Try m-Product, Like m-Product, or else I’ll Sue yr-Ass

Yes, we’ve all seen this boy: John Scherer, CEO and founder of Video Professor, the series of DVDs that claims to teach you how to use a computer. And he always ends his commercials with the catch-phrase (of sorts), “Try m-product?”

Well, apparently, he’s only interested in you trying his product, he’s not at all interested in you reporting back what you thought of the product to anyone else. If you do, he’s apparently ready to sue each and every last one of ya:

INFOMERCIAL SCAMS.COM – VIDEO PROFESSOR SUES HIS OWN CUSTOMERS

Interesting Info:* A direct quote from the Video Professor website reads, “Any company can say good things about its own product, but the real proof of product quality is when customers speak out about its excellence.”

* Ironically, Video Professor is suing its own customers, despite the aforementioned quote

A website and public consumer advocacy group called “infomercialscams.com” is getting sued for allowing people with what appear to be legitimate gripes against the company to voice them to the world. This article goes into detail with all the hidden fees and unordered but charged-for mystery DVDs people are experiencing.

So we’re clear, this all looks terribly familiar to me. When I was out of work recently, I was introduced to a website offering free business cards, so I signed up. I couldn’t tell ya the name of that site, now. After ordering the cards and getting them, I started getting mystery charges all over the place, and as it turned out, some shady “check-box magic” on the order form gave this scam enough quasi-legitimacy to avoid litigation from scammed folks all over the globe. I suspect the same thing is in play here.

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By Tommy Belknap

Owner, developer, editor of DragonFlyEye.Net, Tom Belknap is also a freelance journalist for The 585 lifestyle magazine. He lives in the Rochester area with his wife and son.

1 reply on “Try m-Product, Like m-Product, or else I’ll Sue yr-Ass”

So The Video Professor (the late-night infomerical “Try my product” dude, sued various bloggers and websites that were critical of their products and more importantly business practices.

Its nuts. Its unamerican. It also is apparently a lousy lawsuit.

The nonprofit law firm Public Citizen sent them this letter, and posted on their website. http://www.citizen.org/documents/videoprofletter.pdf
It is killer.

Separately, I sawan article that ran on google news about a law firm going after Video Professor http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20071023006473&newsLang=en

I guess they are filing a class action and offered to represent the people VP is going after for free. Check out http://www.vplitigation.com Pretty interesting.

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