Some of you may have noticed I took down the DealDotCom’s Deal of the Day from the right sidebar. When I first heard about DealDotCom I thought it was a great idea and I saw it generate a lot of buzz. When I fist got The Rookie Blogger up DealDotCom was one of the first affiliates I signed up for. I decided to remove DealDotCom from The Rookie Blogger for a couple of reasons:

• Most of the “deals” aren’t really that great
• Most of the “deals” are pretty worthless

What About These Great Deals and Why are They Worthless?

Most of the products are offered at a lower price then on the author’s page. Here is the thing though - most of these products are E-books of some sort. Which means most products are by digital download. DealDotCom actually claims these products are “sorry. all gone.”. Now, I understand the author probably has some say in how many products can sell at this “low” price, but let’s me serious for a minute here - wouldn’t you want to sell as many products in the 24 hour period as possible. This “sorry. all gone.” business is just a marketing tactic to get buyers to purchase these products early on.

I am not even going to get into how cheap someone can produce a digital download. The price increase is for the “information” contained in the E-book. These “great deals” just remind me of all those pages I have visited that promise “unlimited income potential” for a low, low price of $97. You all know the pages I am talking about. I am not singling out everything offered on DealDotCom, but I have seen many of these types of “deals”.

The “nail in the coffin” for me was when I stumbled upon an article over at Cash Quests titled “Evil Way to Get 50% Off DealDotCom Products”. This is a great article. Basically, Cash Quests shows you if these products have an affiliate program (which a lot will) you can sign up for this program and get a better “deal” than DealDotCom offers. I will let you read the article because it goes into more depth. Now, I realize this won’t work with every product and that is not the point. This type of scheme just shows the real “value” of most of these products - they really don’t have a value.

Dont get me wrong, I am not saying all the products on DealDotCom are worthless. But, I pretty much like to avoid online money making schemes promising you wealth and happiness. We all know this just doesn’t happen. When a website is trying to slang these types of products just to make a quick buck I get a little agitated. I really hope DealDotCom offers some more reputable products which don’t have the cliché “single-center-column-sales-pitch-page”. Until this happens, I won’t put DealDotCom back on The Rookie Blogger.