Yes, Established Titles Is A Scam*

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Комментарии : 21 тыс.

@LegalEagle Год назад

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@tfordham13 Год назад

Didn't you do a video with them before?

@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307 Год назад

They claim you own the land in the adverts THIS IS FRAUD! also in the non UK adverts they say "YOU LEGALLY BECOME A LORD" You can call yourself anything you want! Its not illegal! Signed Danial Quayles The HIGH KING, EMPEROR, PHARAOH, KUBLAI, SHAH, KOHMEINI, KING OF THE ANDALS, THE RYOYNAR AND THE FIRST MEN, Immortal ruler OF SCOTLAND, THE WORLD , THIS UNIVERSE AND ALL OF THE MULTIVERSE and owner of the "peasant lords of scotland" FOR ETERNITY!

@cresscelesta Год назад

That's a nice 10 million dollar studio you have there.

@tobiwonkanogy2975 Год назад

I'm of the mind the land is held in trust , much as you described, only under loose contract to record your name , honorarily title you laird or lady and not develop the land . Selling legal name changing is just wording that needs to be changed , a mistake that can be remedied without nuking the whole operation that is presumably to actually protect Scottish lands as forests .

@ziggystardog Год назад

No.

@notoverlyacerbic9574 Год назад

the fact that an attorney is not worried about using the word scam anywhere in the vicinity of a company is very telling.

@TheHorrorDevotee Год назад

Not just an attorney, specifically a civil defence attorney. THAT'S telling

@thekidfromcanada Год назад

@@TheHorrorDevotee how does that work across countries?

@liammcgrath6184 Год назад

SLANDERR !!😂😂😂

@Val.Kyrie. Год назад

That was my first thought 😅

@dancooper6002 Год назад

Eh not really. People get away with everything these days.

@JABRIEL251 Год назад

"They're basically making Land NFTs". He has a point.

@basteala525 Год назад

Yeah as soon as he got into the digital certificate that thought jumped to mind. Glad I wasn't alone.

@descendency Год назад

I almost died laughing at that notion.

@Leviathanlight Год назад

Makes sense though. If parts of business can be bought and sold why not land. It isn't rent you would own your plot. But you would be on a larger plot owned by a private owner.

@mattpotter8725 Год назад

Which would be fine if that was what it was advertised as, but it isn't!!!

@agin1519 Год назад

Is there a wild gambling market with Established Titles certificates? That seems almost…misleading Legal Eagle!

@skd 8 месяцев назад

They contacted me 4 times (I just double checked) about a sponsorship. And I asked if I can tell my subscribers that this is just for fun, not a real title and they said NO. So yeah, they are a scam.

@Naokarma 7 месяцев назад

Honestly, THIS is what distinguishes them from a scam and just a "gag gift" type of company. If they wanna be taken seriously, then that's what they'll get.

@justaguywithapowerpole 7 месяцев назад

why woudl they tell u its not real lol thats a lie ujust told they are a scam but wh ywoudl they tell u they are

@grahamreece519 6 месяцев назад

what?@@justaguywithapowerpole

@MadnessIncVP 5 месяцев назад

What did you gather as to the actual locations, of the scammers behind it?

@jack-a-lopium 4 месяца назад

Ummmm... I'm sure NO product would want you to describe a product like that... your 'paymaster' can tell you to say or do anything (legal). Yeah, it's not a scam... you're just an uneducated RU-vidr.

@lizfisher1234 5 месяцев назад

Funny Story. My co-worker had an established titles purchased for her for her birthday. She had already planned a big trip to Ireland with her best friend, so they decided to use GPS to go find her "plot of land". When she got there all she found was a big garbage can. There was a pub nearby so they thought perhaps the GPS was wrong and thats where the established titles was based out of. So they went in and they asked about the GPS coordinates. The first thing the bartender said was "Bought you a plot o'land, did ya?". Her heart sank as she said yes. He said that they get people just like her in there every so often with the same GPS coordinates looking for their 1 foot plot of land. He doesn't know why they chose his coordinates, but they did, and there's nothing there and he's not affiliated in any way with them. She asked if she's at least a lady, and he said no lol. So she asked for a beer and he said that he could give her.

@notme222 4 месяца назад

Well that's awkward. (For her. Funny for the rest.) Their competitor Highland Titles - who I haven't bought from yet but I'm considering it - openly invites visitors. They are a nature reserve and will not only direct you they sometimes have guided tours. Obviously you're still not legally a Lord or Lady, but if you're doing it for a laugh they're doing about as responsibly as you could hope.

@non_brewed_condiment 4 месяца назад

@@notme222so the thing I don't understand is: If you're doing it for a laugh why does that have to be a purchase? Why does a company have to be involved at all? If everyone knows it's not true and it's just for fun why not just print out a piece of paper that says "you are a.." and then fill in whatever you want? You could even frame it. People mention the conversation effort, but if you donated everything you'd spend on one of these companies directly to conversation it would help a lot more than a dollar.

@non_brewed_condiment 4 месяца назад

@@notme222 lmao oops. Conservation

@Julia-lk8jn 3 месяца назад

Wait a second, a trip to Ireland? I thought Established Titles is playing around with Scottish 'land' ?

@Julia-lk8jn 3 месяца назад

@@notme222 That's interesting to know. Are they doing this "You can call yourself XY" shpeel or do they stress the nature reserve aspect?

@Francesc2000 Год назад

When companies have to explain why they are not a scam, they usually are a scam.

@lolmanboss Год назад

Unless they slap down the legal code where its written. Then its ok.

@suspectedstar Год назад

Bragging about Trustpilot is usually an indication. Using Trustpilot at all is a red flag.

@MrSnakekaplan Год назад

Maybe by the strict definition of a scam, but really you didn't lose anything. Instead of been loophole lord that has no power, you are a novelty lord that has no power... I didn't buy into it because like most people, i have other shit im saving for. I just can't imagine anybody buying in with any legitimate intentions in mind.

@tomgl6684 Год назад

@@MrSnakekaplan So this company is selling something that isn't what it first appears to be and the customers are the shady ones for buying it? Er, okay...

@HasufelyArod Год назад

This comment as well as the memes teaches me so much. Thank you.

@zedeeyen30 Год назад

As a Sottish person, I rolled my eyes at their ad the very first time I saw it. Not only is it an obvious scam, it's not even a new scam. I first heard of someone selling this stuff, via magazine ad, back in the 80s.

@anthonyhiggins7409 Год назад

Had the same response. Become a Laird? Aye, ‘cause it’s that simple. Lol And that lot are on the road to abolishment soon too…

@Xylia-lynn Год назад

Tbh I am not even skottish and I knew of this thing before they started advertising but i always knew of it as a stupid scam and joke thing.. was confused when so many youtubers started advertising it.

@Hans-gb4mv Год назад

It's the same as selling pieces of land on the moon. Good luck getting anyone on Earth to recognize that ownership...

@jenphillips3212 Год назад

The first time I saw a vid with sponsorship from these charlatans it made me cringe, as someone of Scottish birth it made me cringe even more. Thank you for the debunk.

@eTiMaGo Год назад

I vaguely remember the same kind of pitch in the 90s/early 2000s internet...

@plannein 10 месяцев назад

They consistently say "if you buy this, you can refer to yourself as a Lord or Lady." I can refer to myself as whatever I want in most cases.

@Inky3417 9 месяцев назад

I refer to you as @plannein

@biggiganticbones 9 месяцев назад

I know how people can call you lord. Other people call me lord, but, I only inherited from my dad. You may need to buy land and have people live there. By taking money from people living on your land*, you become a landlord. Haha *Ofc do it with necessary permits

@johndoe...... 9 месяцев назад

in the USA there is legaly no distinction between a baron and anyone els... all royal and noble titles are banned in the USA.

@Middle-Road.Kim.K 9 месяцев назад

My thoughts as well. I can legally change my first name to "Lady" and my middle name to "Kim". If I use the first-middle name thing like Billy-Joe or Ann-Marie and people interpret my first name as a title, well, what can I do? 😂 Heck, I don't even have to do it legally, just have a nickname. Simple, free, done.

@doc_vader2776 9 месяцев назад

In the age of variable pronouns, why buy land when you can legally change your pronouns to lord or lady.

@magikot Год назад

I'm so glad you pointed out that these are basically land NFTs, because that's exactly what they are. It's like the "buy a star" companies back in the 90s and early 00s, none of which still exist.

@DeathnoteBB 11 месяцев назад

At least the star ones were kind of common sense. Like you can’t visit it, and obviously nobody else knows it’s “your” star. But it’s a cute and romantic gift. But this is just a scam.

@GalacticalHistorian 11 месяцев назад

They actually still do exist. Some friends of mine “bought a star” around a year ago

@tylerkay825 11 месяцев назад

Damn what am I going to do with all the collected stars?

@thishandleisalreadytaken449 10 месяцев назад

THANK YOU! As soon as I saw this stuff the first thing that popped into my head was those star certificates.

@artefloe7676 9 месяцев назад

@@GalacticalHistorian how much did they pay?

@DeadInDenton Год назад

As a Scot, every time a RU-vidr launches into an Established Titles sponsorship ad, my eye starts to twitch uncontrollably.

@PonyGirl004 Год назад

You really shouldn't -I think most people know this for what it is but sadly most people will never get the chance to go anywhere near Scotland. It's all we have for our love of Braveheart, the bagpipes and the kilts.

@mhenderson7673 Год назад

Yeah it's so blindingly obviously a scam

@kennethferland5579 Год назад

Well consider this, atleast people LIKE Scottland enough to want to be a lord of it, that something you can thumb in the nose of the English.

@kennethferland5579 Год назад

@@michaelmurdock4607 That's not really all that unreasonable that your decended from so family that had lands and seals and all that stuff. Remember not everyone inherits the wealth or keeps it if they do. Prior to contraception and modern medicine the elites of society consistently had more children then peasants, every few generation the peasant class had been completly replaced by disinherited and failed nobility.

@LordPhantom1305 Год назад

By reading your comment I got a cough attack that almost caused my death.

@insane_troll Год назад

The legal loophole is that you can title yourself practically anything you want. Whether anyone else is going to agree to call you that is another question entirely.

@rmyoung87 Год назад

True, they only said you can refer to yourself as X. You can indeed refer to oneself as anything! Whether or not there will be legal recognition of that identity or anything inherent that follows with that identity is another thing altogether. [Off topic: this is why many trans people go through the efforts of legally changing their official sex on paper. You can call yourself a man or woman all you want, but you have a legal identity of one or the other assigned at birth which retains itself unless you successfully go through the process of changing.]

@-Dazai- Год назад

Well they have to

@iafozzac Год назад

Actually, you might run into trouble if you do that in Europe, as some countries do have laws regulating noble and knighthood titles

@names_are.uselessyt7908 Год назад

hmmm, that sounds like preferred pronouns

@Divergent_Integral Год назад

@@iafozzac Academic titles too. Here in the Netherlands it's illegal to call yourself Dr. or PhD if you're not actually one.

@ashurean Год назад

When I was a kid, I saw stories about people paying to "buy" stars and land on the moon or Mars. It was such an obvious scam that even back then I realized it was silly. Then these ads started popping up and I was like "here we go again"

@genio2509 Год назад

I think there I heard once that a Spanish woman "Bought the Sun" and was going to court to claim it 😂 But yes, that is just too silly to believe, really surprising people actually bought stars and Mars land.

@aceoflights. Год назад

Yeah. As a kid I always thought. Okay, well I can just point at a star and say "that one's mine" and it has the exact same effect.

@Balotovi 11 месяцев назад

@@genio2509 So let's just assume the judge was very drunk or whatever and confirmed her claim to the sun (and also nobody contests that verdict) - what the hell was she gonna do with it? Sell it to the next person to have a senseless claim to it as if the sun was some dumb NFT-pic? Or was she going to start building real estate on the sun? Just what do you do with an enormous, unreachable, burning ball in your possession? xD

@genio2509 11 месяцев назад

@@Balotovi idk, maybe build a house in there? Or another good idea is, like two years ago there was this meme here in Mexico about the president wanting to put a tax on solar energy. So maybe she can charge money for using the Sun, so just seeing it's light 😂

@genio2509 11 месяцев назад

@@Balotovi I just searched for some news and apparently she went to court to indeed CHARGE for using it, like it can't get more stupid than that 🤣 Edit: You should probably research because I found things like a notary signing a paper saying she owned the Sun and people charging her for sun burns and skin cancer since she owned the Sun that cause those 😂

@CorentinRBR 9 месяцев назад

The crazy thing is that they may have never bought any plot of land in Scotland for Established Titles as they don't need to show any proof of it and they seem to never run out of plots to sell.

@damien678 8 месяцев назад

Right??? Scotland has such a small amount of land, this would have been an incredibly finite 'product' if it was legit

@ussinussinongawd516 2 месяца назад

They're selling 1x1 feet Scotland has enough land for that 😂😂@@damien678

@corvusdove874 Год назад

As a friend who runs an occult shop once told me, "Whenever you hear about something 'ancient' or 'forgotten' in advertising, it's crap. People like me have been using it to sell glass spheres and cheap pewter necklaces for centuries as crystal balls and talismans to tourists and rebellious teenagers. We keep the real stuff in the back."

@Marta1Buck Год назад

Charlatans

@gamecokben Год назад

Spoiler alert: there is no "Real stuff"

@Bubbles99718 Год назад

@@gamecokben no duh, kinda missed the gag Captain

@Earthstar_Review Год назад

I'm pretty sure I heard this too. I miss him.

@dzhellek Год назад

Ancient I can see as possible but if it's forgotten how does anyone know about it?

@DEFxRECON Год назад

The tonal whiplash of LegalEagle being all professional and using legal terms, and then referring to himself as “your boy” is something lol

@wildfire9280 Год назад

It’s like if Guzma went into law school instead of a gang.

@imperatorvult Год назад

who better to report on these very serious allegations than YA BOI LEGALEAGLE.

@TheVikingKing125 Год назад

It's my favorite part of LegalEagle. It shows that lawyers are still just people too. Makes them feel more approachable.

@viderevero1338 Год назад

Caught that too. Honestly threw me off guard XD.

@NativeTexMexican Год назад

I like it...😐👍

@edenjung9816 Год назад

If you want to support reforestation in Scotland, consider supporting Trees for life. My former highschool has worked with them since 2010 and we always had groups of students go there during the school year for 2 weeks to help them out. Was quite nice.

@snekysneks 11 месяцев назад

Mossy Earth is the one I support. They are helping reforest Scotland and many other places. They are also doing many other projects like reintroducing animal species and restoring rarer ecosystems. They have a channel on RU-vid so you can see everything they do.

@JayCares 9 месяцев назад

@@snekysneks ok.

@MindZye Год назад

22:05 - "I don't think anyone is earnestly purchasing Established Titles thinking they now own land are literally a lord." And yet, this is the exact impression I got from all of the RU-vid plugs ET paid for.

@averysspookshowspectacular6205 9 месяцев назад

RIGHT? The ones I was most upset with were the ones that talked about putting lord or lady on checks, passports, credit cards, that sort of thing. They were either stupid or scummy and either way was very disappointing.

@MrCmon113 8 месяцев назад

That's the exact thing they were claiming. That was literally the entire point of their product. Owning land in Scotland and becoming a lord in Scotland.

@masterdeetectiv9520 8 месяцев назад

Yeah to anyone unfamiliar with how nobility works it can look legit

@daledullnig1778 5 месяцев назад

Absolutely. All the comments about "you're an idiot if you believed the advertising" are mildly infuriating; we've had voting rights of all things legally tied to land ownership, an empty title is highly plausible. Easily could have been a law passed in 1493 by a bunch of people in power who wanted to be called lords and then as the nobility stopped being relevant, the law also stopped being relevant.

@ChibiPanda8888 4 месяца назад

Yeah, i got duped by this. Learned my lesson.

@readyforlol Год назад

"Implications are not necessarily false advertising" And this is why so many scams are legal in the US.

@p_mouse8676 Год назад

What blows my mind the most, is how common it is to talk down on competitors. In some cases pretty harsh and damaging. Also when it comes down to political ads. In many countries that's legally an absolute no-no.

@TheAwesomeTolga198 Год назад

Thank goodness.

@cgi2002 Год назад

@@p_mouse8676in many countries political ads themselves are barely legal and come with some extremely harsh requirements, spending allowances, and clear notification of who paid for them and who they support, oh and attack ads are just basically forbidden.

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@Seoul_Soldier Год назад

@@p_mouse8676 People honestly don't realize how much of a hellscape America from a law standpoint. Political attack ads alone shouldn't be legal.

@josephconnelly7939 Год назад

At least with the pet rock I purchased in the 70's, you got the actual rock, the packaging that doubles as it's nest and the extremely hilarious hand book for care of said rock.

@MrCh0o Год назад

You also technically own a former piece of land represented in that rock

@josephconnelly7939 Год назад

@@MrCh0o I guess that makes me a Rock Lord then.

@manictiger Год назад

@@josephconnelly7939 Stoned lord

@carlam6669 Год назад

Original Pet Rocks are available on eBay for buy it now price of $50. Make sure you get the handbook and cardboard box; that’s where the value is.

@notdoot9941 Год назад

I would rock that pet infront of everyone

@areyouwelldoyouhavebrainda2023 7 месяцев назад

I'm such a cynical and sceptical person that when I read "You may choose to title yourself as lord/laird/lady", I just immediately knew it was a scam. If something I'm buying or signing doesn't explicitly say what I am providing the company and what they are providing to me in definite terms, then that is a hugeeeeee red flag.

@daledullnig1778 5 месяцев назад

One might assume that any of the three become valid depending on your gender or spelling preference. Seems reasonably definite to me.

@areyouwelldoyouhavebrainda2023 5 месяцев назад

@@daledullnig1778 You misunderstood. The problematic bit is the part that says "You 'may choose'(...)".

@teathesilkwing7616 4 месяца назад

@@areyouwelldoyouhavebrainda2023 To be fair I’m sure real lords can also choose whether or not they want to be referred to as lords, I doubt they’re forced to call themselves one.

@areyouwelldoyouhavebrainda2023 3 месяца назад

@@teathesilkwing7616 I agree with that, but the problem is in the language of the contract imo. Imagine if we signed a contract that says "you give me a thousand dollars after which you may choose to title yourself as owner of my house". It doesn't say you're the owner of my house, and it doesn't give you any exclusive legal right that you didn't have before. You can call yourself the owner of my house at any moment of your choosing, and it's completely free too! If you do wish to give me money for that, I would still be grateful 😂

@subsonicatomic6853 9 месяцев назад

I've run into at least one person who took it very seriously. She got legit offended I didn't recognize her as an actual lady lol

@Cat-sf1mi 6 месяцев назад

one of my old middle school teachers i ran into didn’t take it seriously but he was so proud of his and his wife’s adjoining plots or whatever 😭😭 i did not have the heart to tell him i knew it was a scam even though i learned of it months ago

@npip99 5 месяцев назад

@@Cat-sf1mi If he didn't take it seriously then it's not a scam. Esp if they have neighboring plots.

@MadnessIncVP 5 месяцев назад

Please tell me you offed them. Anybody taking this seriously, cannot be allowed to reproduce.

@Cat-sf1mi 5 месяцев назад

@@npip99 he didn’t make us call him a lord or anything but he didn’t get the title that was advertised for him which is why it’s a scam

@imMalpa12455 5 месяцев назад

@@Cat-sf1miMy old middle school teacher did too haha

@sophiophile Год назад

The most hilarious part of ET, that I didn't see in any video, was that you could not purchase the item if you are in *Scotland*.

@maggiepie8810 Год назад

😂😂😂

@waroftheworlds2008 Год назад

That screams scam by itself. (You can't buy this if you most likely know its a scam.)

@richardpike8748 Год назад

wow i didnt know that either lmao

@SRQBID Год назад

So you can't ask or make attempts to go see your "land"... 🤫

@timothylopez8572 Год назад

From the tv show "boondocks" "It's 'A Pimped Named Slickback', you say the whole thing"

@olivia5k25 Год назад

It is endlessly entertaining to me that their main legal defense about their product boils down to "it's just a prank, bro".

@helluvagooddrawer2027 Год назад

That tracks

@saoirsedeltufo7436 Год назад

On a similar level to Fox News defending themselves for lying by saying they were technically for entertainment not news...

@zackarybaker9159 Год назад

They say their briefs for advertisers are clear in that they are just a novelty gift. It's on the creators who advertise. People have the wrong idea because of multiple ill-informed advertisements.

@daddysenpai408 Год назад

@@zackarybaker9159 and the same creators advertising it are claiming that they were never told it was a gag gift which I kinda believe since I watch a few youtubers with good reputations that promoted it

@drleal Год назад

Like the pepsi commercial.

@camellia8625 Год назад

I completely agree with your description of it as NFTs. My ex fiancé was a “Lord”- he had bought the title through a scheme such as you describe and then used the title to give him credibility for organised crime purposes for which he was on parole from a 10 year jail sentence. He was predictably dubbed Lord Fraud by one newspaper. I literally had no idea about the “Lordship” or the criminal background as I met him through a dating site.

@DrSpaceman69 11 месяцев назад

Wtf

@tylerontopfrfr 11 месяцев назад

💀💀💀

@kyh148 10 месяцев назад

crime lord ☠️☠️

@RedFail1-1 9 месяцев назад

Some part of this isn’t true. Just can’t figure out what.

@anyexpat 9 месяцев назад

Are you Lady Gullible ?

@cereal_chick2515 10 месяцев назад

Another dimension to consider is that if Established Titles really were selling titles of nobility, they would have been committing an crime under the Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925. You can actually go to prison for it! When Toby Blair was Prime Minister, he was questioned by the police when it was alleged that he had been selling peerages, although he wasn't charged in the end.

@faithlesshound5621 8 месяцев назад

That odd thing about this is that most of the people capable of actually selling you a title (as opposed to taking your money and then not coming up with the goods) are too influential to be prosecuted: prime ministers, party chairmen, etc. The history of people becoming very rich and somehow acquiring a title without a background of good works or political activity strongly suggests that money does change hands. It's just unclear who gets the money, and how much. Only Lloyd George had a scale of fees that we know about. Currently a Russian oligarch wishing to become a Lord would have to cough up at least a million pounds. The most flagrant historic example must be the Grosvenor family, who own formerly agricultural land in Mayfair. They ascended the levels of the peerage over several centuries and the current Duke of Westminster may be the richest man in England. Many brewers became barons in the 19th century: they formed the "beerage." Fortunes made from slaves in the West Indies or the India-China opium trade bought landed estates, parliamentary seats ("pocket boroughs") and titles of nobility.

@katrinabryce 4 месяца назад

@@faithlesshound5621 It costs £3m in party donations to become a Lord, allegedly.

@RossetaStoned91 Год назад

This is literally the same scam the "Buy a Star" people pulled. They would send a certificate with a listed dedicated star, but it isn't recognized on any registry other than the company's. And since they are essentially selling nothing but a piece of paper and frame, they could pour all their money into advertisements.

@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368 Год назад

People are dumb. They will derive life meaning and self-worth through their purchases. We all do it. We're programmed to.

@commandblocktech9698 Год назад

He does mention it in the video...

@MrJdsenior Год назад

Yes, I've sold the Brooklyn Bridge at least 100 times, now. (not really)

@chuckfilming Год назад

i mean is that a scam? who actually believes they own a star haha

@ThePurpleCheesecakeZebra Год назад

@@chuckfilming i was brought this as a kid who was into spacey stuff. it was a nice gift and atleast came with a bunch of cool booklets of info and a map where you could plot out where your non existent star was. i doubt id ever come accross someone with the same gift and the same star assigned to them so its atleast a fun gift idea. with the established titles id be really pissed off because the only thing you get is a fake certificate and it means nothing. atleast in my delusion as a kid i could dream about going to the equator and finding my star. if i went to scotland to find my foot of land to discover its a lake or other unusable piece of land id be pissed

@Oneofakind123 Год назад

The fact that a lawyer outright says "It is a SCAM" says a lot 😂

@espressogirl68able Год назад

What exactly would the scam be? You actually thought you'd be able to fly to Scotland and start throwing your weight around because you spent $50 on a square foot of land? Were you planning on building a castle on that square foot?? A Lord or Lady is LITERALLY what we call a Landlord or Landlady here in the US. But I bet you a guy can buy some fake cha-chas and become a Lady. Or a woman can buy a fake hoo-ha and become a guy. That's all legit, right? 🤣

@Mostbee Год назад

@@espressogirl68able it's not fake just because it isnt natural, sintetic is the right word, a fake substantial land is a land where you can't lordify, if I rent a house the lord i talk to is the landlord because he's the lord of that substancial land, but his mom call him "son". You aren't called a Lord by someone who isn't your tenant lmao.

@borger298 Год назад

@@espressogirl68able ah yes, trans rights, very important in relation to Scottish land ownership laws.

@johnkingbad Год назад

@@borger298 I can't escape the anti trans crybabies! Wherever I go, they follow! PLEASE HELP ME!!!

@Oh_the_humanity Год назад

@Cheryl Fischer being intentionally dense, really? What are you accomplishing rn?

@livesouthernable Год назад

If you have to put disclaimers on lemon dish soap telling people not to drink it, then we shouldn’t assume everyone knew this was fake. I’ve seen all the ads, and this was never marketed as a gag gift. The CEO is still trying to walk the line by saying she’s selling a title really but not really.

@teathesilkwing7616 4 месяца назад

They’re just trying to keep that delicious soap for themselves. I’ve drank for bittls an feel fine. It all a big conspdjiwjwnrnsm

@livesouthernable 4 месяца назад

@@teathesilkwing7616 thank you for your comment. I’m still giggling 😆 😂

@teathesilkwing7616 4 месяца назад

@@livesouthernable *muffled groan of agony*

@missvidabom 2 месяца назад

This is perfectly put.

@kurtru5selcrowe607 10 месяцев назад

I have never once heard Established Titles sold as a novelty or gag gift.

@onamemmet 8 месяцев назад

Those words were added to their promos only after all the revelations of their scam arose. Those words were not initially in their ads.

@lucyndastram4289 6 месяцев назад

They’re running lots of ads on Facebook currently (October 2023) & nowhere do they say it’s a novelty or gag gift!

@theologyincinema3208 Год назад

My family is aggressively proud of their Scottish Heritage, and are also easily duped by anything on the internet. My gullible father was heavily duped by a predecessor of this company, and actually gave up thousands of dollars to them, all while thinking he was "rebuilding our family legacy." These scams can actually hurt people pretty bad.

@rhetoric5173 Год назад

Lmao the hubris!!!

@lordremy1291 Год назад

When I bought mine, I was under the assumption of building something. After learning a nitty gritty as far as laws and titles. I thought better of it luckily. Was almost in a similar predicament as your father.

@Albinojackrussel Год назад

It's mildly amusing that your dad things his heritage is of a lord. I'm assuming you're in America, Canada, New Zealand or Australia? If so your heritage is likely extreme poverty. That's why so many Scott's left. It's why large parts of my own family (coming from a coal mining family in Edinburgh) now live in New Zealand. The only reason my own grandma didn't leave was because her father got sick and she decided to stay to look after him.

@pascalsimioli6777 Год назад

It's not the scams that hurt people in my opinion. It's having your identity so strongly tied to the place where your mother pushed you out of her vagina. As if the spec of dust where you were born is somehow part of your merits.

@seanb6636 Год назад

@@Albinojackrussel do you mean to say wealthy lords didn't just pack up their entire lives and move to the American frontier? That's wild, man.

@ArJayDM Год назад

everytime I saw this ad on youtubers videos; I always thought to myself, "you can't even visit the land, they can literally just re-sell the same plot to multiple people and no one would know or care."

@Zanza007 Год назад

They advertised last year that you could visit the land if you were in Scotland. It was on the FAQ page. The claim was you could have a picnic there but that you'd want to buy a larger piece of land, or it might get cramped. Apparently that was just a straight up lie. Edited - Turns out I purchased from Highland Titles, not Established Titles...easy to see how I'd be confused though all things considered.

@Theproclaimed Год назад

And wouldn’t their whole premise mean every single landowning Scotsman is a lord or lady?

@marjuska9833 Год назад

@@Theproclaimed Yes. I was thinking that too. There is lots of Lords and Ladys

@SuperSlimshady1 Год назад

Exactly

@cordeliaface Год назад

And don't most land owners have taxes to pay? The concept of "you pay once and never again!" for land baffles me. Signed, An American

@CubanPanda Год назад

I instantly knew Established Titles was a scam when I heard that a tree would be planted on your "plot of land". That is simply because trees need empty space around them to actually grow. If two people got a plot of land directly next to each other the trees would struggle to grow.

@damien678 8 месяцев назад

That, as well as the fact that Scotland has a very little amount of space in it, so if it were real it'd be quite the finite product to sell. And they were aggressively advertising. And what legaleagle says, if anyone that owns land is a 'lord' or 'lady' that would actually be kinda ridiculous in modern times. So many people would be that in Scotland which would probably be a well-known thing if it was true but it's not

@chyde8099 11 месяцев назад

I always thought the "name a star" thing would somehow get registered into an official star registry or something, not just a private nobody list. I also assumed that the advertising for Established Titles did exactly what it said on the tin. I'm so gullible...

@E12345E 9 месяцев назад

hi! you’re definitely not gullible! just give me all your personal info and i will prove that to ya! (totally!) (definitely not a scam!)

@averysspookshowspectacular6205 9 месяцев назад

That's how they get you. I don't think it's something to really be ashamed of because these companies use tricks that are known to work. They make it look like this fun thing so you don't think too hard about what they're saying.

@MrCmon113 8 месяцев назад

No, you're simply acknowledging what they actually claimed.

@chetanphoenix 8 месяцев назад

@@E12345E how can I trust you? do you even have a pen?

@leaffinite3828 4 месяца назад

@@MrCmon113 yeah thats what being gullible is. Falling for obvious lies

@JBrander Год назад

Their whole "call yourself a Lord or Lady" deal is basically using the "Can I go to the bathroom? - I dunno, CAN you?" logic. _You will not become a Lord or Lady if you pay us +$50, but you CAN call yourself one. Also here's a paper in a frame that says you CAN call yourself a lord or lady. We don't know if others will agree, but between you and me- since you pay us. Sure kiddo, you're a lord or lady. :)_ Basically, you are paying for a paper in a frame. That's it. You don't own any land, you don't own any official titles, you only own that paper in a frame. They forwarded your $1 to the group that does plant trees, but the rest of your money is in their pockets now.

@aaronlee2810 Год назад

Well you can visit the plot of land if you buy a large enough plot

@suburbia2050 Год назад

@@aaronlee2810 land that you don't l own?

@user-yk3ky1ut1y Год назад

@@aaronlee2810 yeah, technically you can visit the tiny plot of land you don't own.

@HitodamaKyrie Год назад

While it's probably better to just donate to a charity directly if that is your goal, I don't think it's that big of a deal for some other company or whatever to profit from such a system if it means those charities receive money they never would've otherwise. The whole lord thing is dubious at best, and no one should be tricked, but beyond that, meh. I wouldn't buy such a thing myself. They could also donate more money for sure, but I don't run their checkbook and have no idea how any of that money is invested.

@lordcommandernox9197 Год назад

people know that, it's about the forest conservation and the planting of the trees, the certificate is just as good as "the greatest dad in the world" mug.

@jeddjoseph237 Год назад

The problem that Establish titles has is that the disclaimers ONLY CAME OUT AFTER the video trashing them came out. The way back machine was used to check if the disclaimers were there before, they were not. That's the problem, they were only trying to cover their tracks

@MaestroKatProductions Год назад

Welp, the wayback machine once again saves the day!

@Julia-lk8jn Год назад

Hurray for the Way Back When machine, I'll have to donate them 10 bucks this year for their work. (Sorry, I know it's not much! Neither is my income.) Just them pulling the rug from under thus "but look, disclaimer!!!!" stunt is worth it.

@reddragon7762 Год назад

Yep. I bought it 2 years ago. Read terms and conditions, website, and all fine print I could find. They even directly said I could legally have my driver license name changed to include Lord. There wasn't anything saying or even hinting that I couldn't whilst they directly said I could. Result: I couldn't. Couldn't get refund either.

@matthewgillies7509 Год назад

Meanwhile, I've been reporting their ads as fraud on Google and Facebook since day one.

@christinebenson518 Год назад

@@reddragon7762 So you believe that you can actually buy a title? That's on you.

@minechatz Год назад

This is especially funny because developing in Scotland (maybe the UK writ large, idk) is VERY DIFFICULT. The gov makes getting planning permission hard as hell. So the contract not to develop on the land is literally just. "Give me $50 and I won't go through zoning hell." lol

@dansheppard2965 11 месяцев назад

Many years ago, British Airways had a dropdown which listed titles in alphabetical order. The top one, "Air Vice-Marshal" was selected in the form by default. Could have saved myself a few minutes if I didn't have to scroll all the way down to M---, if I'd known I could just have left it set to Air Vice-Marshal. I think Archbishop was the second option.

@Lil_Puppy Год назад

I always just considered things like this a novelty item instead of something that could be legally upheld. Like the "buy a star" and "buy property on the moon" ones too. They're just a "I don't like you enough to buy you something useful for your birthday" type of gifts.

@dharkann Год назад

Well yes and no. Some people are actually aware of this is not actually giving you titles as you assumed, but you'd be surprised how gulliable/stupid/naive most people are to actually believe they are a lord/lady after a mere purchase of 30 bucks.

@demontferrat Год назад

A lot of people think this gives them the title, mostly because how the marketing is done, most RU-vidrs I watch said explicitly that you officially become a Lord/Lady and when they state the Scottish costume of naming assigning the title as long as you own land, it contributes to that. And let’s be honest, how many people read terms and conditions?

@3nertia Год назад

Welcome to capitalism - most of it is a scam ;)

@solinjrgensen2540 Год назад

Novelty item and legally upheld are not mutually exclusive. It's obviously a gimmick and a reasonable person wouldn't except to be able to rule, but if you pay 80 dollars to "become a lord" and they say "LOL u can call urself a lord now thanks for the money", it seems just scummy

@3nertia Год назад

@@solinjrgensen2540 That's their entire business model though ...

@Sylv0swe Год назад

I am so happy that you brought up the fact that they use "environmental conservation" as a defense when it is clear that only a small fraction of their income actually goes to it. I feel like both defenders and critics have been really bad at mentioning it, when in my eyes it is the most important point. It seems better to just give the money directly to charity and skip having trees cut down for a bogus piece of paper.

@hefoxed Год назад

I'm really hoping a more environment focused channel comes out with a video on this (and I assume, green washing), as those still defending it use that as a defense, when considering the net effect including that possible the tree planting is being used to offset/tax deduct for their other brands... it's probably not overall good for environment? The videos keep getting wrong amount for the 2million trees, it's 25 average cents a tree as that's the amount for the charity that number is from, so even less going... :/ Someone else looked into the land claim/records and only found 55.7 acres.

@the98themperoroftheholybri33 Год назад

It's worse, the areas they plant trees are grasslands where endangered birds like Grouse live, it also doesn't help that a lot of these charities plant Spruce which causes acidity in the soil which leech into nearby water sources killing any aquatic life in them also. You'd do more good paying game keepers to go on a deer or grouse shoot, because they humanely kill a sick one and the money goes into preserving their habitat and health.

@vario6492 Год назад

But mooooom i want the bogus piece of paper!!! 😭

@andrewdiaz3529 Год назад

We should also talk about the charities themselves and how all these "Mass plant a tree/carbon offset charities" also have big issues; Researchers from various environmental scientific journals have found that not only are there no proven benefits of these mass tree planting groups, they actually carry significant negatives and often worsen the environment. 90% of saplings planted die due to poor care and improper conditions and due to how they are not local trees and thus unsuited to the environments they are being put in, the lands these mass plantings take place on are often stolen from native and indigenous peoples as well as nomadic groups and rural poor minorities and these plots are used to criminalize them, many times actual adult forests have been CLEARED so farmers can plant these saplings for credit with the charity or their government thus defeating the purpose, and its really just a long part of the over emphasis of forests over every other ecosystem that is actively causing important marshes and plains and other ecosystems being destroyed to plant more soon to be dead saplings. These plant a tree carbon offset "charities" prey on people's desire to do good, help the environment, without actually having TO DO ANYTHING OR MAKE ANY CHANGES which would actually help the environment; It's why big pollution companies and the companies most responsible for mass deforestation love them and talk about how much money they give to offsets.

@Galaxy001 Год назад

31:05 sort of covers the point

@jaroslavdzurilla5103 Год назад

It's a shame/embarrassing how many content creators let themselves get roped to that. Ads will get pulled down and forgotten, but their content will circulate in the RU-vid algorithm forever. Though it's refreshing to know that they are just as fallible human as anyone.

@averysspookshowspectacular6205 9 месяцев назад

There were a couple of creatos I ended up not watching anymore after this (granted, my interest was probably already waning and ET was just the last straw). I saw a TV commercial once and knew it was a scam, it was clear these people didn't do any real research before taking it. The ones who would pride themselves on how thorough they were hit the hardest. Fallability is one thing, this case was just...bad.

@danieltobin4498 8 месяцев назад

This is why I skip most ads on creator channels

@LuluTheCorgi 4 месяца назад

Money Thankfully Sponsorblock exists

@leaffinite3828 4 месяца назад

Idk, i mean unless your content is aimed at kids i dont see how different it is from tv ads, and you see scams/musleading ads all the time on tv. I cant find it in me to be mad at a youtuber for getting their rent money. Especially bcuz its kind of obvious

@gumdrop_gaming2076 11 месяцев назад

“Is established titles a scam?” “Yes.” “Let’s figure out if it’s a scam.”

@writershard5065 10 месяцев назад

Thesis Statement, followed by working out and presenting the logic in justifying that answer. That's a very good video right there.

@adiaphoros6842 10 месяцев назад

"Let's discuss how it's a scam." FTFY

@FictionWriter95 10 месяцев назад

State an argument/claim, present evidence supporting that claim, conclude with a summary. Literally Persuasive Writing 101.

@DPowered2 10 месяцев назад

Definition of hearing words but not understanding the meaning or context

@candylide 9 месяцев назад

I mean, it's better to give arguments supporting that statement other than "It just is"

@jlj2169 Год назад

I feel bad for people who bought this for a loved one for Christmas thinking how cool it was going to be to explain to them what they got, and now there are dozens of videos explaining how they got scammed.

@benm3382 Год назад

Meh, don't feel bad. We all at some point have to learn how blatantly other will lie and scheme, and if you haven't learned by a certain point then you can't be helped

@FirstNameLastName-il8ev Год назад

Really should've learned after the "name/buy a star" thing lol

@Sporkmaker5150 Год назад

@@FirstNameLastName-il8ev I bought a star and named it LV262831.

@manictiger Год назад

These primates have another interesting scam, wherein, they have starving children pull compressed pieces of carbon out of the ground and sell them for thousands or millions of their currency... On a carbon-rich planet...

@n00blamer Год назад

I'd buy one for laughs if it's couple of tenners.. who cares.. people buy pet rocks and other useless trinkets too.. fools and their money don't have everlasting love affair.. =P

@peterlewis2178 Год назад

What baffles me is why a scam company (or at the very least a dubious one) would approach a lawyer for a sponsorship...

@CrunchyBaguette Год назад

If the lawyer says yes then it makes it seem all the more legitimate.

@bradley3549 Год назад

If anything to me it demonstrates to me they have confidence that their gag novelty product isn't a scam. Which frankly is fair. Best anyone can tell people got exactly what they were guaranteed when they purchased. Whether they got what they THOUGHT they were buying is another topic - but caveat emptor! (Learn to read, people.)

@thechugg4372 Год назад

It's the same as when nord vpn approached mutahar and he accepted, he's a channel who talks a lot about internet security so having him promote their scummy business is all the better for them.

@Gwyrddu Год назад

@@thechugg4372 So what Nord's VPN deal then? What makes them a scummy business?

@A_Random_Nazuna_Fan Год назад

@@Gwyrddu in general its prices are rather outrageous, multiple cases have shown NVPN accesing rather unnecesary info and other such stuff

@bryanbreadstick 2 месяца назад

a scam asking a lawyer to promote them is hilarious

@SollowP 9 месяцев назад

It does break down the more you think about it. As it would mean that literally everyone who owns a house in Scotland, is considered a lord. As when they bought their house, they also bought the land it's attached to. Which would mean that an extremely large part of the population would be Lords/Ladies

@LiamRappaport Год назад

I always love the “no reasonable person would actually believe what we’re saying to be true” defense.

@laurencebrown3822 Год назад

If it's good enough for Tucker Carlson, it must be good enough for this!

@freddogrosso9835 Год назад

Blaming the victim is an all time classic.

@adamjung5470 Год назад

Pepsi, where’s my jet?

@CharlieQuartz Год назад

It is a legitimate defense against idiots so I think it’s alright.

@Algebruh2407 Год назад

@@freddogrosso9835 I mean it is an actual defence in actual cases. Just look at the case with the guy who sued Pepsi for a fighter jet in the 90s.

@bloomnights Год назад

Established titles is basically doing the same thing my mom did when I was 5 and she gave a nasa certificate that said i was the most beautiful person in the planet lmao

@rickastley3033 Год назад

Sounds like you have a good mom :)

@marjuska9833 Год назад

I was thinking the same, why would you buy that Lord/Lady certificate $50 or framed certificate $100 (or whatever the prizes is) when you can easily make one basically free or buy frames less than $10? Btw, do you still have your nasa certificate? I'm curious😊

@bloomnights Год назад

@@marjuska9833 yeah... I'm sure it's... somewhere in my house lmao

@marjuska9833 Год назад

😄

@espressogirl68able Год назад

I think your mom might have been scammed by NASA. No offense. I am now questioning that Crown I got for my birthday at Burger King.

@hunterchristian8372 4 месяца назад

He literally pulled the best coffeezilla impression and no one is even talking about it.

@jdog-ukapprentice7660 2 месяца назад

so true

@haidhinaqi 2 месяца назад

That part legit looks like coffeezilla deepfake as him (this is a compliment), it’s surreal to watch. Also thank you for posting this I’ve been looking for this

@HalcyonRemnant 2 месяца назад

I was scrolling and shocked nobody else said this lmao

@NateTheScot Год назад

I honestly NEVER thought for a second that Established Titles' whole "lordship title thing" was serious. I always assumed it was a joke gift and that everyone else knew that you can't become a lord just from that and the whole thing was dumb on the face of it, so it should just be treated as such. Like when there used to be loads of those "buy a star and have it named after someone!" companies too. I was really confused when people started acting like they were being conned or something and i was like "wait, you actually took it seriously this whole time??". Maybe it's just because i'm scottish, i studied law here, and i was also friends with our local Laird until he passed (his daughter owns half of Scotland and is the 3rd largest landowner after the MoD and the Church). The whole idea was so insanely silly to me that i was flabbergasted anyone actually believed any of it xD Edit: LOL i just got to the part you bring up the star thing too... yep. Exactly the same deal. Just a gag gift that is supposed to be seen as such and not taken at all seriously imo.

@LAK_770 10 месяцев назад

Being Scottish and educated in law isn’t necessary, it’s obvious to any reasonably intelligent adult that this can’t possibly work, and honestly I think this is their best defense. Obviously they’re *implying* to rubes that they can literally become a noble, but they always have the “no reasonable person would actually believe this” defense

@davemedispa5107 9 месяцев назад

At this point, just go 100% meme. I friend of mine gifted me a title for Christmas as a baroness in the principate of Sealand. And I am a male. Lol.

@redwitch95 9 месяцев назад

This sort of scam has long been known as a joke in the UK, it's just a novelty gift over here. I can absolutely see it tricking Americans who have zero idea of how the aristocracy in the UK works, though, since they're used to being able to buy almost anything. Why wouldn't you be able to buy a lordship?

@HetaClaude 9 месяцев назад

damn i thought youtubers were just promoting novelty gifts, i didn't realize people actually believed they'd be lords 💀

@kylewarne1265 9 месяцев назад

It comes from an American point of view of understanding nobility to be "silly figureheads" anyway. Like, the logic goes that lords and lady's dont actually do anything, and have no actual power or rights, they just hang around and call themselves nobles. I've never looked into any of these companies because it's an obvious waste of money, but at zero examination it seemed reasonable it was "legit" in that your name would be put in some legitimate legal record that you were a lord not because in bought land but because *the peerage was effectively worthless, and the state would sell anyone the title as a novelty* No one thought they were buying real power. They did think they were buying "legitimate" peerage which they understood to mean belonging to an archaic group which had lost enough prestige that anyone with $50 could join as a novelty.

@Tetrumo Год назад

People need to understand that not every youtuber sponsoring a product is anymore immune to scams than themselves, in either believing the lies or the temptation of greed. As always, everyone should exercise a healthy dose of skepticism, when viewing any sponsorship, or anything for that matter.

@cymond Год назад

Yeah, but it certainly erodes trust in these "influencers" that they will promote something without doing a 5 minute Google search

@Tetrumo Год назад

@@cymond true

@NestedQuantifier Год назад

@@cymond Because a 5 min google search will definitely be able to tell you you are being scammed? Especially when everyone is already doing these kind of sponsorships and there are false info everywhere?

@ereder1476 Год назад

if you are taking 5 figures for your sponsorship, i'm sorry but you have no right to claim you didn't know as an excuse

@someone8323 Год назад

I know it’s off topic but your English is dope

@Silvercrypto-xk4zy Год назад

The biggest problem is they made the claim that you “legally” become a Lord. Also, all of those disclaimers came AFTER they got exposed. The “fun novelty product” part especially was explicitly added in the last week

@BigJay039 Год назад

Yup. I saw a few RU-vidrs make the legal claim, including that it could be used on government documents.

@ParodyWhitney Год назад

Exactly!

@ParodyWhitney Год назад

@@BigJay039I did too

@davidrich27 Год назад

I guess they mislead people somewhat. But did anything really think this was anything other than a gag gift? That seemed pretty clear through the advertising to me.

@tihomirrasperic Год назад

it is a bigger problem if such a "Lord" comes to a country that is a monarchy Claiming a title you don't actually have is playing with own life, if the locals get offended and think you're humiliating them because you called yourself Lord the consequences can be very painful for such a "false lord"

@malbochstudios3593 5 месяцев назад

As an English student of law - the UK legal system slander was an ouchie 🤣🤣

@brad1ey50 Год назад

If Established Titles confuses youtubers into saying what they’re implying then Established Titles must be in the wrong.

@LeSarthois Год назад

A French RU-vidr bought a title from a different website, months ago. He didn't detected the fraud (tho he emitted doubt over the legitimacy of the process) but more importantly, his certificate gave the location of the tree he planted. While the website advertized a "Blackwood" land/forest in Scotland, the tree was planted... in Pakistan.

@pdpgb Год назад

That's probably the part where they're "dedicating" the land in Scotland to you whatever that means, and the tree is being planted separately by another company. Which I guess was in Pakistan.

@Siberius- Год назад

Trees were probably being planted in Pakistan there anyway as part of a routine cycle.

@yiqingtan4079 Год назад

Well, at least he knows sort of for sure that a tree was planted somewhere, I guess

@elpretender1357 Год назад

Id' be hillarious if that tree planted in Pakistan is actually palm to use for palm oil or another for-profit crop

@Jeremy-ql1or Год назад

You know that "plant a tree" is slang for anal sex in Pakistan, right? And "Black wood" is slang for...well, you can probably guess. I hope that French RU-vidr knows what he was really paying for.

@riaz8783 Год назад

That interview with Kat Yip is painful. You can see how hard she has to think because there's so many legal pitfalls she has to avoid.

@jamielondon6436 Год назад

A scammer if ever I saw one.

@freewyvern707 Год назад

Answering the questions accurately is important

@CodingAbroad Год назад

It was embarrassing

@jasonleclare2273 Год назад

It's also really weird that the room has.... *no* furniture or decorations or anything at all.

@Ugly_German_Truths Год назад

If you tell the truth you do not have to be careful with your wording. if you lie you need to remember all the lies you've told.

@corbinbarrett1920 Год назад

The whole scheme of Established Titles sounds like the whole idea of "naming a star" when its almost impossible to do so as well. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@elisamedina5068 10 месяцев назад

I honestly thought that the "buying of the land" wasn't ACTUALLY owning the land but like, because they talked about trees and the environment and stuff, that it meant that I was paying for someone to plant trees on that foot of land or whatever, and the certificate was more of a souvenir, like, I don't know much about international law, but both my parents are lawyers so when my dad heard one of the RU-vidrs I watch sponsor established titles thought there must be a misunderstanding somewhere cause it didn't make sense

@MedlifeCrisis Год назад

Did you just call me a...cardiatric surgeon?! Lawyers just be making words up again

@goncalovazpinto6261 Год назад

FIGHT!

@ktakashismith Год назад

So you're telling me you're not *actually* a cardiatric surgeon like Devin says? And here I was, believing this lawyer when he told me that you were at the cutting edge of heart-reduction surgery - resecting 80% of the unnecessary heart muscle so prone to ischemic attacks, and simply fusing the perfectly adequate left atrium and right ventricle to cut down on the meaningless cardiac activity of the pulmonic circuit. Never mind the "blood dumping syndrome", that's only a side effect you have to worry about when you have the procedure done by a cardiatric surgeon less prestigious than the Greatly Titled Scottish Lord Rohin. But alas, this too is a lie.

@lyndsay80 Год назад

@@ktakashismith So glad that I had a bariatric surgeon carry out my gastric sleeve surgery earlier this year, and not a cardiatric surgeon.

@thenathanimal2909 Год назад

Don't have a heart attack man

@jeanmarkd12345 Год назад

@@ktakashismith underrated comment right there. Lmao

@absolvitor3541 Год назад

I'm a Scottish Advocate and, apart from wincing when you referred to the English legal system in the context of Scots law (they're very separate, very distinct and it's almost certain to rile any Scots lawyer), this was a genuinely excellent video. The issue of souvenir plots comes around several times a year, and especially around Christmas. The companies themselves are generally much more careful in how they word things than those they get to sponsor them. The only way to officially become a Lord or a Lady is by Letters Patent from His Majesty The King (and even then, it's more complex than that because of the various ranks of peerage that exist). Laird is still widely used in Scotland, but does only apply to those who own large and historic Scottish estates. My own personal view is that these companies taint whatever good work that they do with these gimmicks.

@aff77141 Год назад

Pretty sure since so many customers are Americans any lawsuits would be done under American law, and ET itself was from what I can tell established in hong kong so who knows how that will go, but Scottish law may not even be involved other than who's legally a laird

@kylethomas9130 Год назад

Assuming they're doing any good with a portion of their proceeds, can't say being misleading about the lordship makes them sound dedicated to conservation efforts.

@paladro Год назад

at least he didn't call you Scotch ))

@ewanrae7893 Год назад

@@aff77141 Scots and English law student here, it’s ultimately a private international law issue. I think claims could be brought in American courts with jurisdiction to do so but they may apply Scots law (lex loci rei sitae) relating to the transfer of corporeal immoveable property (land) and the incorporeal hereditaments (titles) accruing from them.

@MrEiniweini Год назад

Fun stuff. I had a girlfriend buy me a "Coat of Arms", not knowing that if you produced one as a commoner after 1400AD you would be executed. What I have is something with two pigs on a blue field. Both of my fathers brothers were cops, pigs in blue is a talking point.

@Darius_the_Fifth 9 месяцев назад

To be honest, I'm the saltiest to learn about how cheap it actually is to plant trees. I figured they aren't just throwing an acorn in the woods and calling it a day, so I assumed it would cost at least a few dollars. I knew going in I would have no real title claim, and that although I could drive up to the coordinates they give me and take pictures next to some dirt, it didn't belong to me in any meaningful sense. Both me and my husband still proudly hang the stupid certificate and call each other 'your lordship' from time to time. But ultimately, I wouldn't have bought it if it wasn't supporting a creator and planting some trees so... yeah. Also little heartbeat skip when you pulled your tie out, where's the PG-13 warning?

@jj4l 8 месяцев назад

35:41 bro became coffeezilla and adopted his voice cadence and hand movements... crazyyyyyyyyy

@annapruitt5546 Год назад

In the same statement, they warned that people should NOT go to the bank and try to get a loan using their new title, but then said you could title yourself and go to the bank and get a credit card (and a plane ticket) with your title in front of your legal name. Even the company couldn’t give a clear explanation without contradictions and corrections lol

@MuzzyBarker Год назад

Customizing your credit card is very different from establishing a line of credit.

@jakep8921 Год назад

Why would you even think of using this title to get a loan? Did you think having an "established title" would impact your credit or something?

@AKbaby89 Год назад

You can put any name on a credit card, that is nowhere near the same thing as getting a line of credit in a made up name.

@Darknesssleeps Год назад

Because you can put whatever you want on your credit card. It’s your card. You can put Dr on your card if you want with no proof. It’s just personalization. Securing a loan would be falsely identifying yourself. I could put poopy pants on my CC if I wanted to

@bigbubba0439 Год назад

Literally one of the daily wire people said you could put "Lord" on your PASSPORT. I like the Daily Wire, but man they messed up on this one

@Fif0l Год назад

"We didn't lie to you. We just intentionally put a false idea into your head with words" "That sounds like lying with extra steps" *Edit: corrected autocorrect

@rmdodsonbills Год назад

There's a saying (I think I came across it in a book by Isaac Asimov) that you want your lies to be as close to the truth as you can and the truth, when it can be used as a lie, is the best lie of all.

@jayschafer1760 Год назад

A lie is often defined as an "attempt to deceive". On that basis, you can "attempt to deceive" someone by implying certain things, without outright saying them.

@franciscoguinledebarros4429 Год назад

Legally sensitive lying

@LuminousLead Год назад

That sounds like the gimmick of Inception.

@seandalton6673 Год назад

@@rmdodsonbills That quote has stuck with me for decades. It's from one of the Foundation books.

@MarkSmith-xs4dz 10 месяцев назад

So as a real scottish heratige person, if I were to get officially recognized as a lord, then I'm going to start a competitor that adopts people so they can inherit my titles, which seems to me a more authentic approach to convey title that is legit. But for this honor I wouild charge an annual fee to keep the paperwork safe and available for legal purposes.

@ellotheregovna401 10 месяцев назад

Intriguing…probably illegal somehow, but still a good idea

@GenkiGanbare 9 месяцев назад

@@ellotheregovna401 If it's illegal then it is a racket as old as feudalism.

@averysspookshowspectacular6205 9 месяцев назад

And amazingly would be more moral than Established Titles.

@mlg_dog420 4 месяца назад

scottish heritage person 💀💀

@jeltje50 2 месяца назад

@@mlg_dog420aka they are American

@kathleenbrager2549 Год назад

Whoa! I bought a certificate for my husband at Christmas because I thought he would enjoy seeing his Crusaders name on a certificate attached to a little piece of land, as well as the donation to tree planting, but I never thought about the false advertising or the implications for actual Lords and Ladies. Thanks for clarifying in a such an easy way to understand!

@squashiejoshie200000 Год назад

He missed a critical part of the analysis, at least for those living outside of Great Britain. Outside of Great Britain, that "lordship" *is* worth exactly the same as a lordship bestowed by royal proclamation, because both are worth nothing. For example, in the US, titles are not part of your legal name. You can title yourself however you want, and always could.

@badrequest5596 Год назад

The problem here is those statements on the site were recently added AFTER the video came out exposing them. Before that, there was no mention of it being a novelty and not legally binding. You can see this in the "way back machine" website.

@NickBosshard Год назад

reply to boost this comment

@FairZack Год назад

Was going to comment this too. A lot was indeed added after they were called out, which is very very shady.

@MaiconBerteNight Год назад

Let's bump this up. This is a scam just like when someone says something and people get mad and as defense that person says 'I was kidding'. It's just a coward scammer who got caught and now keeps repeating "I never meant it like that".

@Contrajoe Год назад

That's ludicrous

@Fresco272 Год назад

Exactly!

@thethomascobbgroup5001 Год назад

When a company I've never heard of suddenly advertisers on almost every video I watch, I'm immediately suspicious.

@EvileDik Год назад

It pretty much seems to be a rule across the board, if its a YT sponsorship, it's a borderline scam. Just look a the overpriced tat that appears in YT sponsorships, Manscaped, $30 of commodity hair clippers for $200. Nord VPN, the most untrusted VPN in IT security circles, with multiple data leaks and breaches. Raid shadow legends, micro transaction hell P2W. Vessi , massively overpriced footwear. Honey, massive data slurp that invades every action you carry out in your browser. Glasswire, repackaged open-source software (and often functions that already exist in your OS anyway).

@GrouRocks Год назад

Now I'm getting curious about how legit that Japanese knife company is

@owenliu9235 Год назад

@@GrouRocks shadiversity did a great video on kamikoto knives (Search kamikoto knives scam on youtube). He found that the knives they make are made of cheap steel and are equivalent to supermarket giveaway knife despite being sold for hundreds of dollars.

@runnercomet9191 Год назад

@@GrouRocks it's marketing company from Hong Kong reselling 10$ cheap chinese knives for 200$ (1000$ on permanent 80% sale)

@christosdoesthings Год назад

Suddenly curious about NordVPN, since i actually used it in the past.

@lilsprugga 8 месяцев назад

I like the idea. They used to advertised that you change your first name to Lord or Lady. But in Australia, some states won't let you do that. Alas.

@kaileymo 8 месяцев назад

I assumed it was obvious it’s just a novelty gift. The “I wanted to get you something that wasn’t just more stuff, but was more than a card” gift. It sucks that they’re lying though.

@taitbanksproductions9105 Год назад

Great video as always! As a Scottish lawyer, one thing to note is that the 1979 Act has since been mostly repealed by the Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012. Don't worry though, Section 22 of the 2012 Act still bans "souvenir plots" in the same way as the 1979 Act. Also, a quick look at the Land Register of Scotland confirms Established Title's land as not being the beautiful Highland paradise it implies, but a patch of boggy roadside ground around 20 miles from the English border. False Advertising for sure!

@showingthelinks8441 Год назад

Same with the Anne of Green Gables one not to long ago, it was just some side plots.

@queeny5613 Год назад

Ahahah that’s what I assumed it was, I just thought it was some moterway verges

@nancyzehr3679 Год назад

That said, re the bog, so maybe one buys the foot of bog, and the trees are reforesting some other lands. It's not stated where the trees are planted.

@roguedeathangel Год назад

Came to the comments to say exactly this!

@BarryHWhite Год назад

Git it up them. Mair money than sense.

@pulchrare2 Год назад

I have one of these titles from a different company, Scottish Laird. They list publicly that it's a decorative title, not an actual peerage, the money goes towards restoring a historic castle, and you're entitled to a tour of the property if you ever go out there.

@acester86 Год назад

See that I could get behind. 😏

@HTx78 Год назад

i do not see this… just that it is a novelty thing

@thetinykid4169 Год назад

@@HTx78 I mean it offers a pretty upfront idea of what it is and the function of what your doing. You are helping restore a castle by buying this and there's just a fun gimmick that goes it that doesn't mean anything. It's more like marketing for the real purpose and what you pay for. Also it offers a pretty good deal if you are going to Scotland or in Scotland because just buying guarantees a tour of a historic site. Which would be quite valuable for a tourist.

@cgygflkj Год назад

That seems way better.

@jjcymbolic Год назад

Honestly, if I was guaranteed allowance to tour a castle if I visited upon purchasing, I'd be more willing to purchase. That would especially be the case if I had a visit to Scotland planned.

@CliftonHamilton 2 месяца назад

Even the $8 a month recurring payment- that has nothing to do with your original novelty purchase, and is at least 83% profit. They could even give half the money to tree planting. That's absurd.

@kris8606 8 месяцев назад

I bought one of these for my dad as a silly little gift since he loves trees and already has a reagle sounding name (x y the third) so even though it was most def a scam, it made my dad smile adding on that I only kept the monthly subscription for about three months.

@Sharkey1208 Год назад

This kind of scam pops up every now and then under a different guise. From "Lordships" in other countries to "buying" stars and having them named after you or a loved one

@salazam Год назад

Are you saying I don't actually own a plot of moonland?

@vasilebandila2502 Год назад

i would like a supernova please :)

@Skittenmeow Год назад

Yeah when I found out my neice got given a star named for her 21st I was sure it was a scam. Such a token gift, and bad idea for someone planning to be an astrophysicist. She knew it was a scam straight away.

@mhenderson7673 Год назад

@@Skittenmeow Haha that's like how all Scottish people can immediately tell Established Titles is a scam

@kaelandin Год назад

@@Skittenmeow My mother got me this, and the document had the location of the star and what do you know... There's no star where the coordinates indicate.

@derinedala5032 Год назад

Favourite part of this whole 'official title with land' gimmick is that according to Established Titles' "legal loophole" claim, all Scottish homeowners are "official" Lords and Ladies.

@israellai Год назад

Well, considering that to many Americans, Scotland is a fantasy land with woods and fairies and freedom fighters but no actual living people....

@Alondro77 Год назад

@@israellai Nah, Scotland is populated by Critical Drinker clones who spend their days guzzling enough booze to fill the Pacific.

@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus Год назад

@@Alondro77mostly buckfast or whatever they got for goon bags there

@michaelutech4786 Год назад

In Italy, all you have to do to earn the academic title "Dotore" is to wear a suit in the coffee shop. Laird sounds cooler, but having coffee in Italy has its own charm.

@taln0reich Год назад

had the same thought and then made a google search as to how many scots do own their homes. According to google it was 62% of scotish households living in property they own. So, I'm not sure whether owning a flat in a multi-family home counts towards this supposed loophole, but if it does, the majority of scots would be Lords or Ladies, and if it doesn't, and if it doesn't it would still very definetly be a double digit percentage of the population. Also, just imagine how obnoxious dealing with landlords would be if just about every landlord could demand being referred to as Lord or Lady.

@jensbart 9 месяцев назад

as someone who lives in the UK i've always found these companies super weird, inherited titles/granted titles are super weird and the idea of buying one/becoming a peer of the realm through is just... bonkers

@surfercr3339 Год назад

That last segment transformation to Coffeezilla was EPIC! Hahaha! I loved it!

@aceofspades3018 Год назад

A couple months ago my dad was talking about he got a gift that he received a 1 foot of land in Scotland and is now a lord. So I can tell you in fact that what was advertised and conveyed. He even had a trip to Scotland planned and wanted to visit "his foot of land". After watching all of this I don't have the heart to tell him it was all false. I hope they do get sued.

@Imps603 Год назад

just tell your dad. save him a trip to scotland. or like, have him take a vacation there or whatever

@markjohansen6048 Год назад

I don't know. If he showed up at Established Titles land, would they take him to his one square foot and let him stand on it and ... I don't know what he'd do after that. He presumably doesn't think he's going to build a castle on one square foot.

@penname8441 Год назад

@private755 Год назад

Uh tell him before he wastes his money on a flight lol that’s cruel of you to keep it from him. “Protecting” someone from their own emotions that you can’t even predict in the first place is manipulative as hell. He’s an adult who deserves to know he got ripped off.

@alyssarichardson2544 Год назад

@@private755 I second this. Tell your dad dude, he doesn't deserve to get ripped off like that.

@davidrichards9528 Год назад

Their website was edited to say it’s “a fun gift, meant for a good laugh” after Scott made his videos calling them out 😂

@davidjackson6475 Год назад

Should've been the tagline from the start.

@Lonewolfoperations Год назад

I love the internet for call outs.. it keeps them honest.

@LeonardGreenpaw Год назад

Ah yes, I usually pay 160$ for a gag gift, doesnt everyone?

@GangsterFrankensteinComputer Год назад

That was already there a year ago. Check the way back machine.

@profpuffofficial2 Год назад

Now it says "funniest gift of 2022" eith emojis

@wowRichtoad 7 месяцев назад

As a general rule, if it's too good to be true, it usually is and this definitely applies. Especially when you consider that the whole point of nobility is to exclude the rabble.

@Jeremy-ql1or Год назад

It reminds me of the common scam type ads in old comic books, like learning the Touch of Death or a pamphlet on becoming the "Ultimate Ladies Man".

@seb3209 Год назад

My therapist: Coffeezilla with a law degree isn't real, he cant hurt you This video:

@RBrown-uk4xt Год назад

Was wondering if anyone else saw that. Did a double-take when he took off the jacket.

@mattiesteck7604 Год назад

@@RBrown-uk4xt Haha same. I was felt a disturbance in the force that was confirmed with the background change.

@jaxflash7793 Год назад

Imagine in the middle of the video he goes “anyways this video is sponsored by established titles”

@Sporkmaker5150 Год назад

That would be awesome!

@Mamaharps 8 месяцев назад

It was a nice gift for my brother’s 60th birthday, as our ancestors are from Scotland. Honestly, he knows that it’s just a novelty and isn’t headed to Scotland to claim his land, but he has a nice certificate in memory of turning 60.

@damien678 8 месяцев назад

Consider getting him a book on Scottish Gaelic next to learn some words in the language

@mnschoen 22 дня назад

"Our ancestors are from Scotland" Oh lord, you're one of those. You're American, your brother is American, your great-grand-parents are American. "Scot" is not a genetic classification.

@TalmidAndy 11 месяцев назад

I find it interesting that most people who try to expose this scam skirt around the laws regarding use of such titles in many jurisdictions. Under both English and Scottish law you cannot just change your name to that of a title nor can you assume the title without significant legal problems.

@JordanIdk Год назад

Basically they used the “it's just a prank bro” defence to being called out on a very obvious scam. Kinda proves that you can sell absolutely nothing with enough advertising.

@Girlywolf-tl4ju Год назад

there is a product on amazon called nothing

@allhopeabandon7831 Год назад

I think that they were surprised that anyone is stupid enough to actually think that buying a couple square inches of land makes you a Lord or Lady in real life. You can name a star after yourself, you can buy land on the moon...this is the same, good natured, jokish type thing as those two. I guess they haven't encountered the average American DemocRAT, who is dumber than a box of rocks, and who has been following this grifter through all the 'This time Donald Drumpf is really, really, really goin' to jail...cuz I'm uh liar, err, lawyer' content which enabled him to amass a sizable subscribership from the Dumb-o-cRATs who hate peace and prosperity bc they are idiots.

@dmitritelvanni4068 Год назад

Well... do they plant trees as they claim tho? If so It may as well just be a "carbon offset". I can forgive the sketchy tactics if they're planting trees.

@TheMistyBlueLounge Год назад

@@dmitritelvanni4068 Even the idea of planting a tree to improve the environment is a scam most of the time, because they plant a single type of tree that limits biodiversity and isn't actually beneficial to the environment like a diverse natural forest. There's some studies that show these mono-crop forests actually make carbon emission worse and may further degrade the land they're on. They look nice on postcards but very little actually lives in these environments because there's not enough variety in the resources available. For this same reason they're very vulnerable to disease or any kind of environmental disruption and wont survive for long term like a real forest does. You're better off getting into Permaculture if you care about environmental sustainability, not paying someone half way around the world to pretend to do something beneficial.

@dmitritelvanni4068 Год назад

@@TheMistyBlueLounge that's a fair criticism. But overall It is the best move forward I promise you. It could be done better for certain, but trees, not windmills... that's what will save the planet. In fact I'd argue it's the only option... that and nuclear energy...

@LittleGreenSoldier Год назад

One of their competitors, Scottish Laird, is quite a bit more honest about their purpose. There's a historic building (Dunan's Castle, a small residence that was built up into a mock castle in the 1860s) that was destroyed by fire in 2001 and they're rebuilding and restoring it. Buying a "Lairdship" (which they state up front is only a decorative title) also gets you a guided tour of the building and grounds, and you can camp and fish there if you decide to actually fly out.

@xolotlnephthys Год назад

You can camp there even if you haven't bought anything. It's legal to in Scotland anyway

@KasumiRINA Год назад

@@xolotlnephthys The other catch seems to be is that people donating feel they're getting a tour but most won't actually come there... so it's more of an invitation coupon. I'd pick an actual fund to donate instead... like Come Back Alive. Their Black Box project guarantees explosions on russian strategic airfields, saving a world from nuclear war by, well, helping Ukrainian army destroy russia. Best investment ever!

@thomasdillon6001 Год назад

@@xolotlnephthys This would depend on how close to the building you want to camp. The 'Right to Roam' in Scotland excludes camping on the 'curtilage' around buildings. This generally means the immediate area necessary for use and enjoyment of the building itself, so roughly where a moderate private garden might be. The grounds on a house like this are probably big enough that this isn't an issue, but it's worth bearing in mind. (Otherwise the Right to Roam is a very generous law which I think other countries should copy! They have it in Sweden as well.)

@Caffeine.And.Carvings Год назад

@@thomasdillon6001 problem is, in Sweden most places are actually private property and the spots that are free to camp are packed full of campers starting 3pm. It sounds good on paper, but in reality a good free camping spot is really hard to come by

@eeriewaffle3938 9 месяцев назад

"A fun gift for a good laugh," is not a piece of paper costing me 100$.

@rhcp9009 6 месяцев назад

The funniest part about all of this is that people actually looked into this. Once I saw these ads I thought it was consensual between both parties that one of those parties was okay with flushing their money down a toilet.

@annalaird8353 Год назад

I was pretty outraged when some of my favourite RU-vidrs started shilling this scam. Scotland has some pretty hotly contested land ownership issues and some company selling off the land for profit is pretty offensive. After inspecting the website myself as well I found no evidence of the conservation efforts being made. Are indigenous species being planted? How are they being managed? The partner company didn't have any information on this and I couldn't even find their activity in Scotland. The whole thing stinks. And yes, the irony of my last name is not lost on me. Haha.

@faramund9865 Год назад

I really dislike these 'tree planting' companies anyways. As you say, usually they plant non indigenous trees as they buy trees or seeds rather than collect it nearby. Furthermore often this is on land where trees have just been cut down. If you really want to do something for forests. All you have to do is buy the land and then let nature do the work for you.

@historyandhorseplaying7374 Год назад

@@faramund9865 What's wrong with planting trees where trees were just cut down?

@nootnoot42 Год назад

@@historyandhorseplaying7374 Well if land is used for wood, it is normal to plant trees after cutting an area down. So it is basically selling business as usual as regrowing forests... It is as if you'd be claiming to gift your hair to charity while actually just having your hair cut and "gift" the cutoffs (which are not useable ;) ).

@Jehty21 Год назад

@@historyandhorseplaying7374 there is no problem with doing that. The problem is with collecting donations to do that or advertising it as a honorable thing. Generally whoever profited from cutting down the trees should plant new trees. They should pay for it. Not private people who were lured in by "saving the earth" promises.

@leroyjenkins1249 Год назад

I knew it was scame once a YTber mentioned how "easy" you could just become a Lady/Lord. I know this basically from my family. In a nutshell, my family has some rumors about having an ancestor that is the bastard of a small European dukedome. No bigshot, some really local family. As a kid, I got really fascinated with that idea, because -let's be real. We all know the stories of "suddenly a princess?" where one day it's revealed your life is much more special than you knew. Anyway. My Ma quickly shot me down. In the way that -even if I had evidence - the bureaucracy would be tedious and hellish. And in the end the biggest thing I potentially would have, would be a posh title that only looks good on certain applications.

@Drekal684 Год назад

You know, as a Scotsman, I kinda regret not immediately contacting my MP and asking them to look into this the first time I saw it come up.

@dcanmore Год назад

Andy Wightman MSP just went through a court case recently where he outed a similar scam.

@guccifer764 Год назад

They already know. MPs have been speaking out about this for years.

@anonymes2884 Год назад

Stories about this have been popping up for years in e.g. the Daily Record, The Scotsman etc. None of this is particularly new, it's just blown-up on RU-vid recently (maybe "Established Titles" specifically is fairly new but others have been around for donkey's).

@funoff3207 Год назад

This has been going on for nearly two decades at this point

@JdeBP Год назад

It was discussed by Geoffrey Howe, then a minister, in Parliament in 1971. He apparently liked the idea of taking money from American tourists.

@Adam-pt3cb 11 месяцев назад

From what you’ve described it sounds a lot like they might be essentially operating a land bank. This has been found to fall within the remit of the FCA as a collective investment and I don’t know if they have the necessary permissions or note, but if not it’s very likely they’re breaking the law.

@DrDimwit 9 месяцев назад

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you but I'm not sure it'd really fall under that either. Under a scam land banking scheme, the marks are sold a plot of land under fraudulent claims of future worth or without appropriate control of the plots etc. etc., but (as far as I understand it) they do, in fact, own the plots. In these scams, they simply are not selling land. That's the rub of the whole change in the law on souvenir plots that they misrepresent and I don't think is explained super well here: they legally cannot be registered with the land registry, and as such, no sale has taken place. Despite the claims/implications of these companies, this doesn't mean the sales fall under contract law *instead* of having to go through the land registry, it just means no transfer of ownership can take place and no land has actually been sold. [note: I'm not a lawyer, but I know a lecturer at a Scottish university who specialises in Scottish Land Law who has been blocked on twitter by most of these companies for pointing out that their interpretations are wrong. I have yet to see any Scots Law experts in the relevant fields agreeing with the claims of these companies]

@DarkFrozenDepths 8 месяцев назад

I'm reminded of Billy Mitchel's claim to be "Gamer of the Century" when I saw this. And he's probably in some legal trouble over that too when you look into the entire thing between him and Twin Galaxies. He might even get others like Namco involved due to this.

@Gwx480 Год назад

Thank you! As a person from Scotland, I wish people would pay more attention to many fantastic conservation charities we have instead of giving their money to companies that sell fake titles. They do very little actual good apart from keeping the land undeveloped. People wishing to help with conservation should give to charities involved with habitat preservation and restoration.

@JeremiahDouglas Год назад

Nah they are all scams

@melody3741 Год назад

They plant trees on the land you buy apprently

@monhi64 Год назад

You’re getting at the single fact that made me most angry in the entire video but no one has talked about. ET only even owned 200 ACRES of land to potentially preserve, which is such a painfully small amount of land to “preserve” makes me genuinely angry. That’s how math works tho, you sell land a square foot at a time you can fit damn near an infinite amount in 200 acres. Why were they even selling in square feet in the first place, Scotland uses metric

@DrDOOM-xs8jm Год назад

@@melody3741 not really

@binbows2258 Год назад

@@monhi64 its because they are selling it to Americans

@GraniteJet Год назад

Us lawyers often have to answer "it depends" when it comes to legal questions, but I feel like Established Titles is a good opportunity to throw out the rare "well, what do you think?"

@everythingpony Год назад

Its a scam 100%

@WhatALoadOfTosca Год назад

He's not a British legal professional. This is a very American video and quite comedic.

@AndreLuis-gw5ox Год назад

Not US lawyers. Any attorney on the planet will answer "it depends" because it really is true. Law is complicated anywhere

@mappingshaman5280 Год назад

@@WhatALoadOfTosca you don't need to be a British legal professional to read basic rulings on the requirements of lordship.

@jharju2352 Год назад

@@WhatALoadOfTosca Bought yerself an established title, eh?

@jon_j__ 4 месяца назад

@35:00 Waitaminute... Coffeezilla let you record in his million dollar studio?!

@thomaslawson9808 10 месяцев назад

"We planted trees so we can scam people" is a pretty funny thing to say

@ultimateninjaboi Год назад

Glad to see you addressing the whole "people who fell for this are idiots and the problem," mindset. Its so frustrating to see it come up every time a major scam is discussed. Cuz it basically shifts blame away from the actual bad actors, in favor of victim-blaming. And usually for the sake of inflating the persons own ego.

@heathencaerus4046 Год назад

I never bought it, but I was considering it... I have never in my life heard the term 'gag gift'... I did not even know that people buy fake gifts on purpose. Thus I was very gullible when I saw some of my favorite RU-vidrs advertise this as a nice gift for your friends.

@MisterDimi Год назад

@@heathencaerus4046 Yeah, I too was considering it. I like to spend my money on weird and silly stuff, and when I saw someone advertising it I went like "oh, this is so funny, I'll probably get it someday", the thought of it being a gag gift never even crossed my mind lol

@DM-zh2kt Год назад

True. Especially for the part of "inflating the persons own ego", I can't recall reading a single comment where the person say that is the buyer fault without also stating "I would never do that" in some way. The most common being "It was so obvious" argument.

@honeyreyes4384 Год назад

Not much to add but support for this comment. The internet gets so high and mighty about spotting scams and it’s victim blaming, sadly diverting where the true focus/disgust/judgement should be from the scammers to the consumers. It’s messed up.

@pyropulseIXXI Год назад

The only id**ts are the people that knew it was a 'gag gift' and still bought it. They went "Yeah, I'll spend $50 on a pdf file that is literally worthless. Totally worth it!"

@naolmstead Год назад

I remember once as a kid my dad telling me about a novelty plot a land on the Jack Daniel's distillery property he had. And he explained he didn't really own the land and that it was all just for fun, so I knew from the start what the Established Titles thing was. As I recall the Jack Daniel's one got him a calendar and a funny newsletter about the happenings on his plot that year such as a tree falling on it or a family of raccoons moving in near by.

@daemonspudguy Год назад

So technically it was something, and therefore is a better use of money than Established Titles.

@m0L3ify Год назад

That actually sounds like a fun one

@Kimberly_Sparkles Год назад

I feel like people are really being dumb here. Did you really think you could buy a title for $50 bucks? Sensibly, it doesn't sound likely. I've actually looked at the purchase before a few years ago for a friend who would have thought it was a hoot. The fine print on the actual purchase is pretty clear that this is essentially a donation to support the tree planting charity they are pulling the land information from. Unless they've changed everything when you go to make the purchase, it's pretty clear what you are actually getting during the transaction. No one would think they have a legitimate title when the document saying you are a Laird or Lady says you aren't actually.

@-oiiio-3993 Год назад

Your memories are accurate. My dad was also a Jack Daniels 'Squire'. It's not hereditary, I checked.

@snowangelnc Год назад

@@daemonspudguy With Jack Daniel's he got a calendar and a funny newsletter. With Established Titles there's a tree planted and a funny certificate. Sure, you can have a preference, but you can't say that one is objectively better than the other.