Did you know that the big "dog food conspiracy" is killing all our dogs? Apparently!!
What this looks like to me is another person making money off people's fears.
I know that kind of web page, I have studied how they are done, and I have seen so many of them. The simple text, speaking to people's emotions... Lots of bold type... Lost of red and yellow text... Lots of call to action... Lots of blaming a conspiracy so he can rescue you... Lots of hard sell... Lots of bullet lists and graphics... And collecting email addresses from those not ready to give up hard cash up front. You don't need all these things for giving people information, you only need it for selling things to them.
You push all the reader's buttons about their love for their pet and their fears for their pet, and then they're ready to think "well, forty-seven dollars is not a lot to save the life of my beloved dog! I would be a monster to try to save that money! And look, it's discounted, it's marked down from seventy-seven dollars! I better buy now!"
This is e-books, there is no cost to sell them. (Although obviously he does not really push that point a lot, if people don't realize it's not a paper book so much the better.) If he is really doing this out of concern for other people's dogs, why isn't he selling them for five dollars? Or giving the info for free and take donations to cover costs? I'm sure if his info is that revolutionary, he would get tons of donations from grateful pet owners.
The very best thing to do for a dog that you love is to do the same as you would for a person. Cook for them. Commercial dogfood or commercial ANYfood is purely commercial. Looking at the vitamin and mineral content, researching enzymes and takes intellect, time, effort and understanding. In this day and age - most people want to get through their day quickly, letting the DVD player be their baby-sitter, and feeding everyone around them - (including their dog) absolute crap in the way of quality and nutrition. But at least we got in a few tennis matches, a card game, and coffee with the neighborhood bitches, right?
ReplyDeleteI know that kind of web page, I have studied how they are done, and I have seen so many of them.
ReplyDeleteWhy did you think this one worthy of blogging about? I'm not being snarky or asking a rhetorical question here; I'm genuinely curious.
It doesn't sound like news to you that people are gullible, or that people care about their dogs. I doubt you're surprised that people scam others, or that people use garish web design.
Was this just an especially stellar representative of its class?
Thanks for an interesting blog.
Maybe because this page was effective enough to make one of my friends mail it to me and others, because he believes what the page says.
ReplyDeleteAnd because this seems particularly distasteful. Bad enough to scam money from people who want bigger peni, this is worse.
Sometimes, Eolake, I can't help wondering how you find enough hours in a day to do all the things you do and still have time to answer all your loyal readers & fans & critics.
ReplyDeleteAre you actually identical twins, or what? :)
No, but I have a backup mind in software which answers mail while I sleep.
ReplyDeleteI tried to have it make blog posts too, but it kept writing about football.
Right on, Eo. This guy's WAY too blatant.
ReplyDeleteReminds me of a very old French comic I read in my tender years. King of the Franks Poilenpogne 1er (Hairindahand the 1st) sends thick-headed Bougredane (Frigginas) to raise new taxes because the royal treasury is empty from overspending. But how to convince the people to pay even more? "Hmm, maybe if I sing it to them, they'll be more willing to listen?
[A-hem!]
Au clair de la lune
You buncha rejecks
Gimme all your money
To pay for your tax!
Cue raining shoes and tossed chamberpots... Or the other way round?
That dog guy's about as subtle and well-meaning as the cliché "every time you masturbate, God kills a puppy". Kitten. Whatever.
Royce,
Just coffee??? ;-)
Have some ambition in your life! Me, I'm hoping to lose my cherry before I turn 50.
Even if I have to PAY for it! :op
"Maybe because this page was effective enough to make one of my friends mail it to me and others"
Yeah, I'd say that qualifies.
Still, clearly the guy's no Bernie Madoff. Too transparent with all his loud colors.
"Bad enough to scam money from people who want bigger peni"...
Well, THOSE DESERVE to be scammed! They've got a big "come take my money" written on their insecure macho forehead. And you can cash in, give 'em sugar pills, and laugh heartily 'coz they're so gosh-durn styoopeed, hyuck!
"I have a backup mind in software which answers mail while I sleep."
I knew it! Really, I did, honestly guv'. Cross me eyes an' dot me hearts, aye.
"but it kept writing about football."
Ah, that be the well-known Beckham Virus. And if it loses a game of virtual boxing in Super Punch Out against Balboa, it starts yelling "Victoriaaaa!"
Only one way to be rid of it: pay it a lot of money from an account in a Gulf bank to get it to emigrate to Osama BinLaden's computer.
Which may initiate the premature launch of all his planned terrorist attacks at once, giving you the guilt of causing the End of Half the World, klatu barada nicto.
Not to mention all the doggie-woggies you'll have killed from radiation, chemical and bio-agent poisoning.
[Shoot, Blogger won't let me use big bright color formatting to make it look more impressive!]
Here's one random thought: since cats basically eat mice, how come nobody makes mice-flavored cat food?
I'm sure mine wouldn't mind finding a rat in his plate. Every time there's a violent storm, he goes out to take advantage of the terrain and grab himself some delicious rodent. Already bathed. :-)
Must be motivating, because normally my cat hates water!
Because that would be cruel!! We have this wonderful division about which animals it's OK to eat, and which not. It's OK to eat a lamb, but not a puppy. It's OK to eat quail, but not mice.
ReplyDeleteFunny enough the above argument can be used both by vegetarians and omnivores!
Andrew Lewis dog food secrets review considered sharing that aside from chemicals, preservatives, and additives, dog food could also include inedible material and even some hazardous ones.
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