MA is such a frustrating charlatan.

On the one hand, his economic theory ("ECM") is interesting, but ultimately, like all of them, flawed. His grasp of socioeconomics and human behaviour is commendable and he would make a good uni professor as someone who - in his words - is evidently a B grade student.

On the other hand, his Socrates machine is quite clearly bogus, used as his pipe for his snake oil sales pied piper shtick that defrauds thousands of retail investors out of money. With that, the blog is also used to hoodwink retail idiots out of money by claiming he called future events AFTER they happened, creating a cult that worships their great sage like some prophetic Sun God, it drops their defences and makes them far easier to extort money for reports, WEC's and subs.


Now let's take a look at his most recent blog post about eBay and Manipulating The World Economy selling out in 15 minutes.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/products_services/manipulating-the-world-economy-on-ebay/

I know eBay well having sold hundreds of items over the past 15 years. It is NOT easy to create bogus accounts, and requires a unique mobile number, a VPN and even then, eBay will block bidding or delete your account where their algos can detect dodgy behaviour gaming their system.

So many of those 180 purchases are legit unless he has paid a lot of people with eBay accounts to all buy the book, creating hype, but I don't think that is the case as it seems a bit far fetched.

But then I noticed something curious. The book was last available on 24 March 2020 on eBay from the same seller account. While MA uses private listings, you can still match user IDs from the first and last letters of the hidden ID. The chances of getting random matches is likely to be low based on how varied user IDs are on the platform.

And it looks like the following buyers purchased MA's book again, on the 20 April AND managed it within the small 15 minute time window they had before the book sold out:

1***1
c***a
e***c
e***t
f***e
h***a
i***r
i***s
l***e
t***t


Ask yourself if this sounds feasible, where so many (10) of the same buyers of the book from 24 March would all be around on 20 April, for those brief 15 minutes, to buy the book again?

Those probably are friends and family helping things along.


And if you want to find out more about becoming a best selling author on Amazon, all in the name of selling "training" content, which is what MA does sell, read this:
https://observer.com/2016/02/behind-the-scam-what-does-it-takes-to-be-a-bestselling-author-3-and-5-minutes/