{"id":327,"date":"2008-06-25T00:54:10","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T05:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matthewchan.com\/?p=327"},"modified":"2008-06-25T01:01:20","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T06:01:20","slug":"launching-incredible-discoveries-information-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewchan.com\/?p=327","title":{"rendered":"Launching &#8220;Incredible Discoveries Information Page&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I want to keep this post as brief as possible because this announcement is not one I consider &#8220;good news&#8221; but it was necessary given the amount of inquiries and information I have been getting regarding the infomercial company, <strong>&#8220;Incredible Discoveries&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>As a brief recap, &#8220;<strong>Incredible Discoveries<\/strong>&#8221; came into my life around June 20, 2007 when they wanted to talk to me about marketing my books with infomercials.\u00a0 The conversations ultimately led to a $75,000 fee they wanted me to pay.\u00a0 I was immediate suspicious and I declined the offer.<\/p>\n<p>A disgruntled, ex-employee, <strong>Robert Danoff<\/strong>, and another individual made contact with me feeding me insights.\u00a0 With my suspicions and their suggestions, I followed up on their insights.\u00a0 I made a few more blog postings regarding Incredible Discoveries updates as it related to Robert Danoff.\u00a0 I posted them because Robert Danoff gave me information that I thought might be of public interest.<\/p>\n<p>To make a long story shorter, I eventually put an end to discussing &#8220;Incredible Discoveries&#8221; because I did not want my blog to become overrun with this story that really had little to do with me or my business. If you want to know more, go visit these posts.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Permanent Link to \"Incredible Discoveries\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Sets Up Phone Appointment\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"..\/2007\/06\/20\/incredible-discoveries-sets-up-phone-appointment\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Incredible Discoveries\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Sets Up Phone Appointment<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Permanent Link to \"Incredible Discoveries\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Makes First Contact\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"..\/2007\/06\/21\/incredible-discoveries-makes-first-contact\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Incredible Discoveries\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Makes First Contact<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Permanent Link to Highly Suspicious of \"Incredible Discoveries\u00e2\u20ac\u009d $75,000 Fee\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"..\/2007\/06\/26\/highly-suspicious-of-incredible-discoveries-75000-fee\/\" target=\"_blank\">Highly Suspicious of &#8220;Incredible Discoveries\u00e2\u20ac\u009d $75,000 Fee<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Permanent Link to More Thoughts on Infomercials &amp; Complaints\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"..\/2007\/06\/26\/more-thoughts-on-infomercials-complaints\/\" target=\"_blank\">More Thoughts on Infomercials &amp; Complaints<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Permanent Link to Incredible Discoveries Lawsuit against Bob Danoff - Part 1\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"..\/2007\/07\/10\/incredible-discoveries-lawsuit-against-bob-danoff\/\" target=\"_blank\">Incredible Discoveries Lawsuit against Bob Danoff &#8211; Part 1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Permanent Link to Incredible Discoveries Lawsuit against Bob Danoff - Part 2\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"..\/2007\/07\/11\/162\/\" target=\"_blank\">Incredible Discoveries Lawsuit against Bob Danoff &#8211; Part 2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Permanent Link to \"Incredible Discoveries\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Submits Alleged Written Retraction by Robert Danoff\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"..\/2007\/09\/20\/incredible-discoveries-submits-alleged-written-retraction-by-robert-danoff\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Incredible Discoveries\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Submits Alleged Written Retraction by Robert Danoff<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, since these posts last year, this blog persistently gets traffic on &#8220;<strong>Incredible Discoverie<\/strong>s&#8221; which means many people are interested and someone is reading.\u00a0 But I also continue to get emails and phone calls from people wanting my opinion on &#8220;<strong>Incredible Discoveries<\/strong>&#8220;.\u00a0 I also get a few complaints.\u00a0 But I am not the Better Business Bureau.\u00a0 Nevertheless, I keep my ears open to what people tell me.<\/p>\n<p>The straw that broke the camel&#8217;s back is when yet another person called asking me my opinion.\u00a0 I told them it was up to them and it was their money.\u00a0 It was like they wanted me to prove or disprove that <strong>&#8220;Incredible Discoveries&#8221;<\/strong> was a &#8220;bad&#8221; company.\u00a0 Quite frankly, it isn&#8217;t my job to be responsible for others.<\/p>\n<p>As a public service, I shared my opinions on the blog already and if you think you can part with $50,000 to $75,000 and take the risk, fine with me.\u00a0 It is your money.\u00a0 But I keep telling everyone that my internal radar says to spend your money elsewhere.\u00a0 You can do a lot with $75,000 on your own plus I think a lot of the infomercial business is one that offends my sensibilities.\u00a0 That is why there are so many complaints.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/infomercialblog.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">InfomercialBlog.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/infomercialscams.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">InfomercialScams.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/infomercialratings.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">InfomercialRatings.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In any case, I did get curious enough to do more fact-checking on &#8220;<strong>Incredible Discoveries<\/strong>&#8220;.\u00a0 After all, why does this blog get so much interest because of &#8220;Incredible Discoveries&#8221;?\u00a0 Obviously, a lot of people are searching for information on them which led me to do some searching on my own.<\/p>\n<p>And so, I am trying to put this issue to bed.\u00a0 I dug out more interesting information.\u00a0 I had some interesting phone conversations from various past plaintiffs and defendants against &#8220;Incredible Discoveries&#8221;.\u00a0 I found information from the <a href=\"http:\/\/myfloridalegal.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Florida Attorney General&#8217;s Office<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/sunbiz.org\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Florida Division of Corporations<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With all of this, I compiled my findings into &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/matthewchan.commastersiteincrediblediscoveries-info.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Incredible Discoveries Information Page<\/strong><\/a>&#8220;.\u00a0 I have tried to be fair and I am upfront of my biases.\u00a0 I give commentary and information but it is up to the reader to draw their own conclusions whether anyone should do business with them.<\/p>\n<p>If you have additional meaningful information or corrections, I will accept them.\u00a0 But I am resistant to taking any more phone calls on <strong>Incredible Discoveries.<\/strong> I got better things to do than discuss them.<\/p>\n<p>To those who care, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/matthewchan.commastersiteincrediblediscoveries-info.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Incredible Discoveries Information Page<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; is a free resource. The direct link is:\u00a0 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/matthewchan.commastersiteincrediblediscoveries-info.htm\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/matthewchan.commastersiteincrediblediscoveries-info.htm.<\/a><\/strong> To those who don&#8217;t care, you aren&#8217;t missing much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to keep this post as brief as possible because this announcement is not one I consider &#8220;good news&#8221; but it was necessary given the amount of inquiries and information I have been getting regarding the infomercial company, &#8220;Incredible Discoveries&#8221;. As a brief recap, &#8220;Incredible Discoveries&#8221; came into my life around June 20, 2007 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-affairs","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p927L-5h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":161,"url":"https:\/\/matthewchan.com\/?p=161","url_meta":{"origin":327,"position":0},"title":"Incredible Discoveries Lawsuit against Bob Danoff &#8211; Part 1","author":"Matthew Chan","date":"July 10, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday, Bob Danoff, ex-employee of Incredible Discoveries, brought to my attention that parts of my blog are being used as Exhibits in a court case he is involved in. Specifically, the case of Immediate Capital Group Inc. dba Incredible Discoveries vs. Robert Danoff (filed in the District Court of Palm\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Legal Affairs&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Legal Affairs","link":"https:\/\/matthewchan.com\/?cat=34"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":182,"url":"https:\/\/matthewchan.com\/?p=182","url_meta":{"origin":327,"position":1},"title":"&#8220;Incredible Discoveries&#8221; Submits Alleged Written Retraction by Robert Danoff","author":"Matthew Chan","date":"September 20, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"A public relations representative contacted my office today and claimed to have a written retraction by Robert Danoff.\u00a0 Since I have never seen Bob's signature, I cannot verify if it is actually his or not.\u00a0 I am happy to post the letter if I can verify from Bob himself that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Legal Affairs&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Legal Affairs","link":"https:\/\/matthewchan.com\/?cat=34"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":162,"url":"https:\/\/matthewchan.com\/?p=162","url_meta":{"origin":327,"position":2},"title":"Incredible Discoveries Lawsuit against Bob Danoff &#8211; Part 2","author":"Matthew Chan","date":"July 11, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"This is Part 2 of my commentary of the case of Immediate Capital Group Inc. dba Incredible Discoveries vs. Robert Danoff (filed in the District Court of Palm Beach County, Florida. =========================== In looking over the Plaintiff's Petition, I tried to keep an objective eye and see it from Immediate\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Legal Affairs&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Legal Affairs","link":"https:\/\/matthewchan.com\/?cat=34"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":151,"url":"https:\/\/matthewchan.com\/?p=151","url_meta":{"origin":327,"position":3},"title":"Highly Suspicious of &#8220;Incredible Discoveries&#8221; $75,000 Fee","author":"Matthew Chan","date":"June 26, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I had my final phone discussion with the folks with \"Incredible Discoveries\".\u00a0 It was a cordial discussion but my antenna was on and up high. 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