me goosebumps too, and NOT the good kind.
     
    DigitalSource, Apr 30, 2009 IP
  15. chris888

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    #15
    it a kind of new virus, i don;t think the ebook will issue quite fast, but will soon in coming month.
     
    chris888, Apr 30, 2009 IP
  16. poetsdesign

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    #16
    It looks like the swine flu become famous
    Day by day people talk a lot about it, but I never found ebook about that.
    Can anyone give me for free?
     
    poetsdesign, May 1, 2009 IP
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    So the ebook is for sale? $5.99 to save your life by avoiding the swine flu??? :eek:
     
    Cheap SEO Services, May 1, 2009 IP
  18. russellprisco

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    Where did you see $5.99? I just clicked on that link at the top of the post and
    clicked on the "I want my free report" button.

    But it sure would be well worth $5.99 to save your life! =P

    (Oh and thank you DigitalSource!) =)
     
    russellprisco, May 1, 2009 IP
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    #19
    it will not be avoiding it. It's a scam.
     
    pitagora, May 1, 2009 IP
  20. lorareno

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    Interesting. There are many nautural herbs etc that fight sickness...we'll see.
     
    lorareno, May 1, 2009 IP