Get Ripped Off For A Dollar! Spend a tiny amount of hard earned cash on a dubious cause!
Released on = December 6, 2005, 2:07 pm
Press Release Author = Jim Richards
Industry = Internet & Online
Press Release Summary = For just a dollar, you can now get \"officially\" ripped off, and get a certificate to prove it! Proceeds from the site to highlight the real web criminals who prey on gullible and trusting people with an education and awareness website.
Press Release Body = Go to: http://www.getrippedoffforadollar.com and spend a tiny amount of hard earned cash on a dubious cause!
Now you think you've seen every type of website and then along comes another that makes you sit back and think 'What on earth is next?'. Get Ripped Off For A Dollar is a site which makes a virtue out of all that annoying spam you receive every day offering you unlimited wealth, beauty and staying power for \"almost nothing\". For just a dollar, you can now get \"officially\" ripped off, and get a certificate to prove it! Some people obviously have too much time on their hands!
Here's how it works and it's not so silly... Firstly (ok, this bit really is silly) you get a "100% designed certificate". Not bad for a dollar until you realize you have to print the certificate off yourself. Well, they do say they are going to rip you off!
Secondly, and this is where there is some value (according to the developers) you can tick a box to have your name and website displayed on their website. The benefit of this is that you get a link back to your own website which search engines pick up on, in turn helping your own website\'s page rankings. If the website takes off, then this feature alone will make your little \"investment\" worthwhile.
Thirdly, the developers aim to use 10% of the proceeds from the site to highlight the real web criminals who prey on gullible and trusting people with an education and awareness website.
As they state on their website we've probably all been contacted by someone trying to get us to smuggle something out of a country we've never heard of or offering to enlarge one of our body parts with miracle tablets, so why not try something to stop these criminals?
Why did they bother? Inspired by a 21 year old kid from the UK who developed the website "Million Dollar Home Page" and who has now reportedly made US $730,000 selling pixels, the web development team based in Sydney, Australia decided to put their web skills to use for their own benefit, rather than their paying clients!
\"We have had some real laughs creating this site\" said Mr Jim Richards of One Dollar Business. "Over a few wines and a couple of late nights, we came up with a site which will hopefully go round the world through the power of email. We aim to publish the results of funds raised as we go and create more wacky and fun sites... So much better building your own websites than building them for paying clients... who needs them?!"
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