MadPPC

Of course you already knew that, because you might partake in some sort of internet marketing.  People don’t read the fine print, well in general most people read very little ad print period.  So I guess it comes as no surprise that Senator Rockefeller is getting all up on the nuts of the exit / post order offers and offers used to give you “credits” and whatnot on Facebook games.

A nice article at Techcrunch can be found here.

The major gripe I can see here is that the place you just bought something from is just handing over your credit card details – that’s some shady shit to a point.  However these exit / post order ads are far from scams.

I’ve seen them before, I forget where.  I wasn’t magically taken by them.  My thought process goes:

1. A free $10 huh?  That’s cool.
2. Hmmm, what’s the catch? (I don’t believe you can typically get anything for nothing)
3. Oh, there it is, I’ll be billed every month some amount greater than $10.
4. Pfffft, forget it.

See it’s pretty simple, and it’s the exact same reason things like zip submits can work.  People are lazy.  Then they claim being the victim.

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