I have to admit that the whole Carleton Sheets phenomenon baffles me, despite the fact that I “get it”, from both sides of the equation. If you don’t have much in the way of savings and would prefer to be rich, then the lure of a message such as “Make $182,102,182 a month with no money down!” is pretty attractive, especially when everyone knows someone’s second cousin’s uncle who get filthy rich form real estate. On the snake oil salesman side of things, there’s apparently a vast pool of people who want to be rich and who respond to the above lure, swallowing the line and sinker as well.
I just wouldn’t have guessed there was that much money to be made, for the Carleton Sheets of the world, especially at the price many of his products sell for. I was running affiliate ads here for a brief time, until I felt too slimy and sleazy for doing so, solely because the program paid out $100 for every customer you referred that purchased something. So obviously there’s lots of money to be made pitching such products, despite the fact that many of his offerings top out at well over $500, which seems a pretty hefty price point for people short on savings and long on greed.
But I guess there are more than a few examples of that phenomenon out in the world, as far as people willing to spend lots of money (even if it means racking up credit card debt) if you promise them sweetly enough that the final result will be that they’re wealthy. Even if it makes no logical sense, in any fashion. Why in the world would any successful guru (oxymoronic, I know) waste time hawking such products and services, if they truly have unlocked the secrets of making vast piles of money with no money down? If it truly worked and was as easy as claimed, they’d simply use their own techniques to make vast piles of money and never once have to wrestle with the headache of stocking snake oil, marketing snake oil, dealing with unsatisified customers of their snake oil, etc.
The world is a very strange place sometimes.
