Stav at his job - being stock photo 6315357 at IStockPhoto
I was surprised to see SwapClix being promoted recenty as SwapClix 2.0. SwapClix originally came out back in 2004/2005 and was one of the first products about PPC arbitrage - a system whereby you would buy cheap clicks on one PPC search engine and send them to a site where you’d get PAID for people who clicked on your ads from a network (usually Google Adsense) that typically paid more.
This was a DIFFERENT type of arbitrage than what is usually taught today in courses like The Arbitrage Conspiracy or any of the other countless CPA courses – CPANinjas, MaverickMoneyMakers, etc. that surfaced after The Arbitrage Conspiracy course. In fact, technically sending pay per click traffic to a CPA offer isn’t really arbitrage at all – as arbitrage typically means that you are buying some THING (i.e. a “click”) for one price and selling that same sort of THING (i.e. a “click”) at a different price and pocketing the difference.
Does Travis Sago endorse SwapClix 2.0?
One of the first things that caught my eye was Travis Sago’s endorsement of SwapClix. Was this an endorsement for the ORIGINAL SwapClix product or for the new SwapClix 2.0?
I took a look at the review page where Travis Sago has almost the EXACT same wording as the testimonial for SwapClix 2.0 (only one word is different). Then I used a javascript command on Travis Sago’s review page to see when Travis Sago’s review was last updated:
Does Travis Sago endorse SwapClix 2.0?
To determine the date that the page was updated I went to the page in question and typed the following javascript into the address bar of my browser:
javascript:alert(document.lastModified)
Of course for this to work you need to have javascript enabled in your browser.
So my GUESS based on this is that the testimonial from Travis Sago is for the ORIGINAL version of SwapClix.
Stav at his job – being stock photo 6315357 at IStockPhoto
If you’ve seen the SwapClix 2.0 sales page, you probably recognized the stock photo used at the beginning of this QuickShot review of SwapClix 2.0. The presumed author of SwapClix “Patrick Creek” says that the photo is of his friend Staveros, who “cleans boats for a living”, puts the SwapClix system into place for 2 hours and makes a profit of $42.54. IStockPhoto tells us that it’s stock photo 6315357 (click here to verify).
Businessman leaning on something. iStockPhoto 3386248
Now, of course:
It’s POSSIBLE that “Patrick Creek” has a Greek friend named Staveros who also HAPPENS to have his picture on a stock photo site…
…AND it’s POSSIBLE that Travis Sago LOVES SwapClix 2.0 even though the his testimonial appears to be fore the original SwapClix product…
AND it’s POSSIBLE that the image shown at the beginning of the SwapClix 2.0 salespage isn’t supposed to be “Patrick Creek”, but merely some guy who likes to hange out on sales pages (after all, we’ve just seen how much fun they can be haven’t we?”).
So should I review the actual SwapClix 2.0 product now?
Usually after looking at a sales page like this I would be hesitant to move along further and actually look at the product in question. After all, it seems highly unlikely that a product with this type of sales page would end up replacing one of the products on the WorkAtHomeTruth Top 10 Recommended Home Businesses list.
Right now, i’m going to take a “wait and see” approach as there is someone in the WarriorForum named Tom giving pretty detailed feedback regarding what SwapClix 2.0 is all about.
After reading the first PDF from SwapClix 2.0 Tom said: “I just finished reading the first PDF and it was mostly a sales pitch for the value of CPA, then a generic history of CPA and their networks, a generic tutorial on getting accepted and a few other “generic” things. So far not impressed…”
Click here to read more about what Tom has to say about SwapClix 2.0
Just an aside – I noticed that the person fielding the questions about SwapClix 2.0 in the WarriorForum’s username is CWDSteve and using a “CWD” logo. That leads me to suspect that the owner and creator of SwapClix 2.0 may still be Costas Dedes – a.k.a. Constantine W. Dedes.
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