Too Good to Be True: How More Evidence Can Decrease Confidence
I&#x27;m running into this problem on my startup website (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;muxme.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;muxme.com</a>).  I&#x27;ve found that the more evidence I provide that the site is real, the more people start to question it.  I.e. I post pictures of the receipt of purchase, open source the raffle code script, have a live drawing, post the winner&#x27;s usernames (which reveal quite a bit about them if you google them, I encourage them to change their usernames), post USPS tracking numbers, post my phone number and address, and everyone still thinks the site is a scam.  Out of every company &#x2F; website I&#x27;ve worked on, I&#x27;ve never had people so skeptical of giving a name, email address and phone number.  I&#x27;ve made websites where I charged money and had better growth!<p>This is some real feedback I&#x27;ve received:<p><i>&quot;It sounds like a scam to me.  If you want to try to scam people by getting them to click on your fake website, you should have enough common sense not to use the website as your username.  Better luck next time!!!!&quot;</i><p><i>&quot;Scamming people on Christmas Eve using someone&#x27;s else&#x27;s platform. Tacky.&quot;</i><p>But yeah... this site isn&#x27;t working.  I&#x27;m thinking of scrapping it and writing an app&#x2F;browser extension that automatically enters you into sweepstakes.  Let&#x27;s say Person A enters 10 sweepstakes on different websites.  Person B enters 5 sweepstakes on different websites.  When person C downloads the app, he will automatically be entered into the sweepstakes that Person A and Person B entered (via my magic backend system that I have yet to create).  The more people that download the app and enter sweepstakes, the more sweepstakes everyone with the app will automatically be entered into.  Now people will start winning prizes for literally doing nothing but downloading the app.