Calling Video Professor a Scam 385
palmerj3 writes in to give some wider attention to a piece on Techcrunch today in which Michael Arrington reacts to Video Professor's desperate attempts to shut him up after he called Video Professor a scam in a piece syndicated by the Washington Post. As described by Arrington, the ways the company's site operates (differently depending on where a visitor comes from) are strongly reminiscent of the practices a Senate committee recently condemned. (Here is a detailed example of another, similar scam, from a not-naive victim. Video Professor's tactics sound even more deceptive.) Video Professor seems to react with belligerence, not to mention legal threats, towards any hint of criticism. Please share any direct experiences you have with this outfit.
Is this the guy (Score:1, Funny)
Video professor made things right for me (Score:5, Funny)
When I complained, they gave me a free credit report from their partners at freecreditreport.com. I don't know what this guy is complaining about.
Re:Who/What is Video Professor? (Score:2, Funny)
well obviously you haven't watched tv in about 8 years
Seriously, I know I could just google it but damnit slashdot, this sounds like a typical example of an anonymous commenter knowing about a subject that a submission happens to be about yet most likely the average slashdot users doesn't have a clue as to what/who the fuck "tv" is.
Yup, He's a Crook (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, the idiot is known to do bad business. Sadly if we start shutting down corrupt businesses we will shut down the American economy. We might have to shut down most state governments as well.
Re:Yup, He's a Crook (Score:3, Funny)
just Jersey
Re:Who/What is Video Professor? (Score:4, Funny)
Please share any direct experiences you have with this outfit.
Also implying that some of us here don't know how to use a computer; there's no other way we'd have any "experience" with that "outfit."
Re:first impressions (Score:3, Funny)
THEY ARE NOT A SCAM! (Score:5, Funny)
Honest, I used video professor to learn to sell on Ebay and not I am making $10,000 a month and living the life I have always dreamed of. Thanks video professor!
Microsoft would sue. (Score:5, Funny)
I hereby challenge the free and open source community to make a serials of software tutorials for various Windows operating systems, Windows software, web sites, etc and provide those videos free via downloads or web site streaming to engage and or challenge the Video Professor company, and provide free alternatives that people on Slashdot and other technical web sites can refer to our friends and relatives who might get taken in via Video Professor, and instead we can redirect them to the FOSS web site of software tutorial videos or download them and burn our own FOSS Software Professor CD-R disks and give them to them for free.
The F/OSS community doing a Windows training video? Ahahah ....OK, wavy lines...wavy line....wavy line,,,,,
Start of video....
Enter guy with black hair, black goatee, horns, pitchfork, and dressed in red.
"Hi, I'm Satan and I'm here to teach you about my Operating System : Windows. Using this OS will automatically give your everlasting soul to me. Now to begin....."
Every other frame will be a quick frame that says:
F/OSS is the GOOD in the World. Linux is your salvation!
Please excuse the typos. For some reason my spell check on Firefox isn't working on this Fedora 12 box. ????
Re:While we're talking about scams (Score:2, Funny)
No, YOU grow op!
Free Car Washes! (Score:3, Funny)
But I go anyway and "PAY" for my "Free" car wash. If only because I'll never got that close to actual boobs in my real life.
Hold on a second.... "Mom! Poop bucket!!"
Ok, I have to go. But, yeah total scam.
Re:What it really sounds like (Score:4, Funny)
Correct, it's a retarded addiction.. Like paint huffing, gasoline sniffing, or self waterboarding.
Re:W-T-F? (Score:5, Funny)
Watch that Anti-Religious Bigotry. Religious people have civil rights too, you know.
Yeah, mocking/criticizing a group of people is an attack on their civil rights. Jesus, it's not like the post was advocating denying Christians the right to marry or something.
Re:Bad Summary (Score:5, Funny)
Don't worry (Score:3, Funny)
Re:THEY ARE NOT A SCAM! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Bad Summary (Score:2, Funny)
Re:W-T-F? (Score:2, Funny)
I *AM* a video professor (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Who/What is Video Professor? (Score:3, Funny)
Oh the travesty if someone has to RTFA.
Re:W-T-F? (Score:3, Funny)
Wow! First we had the Chewbacca Defense. Now we have the Chewbacca Apologetic!
Re:W-T-F? (Score:3, Funny)
Clearly I am the next Johnny Cochran. :)
I used to work for lawyers, until one of them bit me. Whomever is bitten by a lawyer eventually becomes one. All I need left to do is study in law school and then graduate and pass the bar exam. :)
Re:Who/What is Video Professor? (Score:3, Funny)
We could petition Slashdot to fix this. Anyone who hasn't clicked on the article will be taken there the first time they hit the "Submit" button to post a comment.
Re:His appeal (Score:1, Funny)
WTF does this sentence mean?
Re:Who/What is Video Professor? (Score:4, Funny)
Bork, bork bork bork!
bork bork bork? Bork borkbork!
bork,
Bork
Re:Who/What is Video Professor? (Score:3, Funny)
TV? Isn't that this thing like the Internet, but one-way only and you have to watch in real time? And without Adblock?
Re:I ordered from them in 2005 (Score:3, Funny)
Congratulations! You're here. :).
At least you've learned how to use the internet, one way or another.
Re:Is this the guy (Score:4, Funny)
"Hello, Video Professor? Hi yes, I'd like you to please send me the CD on how to setup and operate computer oriented scams please."
"What? You don't have that title? Could you please double-check? I'd swear I heard you has something like that... Yes, I'll hold thanks."