I just had another "random" person mention Fopobiacne Secrets on my comments page today. Since it seemed spammy, I deleted the comment. But it made me think that Fopobiacne Secrets is paying people to spam the internet with this product. So I decided to go looking and see what's going on.
If you press the continue button, you get slammed with a video and a pop-up ad simultaneously. Just a tip to the Fopobiacne folks. Don't do that. It made me feel like I had just clicked on a computer-virus scam.
After my initial fright, I went through all the material, and I'm not impressed.
First, they aren't selling a product. Mike Walden is selling a book. Maybe he's selling a good book, but maybe he's selling a book because he's been legally stopped from selling anything but a book.
Second, Mike's book claims it fixes all types of acne, even though different types of acne have different causes. Claiming that you aren't just treating the most common type of acne makes me suspicious. It's one thing to say that your treatment works on teenage acne, and another to say that it works on acne rosacea. These are conditions that occur under very different circumstances.
I read through Fopobiacne's extensive sell. If you look, there's a really exact number of sales. Too exact. I'm going to go out on a limb and say Fopobiacne Secrets didn't sell that many people that much product, Mike Walden just made up a number. It's silly exact, and wouldn't be accurate for more than a single 24 hour period if this company is as big and successful as Mike Walden claims. If you look at the map of sales, it's just dots on a map. Big areas would be a solid yellow, and large areas of the midwest lack any major urban centers. What the map represents is what someone thought a map with a lot of sales should look like, not actual sales.
Finally, Fopobiacne's Secrets has a number of testimonials by extremely well read and literate people who all write the same. Anyone who's spent any time on a major sales website knows you get a range of literacy and grammatical errors. When you search for scam reports, what you get are a whole lot of fake, overly positive reviews from anonymous sources. It's impressive, so maybe Mike has put as much work into his book as he has making sure no honest reviews make the light of day.
So, are Fopobiacne's Secrets worth it? If you lie about your sales data, claim you can cure anything, and are limited to selling a book, then I suspect that the book can't be that good. If it was, you'd sell the products you recommend in the book like everyone else. The book would be basically free, and the business supported by successful and continuous product sales.
But maybe this is a new business? Nope. Mike Walden has been selling the same thing since at least 2012. He used to call his book Acne No More, and you'll see that title in the Fopobiacne Secrets marketing material. Here's him marketing the book in 2012. But that's a fake review, because he's been marketing that book for a lot more years. (One of these reviewers goes into detail about the secrets.)
My thoughts, hmmm... I thought it seemed sketchy. Next time I'll just move on. People who want to really sell a book have it up on Amazon and don't keep resubmitting it every time they get a bad review. I see four different versions on Amazon right now.
I have two boys who are dealing with acne using one of the product regimes out there. They are well marketed, and reasonably effective. More importantly, they do not require fasting or strict adherence to a regime for weeks on end.
Sorry Mike, the more you bury the truth, the more it just acts like fertilizer to help the truth come out. Maybe you could tell your fake commenters to be a little more selective about who they spam repeatedly? Thanks!
First, going directly to their official website is a weird experience. It's not a secure site, and hasn't been verified online, so it feels sketchy (I know, I use google, and I do so because they're verified and have the best security on the planet).
Most product pages feature a one page click through process. You see the product, read the reviews, and buy or pass on the product. Not on the Fopoiacne Secrets page. The top of the page warns "This is not for everyone!" then in the text they say, "Fopobiacne Secrets is the best choice for you." So which is it? Not for everyone or the best choice for everyone?
If you press the continue button, you get slammed with a video and a pop-up ad simultaneously. Just a tip to the Fopobiacne folks. Don't do that. It made me feel like I had just clicked on a computer-virus scam.
After my initial fright, I went through all the material, and I'm not impressed.
First, they aren't selling a product. Mike Walden is selling a book. Maybe he's selling a good book, but maybe he's selling a book because he's been legally stopped from selling anything but a book.
Second, Mike's book claims it fixes all types of acne, even though different types of acne have different causes. Claiming that you aren't just treating the most common type of acne makes me suspicious. It's one thing to say that your treatment works on teenage acne, and another to say that it works on acne rosacea. These are conditions that occur under very different circumstances.
I read through Fopobiacne's extensive sell. If you look, there's a really exact number of sales. Too exact. I'm going to go out on a limb and say Fopobiacne Secrets didn't sell that many people that much product, Mike Walden just made up a number. It's silly exact, and wouldn't be accurate for more than a single 24 hour period if this company is as big and successful as Mike Walden claims. If you look at the map of sales, it's just dots on a map. Big areas would be a solid yellow, and large areas of the midwest lack any major urban centers. What the map represents is what someone thought a map with a lot of sales should look like, not actual sales.
Finally, Fopobiacne's Secrets has a number of testimonials by extremely well read and literate people who all write the same. Anyone who's spent any time on a major sales website knows you get a range of literacy and grammatical errors. When you search for scam reports, what you get are a whole lot of fake, overly positive reviews from anonymous sources. It's impressive, so maybe Mike has put as much work into his book as he has making sure no honest reviews make the light of day.
So, are Fopobiacne's Secrets worth it? If you lie about your sales data, claim you can cure anything, and are limited to selling a book, then I suspect that the book can't be that good. If it was, you'd sell the products you recommend in the book like everyone else. The book would be basically free, and the business supported by successful and continuous product sales.
But maybe this is a new business? Nope. Mike Walden has been selling the same thing since at least 2012. He used to call his book Acne No More, and you'll see that title in the Fopobiacne Secrets marketing material. Here's him marketing the book in 2012. But that's a fake review, because he's been marketing that book for a lot more years. (One of these reviewers goes into detail about the secrets.)
My thoughts, hmmm... I thought it seemed sketchy. Next time I'll just move on. People who want to really sell a book have it up on Amazon and don't keep resubmitting it every time they get a bad review. I see four different versions on Amazon right now.
I have two boys who are dealing with acne using one of the product regimes out there. They are well marketed, and reasonably effective. More importantly, they do not require fasting or strict adherence to a regime for weeks on end.
Sorry Mike, the more you bury the truth, the more it just acts like fertilizer to help the truth come out. Maybe you could tell your fake commenters to be a little more selective about who they spam repeatedly? Thanks!
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