Tuesday, 4 September 2007

Dear Tara

Someone named Tara left a comment on my blog.

Tara said...

hey its tara, here is the website i was talking about where i made the extra summer cash..........the website is here

04 September 2007 02:24

Okay, thanks Tara. Problem is I have no idea who you are, neither do I remember a conversation about extra summer money. If that's my faulty memory, please remind me. Other options are as follows.

You got lost and ended up here so welcome, hang around if you fancy but you might want to let who ever was supposed to get your message, well, get the message.

On the other hand if you, as I suspect, are leaving random comments on random blogs to drum up business for the linked site then,

Hahahahahahahaha,

I do not wish to help your corporate overlords. Nor do I wish to pay you for the "privilege" of doing so. And yeah I did remove the link when I copied your comment. And I removed the comment.

You see, the link took you to a site where, for an amount of money, you would be hooked up with some surveys for big corporate types that you would be paid for. Michelle McAllister, whose site it seems to be, claims to make $4000 a month from it, enabling here to jack in her crappy job. Bully for you Michelle. I mean that sincerely. Honest. I'm sure your monthly earning has nothing to do with charging $49.99 a month to sign people up. Cynical, moi ? It's the length of the sales pitch before the mention of the cost that does it. Lots and lots of wordage about the amount of money you can make, how it enriches your life in non monetary ways, a mention of the free trial then a bit about how you have to be the right sort of person to be able to be signed up and how she'll let you be a member if you prove yourself, then the price.

Anyway, there is a 60 day free trial on offer. Fab, you might think, free money, but if I read things correctly you have to pay the fee first. It will be returned if you email after 60 days to say you weren't satisfied. So it's not really a free trial, and Michelle gets to make interest on you $49.99 for 60 days. Nice.

For me though it really comes down to the fact that I refuse to extend any assistance to massive corporations to enable them to market their products more successfully. Actually, no it's not, it's the fact that she says she watches day time tv while taking part in the surveys. Daytime tv ? AAArrrrrggggghhhhh !!! A fate worse that a McJob surely ?

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