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Originally posted by SteveDallas
That's what I have never figured out... how can you make any money advertising in a medium that will almost universally piss off your customers? (ditto for telemarketing.)
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If you piss off 999 people to the extreme and get a last one to buy, then a fortune can be made. The Inky carried a series of stories 10+ years ago about a King of Spam with offices in the Ft Washington Industrial Complex (and elsewhere). He started with fax spam and moved on to internet spam. Made millions.
Does not matter how many are pissed. All that matters is the number who buy into it. Once knew a boiler room phone employee who could make people buy products he knew to be a scam. Did not care. He got paid - and was good at it - so he claims. But then I never fully trusted anything this guy said even though he was quite frank with me. Not that he was lying to me. He may have been lying to himself - a big difference.
It's not just the profit in that one sale. It's the mentality of a spammer that is curious and unusual - just like any other snake oil salesman.