To lay the basis for this thought I will start by saying that I had subscribed to an “expert” forex traders’ e-mail series. I hadn’t been exactly enthralled by the message partly because it was quite involved material and also he was pushing his readers to get in on a teleseminar with him and several other “experts”.  Now, I’m not going to judge this guy (yet) or am I going to disclose his name on this blog but somewhere along the line, probably about the time he started really pushing the close on his great product (a series of DVD’s on forex) I became more interested so I read enough to find the “bottom-line” was right at $2,000 for this end-all, be-all trading course.  I remember thinking that these guys must really have a great product here but I’m not in the market for another trading system, I have plenty of those you can ask my wife. But this must really be a Great deal because, after all, this guy is an expert Forex trader and it costs so much it has to be worth it.  So, I went about my business but noticed that he kept hammering his e-mail list with  sense of loss type e-mails; (”only 9 copies left”, “only 3 copies left”) until finally he announced that he was sold out. I thought, “that’s good, he found buyers for all of his DVDs. He’s happy and all of his buyers are happy. A happy ending.

Today I got another e-mail from the same guy and he’s telling a story about an absolutely fantastic Forex trading course that he heard about while he was at a posh party in Las Vegas during the Traders Conference. This trading course is the absolute best thing  out there and there are only a few copies left at the original price of  (pay attention this is good) $1,995.  At this point he has totally lost any credibility that he ever had with me. He’s not a Forex Expert, he’s not even a very good DVD peddler. Any kind of trust or respect that he may have gained with his e-mails and seminars was wasted by dumping another $2,000 product in front of his list, especially only hours after closing out his first offer.  If I were one of the “lucky few” who managed to secure a copy of  HIS DVD course, I would be seriously considering a refund.

At this point I ordinarily would just get off of his e-mail list and forget about it but this is almost like one of those TV dramas where you just don’t know how the characters could do anything worse, but you keep watching just in case they do… Well, I’m gonna hang around just to see what this guy does next.