Talk:Ripoffs

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It is illegal to sell your body to science. --filthy_swine 01:07, 17 July 2006 (PDT)

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An individual who is so inclined can simply place a wad of paper towels in the coin return slot of most vending machines. After a day at most this individual can return and find several dollars in change stacked behind this paper towel in the machine.

--firsty 08:18, 12 September 2006 (PDT)

lets talk about this latest posting:

Website Rip-offs

This one is only slightly more complicated, but fun and a lot more legal anyway. Open a free website: (Spanglefish will do nicely, http://www.spanglefish.com/ ). Now open an affiliate account with http://users.buy.at/ or http://www.buy.at/region/us/ and add their links to your website. Then if you open up a bank account or request an appointment for someone to measure up some blinds for your house, you can earn £60 or £20 or whatever right into your bank account - I just earned £20 (thats $40 to you amerikans) whilst writing this little piece and it took me all of 3 minutes...of course you can always cancel the appointment or bank account later. Money for jam! Excalibur

Is this too specific or commercial for the book, I cant see this being a long term thing, more like a dot-com bubble daze thing. I see this more like the M$ scam in the talk section..... Discuss

Just curious as to what ones you used in the afiliates list, we should make a list of the abusable ones.

[b]I think it's totally appropriate. If it becomes outdated later, someone can remove it then. I agree that there should be a list of easily abused affiliates, but generality is not a reason to remove the section, either.[/b]

This is to be a printed work within a few months, generalize the entry instead of just listing specific sites and it would be good, explain what the sites do and how you found them so it will be more lasting information.

Could the how-to be expanded upon? I've never used an affiliate account and reading through the sites with only moderate caffeine intact has me slightly confused as to what is going on. Is it someone putting an advertisement on your website, you click it, buy.at sends you cash for clicks? If so it sounds like a good idea. If you sign up for blind measurements and use a cellphone as the primary contact number the opportunities for harassment for both the blind company and your various friends/enemies is spectacular. "No no no I said forty-three whatever street. It's not my fault you bothered the staunch religious leader while he was having an extra-marital affair with another man."--- Manintweed

OK, I am going to pull the website ripoffs from the ripoffs page, it is already archived here and someone can do the edits needed and return it once it is ready.