Josh
Anderson
I
am more than just a little ticked.
I just got word that a gentleman by the name of Arnold Moulinet has
published all of the content for the 30 Days to Internet Marketing
success Ebooks at his website for everyone to view for free.
I think this is really selfish seing as how at least 42 of us have
paid approximatly $15,000 all together for the rights to sell those
ebooks. I personally paid $600 for reprint and rebranding rights.
If you are a reprint rights owner, contributor, or concerned internet
marketer would you mind giving this gentleman a call and inviting
him to take down the content. Not only is it selfish but he is bound
to tick a lot of people off who would be better JV partners than enemies.
I think we all would be doing him a favor by inviting him to change
his mind.
Joe Kumar already canceled the rights of one owner who was bartering
with the books at the warrior forum (which Joe actually has no right
to do) but I do not think he cares enough to do anything to stop this
gentleman from making the books monetarily worthless. Many of us have
put a good deal of time into rebranding the books so we could earn
our investments back (with a profit). I am almost finished rebranding
them and was preparing to offer them in a package for $97 next week.
I have already called him with an invitation to reconsider but ask
anyone who cares to do the same please. I am not going to post his
URL here because I do not wish to send him traffic but if you want
the URL just cotact me through my site www.leadjv.com.
His name is Arnold Moulinet and his number is (480) 899-2150. I am
sure if a few dozen of us called him it would help him to reconsider.
Josh
Anderson
It
appears that the gentleman reconsidered his actions and took the links
down last night.
Now consider the following as a case study for what NOT to do when
you decide to sell reprint rights to a product you own:
Last night I was thinking that it would be nice if all reprint rights
owners could somehow work as a team. Unfortunately that is not very
likely.
In my personal opinion what the gentleman was doing with his resale
license is totally within his rights according to the vague contract
of sale (not license) we all have with Joe.
However, that does not make it right. Making the info available in
the way he is doing has the same effect as selling us 10 reprint licenses
at the original price of $497 and promising to sell no more and then
giving away 200 million master reprint licenses for free.
I just think that this gentleman will be better off making friends
with other online marketers rather than hurting them in this way.
He may not have completely thought this selfish action through.
If anything this is a huge lesson for all in proper licensing of reprint
rights products:
Joe sold the rights to the products instead of licensing the rights.
When you are the owner of a product and license the rights you can
legally unilaterally (unilaterally is the only legal way) set a minimum
price that the product can be sold at. If a resell license holder
violates this you can revoke their license.
Joe did not license his product he just sold off the rights so therefore
he can not control the price of the product anymore (which was dumb
because he killed his own cash cow before it matured). Because of
the Sherman anti trust act in the US it is illegal for a group of
marketers who distribute a product to regulate the price by agreeing
together to keep it high.
The only thing that we as reprint rights purchasers had going for
us was the promise Joe made to sell only 10 licenses but there have
been more than 40 packages confirmed sold now plus at least 5 owners
with master rights to his whole business (I paid more than they did
and only own rebranding rights to the books). With only ten owners,
although there would have been price competition (which is good from
the consumer perspective) the likely hood of an owner just giving
the book away free was a lot less. Now with so many reprint rights
owners out there the temptation to do just as the gentleman chose
to do is much higher.
The actions of this particular reprint rights owner is not a good
approach as as will quickly tick off every reprint rights owner and
affiliate who are selling the product as well as many of the contributors
as has already began to be the case. This approach is definitely guaranteed
to make him enemies quickly as many have such strong feelings already
about the pile of bull surrounding the sale of rights to this product.
Luckily reconsidered and took down the links last night. I will be
watching to see if they go back up.
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This problem is not limited to this product it happens all the time
when unethical people obtain reprint rights or worse steal the product
and sell them without reprint rights.
One example that came to my attention this week.
A new product called RAB digital which is an ebook linked to a database
of resell rights software was recently released and quickly spread
through the market.
The license was for master resale rights and indicated unliateraly
that the product could not be sold for less than $15. The company
who licensed and branded the product for licesed owners (who passed
on master rights to licensed resellers) promised to constantly update
the database with more and more software and info products.
I recently noticed an anouncement to license owners within the database
that the company that created the product was considering closing
the database and would not be updating it any longer.
This was due to the fact that many unscrupulous resellers (not license
owners who paid for rebranding) were selling the product for rediculous
prices like $.01 or $.99. This was a breach of the reseller license
but had become epidemic and thus irreversable.
The comany who had promised to update the database indefinatly was
now threatening to close down the database completely. This would
mean that the product that had sold like wild fire since its release
a few weeks ago would no longer work. That would cause a rash of refund
requests to honest resellers who had been following the unilateral
price guidelines.
Luckily the company decided rather than shutting down the database
al together they would just stop updating it (which is part of the
appeal and value behind the software package). In order to fulfill
thier commitment to the original licensed owners who paid for the
branding a new product will be made with an updating database and
without master resale rights.
I recieved this information directly in email correspondence with
the development company after I emailed them concerned about the potential
of the software that I am reselling failing to be available to my
customers after purchase.
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For similar reasons Jimmy Browns Profit Vaults Monthly no longer offers
master rights products. Only its members will get rights to resell
the products. This move increased the value of Mr. Brown's service
tremendously.
If you are considering purchasing resell rights to an expensive product
or developing your own resell rights product you can learn a lot from
these follies.
Josh Anderson