You know, as the webmaster of eTenerife, I do occasionally have a look around the internet for products that might be of some value to Tenerife residents or holiday makers. If I can find something worthwhile that I might also make a commission on so much the better. Actually I don’t really do enough of that and that is why the eTenerife you see today really is not stuffed with banners and ads. (And a family of mice have set up home in my piggy bank).
Maybe I’ll put up one of those Buy Me Coffee buttons eventually but for the moment the only affiliate links I have on the site are those to Spanish Learning programmes on the navigation bar (which I have used myself so I know are good) and the Hotelscombined Hotel box which is great for finding the best rates across all the hotel platforms. When I have family coming I use Hotelscombined myself to find them the best deals.
Sometimes I will run adsense ads but lately they have been pretty rubbish. Since I changed to WordPress Google Adsense seems to think visitors are interested in buying farm tractors in Lithuania or real estate in Bristol. The relevance has gone down the tubes for some reason and I don’t have the time or interest to try and fix that right now.
Anyway, there I was looking through a collection of products and I came across a set of six or seven Satellite to PC type products. As you would expect the advertising copy used by the vendors of these products is always over-the-top positive. These things sell like hot-cakes and expat residents in Tenerife are prime targets.
Of course we are. We miss our home tv, the terrestrial channels are crap and cable costs a fortune. These satellite to PC programmes look like the ideal solution. Even those who are wise enough to do an internet search to verify that the products are genuine are likely to come up with glowing – and seemingly genuine – reviews. Don’t be fooled. Every ‘genuine’ review is adorned with an affiliate link.
These Satellite to PC offers are not cheap. Some sell for over $200 – pure scam artist gold. Don’t be fooled. There are ways to find and access tv programmes via your tv (using a free UK proxy to access Channel 4′ channel on Youtube is one) but this is not one of them.
You might wonder how I can be so sure that these products are rubbish and that is because I bought one of them a few years ago. Rather than write my own review though, I’d rather leave you with this Youtube video which tells it like it is very clearly. If you have also been bitten by this or any other internet product scam, feel free to post about it in the comments. The more info that is out there about the crap that chokes the internet the better! That way people stand a better chance of finding out the truth before they waste their money.
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