Arbitrage Conspiracy Launches With A Huge… Fizzle?

Well, well, well, I guess even the “big boys” aren’t immune to technical glitches, hey?

The Arbitrage Conspiracy site was supposed to launch yesterday at 3pm Pacific time and when I got to the site, it said that the sales page wouldn’t be available until “EXACTLY” 3pm.

So, since it WAS already 3pm, I waited a couple minutes and refreshed.

Same message.

I continued with some work I was doing and then went back to the page about a half hour later. Refreshed. Same Message.

An hour later, refresh. Then there was a “we’re having technical difficulties, sorry for the delay” message.

You’d think that with all the heavy-hitters involved with this launch that they would’ve had enough resources available to not only have all their ducks in a row, but have the ducks performing like F-18’s in attack formation!

About 3 or so hours after the scheduled launch, they announced that they were going to delay by 21 hours.

Now, you haven’t heard a word out of me concerning the Arbitrage Conspiracy until now and for a good reason.

I had planned on evaluating the package, as I do with any product, before mentioning it.

I’ll admit that I was definitely intrigued by what little information they had released during pre-launch and even though one of my clients had attended their $10,000 one-day workshop, they were sworn to “secrecy” and couldn’t share!

After viewing the video on the site and reading the Arbitrage Conspiracy Report, I was a bit skeptical, but still interested in the product.

My main concern was that in the report, they mentioned that you could get started for as little as $5 a day, but later mentioned multiple campaigns costing $2500+ per day.

If you know anything about Adwords, even if you’re bidding on words that cost a few cents per click, $5 would be gone within an hour or so.

So, I went and signed up as an affiliate anyways, just in case.

Once inside, there was contact information for their affiliate manager and I immediately tried to contact him.

I was hoping to get early access to the product for review. I would have been willing to pay for it, but never heard back.

Why am I telling you this? A couple reasons.

First….

Because they have said that they’re ‘only releasing 500 copies’ of this system and I needed to get in early so that I would have enough time to review the product and tell you what I thought about it.

Unfortunately, I will be teaching a class today at 3pm Pacific and I won’t be “at the ready” to refresh the page and purchase.

So, if you’re reading this before then, you might want to go and download the report and watch the video for yourself.

You can download it here: Arbitrage Conspiracy Report

Jerry Maguire rip

Second….

I want you to learn a lesson from this.

Instead of going ahead with the launch and having a BUNCH of pissed off customers and/or affiliates because the system wasn’t working properly, they held off.

Sure, people were disappointed when the site wasn’t open and I’m sure that there were a couple people that were mad about it, but disappointed is WAY better than having to deal with refunds and lost commissions.

Now, I don’t know what the problem was exactly, but I do know that they did the right thing.

My point is, don’t ever be afraid to delay a launch if you’re having technical problems.

This doesn’t mean that everything has to be perfect either.

There will always be small issues to deal with during and after a launch, but if it’s something major (and I’m sure it was), don’t shoot yourself in the foot by launching anyways, just to open on time!

And third….

The downside is for affiliates that scheduled promotions according to their launch.

I got emails all afternoon telling me that “It’s Live!” go now before it’s sold out!

But, if you’ve done your job as an affiliate by creating a relationship with your subscribers, it shouldn’t be an issue at all. They’ll understand that it wasn’t your fault and as long as you’ve done your homework and haven’t referred them to a piece of crap product, it will be a no harm, no foul situation.