Comments on: Shop To Earn lawyer ups the ante with financial blogger

By: Video Professor doesn’t want you to know how their scam works : Sequence Inc. Fraud Files Blog

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:16:24 +0000

[...] a lawyer and I don’t play one on TV. But I know that I have an absolute right in America to voice my opinions and otherwise discuss business models that I have a concern [...]

By: QBaNLiNkD

QBaNLiNkD — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:15:32 +0000

I was supposed to be handing over money today, in about 9 hours, to someone from shop to earn. I sure am glad i decided to google this.
I just want to say thank you for saving me money.

By: Not important

Not important — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:06:21 +0000

Shop to Earn caused a man’s life this week. He shot himself because of your scheme. He was very loved. Live with this one STE!

By: Smarter than STE members

Smarter than STE members — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:41:39 +0000

This is a very dangerous company. It has a genius cover-up with its “save the planet” and “everyone shops online” crap – typical product-based pyramid scheme. Ask your friends if they make most of their money from recruiting or from their website. It is a simple shifting of money from the bottom to the top. Why do they make you spend $100/month on your website?? Because it proves the “legitimacy” that this is a real business. I have seen the online video, I have listened to the conference call, I have spoken with my friends that are doing this with a completely open mind, but I have also done about 8 hours of independent research as well. I could type for days about this.

Bottom line, it won’t last, your friends that don’t join WILL eventually say “I told you so” and you will feel horrible about the scheme you either didn’t do proper research or you won’t feel horrible because you have no conscience.

Tracy, when I first read one of your blogs I was an excited guy ready to make money with STE and thought you were so negative and cynical like everyone was saying! Now I know you are truly doing everyone a service. Thank GOD I didn’t lose $448 before researching and finding out what I was really getting myself into. Thank you!

By: wake up "jake"

wake up "jake" — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:59:06 +0000

Hey “jake” go google “syllogism” and see if it rings a bell.

By the same token, if ShopToEarn were raking in the cash for you, you wouldn’t care what some anti-fraud website somewhere on the Internet has to say.

Idiot.

By: jake

jake — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:25:07 +0000

If you were doing so “fine” then you would not put down websites that YOU know nothing about

By: Tracy Coenen

Tracy Coenen — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:46:13 +0000

Jake (Megan) – There are rules about posting comments here which are directly above the comment box, so you can’t miss them. Any comments that don’t follow these guidelines aren’t published. If you have something you’d like published, then you’ll have to follow the rules.

Thanks for your comments about my career. I’m doing just fine as an entrepreneur, thank you, and I blog about companies like STE as a public service to consumers.

By: jake

jake — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:35:13 +0000

Tracy,
You blog because you have nothing else to do.. When people respond back to you in referance to your blogs about shop to earn you do not upload them all, why because you want to be the right one. WEll tracy you are wrong, if you have not joined shop to earn then you can not have say on how it works, Back off and get a real job

By: Tracy Coenen

Tracy Coenen — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:51:05 +0000

You’re a good man, Alan.

I regularly get emails from promoters of these MLM schemes who claim that I’m violating their right to free speech by not allowing them to comment on this blog. LOL – I sort of wish they’d brush up on the law on that one.

They also like to claim that somehow I have a duty to be “fair” and offer them a chance to post their propaganda. I don’t believe it’s fair to post the propaganda of corrupt enterprises that cost consumers billions of dollars each year. So no, they can’t promote their schemes here.

By: Alan Milner

Alan Milner — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:47:40 +0000

Under federal statutes, personal opinions labelled as such are neither libel nor slander under the strict construction of the statute. In order for someone to liable for libel or slander, they must represent that the statements being made are matters of fact. If they are assertions of fact, they must be backed up with the requisite documentation. If they are assertions of opinion, they are protected by Freedom of Speech.

In recent years, however, some courts have held that the owners of web sites are liable for statements appearing on their web sites, even if those statements are made in comments posted by visitors to the site. This is especially true in National Security issues. Web sites have been shut down by the government for hosting comments considered to be incitment to riot, to use the old term.

This represents a considerable loss of our basic freedoms. I for one will contribute to any legal defense fund required in order to protect this blog, or any other web site, from this kind of harassment, and would recommend that a countersuit for harassment be filed in a court of competent jurisdiction.

I am not an attorney, thank God, but I have employed enough attorneys to know when to use them and when to do it myself. In this case, a letter on the stationery of a major mouthpiece will go a long way toward quelling these offensive attempts at coercsion, or so one would hope.

Alan