Anyone read Jestine Yong's eBooks?

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He's got some pretty boastful claims on how easy it is to train someone to repair LCD monitors, how to get the value of a resistor when it's totally burnt up and you don't have the schematics...I'm curious if anyone here has tried these books and if they're as informative as claimed.
 
I saw them, but never paid for them.

Found this while searching to see if anyone wrote about how to do it:

Carefully scrap the insulating material off along a straight line on the resistor body using a pen knife until you can see the spiral track of the resistive material.

Chances are you can still measure some resistance, using either end of the connection lead and a pointed pin, pricking at the spiral track.

Starts from one end and advance on each spiral track until you have found an open circuit. Record the resistance before this happens. Do the other end using the same method.

Add the resistance found in both cases and add 10% more. This will give you the approximate resistance of the original resistor.

This method often works because a resistor burns open in one spot only.
 
Ugh. I see similar sites a lot at work, though they're usually to the tune of "buy my ebook for the special sale price of $200 and I'll show you my guaranteed money making strategy to make a million dollars in 24 hours!". Same layout, same oversized yellow highlighted text in "customer testimonials", etc. Generally there's also an offer of a special package for resale rights of the ebook or some other such nonsense. Same bragging/boasting, all to suck you in to paying too much for 4 pages of total crap information. Just scrolled down one of the pages and saw the usual "I'm cutting a special price for a limited time only for a market test" line. My normal channels aren't digging up copies of his books, I wouldn't get anywhere near them, it's probably a scam at worst, absolutely no information at best. I definitely wouldn't get a credit card number anywhere near those sites.

*e* Okay, did a little more digging. Domain whois on the "secure credit card processing site" (click2sell.eu) is masked, and the registration (and I think hosting) is done via iv.lt, which is in lithuania. Eastern Europe is the premiere dumping ground for ID theft rings. I'll say it, these guys *will* steal your CC/etc info, don't get anywhere near them.
 
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If that's the case it could be legit, it just stinks heavily of spam/scam/etc as it's got all the warning signs of the crap I've seen a lot of. Could ping someone over at anatek and ask if they're using it or if it's just an advertising deal.
 
That's a good idea. I'll give them a ring.

And I agree, those sites look exactly as you describe.

I'd love to get a look at those guides before I plunk down cash.
 
Hmmmm I'd venture to say "If it's too good to be true, it probably is"...

Most of the time I've gotten my hands on a copy of something along those lines, the eye catching statement/claim turned out dissapointing, and the rest of the info was common knowledge. It could be classified as a scam if you wanted to.
 
http://www.torrentreactor.net/find/jestine-yong
http://www.torrentreactor.net/find/lcd-monitor-repair-jestine-yong

...if you really want to get a look at them, though obviously I fully encourage paying the author for the product and not just downloading and calling it a day. :)

About these torrents: I also looked at the torrents, but it seems I'd get the same type of "here's the torrent" no matter what search string I used, and all of them were various sizes (some over 1000MB) making me think that they aren't really the e-book, but are actually spyware, or hacker crap, no matter what the health says...
 
Hmmmm I'd venture to say "If it's too good to be true, it probably is"...

Most of the time I've gotten my hands on a copy of something along those lines, the eye catching statement/claim turned out dissapointing, and the rest of the info was common knowledge. It could be classified as a scam if you wanted to.

You know you're going to buy it and find out it's exactly what I posted above...
 
About these torrents: I also looked at the torrents, but it seems I'd get the same type of "here's the torrent" no matter what search string I used, and all of them were various sizes (some over 1000MB) making me think that they aren't really the e-book, but are actually spyware, or hacker crap, no matter what the health says...

Ah, I didn't look to far into it, I don't really do the torrent thing much (usenet is way better), sorry if I mistakenly linked to a bunch of spyware. :(
 
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