"Get Rich Quick" Guru Tries to Silence Critic with DMCA
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Kevin David is a "financial success guru" who is trying to shut down criticism of him on TH-cam. Let's see how that works out for him.
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I have a construction business for 20 years,and house flipping IS profitable,but the actual work involved is grueling....its a get a little rich SLOWLY AND PAINFULLY...
Well, if you outsource the work involved to other people (like illegal immigrants, for example) who you pay dirt wages and then also cut corners/use low quality materials...basically sell your soul and your integrity then flip dat and get sweet $$$.
Didn't end so well for many people back during the sub prime mortgage crisis
Whereas people who fall for these schemes want quick and painless.
That's why I hate all these house flipping shows. Gives people the wrong impression. Or at least they take the wrong signal from it. I look at some of these houses and I look at the return on investment and it's often really poor, what the show makes it seem like they did really well.
It only really works if you have the know how and can do a good portion of the work yourself
"This is why I read one book a day" "people ask me how i paid for my first Lambo" "when you learn to use your mind the way millionaires do" "how 5 hours of sleep... bla bla bla"
I wish I could read one book a day. I don't care if I made more money.
Too many good books, there's not enough time, and I sadly read quite slowly.
@@xenoblad Same here. If had too choose between a million dollars and being able to read a book a day, I'd probably choose the latter.
@@Yezu666 then you'd need the million dollars to pay for all the books! ;->
Someone watching Tai Lopez? ! :)
I call absolute bullshit, Prove it 👍
Get rich quick scams are what happens when there are extreme pressures both culturally and materially to get rich but no methods open to the public.
That's such a good insight!
How dare he cheat people out of their hard earned money and then threaten to sue them! Who does he think he is? The President?
The president actually contracted the building of tens of thousands of housing units. He didn't need to scam anybody or flip any houses. Material homes were provided.
@@CHAS1422 Yeh heh. I'm sure every one of his construction projects and 'university' courses performed as advertised...
@@CHAS1422
Trump Tower:
"The construction process had several controversies, including Trump suing a contractor for "total incompetence" and an argument with Mayor Koch about getting a tax exemption for the tower. He was also sued for using unpaid, undocumented Polish laborers. Trump claimed he had known nothing about the workers. There have also been recent controversies about a use of concrete possibly connected to organized crime and claims that female executives were denied entry into the site because of their gender."
The Trump Building at 40 Wall Street:
"Trump purchased the property in 1995 and spent more than $200M in renovations. He attempted to sell the building for more than $300M in 2003, but received no offers. He has asserted that he purchased the building for only $1M but has given various values for the current worth. There's currently a $50M outstanding mortgage on the property.
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Rollman Rink:
"The developer Donald J. Trump will rebuild the Wollman Memorial Skating Rink in Central Park at the city's expense under an agreement announced yesterday by Mayor Koch."
"Mr. Trump had originally offered to rebuild the rink at his own expense if the city would let him operate it and an adjacent restaurant and use the profits to recoup his costs. But the agreement does not give Mr. Trump any claim on the operation of the rink or the restaurant."
Empire State Building:
"Trump Empire State Partners-a JV of The Donald and Japanese billionaire Hideki Yokoi-bought the building in 1994 for $42M. Trump spent $70M in capital improvements on the ESB before selling it to Malkin in 2002 for $57.5M.
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bisnow.com
New York News, August, 2016
The list goes on.
So, he broke the law, cheated workers, lost millions of dollars, and contracted work on a public property that he doesn't own or control.
But at least he housed those poor Qatari and Saudi millionaires who were living in cardboard boxes all over NYC.
@@JimFortune Propaganda propaganda propaganda. The left is good at one thing, and that is the political smear. Even Trump does not control who his subcontractors hire. If a subcontractor is not paid the file a LIEN. it costs $400 to $500, and the building cannot lease space until all legitimate liens are negotiated. Why did these unpaid subcontractors not lien the building? If a subcontractor does not pay his employees, that's not the owner's fault.
@@JimFortune Trump does not operate Wollman Rink, HE BUILT it. HRH did the contracting work. I never said he operated it. He rebuilt it, and did a damn fine job. All I see in your comments is lawfare and propaganda. You never refuted my claim that Trump was responsible for bringing tens of thousands of homes, retail space, hotels, into the market. I worked on some of them and my company was paid, on time and in full, included all documented change orders. None of the other subcontractors I knew were stiffed on Trump projects...none.
"I almost can't see it on a piece of paper because it's so plain." I love your snark so much. It brings joy to my week every time!
Platypi007 She's downright ruthless. I love it.
"If I showed up at your house with a hot pizza... it might mean that I'm a serial killer."
But you're bringing _pizza,_ right? Let's focus on the positive! :)
So maybe I'm a cannibal too, and want to fatten you up first.
I miss that blog of yours but I hope all is well (as well as can be at least).
@@burstofsanity
_My_ blog??? Thanks for that! But you must have been the only person who read it. Heh, heh.
But yes, everything is fine (as well as can be expected, given the political situation in America in recent years). I just got lazier and lazier. :)
@@Bill_Garthright Yep your blog! If you hadn't used the same profile picture I may not have made the connection.
I don't remember how I found it but I think it was actually cataclysm related. I'm probably the only person to learn about Some More News from your blog.
@@burstofsanity
Well, that's good to hear. Thanks!
Hey, I went to school with Unicorn Ray-of-Light Burp Skateboard. Unicorn Ray-of-Light Burp Skateboard is a friend of mine. Don't you be making fun of them or their name.
Ok, so you're from California. Where exactly?
@@M-CH_ Los A-hahaha-hangeles
I knew Unicorn Ray-of-Light Burp Skateboard, sir, and you are no Unicorn Ray-of-Light Skateboard!
i dated Unicorn Ray-of-Light Burp Skateboard in high school, they were my first kiss.
Unicorn Ray-of-Light Burp Skateboard was the first person to use "they/them" as their pronouns. True story.
Just got an add for “selling crap on amazon “ scam 🤣
The easiest way to get rich in America is tell other people how to get rich. No experience needed.
Anyone could see through this scam if only you took Brain Force Plus...
Look, I'm joking.
Don't feel the need to debunk me.
I know.
Nah, I'm trying to cut down on my soy intake lol
“I was recently perusing the FTC's website, because that's the sort of thing I do for fun” u and me both gurl
Not me. I was reading the Congressional Record yesterday though. (Really)
@@Sam_on_TH-cam thats what any responsibly active citizen does now and then, isn't it ;)
FTC stands for "Fun Times Commence"!
One Easy Way to Get Rich that Works for 90% of Wealthy People!!!!
... Have rich parents.
"Generational wealth" being one of the modern buzzword ways to mention that phenomenon.
Simply untrue. Most millionaires are self-made.
money.usnews.com/money/blogs/on-retirement/articles/7-myths-about-millionaires
60% of the time it works half the time, maybe...
@@riffhammeron Want to buy some DVDs on house flipping, genius
@@TCrob are you disputing my statement? Do some research.
Haha, I had a friend in high school (actually, the brother of my current wife) who fell for the newspaper ad you mentioned, where you send them $10 to learn how to "Make up to $200 dollars a week from home stuffing envelopes!". Even before he received his SASE back, I knew it had to be a scam. Sure enough, it was exactly what you said.
Its a little similar to the micro ponzi scheme aka the pyramid or chain letter. Where you are supposed to mail $1 to the 10 people on the list, slide every name up one slot and put yours on the bottom. Make 50 copies and mail em out to fellow humans. As the exponential growth does its thing and everybody does their part, your mailbox gets so dollared up it won't even close.
All your dollars are belong to us. 🤑
dammit, you gave away my future serial murder plans.
Damn you! I came up with that scheme first! *I'M SUEING FOR PLAGIARISM!*
/s ;)
This is the type of valuable thing that the free market has to offer
But don't worry, it's about to regulate itself. Somehow.
@@matbroomfield it's magic! ;)
@@SonsOfLorgar lol
Benjamín Martínez Preciado . Please remind me how a government-restricted and legislated to death market system delivers any economic panaceas or encourages healthy growth rates. You clearly have not taken college courses on either macro- or micro-economics, have you? A truly free market is impossible, especially in modern times, and a government-controlled market is called communism or occasionally even fascism, neither of which is high on my political wish-list.
@@blindlemon9 I get it, all countries in the world are communist, and occasionally fascist.
Names can’t be copyrighted it is too short. Names have to be trademarked.
you beat me to it. And even if you trademark your name you can't use it to take down other people commenting about you. A trademark only allows you to stop other people selling the same or at least similar product in the same category.
@@ArminGrewe And even that has exceptions
And to get a trademark, you actually have to use it for (drum-roll) some sort of trade and service. Further more, it your application must be restricted to a certain area (eg. Self-help). But even then, that doesn't prevent people for critiquing and reviewing your product, using the registered trademark-name.
Great video. So many scam traps. The only way to ethically flip a house is to learn the construction trades, buy run-down houses and renovate them competently with new materials. There quite a few who make good homes and good money. Kevin David is another scumbag. Another scam is the sale of auto-call packages that spam our phone lines with Health Insurance offers.Thanks for the video.
I recognized the scam when I read Rich Dad, Poor Dad. The dude is rich because he sells book.
Coffee Break has an entire series on "fake gurus". It's fun watching.
Isn't "fake guru" an unnessesary repetition?
I remember when one of my friends got into a multilevel marketing scheme/pyramid scheme. We weren't friends for much longer after that. It wasn't Amway, but it was really similar. Amway kind of dates me, but the kids today should hear about of it so they know what to watch out for.
What about the productivity gurus - the stoic guy, indistractable, 4 hour week, journal this , hyper learn that.....
I got an ad for one of these scammers at the end of this video 😂
It is so very ironic that one of the ads playing during this video was *drumroll* A GET RICH QUICK SCHEME! It was about making money selling advertisements, and the guy was driving a Mercedes and sitting by a pool 😄😁.
o o 😂😂😂😂
eBay existed when you were in high school - Boomer's mind blown....
Ok boomer.
Just kidding! Honestly it kinda blows my mind too
@@GelidGanef This scam existed long before eBay. It just used to be in the back pages of men's magazines* and newspaper want-ads**.
*Magazines were large books with glossy pages and lots of pictures.
**Newspaper want-ads were our antediluvian version of eBay.
- A Bored Boomer : - )
Welp, that does it. I'm never ordering pizza again.
I had a roommate in college in the late 90's who fell for one these. I don't remember what the scheme was, but he was buying hundreds of dollars on crappy videos and marketing material and placing ads the campus and local paper trying to sell stuff. He even convinced himself that he wasn't dedicating enough time to it so he dropped out of school. I don't know how much money he lost, but after a few years he finally realized he wasn't ever going to make the money he was promised. He told me years later that the videos are what kept the fire burning in him. He said it was almost cult like behavior. Unless you have a wealthy family the only way you're going to make a living let a lone become wealthy is bust your f*cking ass off. The only people making the money are the ones selling you bullshit.
considering AWS is also amazon web services they might end up getting sued into the ground by using AWS considering how it might be confused.
One person disliked your video, It's probably David ...
OMG after the video finished I'm getting an ad for amazingsellingmachine telling me I can get rich by selling things on Amazon. This ad algorithm is trash.
Brilliantly, the advert that TH-cam selected to show me whilst watching this video was some bloke leaning on a sports car telling me all about how I could make 1000 dollars TODAY!
Great video! Ironically, now I'm seeing lots of Kevin David ads, no surprise there. Alas, such are the joys of "free" online content...
*Fact* : People who are genuinely already making money will never waste their time nor reveal their method with how they earn their figures to others. Why in the world would they even bother doing so to begin with?
His name is so plain it blends in the white paper 😂❤🙌🏾
Drop shippers are scumbags who saturate online marketplaces with garbage. As an independent crafter, I despise them with a passion.
This is the first video on your channel that I have seen. Wow. You are the ideal combination of hilarious, undeniably whip-smart, precisely the correct degree of ironic, and really informative. I just had to sub.
Cheers from Australia, great work !
I literally got ads for drop shipping gurus at the start and beginning of this video
Ironically, an Ecom "school" ad (Ecom Guru Academy) pops up immediately at the end of your video. Gotta love the automated ads.
I literally got a Kevin David ad before this video
Well said! If you are going to learn how to fish... you learn of a real fishermen. These gurus don’t even do the things they teach LOL.
To take your thoughts deeper, what if these gurus are like fishermen and we are like fishes, and we follow the bait of the fisherman and we get hooked and used for their personal needs.
The get rich quick hucksters have been around for decades. Before the internet, they had long late night infomercials with the same characteristics you described.
First time Ive seen your channel. I really like your presentation style and production. Subscribed, looking forward to more!
TH-cam put an ad for one of these gurus at the end of this video. Ugh.
Just a quick comment: DMCA is about copyrights, not trademarks. Those are two different things. Trademarks have no relevance to DMCA claims.
He would sign his correspondence with "David, Kevin", and anyone who sees it will not know if he put his first name last, or his last name first.
And of course the ads that were on this video are exactly the kind you're talking about 🤣
"As of you watching this video, it is still up." Gasp! Is she psychic? How could she know?! Amazing! ;)
Damn you. I just ordered pizza...
Lmao I got a ad on this video about learning how to make lots of money at home buying thing off Alibaba and selling them on Amazon AND how it is 100% legit not a scam. Come on TH-cam... if your going to go on a crusade threatening to demonetize content creators than, atleast dont give me ads for questionably legal scams.
There have been a few videos about the claims process... How it works? TH-cam sends an automated email to the person who claimed it, asking if it's really theirs. And if they don't respond, or say yes. YT doesn't do anything unless the channel is large enough to garner enough attention. Yep... This amounts to asking a thief driving your car if it's his. And even though its hotwired, registered to your name, and you have the title.. the officer doesn't even check.
And that process in itself should be an international crime.
As this vid was ending, an ad for some guy talking about "the YTA Method" and how it was the greatest selling technique, or some crap....
TH-cam is Amazing.
I've had crowdfunders try and DMCA take-downs of my material here on TH-cam. All of them have failed spectacularly. As you point out and demonstrate here, it's all in how you go about it. Scammers generally don't go beyond the one DMCA attempt, because it required an expenditure of time, effort and *money* they don;t want to part with.
Kevin David wants your money 💰
Kevin David loses FTC lawsuit for $230M 🤬
Kevin David is eating Ramen noodles 🍜
Kevin David has a new ride 🛴
Beautiful video from a beautiful person! Thank you for sharing!!
Your ex sounds like my first husband... he's in jail now. :D
@Sun Tzu FUCKING LOL
Tony Hawk 😂😂😂
My step mom and my father fell for the same type of scams... twice..
Lol! I love the fact that all of the ads TH-cam picked for this video were similar Amazon get rich quick schemes 😂
I keep seeing TH-cam ads from a woman who claims she made a fortune from selling merchandise online and now can spend more time with her kids. Selling online might be easier then the traditional method of starting a store and selling in person, but it also means there is WAY more competition.
I also remember my parents getting involved with something that was like, you can start a business coaching other people in starting a business, and I feel like that is the same scam. They did not do it for very long, to my memory, and I do wonder how much money they lost. My main memory was helping them envelope all these letters they sent out trying to get clients.
Watched your video, immediately after was an ad for a course on e-commerce drop shipping... of course TH-cam.
Thank you for talking about this. My ex-wife spent thousands of dollars on scams, including the house flipping one. She would get videos/DVD's and never watch them...or even try. Several years ago there was an all day event in Minneapolis billed as sales training from famous training experts (the headliner was Donald Trump, all he did was talk about how beautiful the bikini clad women who escorted him on stage were and how great he is). Basically the day was a parade of scam artists selling their get rich quick schemes. People were lining up, with 3 or 4 credit cards in hand, spending thousands. I was disgusted. I am sure none of them made a penny, except of course the con men (and one woman).
Great video. Thanks for the information.
Yea, the trend of TH-cam to just allow copyright notices to take down videos without a method to restore them from a manual review by an attorney might be opening them up to a class action lawsuit in the future.
The system works for the crooks and against the ordinary man. Why would Google want to hinder someone who no doubt spends thousands on advertising?
Not only can you not copyright your name, you cannot copyright a title.
He could try to trademark it, but good luck with a name that generic
@@m0L3ify Even if you trademark something, it's about the font, embellishments, and color, but not the words. And they're hard to defend, it's why Disney is so sue happy.
@@ifeeltiredsleepy No, it can be just the words themselves, but it has to be used for business purposes. It can't be for personal use. I honestly don't remember the details of this video enough to know if I was correct or not about the name usage, but it technically doesn't have to have colors and fonts to be a trademark. Yes, Disney is sue-happy, but...that's Disney for you.
Good stuff. Except, I ordered a pizza 10 minutes ago and now I'm afraid that a serial killer is coming to my door!!!!!!!
I remember in the age of Columbia Record Club, you could get an album from Billy Joel®.
I'm never having pizza delivered again.
funny there was a commercial just before this video of training how to filp items for higher price hahah
Do I get bonus points is the preroll ad to this video was one of those "get major passive income" ads?
the sad reality is I got TWO ads for get rich quick schemes on youtube while watching. Lol.
You missed the pictures of them of them with politicians & celebrities. This are usually taken at public events book signings, paid charity events, promotions etc.
Isn't he the guy from the video with five minimum wage workers vs one secret millionaire?
Got KD's ad immediately after watching this. I totally would have fallen for this if not for you. 🤪
I've been unemployed for a few months so I've been ordering hairclips at manufacturers price and reselling them. I appreciate that it contributed to my rent, I made a couple hundred, and it's great if you have a ton of time on your hands, but you would make more at any part time job.
Well done!
No more get rich quick schemes. This scheme is sure to get me rich and quick!
These scams are a serious problem.
If you are worried about being scammed, send £300 and I'll tell you how to spot a scam! 🤣
There is a big debate just gaining momentum in Australia about false claims made via social media and that as social media companies derive income and benefit from these false claims, they are complicit in the false claim. Basically they have a motive of financial gain so it is easier to class them as criminally complicit.
Funny how TH-cam works. As your video ended I was hit with an advertisement for how to learn to sell things on Amazon.
Oh. I finally realized where I've seen you before. You moderated some panels at CONvergence a few years back. Miss the Skepchicks. Please come back.
I actually got a Kevin David ad at the end of this video.
I don't know why people don't think, when told of a supposed course in drawing revenue, that if the supposed teacher really had a method that worked, said teacher could just apply it at scale and draw all the revenue directly instead of teaching others.
I have seen a bunch of those get rich quick schemes back in the late 80's- early 90's.. 🤦♂️🤦♂️👮♂️
Twenty years ago there were adds for plans for "Zero Point Energy Generators", an endless (and fictional) source of electricity in less reputable new-agy magazines. PT Barnum was a fucking genius.
I don’t know enough about the alibaba amazon thing to know if it a scam. From the customer point of view it is all about the wait time. If I see something on your store buy it then have to wait like 2 months to get it. Then it is a trash service that should not be taught by the “gurus”.
Yes-constantly having claims like this crop up all the time now on TH-cam...
8:23 It's not TH-cam's job to determine copyright violations - only the courts can determine that. Ask any copyright lawyer and they'll tell you there's no hard, fast rules for determining when an infringement has happened. A lawyer can take a case to copyright court firmly believing in the solidity of his case, and the court rules otherwise. About all that can be said outside of court is that IN GENERAL certain categories of speech are protected against copyright infringement. Looking to TH-cam (or any other company) to make copyright infringement decisions is looking in the wrong direction.
Libel is written, slander is spoken.
got an ad for a get rick quick scheme at the end of the vid
A noted philosopher, Saint William Claude Dukenfield, once said "You can't cheat an honest man; nor wisen up a chump."
More truth warriors like you needed....thanks much for your good video !!!
One of my friends got in with the thrive bullshit. He kept trying to get me to buy it right up to the point I told him to stay away from me.
Hilariously, the ad TH-cam dished up to me on this video was a ‘dropship scam’ video.
It is morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
No one gives information away for free.
No one sells information which will make them a lot of money.
So, if you see an advert saying for a small fee, we will give you info to be rich. Ask why? If it is making so much money... Why don't they keep it secret and reinvest.
LMFAO
Funny enough, I just saw a Kevin David ad before this vid
He could probably trade mark the name, but not copyright it. But I think that would only cover it in written form. I know the WWE does that with wrestlers names which are often very normal sounding names. They "own" the names in order to stop wrestlers using them elsewhere. I think it's only for commercial purposes, they could still use the names on social media, etc.
Omg! I watched your video and when it reached the end it went to an advert for Kevin David. I watched it for about a minute, because I thought it was part of your video, then saw in the bottom corner that it was an ad. What a brazen con artist!
LOL. 1 downvote. Kevin?
Ha the ad that played after the video was for a company called econ guru