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Marlene Burns

9 Years Ago

Bogus Testimonials

I received an interesting e mail today...
This company makes bogus testimonial short videos...you write the script, pick from their cadre of actors and pay up.
Rats. I'm gonna have to stop believing everything I read on the internet!

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Kevin Callahan

9 Years Ago

Judy Holiday stared in It Should Happen To You, a comedy whose plot is a "girl" in NYC who has no job but does have $1,000, rents a billboard with her image on it. Soon she has the fame she sought.

Not such a bad idea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Should_Happen_to_You

 

Dan Carmichael

9 Years Ago

Marlene, thanks for the idea !

I have a good video camera, experience editing for commercial TV, and all kinds of free actors! I could do it lots cheaper!

Question is, where are they posted? Provide more info or like Dan says, a link. Thanks.

 

Menega Sabidussi

9 Years Ago

@kevin: thanks for the link. never seen this movie before. so it's made in 1954, 60 years later and nothing has changed (except for the savings bit, now they wouldn't):
"In a rapid piece of exposition, we learn Gladys has been in New York for two years, has just lost her job as a model of girdles, because her hip size is 3/4" larger than it should be, and still has the $1000, which she "saved up." Gladys is discouraged at having gotten nowhere in two years and she wants to make a name for herself. "

 

Chuck De La Rosa

9 Years Ago

Wait, I thought if it was on the Internet it had to be true!

Bonjour.

 

Marlene Burns

9 Years Ago

www.buy-testimonials.org

 

Menega Sabidussi

9 Years Ago

fiverr is full of people offering this.

 

Patricia Strand

9 Years Ago

LOL, you can tell when something is scripted and acted. Maybe they work, but I've never believed any "impromptu" video ad I've ever seen. (They say things like, "these are not actors; they are real people") ... yeah right. I find them irritating. But I guess it gives an actor a job! That's good.

 

Judy Holiday! Most folks have never even heard of her. And I remember that movie. How scary.

 

Mike Savad

9 Years Ago

my malware blocker just blocked that site.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

 

Edward Fielding

9 Years Ago

Tons of people on fiverr will do all sorts of things for $5.

 

Kunal Mehra

9 Years Ago

That site is blocked on my computer too...

interesting that they'd get a .org domain name for a scammy business.

 

Marlene Burns

9 Years Ago

Dan C
They contacted me by filling out a contact form on my private website.

They could make even more money by citing phony creditionals of the phony testimonialers....

 

John Haldane

9 Years Ago

Heck, I'll do testimonials as Santa for the right $$. Ho Ho Dough!

 

Marlene Burns

9 Years Ago

Hell, I'll do real ones the old fashioned way....art that s deserving!

 

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