I get it, the money’s in the list. I’m not personally trying to build a huge list of opt-ins, I’m here to help people. I built this site to directly help people network and promote their products and services to make money, I don’t need a list to push crappy products to in the hopes of a quick buck. That’s not helping.

When your subscribed to as many people’s email lists as I am (see here as to why), one thing becomes appalling obvious very quick – there are just WAY too many in the IM industry only caring about how much money they can make.

I got an email this morning that really took the cake for ‘complete lack of caring’.

I’ve blanked out the senders name although I was very tempted to name and shame. Not enough experience with this particular marketer to make that call just yet however.

So, I clicked the link – I always do, I need to see if it’s a product I’ve already seen. It turned out to be a new find – a product called Affiliate Page Brander.

One of the first things I do when coming across a “brand new” product is to Google it to see what others are saying about it. The “you’ve got to be kidding me” groan rolled through my head when I found this page – the same product with PLR rights released… September 7th, 2008. EIGHT people! Nearly two full years ago and here I am getting an email about this “this brand new software discovered”!

I received this email 24 April 2010 10:35… 18 minutes prior to writing this post.

C’mon people! At least do the BASIC research about what you’re pushing. Free or not, you need to stop pushing rehashed crap! If it only took me a single Google search (so what, like 10 seconds?) to discover this, it only goes to show how lazy you are and provides me with a reason to unsubscribe from your list…