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Calling Video Professor a Scam
palmerj3 writes in to give some wider attention to a piece on Techcrunch today in which Michael Arrington reacts to Video Professor's desperate attempts to shut him up after he called Video Professor a scam in a piece syndicated by the Washington Post. As described by Arrington, the ways the company's site operates (differently depending on where a visitor comes from) are strongly reminiscent of the practices a Senate committee recently condemned. (Here is a detailed example of another, similar scam, from a not-naive victim. Video Professor's tactics sound even more deceptive.) Video Professor seems to react with belligerence, not to mention legal threats, towards any hint of criticism. Please share any direct experiences you have with this outfit.
who ends every commercial with a pleading "Try my product?"
When I complained, they gave me a free credit report from their partners at freecreditreport.com. I don't know what this guy is complaining about.
well obviously you haven't watched tv in about 8 years
Seriously, I know I could just google it but damnit slashdot, this sounds like a typical example of an anonymous commenter knowing about a subject that a submission happens to be about yet most likely the average slashdot users doesn't have a clue as to what/who the fuck "tv" is.
Yes, the idiot is known to do bad business. Sadly if we start shutting down corrupt businesses we will shut down the American economy. We might have to shut down most state governments as well.
Please share any direct experiences you have with this outfit.
Also implying that some of us here don't know how to use a computer; there's no other way we'd have any "experience" with that "outfit."
Always proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
Customer: Well, could I have her scam instead of the baked beans then? Waitress: You mean scam, scam, scam, scam, scam, scam, scam, scam, scam, scam, scam, scam and scam? Choir (intervening): Scam! Scam! Scam! Scam! Lovely scam! Wonderful scam! Scam sca-a-a-a-a-am scam sca-a-a-a-a-am scam. Lovely scam! Lovely scam! Lovely scam! Lovely scam! Scam scam scam scam!
Sorry, but gray text on gray background is making my eyes bleed.
Honest, I used video professor to learn to sell on Ebay and not I am making $10,000 a month and living the life I have always dreamed of. Thanks video professor!
If it isn't broke, tinker with it till it is!
I hereby challenge the free and open source community to make a serials of software tutorials for various Windows operating systems, Windows software, web sites, etc and provide those videos free via downloads or web site streaming to engage and or challenge the Video Professor company, and provide free alternatives that people on Slashdot and other technical web sites can refer to our friends and relatives who might get taken in via Video Professor, and instead we can redirect them to the FOSS web site of software tutorial videos or download them and burn our own FOSS Software Professor CD-R disks and give them to them for free.
The F/OSS community doing a Windows training video? Ahahah ....OK, wavy lines...wavy line....wavy line,,,,,
Start of video....
Enter guy with black hair, black goatee, horns, pitchfork, and dressed in red.
"Hi, I'm Satan and I'm here to teach you about my Operating System : Windows. Using this OS will automatically give your everlasting soul to me. Now to begin....."
Every other frame will be a quick frame that says:
F/OSS is the GOOD in the World. Linux is your salvation!
Please excuse the typos. For some reason my spell check on Firefox isn't working on this Fedora 12 box. ????
It's NOT me! It's the meds! I'm on 1000mg of Fukitol.
No, YOU grow op!
This reminds me of all those High School car washes you see. They have sings that say "Free Car Wash", but then they usually have another sign sitting there saying "All Proceeds go to Couger High Cheerleaders!" and it like, uh what proceeds, it's free!
But I go anyway and "PAY" for my "Free" car wash. If only because I'll never got that close to actual boobs in my real life.
Hold on a second.... "Mom! Poop bucket!!"
Ok, I have to go. But, yeah total scam.
Correct, it's a retarded addiction.. Like paint huffing, gasoline sniffing, or self waterboarding.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Watch that Anti-Religious Bigotry. Religious people have civil rights too, you know.
Yeah, mocking/criticizing a group of people is an attack on their civil rights. Jesus, it's not like the post was advocating denying Christians the right to marry or something.
So you are paying about 300 dollars to be taught not how to be scammed on the internet? Sounds about right to me. I doubt any of their customers fall for something like that again.
There's an alternative: Professor Wikipedia is not a scam.
For a small fee, I can help you avoid scam information overload. Think of the peace of mind, increase in your productivity and lung capacity, just by following the advice I can provide you.
insults are specifically exempt from libel suits. ass marauder
And I am not a scam. The scam is the real estate branch of the business dept. Those fuckers should be in jail.
Shoes for Industry. Shoes for the Dead.
Oh the travesty if someone has to RTFA.
Wow! First we had the Chewbacca Defense. Now we have the Chewbacca Apologetic!
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Clearly I am the next Johnny Cochran. :)
I used to work for lawyers, until one of them bit me. Whomever is bitten by a lawyer eventually becomes one. All I need left to do is study in law school and then graduate and pass the bar exam. :)
Remember, Slashdot does not have a -1 disagree moderation, and no, troll, flamebait, and overrated are not substitutes.
We could petition Slashdot to fix this. Anyone who hasn't clicked on the article will be taken there the first time they hit the "Submit" button to post a comment.
Karnal
WTF does this sentence mean?
bork bork.
Bork, bork bork bork!
bork bork bork? Bork borkbork!
bork,
Bork
I'm not a nerd. Nerds are smart.
TV? Isn't that this thing like the Internet, but one-way only and you have to watch in real time? And without Adblock?
thegodmovie.com - watch it
Congratulations! You're here. :).
At least you've learned how to use the internet, one way or another.
My page.