I found it to be an excellent source of information, much of which I never thought about and still say that will be of help to many people like me. I have not found a single shred of info that points to any unethical marketing within it and still stand on my high recommendations.

Perhaps I’m wrong due to my lack of knowledge in direct marketing but the info I got from the report itself is already more then I can currently implement although gave me some excellent ideas.

So to summarize - I don’t promote whatever product will be marketed after this report and have no intentions of buying it myself but I still recommend this report to anyone who is like me and have little to none knowledge in direct marketing.

Thanks again for insightful information. I’m sure many will appreciate it.

Alex

I found similar info, to Phil, when I was doing my research, but I was not sure of its accuracy. What ever the rights and wrongs of the situation these ‘new’ products are tainted by this history and therefore to my mind best avoided.

Have you ever heard of Vince James? He wrote the book 12 Month Millionaire.

Now read very carefully. He sells this book for about $300 dollars. He claims you can become a millionaire after reading his book in 12 months.

I bought the book. It’s good but not worth $300 dollars. I did some research on him. His real name is Vincent James Passifume. He was convicted for fraud, and false advertising.

He was making about 2 million dollars a month. In his book he claims, that all his money was made from selling vitamins. The real truth is, he was selling pills that were for penis enlargement. Actually, the pills were herbs, that he bought from a vitamin wholesaler for $2.00 and sold for $60.00.

He knew that these pills would never do as he claimed. He also knew that he could sell 3 to 6 months worth to a customer before they would discover nothing happened. He came up with a program to charge and ship the customer every month, no matter if the customer ordered them or not.

He made millions. Until he was finally arrested. He says the reason why he lost all of his money is because the people who worked for him was jealous of all his success. And, that may be true.

The real reason was he continued charging credit cards to customers who asked to be removed. So they contacted the Attorney General of Arizona. He was shut down. Also he was banned from the state selling anything by direct marketing.

He had partners who were family. His aunt and cousin. He’s not from Arizona. Instead from New Jersey. Now living in Las Vegas.

What’s in his book can be learned from the late Gary Halbert for free. He has licensed his book to many direct marketers. Who now sell his book on the Internet. And, will defend him to the death. What does Vince James do?

He does nothing but makes a lot of money while others do his work. He’s a smart guy, but a crook. He cares nothing about you. All he wants is money.

There are a number of different marketers promoting products based on this book, as a Google search will reveal.

It would appear that these promotions are are a reworking of a Gary Halbert camapaign see Gary Halbert Letter

Given Halbert’s death a few months ago no doubt others will be looking through the Halbert files to see what they can rework for their own projects.

Whilst there is some benefit in being reminded of successful techniques from previous years, how much of what such products offer is really new and how much is just “old wine in new bottles” is not yet clear……at least to me.