Thursday, June 3, 2004
The "100 Inch LaserX TV" - Scam or Legit?
Posted by Jason Dunn in "HARDWARE" @ 08:00 AM
"Did you know it's now possible for you to change any regular television into a big screen TV? Get a big screen home theater today for less than $20. This amazing new download illustrates the quick and easy plans. That's right! You can have a big screen movie theater in your home right now for less than the cost of a night out! This is the Secret the big Electronics Companies don't want you to know. It's true - we have finally found the secret. Using the LaserX system, you can convert any image from any regular television into a giant 100-inch projection TV!"
I saw this in one of our Google AdWords, so I hovered over the link to get the URL (if I click on my own AdWords I'll get booted from the program, but you can click if you see something you like). I went to the site, and I can't figure out what the angle is here. First, for $19 you get instructions that tell you what to do - they don't sell a physical product. They also say that the parts you need to complete the project can be found at any retail outlet for $20. They also say that you don't need to disassemble your TV set...so what the heck is this system they're selling? Does anyone have any ideas?
This screams "scam" to me - everything about the sales pitch reminds of me a "DVD Ripper" I bought a couple of years ago, well before any of the nice all-in-one packages were available for sale. It was possible to rip a DVD using a series of freeware tools, but it was an awkward, slow process. I paid $50 for this DVD ripper, and when it arrived in the mail on CD, it was nothing more than all of the SAME utilities that I already had, only the "added value" was a set of instructions on how to use it all. They were selling a "system", not actual software. :roll: First and last time I ever did that!
I saw this in one of our Google AdWords, so I hovered over the link to get the URL (if I click on my own AdWords I'll get booted from the program, but you can click if you see something you like). I went to the site, and I can't figure out what the angle is here. First, for $19 you get instructions that tell you what to do - they don't sell a physical product. They also say that the parts you need to complete the project can be found at any retail outlet for $20. They also say that you don't need to disassemble your TV set...so what the heck is this system they're selling? Does anyone have any ideas?
This screams "scam" to me - everything about the sales pitch reminds of me a "DVD Ripper" I bought a couple of years ago, well before any of the nice all-in-one packages were available for sale. It was possible to rip a DVD using a series of freeware tools, but it was an awkward, slow process. I paid $50 for this DVD ripper, and when it arrived in the mail on CD, it was nothing more than all of the SAME utilities that I already had, only the "added value" was a set of instructions on how to use it all. They were selling a "system", not actual software. :roll: First and last time I ever did that!
