"Incredible Military Issued Flashlight Now Available to Public"

Here we go again…. I believe it’s just one guy running multiple different sites with different names making a lot $ from the uninformed.

Side note: seems to me a lot of these threads keep popping up, maybe a master list for these threads

But that’s not all………

Yeah, sorry, I didn’t want to spam the board, but at the same time, these shady companies are slime and take advantage of people.

And mister mod, please move/consolidate this thread as you see fit, thanks.

A reminder that we could teach the Chinese companies a thing or two about sleazy business practices. We’ve been at it longer.

Also a reminder that you can tell what they think of people by the kind of ads they run, and the places they run the ads.
They’re trolling for credulous people easy to fool and easy to bilk.

Yeah, we invented snake oil :slight_smile:

I see these all the time too. People who know me and know I’m into flashlights are constantly Facebook messaging me with links to these garbage lights. I used to message them back a link showing the same light on ebay or amazon for just dollars and then post a warning comment on the flashlight page telling people not to be suckers and stay away from them. It finally became so common that now I just say “thanks” and go on with my life…

Maybe there should be a stickied thread with all of these price gouging scammers listed along with the names of their products? When the uninformed people do a google search on that product or company, they get directed here to read the truth that will set them free.

The original Chinese snake oil has real health benefits.
The fake version, not.

Kind of like that Cree thing in reverse.

And if you try to click the link on the model number itself, the G700, it takes you to an error page that says this:

Error 400

Campaign data was not completing when handling click or visit.

HAHHAHHA… “campaign data”… meaning, “we didn’t make them read or watch enough propaganda and lies about this light yet to allow them actually what it looks like”.

https://products.universityofguns.com/g700flashlight

I want it a lot less now!

Lol.

Actually, this looks a lot like a zooming light I got from banggood for about $9.

Or, perhaps, meaning “we didn’t plant the adware and trackers on their computer yet ….”

Remember, the goal of the campaign is to conquer territory. We’re the territory.

Sites like Breitbart attract scammers as no offence they know a lot of people with not much in the way of critical thinking ability will see the adds (people like yourself being shaper than the average reader can see through it of course). I have noticed that a lot of those scamming pastors use sites like that to offering blessed water for ‘free’ and stuff like that too.

Y U Know make any Cents?

Pictures?

For the same effort I put into my blog, I could make 5 of those sites, borrow the 10 grand to plaster them on every search engine, and be retired this time next year. It’s not easy having scruples lol.

This was on the page I ran into with this ‘incredible’ G700 light

I’ve seen that image in the bottom right corner somewhere before.

That’s just one side of the problem — but it’s a well documented side.

The Baffler has done quite a few good stories on crap advertising and how it’s being used to fool people.

They go after young people via social media

… there are more sinister implications to an advertising world that sees people not just as targets, but as potential recruits–especially when such recruits are impressionable young people already keen for friendship and recognition.

And — read carefully now — no offense meant to people with conservative political beliefs.
I see credulous people at the edges all around the political circle being scammed by crap advertisers.

The pointer above to the Breitbart ads is just one example.
The ripoff of customers on the conservative side got well nailed by The Baffler in The Long Con.

But don’t freak out if you read that and you’re conservative and feel insulted. It’s only describing one side of a broad ripoff, because it’s a big visible target.

You can find comparable wackywoo bullshit at Huffington and worse the further out you get in either extreme. But they’re smaller, less lucrative targets.

Lots of little publications out there serve narrower, more focused true believers.
Each of them attracts a plethora of advertising aimed at finding people easily fooled by inflated claims and bogus promises.

The advertisers know damn well what populations they’re aiming for.

There are more scammers advertising in conservative publications because those subscribers have more money, they’re older, and more trusting perhaps.

That’s one reason it’s hard sometimes to convince people they’re being scammed.
The ads are in the publications that tell them what they believe is right — and the ads tell them to believe the ads.

Frustrating, when you want to tell people they can do a whole lot better than that.

It also has drawn my attention, so based on that, can we assume it is much brighter than Fenix PD35? :bigsmile:

Black Bear + Strobe = Mad Bear