Does this really work?

Seems more like a sales pitch than anything

[bigrong]

I sent for the low-cost CD and got a call from a nice young lady who was trying to pre-qualify me to buy 'help' from Google. Her price levels went from $5,000 to $50,000. She guaranteed me (if her word was worth anything) that I would be able to pay that pre-paid amount (billed to my credit card) off in 3 months. Having had my wallet cleaned by real pros and various multi-marketing groups, I was very cautious and eventually terminated the phone call. Her final tactic was to try to guilt-trip me into agreeing to go into the final sales pitch.

My question is to those of you who are apparently users of this product - is this just supporting the Google sales staff or is there the 100% success rate that she claimed? She also told me that if I just tried to use the CD without their help that I would fail. How is this program different from the 1001 scams all of us see daily on the internet?

Your thoughts are appreciated.

[edited by: tedster at 5:01 am (utc) on Jan. 21, 2010]
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[smallcompany]

buy 'help' from Google

Buying dust from the space sounds more realistic.

My question is to those of you who are apparently users of this product - is this just supporting the Google sales staff or is there the 100% success rate that she claimed?

Google would never stand behind any 100% promise. Furthermore, Google does not sell stuff through third parties in that way, especially with pre-paid idea.
The way how you buy products and services like AdWords from Google is to open Google account and setup campaigns. Then you see what you pay for, and you're in charge of how much you spend.

How is this program different from the 1001 scams all of us see daily on the internet?

You answered it already:

price levels went from $5,000 to $50,000

Many related scams are in a range of few bucks per person.

Stop doing what you've already been doing (like ordering that CD), otherwise "bigrong" will become "bigWrong".

;)

[AdWordsAdvisor]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, bigrong.

The fact that you mention a "low-cost CD" leads me to ask you to look for and read two posts from the official Google Blog.

The charter of this forum prevents me from directly linking to Google blogs, but I think these two posts would be very useful reading for you:

"Fighting fraud online: taking "Google Money" scammers to court" - which was posted in early December of last year.

And, an older post on a similar subject:

"How to steer clear of money scams"- which was posted in July 2009.

And here is a page from the Web Search Help Center that may also be of use. Since it is help center content rather than a blog, I am able to link to it directly:

Suspicious results and strange behavior: A site ripped me off:
[google.com...]

AWA

[bigrong]

An update to lay this one to rest - I tried contacting the 'company' that had contacted me. 2 of the 3 numbers were busy 100% of the time and the 3rd (the one on the Visa statement) was not associated with these people. So I am working with Visa to recover my money (they had started billing me on a monthly basis). Hopefully, Homeland Security will eventually track these guys down and we will have another front page about internet scofflaws doing jail time. Thanks for the help and I still wince at my gullibility after all these years of dodging these things.

[trinorthlighting]

Doing a credit card chargeback is the best way to get your money back.