Avoiding the FTC

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ya true any experience with cpa networks giving out info about there affiliates? I going to read up on there TOS
 


mediasup said:
So what are the types of things you need to watch our for to avoid a knock at your door from the FTC. My friend just got a phone call from them regarding one of his landing pages.
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why even start this thread if you're not going to give a little info on what their problem was with his site?
 
AffAholic said:
why even start this thread if you're not going to give a little info on what their problem was with his site?
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I first started this thread to find out if anyone had experience or knew things to avoid. Not to give out information on what he did wrong im not an attorney and im not the ftc so i dont know the exact details and Im not even sure he knows all the details yet. Originally just looking for someones experience or advice. Again this is all know at this time Unsubstantiated claims, Evidence of the results, false testimonials.
 
I think everyone is going to probably run it till they make an example of someone... I think they'll probably go with the actual merchants of products FIRST. Big players are what they're interested in more than some kid making 10k a day.

I bet extenze makes that in minutes... and so after thinking about it for a while... I'm really not too worried.

Just like what was said before: Private / Fake DN info ftw.
 
Screw them. They're just another inept gov agency. If they knock on your door with their buddies from the FBI, then come back and cry about it. Until then, keep doing whatever is getting you your clicks.
 
if that shit isn't in writing don't worry about it. i can easily whois your domain and call you and say 'hey its larry dingleberry from the ftc. you better watch out, you have fake testimonials!'
 
Doesn't that mean all these uber cool ebook offers with all there fake ass testimonials are in throuble too? I would think they better be.

Who's to say my name isn't Jennifer, and I really didn't try these 2 products and lost weight, I mean shit, isn't that what there SAPOSE to do anyway? Is it that rediculous that it could actually work?
 
well, looks like we're all gonna need to order acai berry/colon cleanse, take before and after pics, and then give our testimonial. :p
 
pocketrockets said:
All the FTC needs to do is contact the hosting provider for your information.
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Absolutely correct. I used to be in the hosting business, and one day the mail carrier showed up at my door with a large envelope from the FTC - A request (demand?) for contact information of one of my hosting clients, who they claimed was an unauthorized mortgage broker (they've apparently never seen MFA pages with scraped content before). Along with the 3 page description of what information they needed and why, was a 500 page FTC rulebook of sorts - That was overnighted to me, at considerable cost.

The FTC first went to the datacenter I had servers at, requested information, and datacenter forwarded the FTC my information. 4 months later, they processed the response from the datacenter, and overnighted me the request. These guys don't fuck around (well, except on processing things in a timely manner). Not sure whatever happened to the client, as he was not located in the US, and I sold the company.

I figure they sent the same stuff to the datacenter and me, incurring about a hundred dollars worth of shipping, probably a bit of printing costs for a 500 page bound packet, and countless man-hours on hunting down something they didn't understand, and were wrong about. Gotta love the FTC.
 
johu: Is the FTC "above" courts? Otherwise I wouldn't give a shit until you actually get something signed by a judge ..
 
gopher said:
johu: Is the FTC "above" courts? Otherwise I wouldn't give a shit until you actually get something signed by a judge ..
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I can't remember the specifics, but I believe the letter mentioned some sort of requirement to comply with their request. I'm not about to start fucking around with the feds when I'm in the middle of selling the company, let alone running it. They sent the request with a delivery confirmation, so accepting it and then doing nothing probably wouldn't have been a good idea. I wasn't about to start paying for a lawyer, when I knew that forwarding on the information (and an explanation of what the client's site was, actually) would not be harmful to anyone involved...
 
Throw billions at jet setting Wall Street losers, the auto industry lackies and AIG fraudsters but god forbid the average person makes $1 without working for "the man" and they'll rip your balls through the nose, scare you short of a labotomy and send you back on your way to working for WalMart
 
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If the FTC considers your site to contain deceptive advertising no Privacy Policy is going to protect you.
 
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