Sales letters; love em or loathe them?

[Charlie]

Do sales letters, like the one in the site reffered to in this post
actually work. You can see the type of thing here:


For me I see that red bold headline text and just click away

 

[Dave]

I hate those things so much, they just seem to say "scam" to me, a lot of the time their perfectly legit, but always to lesser quality then they're made out.

 

[MisterX]

They work, but I'm not a fan of them and rarely read all the way to the bottom.

 

[theNOTO]

They must work if people keep using them.

 

[Michael]

I don't like them but again they must work and people must buy them.

 

[Charlie]

Must they work or do people buy the GURU type ebooks say do it like this and you will sell sell sell?

(That said, the guru ebook was probably sold through a letterlike this in the first place)

 

[Payton]

I know plenty of people that it would work on... these being my friends and family, I can't use the same tactics on them haha

but really there are a lot of people that just believe whatever they read or see, not everyone is as skeptical or wary of scammers as we are.

 

[JDA]

I think they work on people who aren't as net savvy, which makes it kind of detestable to me that so many scamish type sites use them.

 

[a.titus1]

I never even make it to the bottom, but it's one of those situations where it's kind of like a scam I think. Nearly all the "unique" information is out there in some form, but I suppose people who are either too lazy to find it or are unaware of it would go for it.

 

[WallaceCleaver]

I wouldn't say that people buying these products are too lazy. I think that these sites are simply preying on people who either aren't net savvy or are just plan desperate.

 

[MisterX]

I think they work on people who aren't as net savvy

Yes and there's a huge number of people in that category.