I can imagine that a lot of us are getting e-mails these days touting the newest and greatest thing that will make us rich within a matter of days, if not hours. I’m no exception as I get a lot of e-mails from people whose lists I signed onto so that I could get free stuff.
But sometimes these guys can be very sneaky…
Take Mike Glaspie for example. I got an e-mail from him not too long ago saying that he had a free gift he wanted to give me. His free gift is a motivational CD. All I had to do to get it was to follow a link and go sign up to get it. Well I noticed that one of the things that they wanted was my phone number. I thought “they probably won’t bother calling anyway. Who calls looking to sell someone a program anymore?”
Big mistake.
For the past couple of days a guy named “Chris” has been calling my house wanting to talk to me about internet business opportunities and how Mike Glaspie can accellerate this website so that I’m making a ton of money in a very short period of time. Now I have heard this all before from people looking to sell me a business opportunity. My wife and I shelled out over $3,000 a couple of years ago to a company that promised us that with a little effort, we would be making a ton of money with a web-based store of our very own. They “worked” with us for six weeks and then went away, never to be heard from again. Obviously the website tanked, we were out three grand that we never should have spent in the first place and we learned a valuable lesson: if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
Now “Chris” starts calling wanting to talk to me about business opportunities and “taking your site to the next level” and “investing what you’re confortable with”. Does any of this sound familliar to all of you or is it just me?
I actually googled Mr. Glespie and the results I found were about what you would expect. Most of the people talking about experiences either with him, his products or his companies will tell you to stay away from him. There was one guy who detailed his experiences with Mike G. at the Rip-off Report. He talks about how the service didn’t work for him and how he was charged $57.47 for a month of service that was advertised as free.
There is an old saying: if you get good service you tell one person, if you get bad service you tell ten. It is very, very true.
I don’t have personal experience with Mr. Glespie but from what I have now heard I don’t want any more experiences with him. I got the free CD, that’s fine, let’s just call it there.
Memo to all of my underutilized clones: If something sounds too good to be true – GOOGLE IT!!! Make sure that you know what you are getting yourself in for or who you are going to give your money to. If they look legit and what they have may be a tool that you can use, go for it. If it looks like a scam, walks like a scam, and quacks like a scam then guess what?
As for “Chris” when and if he ever calles back I imagine the conversation will go something like this, at least on my end…
Hey Chris, before you get started let me stop you right there. I just googled Mike Glespie and I’m not liking what I’m seeing, so I’m not interested. Thanks. Bye.
*click*
