Donald Lapre Arrested; Another Pill Millionaire.

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" Donald Lapre is charged with running a nationwide scheme to sell essentially worthless Internet-based businesses.

A grand jury indicted him on 41 counts of conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud and promotional money laundering. He's accused of encouraging people to sell worthless vitamins through a company called "The Greatest Vitamin in the World."

The government says at least 220,000 people were defrauded of nearly $52 million."
TV pitchman arrested after missing appearance - Wire TV News - sacbee.com


Watch and learn.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWQE79kwbKc"]YouTube - ‪The World's Greatest Vitamin. Most Healthy Multivitamin EVER‬‏[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mubCkCAEiDQ"]YouTube - ‪Don Lapre Sells Tiny Classified Ads‬‏[/ame]
 


Anyone ever see that stoner movie puff puff pass with the 2 dudes that thought they were gonna strike it rich with tiny classified ads from the infomercial? They made the whole scenario mad funny.
 
i actually talked to him on the phone a few weeks ago ... and was surprised by how little he knew about any newer forms of internet marketing even though he lies his ass off to everybody (btw he currently was running a SHITTY consulting business called Don Lapre (sites down now, it sure wasn't much to look at anyways, he uses godaddy sitebuilder to build his sites rofl) where he told people he'd help them get more business via his incredible internet marketing techniques)


I answered a CL ad he posted on behalf of a local business I was gonna do some marketing for. He had the owner fooled so well - she wouldn't listen to any of the marketing campaign ideas I had, hell, after she emailed me and told me to come in she kept me waiting for an hour and then told me she didnt have time to talk to me and that DON was handling everything for them and that he was a "marketing genius" . His best plan for getting her leads was to post ads on CL asking other people to market for them in exchange for referral fees.
 
iPwnNoobs said:
i actually talked to him on the phone a few weeks ago ... and was surprised by how little he knew about any newer forms of internet marketing even though he lies his ass off to everybody (btw he currently was running a SHITTY consulting business called Don Lapre (sites down now, it sure wasn't much to look at anyways, he uses godaddy sitebuilder to build his sites rofl) where he told people he'd help them get more business via his incredible internet marketing techniques)


I answered a CL ad he posted on behalf of a local business I was gonna do some marketing for. He had the owner fooled so well - she wouldn't listen to any of the marketing campaign ideas I had, hell, after she emailed me and told me to come in she kept me waiting for an hour and then told me she didnt have time to talk to me and that DON was handling everything for them and that he was a "marketing genius" . His best plan for getting her leads was to post ads on CL asking other people to market for them in exchange for referral fees.
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Damn... Now send them a link to this story along with this images -

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http://www.wickedfire.com/shooting-shit/127287-rip-tiny-classified-ads-don-lapre-toast.html

iPwnNoobs said:
i actually talked to him on the phone a few weeks ago ...
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No way, that is like talking to a movie star. "Tiny classified ads" would be the informercial that I've watched most. Actually, it would be one of the few I've seen more than once.

The unintentional hilarity, the hypnotic effect of his voice and the ocean, the one bedroom apartment, it was all amazing lol.


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9uGs9p18kI]YouTube - ‪YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS VIDEO!‬‏[/ame]
 
Moxie said:
http://www.wickedfire.com/shooting-shit/127287-rip-tiny-classified-ads-don-lapre-toast.html



No way, that is like talking to a movie star. "Tiny classified ads" would be the informercial that I've watched most. Actually, it would be one of the few I've seen more than once.

The unintentional hilarity, the hypnotic effect of his voice and the ocean, the one bedroom apartment, it was all amazing lol.


YouTube - ‪YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS VIDEO!‬‏
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it kinda was!!! I actually didn't realize it was him until about 10 minutes into the conversation... I kinda recognized the voice but it wasn't until he started getting kinda excited about what we were talking about that I was like ... "wait a minute... Don... LAPRE! TINY CLASSIFIED ADS LOLOLOL " and he was like yea, thats me.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C76Sw1UTKa0]YouTube - ‪Don Lapre and David Letterman‬‏[/ame]
 
Jesus, this is sad but somehow hilarious too. The interesting thing for me is that, for the scammer which he undoubtedly is, he still made 52 mil in revenue. He obviously had something. Even if it was a banana up his ass. I guess now he's going to pay.
 
He comes from the world of promo pitch men. I had the a summer job when I was 17, not knowing they were scammers. But I did learn alot about pitching & how the mind is influenced through repetitious scrips anchored with emotion. I wonder if it works in text, like an article selling a product. Something to think about.

It's been 20+ years since I seen Don's commercial, yet I remember

"With one tiny classified ad, I made $10,000 a day from my one bedroom apartment!!!!"
 
Why would you need to keep on scamming people after you actually discover you actually have talent to sell stuff?. I mean, this guy would have done exceptionally well doing legit stuff as well.

Next twist: I've made millions placing tiny ads from my one-bedroom cell.
 
^^^ Yeah I don't get that either. How the fuck did he come up with "The Greatest Vitamin in the World" and end up getting busted? The article didn't really say. Is it just some pyramid scheme? Seems you'd really have to try hard to get busted as a pyramid scheme when you are selling a physical product like a vitamin.
 
But when federal agents stopped the car Lapre was in, near Warner Road and Interstate 10 in Tempe, they found the marketing guru suffering from deep, self-inflicted knife wounds to his thigh and groin.
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I could think of about 10,000 better ways to kill myself than stabbing anywhere near my dick.
 
^Finally you and I agree on something... WTF was he thinking, buying a knife to off himself by cutting open his groin?!?

But when federal agents stopped the car Lapre was in, near Warner Road and Interstate 10 in Tempe, they found the marketing guru suffering from deep, self-inflicted knife wounds to his thigh and groin.

The U.S. Marshals Service believes the vitamin peddler had been trying to hit his femoral artery in order to bleed out and commit suicide.
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lukep said:
^And is that the one you'd choose to stab repeatedly to off yourself?
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indeed, it's the femoral artery and it's deep.. a lot more ways to ensure death .....if you really wanted it... which he obviously didn't. hello attention whore.
 
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