The Video Professor wants to make sure you know how scammy he is.
December 2, 2009 – 2:25 pm
You’ve seen his ads on TV — “The Video Professor”. He’ll teach you eBay or PowerPoint or some such program, with a free trial. As it turns out the trial is pretty sneaky.
When you sign up, you pay about $5 for shipping and that’s it. However, buried deep in the site it tells you that they’ll be sending you a bunch of other stuff and charging you $290 for it. Not good.
Michael Arrington at TechCrunch called them out on it, and they’ve responded by loudly complaining about it. Their complaints have led to even more people finding out about what they do.
The Consumerist has a great recap of the entire situation. Not only are they apparently a very shady company, they’re pretty dumb too. When someone writes stuff like that about your company, the last thing you want to do is draw more attention to it. Oops…
