I only paid $9.95 in total, and can say that it is definitely worth that price (I mean, come on, it would have to be pretty bad to not be worth $9.95!)..

1) I was in the early batch — didn’t even KNOW I’d ordered the recurring newsletter.
2) When he ‘fessed up and “changed” his ways, he promised that we’d get something in the mail and it would be REALLY obvious.
3) Weeks later, something did come in the mail. It looked like junk mail. I almost threw it away which is what I do to 95% of the snail mail.
4) The return address was not a company. It was someone named Joel Comm. I had no idea who Joel Comm was, just that I’d ordered a book on AdSense and knew to watch out for something ELSE about AdSense that I didn’t want.
5) Something DID arrive via e-mail a company called InfoMedia which I’d never heard of but it said my credit card had been charged for something about AdSense. Finally, the culprit, SIX WEEKS later.
6) I responded to the e-mail. No response.
7) I went to the Joel Comm website. There was no way to reach him except in an AskJoel thing. I did and instantly got a message saying he doesn’t read them and this is not a help desk.
8) I went to InfoMedia. Nothing there, really, except that there would be something on the actual newsletter — obvious it said — that would make it easy to cancel.
9) Right. On the top of the newsletter in one of those little Post-It note looking things, the kind of thing you know to ignore because they’re selling you something you don’t want, in very small type, it says to call this number — 970.278.0011 to cancel.
10) So I called the number and instantly got into voicemail hell, including — finally — an option to cancel the thing I didn’t even order. But wait — they want to tell me the BENEFITS of this thing before I cancel. NO. I want to cancel and I want my money back.
11) After listening to all this, the voice robot says there’s a website for unsubscribing, bytegrabber.com/unsubscribe. I go there but it’s down.
12) I go back.
13) So it took an e-mail, a newsletter, a phone call AND a website to cancel something we didn’t even order???

WHAT A SCAM. No “nice guy” (as he claims) would treat people this way. Frankly, given the way we’ve been treated, I don’t expect a cancellation and that I will continue to have to fight this for months.

And the book I bought for $10 bucks? Never read, never even opened. I don’t want ONE WORD of advice from someone who would go to such lengths to trap people out of their hard-earned cash.

I’m sorry that statement doesn’t reflect well on your character either.

Joel may have used a poor marketing tactic, but come on, it’s not the end of the world and I’m sure if you were charged he refunded it upon request.

~Shannon

I chose the “basic” purchase option. The text on the button naturally led me to believe that I would not be “subscribed” to anything.

I was automatically opted in to a $29/month subscription. I didn’t appreciate that and I do consider it to be deceptive regardless of whether or not it was included in that obnoxious sales page.

Who would read the whole thing anyhow? I’m confident that Joel was counting on most folks speed reading and missing the auto opt-in.

I really don’t think that the basic purchase option should have required a physical address either. Another unethical tactic…boooo!

If that wasn’t enough, when I emailed my displeasure at these things, Joel was sarcastic.

Joel clearly lacks character and ethics.

I don’t believe a single word of his “apology”. Obviously, he is not to be respected or trusted.

Joel, I hope you get beat up several times by many different disgusted customers and non-customers. You’re a piece of crap.

As for Joel, I think he’s a greedy lieing git. If he makes that much money why does he see the need to deceive people?

And I don’t buy his apologies….he should have known better, and he probably knew EXACTLY what he was doing when he put the sales letter together.

i unsubscribed from all of Comm’s lists ages ago as all he ever did was try to sell me stuff and actually never taught anything useful. I’m glad I did and it shows I was right all along.

“You didn’t order the subscription. You got the book only and you won’t be billed.

You may still get a free issue in the mail though.. we’re giving them to everyone.”

Cheers.

I bought the basic for $9,95… heck, is there a subscription later on that I am not aware of?

Anyway, I have logged a ticket with them to say that I want to cancel any subscription that will come later. I don’t want any surprise and it’s really bad marketing for Joel.

I would never recommend something like this to friends and family… or on my blog.

But I respect that you gotta make a buck… and Joel probably needs a new car…

didn’t realize about the membership site policy.

how do i go about cancelling it off?

:X

Darren: ” Thanks for the valuable info”

Pachecus said:

Hey Darren.. Do you believe in this product? as you know, the unique way to make money with adsense is fresh content and big traffic.. nothing more…

Thanks Joel for the apology – I’m glad you’ve changed your approach on this.

If anyone purchased the ebook through my affiliate link and feels ripped off in some way feel free to email me. I still think it contains good information that you’ll learn from if you’re at the beginning of your journey with AdSense but if you disagree shoot me an email using my contact form and I’ll sort something out for you.

Offer $25,000

Boxing match

Joel Comm
vs
GolfSpy X

He wins = $25K
I win = $1 ans satisfaction of beating up a marketing bully.

PLEASE CONTACT ME
golfideas@gmail.com