DarkRoom Coop

Some citizens of the United Kingdom has taken advantage of the United States in that they are using affiliate marketing to trick U.S. citizens into believing that they have companies in the United States that need representatives. They don’t have companies here that need US representation (as they supply their own for their companies here in the states) and they guarantee an annual yearly income that they don’t pay. In fact, what they propose is extremely illegal.

Affiliate marketing takes many faces, distorted and otherwise and allows people to believe that they will earn money when in fact, that could not be further from the truth! My daughters recently found out what affiliate marketing is when they were on the web site for Jennifer-Love Hewitt’s popular television show “Ghost Whisperer”. While obsessed with the actress and her plight to help those trapped in this world “cross over”, a pop-up advertisement came up telling them that if they signed up now, they would get the very first entire season of that show on DVD for free! Because we had recently looked into buying this from our local Wal*Mart, we knew the cost to be around $50. The girls ran into the kitchen, pulling me in the direction of the computer saying “We can get it for free…they just want to know who to make the check out to!” (more…)