Ty Coughlin is a douchebag
My friend Steve Gigl posted about the Ty Coughlin scam over at his blog, and he does a pretty good job of tearing it apart. I have only one thing to add: every time I hear those damn commercials I turn off the radio and just listen to a podcast instead. I don’t care what the radio host is talking about, he could raise George Washington from the dead to talk about immigration reform, but once they break for commercial and that steaming pile of excrement starts laughing into the microphone, I’m done. You can infer from that statement exactly how much radio I’ve listened to over the past month.
In other news, I’m really working through my podcast backlog.
July 6th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Good point, and something I forgot to mention: the station gets changed or I shut the radio off if I’m close enough and have my hands free. And often I forget to turn it back or back on, which you’d think would come back to haunt the station eventually (especially since he’s on every blasted commercial break).
July 9th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
That commercial is repugnant (as is that horrible picture of Ty Coughlin floating around the internet).
July 9th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
He–”Ty”–says he’s commercials are “live.” I don’t believe him. It’s a tape.
And annoying? That’s hardlt the word. yoyu get the feeling he’s talking to a bunch of shmucks he too familiarly calls “guys”–as in “Hey guys,” as ho he’s known us all his life.
Just listenting to hios cimmercials shouts SCAM all over. If he were really smart, he wouldn’t be so blatanat\ntly obvious–exceopt for the dummies.
by the way, he doesn’t furnish a “CONTACT US” e-mail address so that i could tell him how much of a gas bag he is. The only e-mail he firnishes is for one to receive his junk.
FWD FWD FWD FWD!!!!! To ALL
July 10th, 2008 at 9:12 am
Update: don’t be too hard on the local station… It’s a network-placed ad, and they’ve complained to the network about it several times after hearing from other annoyed listeners.
July 10th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
I switch the station every time I hear this ad.
That “Are we live?” works the first time you hear it and it grabs you’re attention, but after the one thousandth time, it loses its punch.
July 11th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
You aren’t the only one who changes the station when this douchebag comes on the radio…. no exceptions. I also change it when the singing idiot comes on about the not-so-free credit reporting service. Where do they get all this money to afford all this expensive advertising?
August 1st, 2008 at 12:46 pm
yes i want to scream every time I hear that idiot.
August 21st, 2008 at 1:18 am
kknt 960, phoenix, az plays this commercial repeatedly and it pisses me off to no end. i swear to god i am going to call in with a soundboard of ty coughlin and play back the clips to show hosts until they stop playing this freaking idiot’s commercials.
September 5th, 2008 at 4:27 am
If you listen closely to the radio announcement “Let me know when we’re live” It sounds like he’s the only guy that’s talking. The guy that answers sounds just like him. Seriously listen closely next time*LMAO*
Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! I hate this radio ad!!!!!!
September 9th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
This is the worst radio ad I’ve ever heard. I can believe it’s still being played. You would have thought the stations would have gotten enough bad feedback to discontinue them….
September 17th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
I feel the same way. If radio stations cared about their listeners they would not allow scams like this to advertise. It’s the same as the Tahiti Village scam. I listen to the same station all day and they have a fake conversation between the DJ and a celebrity. Thing is that they pipe in differnt djs answering the same questions and just repeat it. Every month they get a differnt has been celeb to do it.
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:52 am
It is AWFUL. His smug, sleazy voice makes me lurch for the radio controls to turn the radio station. It is an insult to the intelligence of the listener, and I hope he dies a horrible death.
September 25th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Anytime you hear about someone that has supposedly made SO much money using a “system”, you have to think, “Why does he need MY money?”. Because YOU are the system. This is nothing different than all those time-honored MLM schemes that we’re all familiar with, except that it’s more annoying.
September 29th, 2008 at 10:02 am
Dude, he is so cheap and shady actually uses his own voice, but changes the pitch for the testimonials. He even says, “I’ve met Ty, and he’s one cool dude!” – such a moron!!!!
Even when he plays confused about being live, the engineer voice that tells him he is live is actually his own voice. You can tell because he always talks like a retarded surfer.
Anyone that actually believes this garbage deserves to lose their money IMO.
September 29th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Sorry that someone mangled the spelling and grammar of my last mini-blog on dear old Ty. if I didn’t know, I’d suspect it was he (grammatically correct that last “it was he”, since I used to teach English)…it was he who sabotaged it. but since all of your other commenters had no trouble there, it was probably my typing rapidity (“Haste makes wasted”).
Back to “Ty”–if that’s his name–notice that when the “engineer” asks: “Are we live dude?” (Dude!). Just before he verbally responds, he can’t suppress a giggle, as if he’s laughing because he probably thinks, anyone who buys into my wonderful deal must be the shmucks I suspect they are. in brief, he’s laughing at the radio audience–or at least the gullible in it.
There’s a variation of that commercial by another of his commercials, where before he ever says a word, he breaks out into that idiotic giggle. Also, he employs that age-old ploy of all–I was about to say “–all used car salesmen”, but they are straightforward, upright folk compared to that clown…employs that age-old ploy of “hurry, hurry, hurry..before we’re off the web in 2 years, etc. Then it’ll be too late, etc, etc.” it’ s such a cliche.
I am not an investor. live on a small retiremnet + ss, and fixed income. So no necessity. Besides, i’m dumb when it comes to financial matters (cf. the current byzantine bank meltdown). But as someone once said, 90% of being smart–espec, with $$–is knowing how dumb you are.
in this (2008) down market, how can someone like him attract suck– er, pardon! buyers? if people can no longer trust their rock of Gibraltar banks, how can they trust someone who sounds like a get-rich-quick snake-oil “doctor”?
I, too, wish the stations would take him off the air. He’s an insult even to people with sub-par intelligence. But then, short of libel or slander, there’s nothing to be done, other than turn off the talk show, then back on. Better, if everyone decides not to buy, then maybe he’d go somewhere else to peddle his wares. It’t still a free mkt (while it lasts).
October 3rd, 2008 at 2:57 pm
He is an atrocity. Every time I hear that puss filled, nails on a chalk board, ice pick to the eyes voice I SCREAM on the inside. And the latest commercial is one of the worst of all. He lowers the pitch of his voice a tiny bit and acts like a customer to his system but it’s the SAME GUY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I want to have him taken out its so annoying. Gods, there is no god, after hearing his high pitched squeal, like some demonic banshee crying a thousand deaths, it actually produces a physical response and raises my stress levels.
October 5th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
don’t worry peoples. he will DIAF very soon.
October 8th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
OMG this guy makes me puke. There are actually two commercials – 1=are we live? and I just started hearing the 2nd one, where Ty claims to be someone else, giving a testimonial about Ty’s “system”. This guy has NO shame, and is an idiot. I hope someday he winds up with a large surfboard firmly implanted where the sun don’t shine.
October 10th, 2008 at 1:13 am
The laugh from the first commercial, that makes everyone lurch for the radio off button… A person couldn’t produce what that laugh communicates without being demonic. Ty, I rejoice in the fact that you will burn in hell for eternity. Have fun for now…
October 10th, 2008 at 1:14 am
DIAF = die in a fire
October 10th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
I’ve personally been trying to contact all the radio stations playing the Reverse Funnel System commercials to explain to them what the BBB has to say about Dynamic Marketing Alliance, LLC, the company behind the whole scheme. Which is this:
“Based on BBB files, this company has an unsatisfactory record with the Bureau due to one or more unanswered complaints.”
and…
“As of 1/7/2008, the Bureau has been UNABLE to confirm this company has a valid local business license for the locale in which they operate. IF A CONSUMER DOES BUSINESS WITH AN UNLICENSED FIRM, THEY DO SO AT THEIR OWN RISK.”
http://www.vegasbbb.org/rptrel.asp?bbbid=75645
I believe this to be the same Ty Hall associated with The Hall Group, Inc but I have yet to confirm. There’s some guy posting his experiences on various websites saying that a “The Hall Group, Incorpo” is deducting funds from his checking account.
The name Ty Coughlin is also associated in many blog posts with Liberty League International. Ty, as the legend goes, was a “top earner” at Liberty League before “launching” the Reverse Funnel System. According to the BBB, Liberty League International is promoting a pyramid scheme and has had to pay $100,000 in civil penalties.
http://central-northern-western-arizona.bbb.org/WWWRoot/Report.aspx?site=30&bbb=1126&firm=37001115
Call your local radio shows and their syndicators and get this guy off the air. He’s not just annoying, he’s ripping off real people like you!
October 16th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Now he ‘s playing spots acting like he’s someone else that has used the system. Then he goes on to brag up the product (and himself) as he calls himself “one cool dude” to finish the spot. IDIOT!
October 21st, 2008 at 8:49 pm
I agree with all of the above, he is changing his voice and pretending he’s someone else. What I find interesting is, he is advertising with Rush Limbaugh,
and Hugh Hewitt which are all biggies in radio, this can’t come cheap!
October 29th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
I say this with no hyperbole. I HATE this creature. I will not demean men to call him a man.
His laugh could strip the flesh off baby seals, and likely has. He is a disgrace to existence, to all life. He is the essence of pure, raw, unfiltered annoyance, and he must be stopped.
And yet the stations continue to air his sound poison, his lying, FAKE, scam filled POISON !!!!!!!!!!
I am not a violent man, but when this asshole gets on the mike, and fakes like he is a different guy, not even TRYING to hide the BLATANTLY obvious fact that he is the same guy, he needs to be punched in the face, I think Jesus himself would cheer seeing this douche getting his comeuppance.