More from the PUA bag

I was talking to a guy online who used to moderate a few of the big name forums for PUA companies (under different names) and well you know the reason I created this blog is to show you the other side of the community that exist not to deter you from being an active participant but just to let you know that there's a lot of BS out there along with the good. The ex moderator I was talking to told me he noticed that under certain raving bootcamp reviews followed by a thanks from the instructor, the guy who took the "awesome" bootcamp had the same IP address as the instructor. If you don't know what an IP address is its the address assigned to your PC by your Internet Service provider (or router) kind of the same way your house address receives a phone nubmer from the phone company. Well it's more technical than that but in a nutshell the instructor would create a dummy account, write a great review and that was it. Unfortunately these were instructors that were clueless on how IP address work. If you're going to create a dummy account go to a coffee shop and do it. Anyway the moderator told me he never would say anything about it but it made him somewhat skeptical about some of the guys he looked up too. He no longer participates on the forums but seems to enjoy his dating life after learning everything he has learned in the years involved.

If you notice a lot of reviews are written by guys who have less than 5 post under their name? Where did they find out about the bootcamps and why weren't they active in the forums before was always my question. And where is the follow up success via field reports and lay reports? You came, you took a bootcamp, you wrote about it on the forum and now you're gone? I don't get that one.

Well you know there always comes the question of who to trust. I'm not saying I don't trust the skills of some of the gurus and instructors, I know instructors aren't teaching and getting business every weekend so sometimes those fake reviews are marketing ploys to convince you to take bootcamps. After all the real profit is in the products they sell. An ebook can be created in MS Word, edited with Adobe Acrobat and sold with very little overhead at max profit. CD's are easy to create and DVD's are coming down also. All gurus have to do is keep coming up with different ways to teach what they've been teaching for years. I find it ironic when some gurus have 6-7 different CD and DVD sets out all explaining the concepts of being alpha and have great inner game over and over. Or constantly reiterating survival and replication values. We get it already. I listen to or watch about 2-3 new products a year out of the 10 or so that come out and I find myself hearing the same things over and over again and stopping midway through the product because I'm bored or because I'v heard it already.

Get out there guys. Get out there and do this on your own. Thats how the original guys started.
Quit waiting for the next product, its not going to blow your mind, or solve your issues of approaching. As far as bootcamps, do your homework, get neutral opinions - do not get your advice from the forums of the companies you are interested in! The mod I talked to said the admin would always delete the very negative reviews at the request of the head guru of the company. A few years back me and my friends knew what clubs the bootcamps were being held after the seminars and we would show up to snoop in on the bootcamps. Sometimes we saw greatness, sometimes we saw a guy pointing to sets saying "Go talk to them, hey try them over there, good job, good job but talk louder, good job but lean back" and thats about the extent of it. Confused? You should be.