Over the last few months I have occasionally blundered onto the websites of hucksters trying to sell ebooks. It amazes me that people will buy just about anything, I think, if these sites are actually selling ebooks.

With a humorous eye, you might want to stay away from any sales pitch that contains some of these;

• Any site that starts out “Dear Restaurant Profiteer” - makes our profession sound like carpetbaggers!
• Any site that offers you “Over $2000 worth of material for $29.95” - do people really believe that stuff?
• Any site that offers “double your money back guarantee” - I considered getting out of the restaurant business and just buy 100 of this guy’s books each week!
• A pitch that says they are going to reveal “dozens of closely guarded secrets of success” - I always wondered what they were guarding them from and how they kept them from McDonalds.
• One site offers “laser-guided accurate information” - Sounds like this “author” has found a secret to using laser beams somehow to make his book more accurate.
• My all time favorite was almost irresistible. It offered, if you buy today, “seven bonus values worth $1800, four super-time bonuses worth $280 and, today only, 2 valuable audio tapes, plus my personal free gifts for budding entrepreneurs” - My neighbors may not appreciate the semi truck that it would take to deliver all of this stuff!

If you have bought any of these books, I apologize. Now if you would just visit my website where I have this great bridge for sale called the Brooklyn Bridge ……….

Larry Edger, Author

The Restaurant Ebook