Originally Posted by Thad

It gets tempting sometimes, I must admit.


A friend of mine had an idea to make some cash. His extremely educated brother-in-law (that everyone in the family revered) asked him a lot of questions about it and then convinced him that it wasn't economically feasible, so he dropped it.
Months later he found out that bro-in-law took all of the research that my friend had done and written an e-book that was selling like hotcakes.
He positioned himself as an expert in something he had never even touched, wrote an e-book, made a website, and racked up.