Guilty Until Proven Innocent

Posted By elissa on Mar 3, 2010 | 1 comment

As I’m sure y’all know, there are a number of bogus supplement “review” sites on the internet.  Of course, they’re really supp ads in disguise. Brands that the site owners get commissions for are “reviewed” positively, natch, while competing products are slammed. In fact, this “bait-and-switch” is so common, I’m not surprised to see various characters assume UltimateFatBurner.com rolls this way.

In other words, we’re presumed “guilty until proven innocent.”

This was certainly the ‘tude that Darren Beale (Business Development Manager for Soula, Ltd) had on display last week:

“You also clearly try to portray a negative view of Proactol for your own gain (by selling your own set of products to the customer). Despite any pretences of making the review appear ‘fair’, your review is quite obviously designed to sell your own products, or direct them to an EBOOK which then sells them different products.”

This is a calumny, of course, for which Paul has yet to receive an apology.  I’m not holding my breath, however (neither is he…).

This “presumption of guilt” works against us in other ways, too.  For example, Paul’s inbox gets littered with various “promotional opportunities” on a regular basis. Not surprisingly, these are for products that don’t… *ahem*… quite measure up to UFB.com standards. 

Like the one he forwarded to me today…

> I am Affiliate Manager of Slim Weight Patch product.
>
> Thought you might be interested in selling it on your web site?
>
> You can find out more about the product on this page:
> http://www.moreniche.com/slimweightpatch-affiliate-program.php
>
> Let me know if there is anythign I can help you with.

Great… weight loss patches are about as bogus as they come.  The FTC is constantly going after the manufacturers of these products. So naturally, I HAD to click the link.

The Slim Weight Patch is a collection of clinically proven weight loss patches which have been developed to the highest possible standard by healthcare specialists Roduve.

Roduve have two weight loss patches for sale via their website, a Hoodia patch and a herbal patch, both of which are clinically proven to help reduce weight. In the studies performed it is proven that you can reduce body weight by 2lbs per week without a change to your diet.

Slim Weight Patch has an impressive website and marketing effort to boot, you can expect fantastic conversions by promoting the best weight loss patch available online.

Slim Weight Patch offer a fantastic 30% commission which is by far the biggest commission available for any type of weight loss patch around.

Promoting questionable products is a lucrative gig, no?

Nonetheless, I don’t think you’re going to see “Slim Weight Patches” promoted here, any time too soon… or any of the other less-than-stellar supps these marketers would like us to hustle.  It’s bad enough that Paul has to run ads to finance the site – but that’s about as low as we intend to go. I know honesty is hard for some people to grasp (especially when there’s money involved), but that’s just the way it is.