How To Spot a B.S. Guru.

Adam -

> Reed is VERY UPFRONT about selling real
> estate investment products. In fact, his
> whole angle is:

> I find NOTHING deceitful about Reed's site.

Perhaps I missed something. I've been to Reed's site a few times. The whole tenor of his site comes across as very negative to me. At least the parts that I saw and I looked at quite a bit of it.

He rips on everybody from Ted Thomas, to Carlton Sheets, to Robert Kiyosaki and everybody in between. Are there crooks in the real estate info products game? Oh yeah. Some of the worst. Tom Vu and William McCorkle spring to mind. But a villain doesn't lurk behind every no money down concept just because John T. Reed says they do.

I own the Ted Thomas tax lien/tax deed program. Are there parts of it that could be improved? Yes. Are there parts of it that provide useful information? Yes. I also own one of Kiyosaki's books and one of his audio programs. There is good information in both. I also recently looked at the book on protecting your intellectual property that was written by one of his advisors. I found it quite disappointing. There was a lot of what but not much how. But in general I think Kiyosaki does a good job of making you think about your beliefs and maybe what you can to change them to improve your financial life.

I don't find Mr. Reed's reviews to be even handed *at all*. For example, when Robert Kiyosaki wrote a reply to Mr. Reed's scathing commentary, Reed, (as of the date a couple of months ago), refused to post Kiyosaki's reply. How even handed is that?

Contrast that with Klaus Dahl and Paul Myers. Paul writes some of the best reviews I've ever seen. For example, he's a Cory Rudl affiliate, (or he used to be). Yet a wrote a very good review of Rudl's Internet package. Paul revealed the good *and* the bad with the package as he saw it. And he made no bones about the fact that he was an affiliate. I haven't been on Mr. Dahl's site in awhile but I do remember that he had some *excellent* reviews.

I find John T. Reed's site to be the exact opposite of that. In effect Mr. Reed says, to me at least, these guys are trying to sell you garbage. Their stuff doesn't work. But you can buy my stuff or the stuff I recommend. It works. Huh? How do I know John T. Reed's stuff will work any better than anybody else's?

John Reed needs to *show* me why his stuff or what he recommends works better than these other guys. He doesn't do that. All he does is rip them. (Here's another contrast.) Paul Hartunian rips *nobody* personally in the publicity game. He shows you what works and tells you why it works. He also has the documentation to prove it works.

You asked. *g*

Rick Smith, "The Net Guerrilla"


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