QuickShot review of EAuctionAtHome

Quick shot review of eAuctionAtHome

What is a quick shot review? Quick shot reviews of sales letters like EAuctionAtHome are designed to teach you how to analyze sales letters more critically.

Observation #1: eAuctionAtHome’s Michael Greene is an actor for that goes by the name of “Tim” on the site LiveFaceOnWeb. Click here to see photos of Tim.

Note: eAuctionAtHome does have a superscripted numeral “1″ by Michael Greene’s name, so maybe they explain that Michael Greene is being depicted by an actor somewhere, but I couldn’t find what the superscripted numeral 1 referred to.

Observation #2:

I put in some ridiculous information in the eAuction form that asked me to “See if you qualify to check out the free starter kit”, including saying that I was born in 2010 and here’s what the eAuctionAtHome website spit back to me:

“If you genuinely are Widowed… 9 years old… and… your goal is to start getting paid up to $150,000 + working from home with Online Auctions, then you may be a perfect candidate to receive an Online Auctions Success System Kit to check out for FREE in your home. However, there are a very limited number of kits available in your area. so we’d like to ask you a few more short questions…”

Well, I guess that’s “technically” true. I MAY be a “perfect candidate”.

To be fair the website does make it clear that “you must be 18 years old” to use the site.

Observation #3:

If you run into any sort of legal dispute with the company that owns eAuctionAtHome the Terms of the Website state that you agree that “legal action arising out of this Agreement shall be litigated and enforced under the laws of  Cyprus. In addition, you agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of Cyprus, and that any legal action pursued by you shall be within the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Cyprus.”

Observation #4: The Hacker Safe security seal on eAcutionAtHome.com is invalid

The eAuctionAtHome.com website is using the HackerSafe security seal. There are two important things to understand about the HackerSafe security seal and security seals in general:

1. McAfee Secure bought out Hacker Safe towards the end of 2007 for 51 Million Dollars and AUTOMATICALLY switched sites using the Hacker Safe seal to the McAfee Secure Seal.
2. The security seal on EAuctionAtHome.com is NOT clickable to a listing to verify their participation in a security seal program. The way YOU as a consumer can validate the legitimacy of a security seal is by clicking on it and it should take you to the company listing in directory of the company issuing the security seal.

Observation #4: You are automatically enrolled into three separate programs – each with different monthly charges.

While I don’t have a problem with negative option marketing (such as Netflix where you are automatically charged monthly after a trial period), I believe that consumers should be given a CHOICE as to which monthly programs they want to be enrolled in.

The way this offer is structured, if the customer takes the offer, he or she is agreeing to:

• A 3-day trial to the Online Auctions Success Club, after which there is a $39.95/month charge
• “A FREE fourteen-day trial and twenty one-day trial to the Identity Theft Protection Center and to Craigslist Income Secrets for just $9.95 and $11.95 a month thereafter (shows as “IDProtect” and “Craigs Course”) should you choose not to cancel.”

So the three of those combined is a total of $61.85/month

I will give eAuctionAtHome.com credit for putting the terms of the trial right next to the order page and stuctured in such a way that my GUESS would be that most people would read through the full terms – of course I have no PROOF of that, but it seems better than a lot of similar offers I’ve seen.

Observation #5: “Michael Greene’s” domain OnlineAuctionsSuccessSystem.com has never been registered.

The domain OnlineAuctionsSuccessSystem.com is referenced under Michael Greene’s name at the end of the first page of the eAuctionAtHome.com sales letter – however, according to whois information that domain has never been registered – nor have the variants OnlineAuctionSuccessSystem.com, Online-AuctionsSuccessSystem.com, or Online-AuctionSuccessSystem.com

If anyone has experience with the eAuctionAtHome system feel free to leave your comments here.

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