FTC Sweep - full info and documents
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I feel like if your reading a fake news site and clicking ads, signing up for anything that you wouldn't see on a normal website...I deserve your money.
FTC must be taking lessons from the SEC.
And if they are, then Canadians, Brits, Aussies and EC affiliates should get some legal advice as well.
Didn't know the FTC had some balls, metaphorically-speaking
(but what the hell do I know? Not much apparently)
And if they are, then Canadians, Brits, Aussies and EC affiliates should get some legal advice as well.
Didn't know the FTC had some balls, metaphorically-speaking
(but what the hell do I know? Not much apparently)
It didnt come from the celebrity themselves, but from their Intell. prop. attorneys, this celebrity just happens to be the most powerful woman in the world and had their state AG involved in this as well.
Pretty sure they could have gotten anything they wanted, just like the FTC.
Im just saying it doesnt happen at the drop of hat all the time.
Pretty sure it would have been different if they were wanting 100 people at the same when they got mine though.
I just find all of this so laughable. Consider the financial crimes going on right now. . . the war crimes . . . All the corruption within our own government. . . And yet, they're going after shit like this. Hilarious.
Pretty sure the FTC isn't responsible for any of the things you listed. Unless you want to give them M16's and ship them off to the middle east, which I wouldn't really mind.
I always get my legal advice from those with a financial incentive to have me run as much volume to them as possible.
It's just good business.
I didn't mean to sound naive. I just recall reading the 'guidelines' on the FTC site itself which seemed to imply flogs were ok as long as certain conditions were met i.e prominent 'advertorial'/disclaimer
It's not ok and there is no single word or bottom of the page disclaimer that is going to help you if they want to go after you. Most advertising on the internet would not pass ftc rules and regulations anyway, it's just a matter of who is breaking the rules the most and who is causing the most trouble. There are so many rules and regulations that they have the power to go after who they want when they want and they pick their targets carefully. Walk the line carefully and if you stray too far over it you have to know that there is always a risk that something like this will effect you, the farther you stray over the line the more likely you are to get hit. The FTC is the watchdog that keeps customer satisfaction or dissatisfaction in check, you cannot expect to not get in trouble if over 95% of your customers or traffic you are sending are upset at your practices. People like to point out other specific examples of larger companies or advertisements that seem to not be following the FTC regulations and are safe but they fail to mention that these big companies don't have the 90%+ of their customers thinking they were scammed or swindled. These agencies have huge databases of complaints and it is not until these numbers start to get to a level that they feel is significant that they start to act.
There is little to nothing you can do to follow all of the guidelines and expect to be able to compete and make good money (Actually there is but good luck with the usual high traffic platforms, keywords, and products), you need to be smart about it and know what you are doing and how to go about doing it in the safest way you possibly can and still profit. Risk Reward.
Reading material for anyone who wants it:
Federal Trade Commission
http://www.ftc.gov/os/2009/02/P064202negativeoptionreport.pdf
http://www.ftc.gov/os/2009/10/091005revisedendorsementguides.pdf
If you are not in the US and are able to run things on these high traffic platforms, yes you have a good advantage and can safely worry a lot less depending on where you are.
Is it just me or does this seem a little mild or are there only a handful of people running rebills? There was like what, a max of 10 people named by the FTC? There are probably hundreds if not thousands of people trying rebills out. What are y'all tripping about?
It's like the marijuana farmers in rural areas. Yes, they're doing something illegal as fuck and if they're caught they get screwed. But they also realize the chance of them being singled out of the crowd of 1000s of MJ farmers is miniscule that it's worth the risk. There are probably people still running rebills as shady, if not shadier, than the ones that just got canned.
It's like the marijuana farmers in rural areas. Yes, they're doing something illegal as fuck and if they're caught they get screwed. But they also realize the chance of them being singled out of the crowd of 1000s of MJ farmers is miniscule that it's worth the risk. There are probably people still running rebills as shady, if not shadier, than the ones that just got canned.
On the bright side I can't imagine how the FTC won't start, if they have not already started, to get on the ad agencies case after this if they continue to allow these ads. Pulse, sonar and the rest of them have already probably had the meetings on this and the moment they get the call that they Need to take the ads down they will all come down. They likely have all the ads pre-flagged for easy removal or disable and the approval teams are already aware that when the time comes that they will be ready to implement this very easily. The agencies are making a nice chunk of revenue from these ads though so they are not coming down until they feel they absolutely need to come down or risk losing a suit themselves so they will \hold out for as long as their fancy lawyers tell them they can. A nice shakeup of the media buying industry in general has been needed for a long time, a lot of people are being forced to play a certain way just because there is little room to play any other way. When you have to compete with people somewhere in the lesser antilles or elsewhere that don't care about your rules and regulations at all it makes it difficult.
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