| 29.12.2006 |
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Year 2006 is coming to an end with few days left and I must say it has been quite wild and full of various surprises bad and good. In general it showed that biggest fallouts still happen every 5-6 months and last year it was even 3 times since first one happened early in February with Stormpay scandal then one in June which eventually lasted longer through whole summer and latest as some say quite expected this month which was labeled as black December even few months back. Possibly this stereotype of upcoming holidays affecting hyi business had some additional influence but later or sooner this would have happened anyway. Of course such end of year isn't too pleasant especially since it's during holidays but chances are much higher that next year will begin with clean start and possibly only 2 expected crisis periods. If we follow current pattern then those could be expected around May and October but that of course is just speculation and several side issues could cause such events to happen faster or later. One of main aspects in my opinion will be average ROI of launched sites and if it continues to keep as high as it lately is then we can expect shorter cycle programs with few exceptions run by dedicated admins. Attempts to bring average ROI lower wasn't received too well since most people involved in these programs prefer faster returns with higher risks and advertising side of autosurfing business in majority of cases has been either lost or provided as low value feature so as alternative variable daily ROI was introduced via profit sharing model programs but from first few attempts only CEPCoast is still doing good and consistently keeping it's 2% daily earnings. Later some more followed but were run over by hit and runners. But hope is not lost completely for this business model and in my opinion it just needs some improvements. I think first few months of next year will be filled with some searching for new mix of business models as original one has exhausted it's value and is considered more or less pure ponzi if ROI is above 1%. And there is this latest hot pick as profit share model with limited daily earnings like Coastin88 and with extra revenue calculations besides upgrades just like in ManicAds. Both these programs showed that profit sharing model can be brought to next level where such programs can last much longer than few days by introducing protection from hit and runners with daily limit and keeping daily share consistency when more advertising value is involved. This direction is quite interesting and I am quite glad to see that Dustin from DesertSkyMarketing who plans to relaunch his program with this new business model right after new year will be using both of these great proven features in his program. These are quite great news and I think this combination has very good potential which will be picked up by other admins when they launch new programs and this could be beginning of new wave of autosurf industry going strong again. Of course even this needs more time to see the actual business value but at least we see this new still experimental model improving over time where admins see mistakes and problems of other programs and try to solve them with various modifications. DesertSkyMarketing will be going off as hot new program in current vacuum of other alternatives after mass fallout of industry leading programs during December so it will be first of potentially great ones but I am sure there will be more to follow just question stands which ones will be worth joining as not every admin has good intentions and some programs are closed on highest peak just like one that closed yesterday. So more focus will be paid to recover who are behind those programs before considering enlisting those to avoid such unexpected surprises again. |
| 28.12.2006 |
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Appears that just before holidays I jumped into last days BlueHeavenEmails which closed down just when my first payment went to pending and seems this one was quite well planned scam. This program was quite well set up with unique concept of 3 different paidto types incorporated and it was going quite great after 2 months since it's launch reaching 3000 mark and continuing to grow with quite nice pace so seems plug was pulled on the peak of it's growth and even some bonus offer was announced just before closing down to get in more cash. Also payout terms were increased from 72 hours to 7 days to buy some time and explain lack of payments.
This runaway actually happened after claims that BlueHeavenMails was creation of same admin who run WiredSurf and ReindeerSurf so possibly cash flow reduced as members who read this decided to play it safe and pull out which caused reduced cash flow and admin decided it's time to close the shop. This post is supposedly from admin of this program:
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Oh Boy,
Here we go and I need to confess so here goes.
I went ahead and started to delay the payouts because there was not enough money coming in so then I decided to delay the processing of the payouts and extend them to 7 days.
You probably can try to track me down by calling my old workplace and with my IP address there might be a chance that you will get my real name.
Well If I have managed to get this far and with all that money that I have my hands on, I probablt gave my two weeks notice also. But If you work very hard you can probably contact the local police and ask them to track me down but by then I would have transferred the money to an offshore account and left the country.
Oh , the reason why the site was so slow today was i had to remove a bunch of transactions from the server and databases to clear my tracks and not be found out legally.
Oh, I have another IP address here too 74.129.229.130 (DHCP-74-129-229-130.insightbb.com)…looks like my old company was using a DHCP server so maybe you might be able to find me.
There seems to be a large amount of money that was kept in the system for over a week where I was able to transfer it out…good luck in trying to catch me.
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Not so pleasant news come from Andy admin of The Finer Things and also XLO Auto surf which currently is leading autosurf program. He plans to close hyip program after new years and has plan to pay out everyone according to terms by end of January. Payments will stop now to gather funds for private investment which will allow this plan to pay everyone in full to take place. It is very good that he is very up front with the situation and reveals his plans to make his end of deal fully but sad part is that even though admin says XLO is separate entity and shouldn't be related to any troubles with hyip program this anyway will result in slowdown of cash flow for autosurf program since people will draw their own conclusions just like it recently happened with EZSurfnEarn related sites. Although XLO cycle is 2 and half months long so if everything goes as planned for hyip program then this will only be temporary slowdown until admin proves he will do what he promises.
Here is full announcement from Andy:
"There is going to be a twofold change to TFT.
We have had a few problems with the earning vehicles used for TFT. My sense of why is connected to the recent actions of e-gold and a perceived dropping of confidence in them. Comments by many that e-gold was going to close has added to the general decline. While this is not my position - the way that we used to generate returns has been steadily dropping. Looking for the right alternatives is a daily process.
Steadily dropping returns has meant that some incoming were used to pay existing obligations.
The decline started early December and accelerated throughout the month. This has caused a cash flow issue .
Within the HYIP arena there are such things as private placements - they tend to be "those things you hear about but never actually eventuate." My reading and research has shown them to be real - but previous to now I have not been able to access one directly.
This has changed over the last little while.
The reality part is that I cannot say a whole lot about it but I can assure you and reassure you that I have done my homework.
This opportunity (high risk though it is) is one that I plan to capitalize on.
The downside - the placement fees are high - we are talking serious money here.
So after much discussion here is what I am going to do.
All available TFT funds are to be diverted to this opportunity. This amount still does not meet the minimum required so the following will happen.
Payouts will stop - for the course of the trade.
TFT incoming spends will go to the placement.
TFT will close on 3 January (1 week)
ALL spends (all existing/outstanding ones + all new ones) will be paid in full as of January 31.
To be clear - no more TFT payouts till Jan 31 then EVERYONE gets paid.
Additionally a place in the forum will be set up for those who wish to participate more directly in the placement. Access to that is going to be at my discretion. I cannot empahise enough that this is a private offer. I cannot and will not dicuss publicly.
Participation will be via e-gold - that doesn't change.
Maximum amount to invest is under review.
One more thing - once the amount needed to participate is reached all offers will be closed. We will not accept more than we need. Period.
Now this is not a "going private" thing. It is an opportunity to pool funds to participate in a private arrangement.
I also know (extremely well) that this is going to cause some discussion dissention crtiticism etc. I accept that - just as - on opening the program I accepted the responsibility to generate the returns to you in the most efficient manner possible.
To head off queries -the most obvious being could TFT continue - based on the current (right now) trend - No. Could we trade out? I was and am going to try - and this is the option I have decided upon.
Are refunds available - No they aren't.
I had previously stated that if and when TFT closed everyone would be happy. This closure is sooner than I thought - but I am adjusting to the circumstance.
It is my real belief that although the delay of payout until 30 days may cause some (a lot?) of pain for some, the fact that the program will payout every member in entirety is a plus.
Now the other thing I need to mention. I reckon you have heard this spiel before - I think I have heard things along similar lines. Why should you believe me? To answer that I can only say that I am going into this trade openly and will keep people posted along the way as to progress. I am not closing the forum - nor XLO (which is it's own distinct program). I am working to provide each and every one of you the return you were after - circumstance has dictated that this will take longer than originally thought.
In closing - I take full responsibility for this decision. I understand that is not going to be popular to all - but it is my thought out and considered opinion that it is the best option for everyone.
Your comments are always welcome.
Andy" |
| 22.12.2006 |
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Before I go into latest news I would like to say Merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone! This is time of the year when all should spend some quality time with family and friends which is what I plan to do during these holidays so most probably there won't be much updates during next few days.
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Probably most discussed topic these days after fall of big ones is another move from Bob Krimm owner of Tri-Star Media sites. Appears he will be moving his business with corporate office to Canada and main reason for this is lack of licensing requirement for running a money processor in this country. Of course without surprise all blames for this inconvenient move were direceted to his main enemy which are bloggers and monitors that seem to be making his life a living hell despite his best efforts to keep the business running and even threats to sue some of them were thrown out. Well as I see it this claim is just sneaky way of diverting attention from main question which is raised after such move why does he want to run a money processor without a license?
Well nobody is perfect and mistakes happen. Only people who never do anything won't make any mistakes so every decision or change made by Bob is receiving criticism especially after he is answering by getting into flame wars with critics who can't be silenced by censorship or any other means. In fact more of such attitude will just bring more criticism to every decision of his so this is a neverending spiral he is going into. Although one can assume this is intentional because viral marketing is one of the ways to keep constant attention (attempt to buy 13dailypro as another example) to his sites without caring if it is positive or negative one but breaking the balance might lead to unexpected and unwanted results.
Anyway all of this hype around money processor is less revelant now since he accepts e-gold again as valid alternative so those who were worried about licensing issues can just return to using e-gold but since calls were made people started to respond. I was thinking of posting some more thoughts about this topic but some bloggers have already named those arguments I had on mind so if you are interested more about this check out Dolphin's blog with quite well thought response and also Trademark surf blog with more arguments why Bob's claims are actually unprofessional way of diverting attention.
Just single addition from me is that I never liked much admins with attitude problems and main reason for this is that those usually lead to lack of confidence and qeustions like if such people can actually handle any business. Bob proved so far he can run an autosurf programs but recent outbursts of emotions are again questioning his confidence and by showing it he is doing even more damage to his business than those critics ever would so I think balance is leaning towards negativity even for those who kept neutral stance. |
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Not too appealing seems situation with sites run by Jason and Stacy as recent relaunch of EzSurfnEarn was received not too well by members of other sites in their network and caused drastic drop in support. The old rule of all sites being affected once on of related ones fails mostly because other sources of income usually are the same. So at this time while they are working on ways to solve this problem of reduced confidence I would recommend using caution with Wicked-Hits and possibly DimensionAds sites as well.
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Several payments were received during last few days. Finer Things as scheduled paid next round and of course reinvested although using direct deposit this time since their data base is offline nowdays. Club4Elite also paid within few days after expiry but is experiencing DDoS attack currently. Admin is on top of it so nothing to worry much and possibly will issue surf holidays or credit for missed days everyone who couldn't finish surfing. Also payment from AdSurfDaily which was paid on 3rd working day after request and now I have all my issues with them solved in quite prompt manner so support nowdays is much better than it had initially. And also very prompt payments to CEPTrust processor from CEPCoast and Coastin88. Both of these are still on consistent daily percentage where first one has 2% for over a month already and second one has max possible 8% since the very first day.
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| 21.12.2006 |
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A month ago I recommended a free advertising toolbar that is in prelaunch currently called Agloco and recently they updated on their status which included plans to release toolbar within 7 to 10 weeks and those who joined early will be first to download it. But main focus was on their plans to reach quite unbelievable number 10 million members by 1st of July next year. Currently after almost 2 months since prelaunch started they have bit over 90000 which already is quite huge number and their plan of action is that everyone should get just 5 more in their direct downline and this would be enough to reach that desired amount which actually was the amount of people using AllAdvantage toolbar 6 years ago. Currently while toolbar is not yet available is actually best time to promote this product as there is less competition as not many follow up with idea of getting referrals before official launch but when it will be released I think everyone will start promoting it and getting any attention at that time will be quite impossible. So if you haven't heard about this one yet check my post back on 23rd of November for more info and join. And once you join or if already joined don't ignore the opportunity to bring in more people to this one in your downline as this is going to be huge program where main feature will be that it is free to join and membership never costs anything. Advertisers will be battling to use audience of millions so this will be dream of any autosurfer - watching ads and earning from it while no upgrade purchases are required. Earlier you join and more people you bring to this program larger will be monthly paycheck so join in and promote it!
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Online Capital is finally back online and fully functional after being a victim of DDoS attack for over a week. Some readers asked me what is DDoS attack as these haven't been popular since April but lately quite widely used in addition to hacking events. Well in short it is denial of service attack which is lead by a hacker who issues command to thousands of zombies planted on unsuspected user computers over whole internet which just send numerous small packets over internet which wouldn't do much harm if sent in small portions but when it is massive nonstop flood of them server can't identify spammed packet created by script from legit one sent by human and normal users can't access site during this attack because their requests for it are getting lost in that massive flood and server hosting site can't respond to it. When an attack is small or there is protection enabled but it can't fully filter all those spam packets then site might become slow and timeout often which is quite annoying as well. For hyip type programs like Online-Capital such attacks have less impact as members don't need to access site daily for surfing or other tasks so I don't think this incident did much harm to this program as it is still paying instantly which I just checked again by withdrawing small dividend from my deposit and considering it has already grown to over 23000 members it is doing quite well lately. I recently requested Vince admin of this program screenshot of one of their forex trading account logs and received one quite promptly with nondisclosure agreement so won't be posting it but anyone who is member of this program can receive the same by requesting it. I am not big expert in forex trading but I did some researching in this field some time ago and those logs do look legit and quite current as they represented summary of first half of December trades which mostly made good profits. I plan to request another one after few weeks again. So far this program has grown into quite solid company which has some enemies expecting it to fail soon and supporters who mostly are in profit with it already and looks like quite serious people are behind it but don't forget it is still quite high risk program and can run into problems any moment so get in profits asap and play only with them.
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| 20.12.2006 |
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Two latest additions are not new but already proven reputation programs so let's review main reasons why I added those.
BlueHeavenMails is mix of 3 online advertising types - autosurf, paidtoclick and e-mail. Considering that it's model is based more on autosurf than other types I added it to main listings instead of other opportunities. This program is around since beginning of October which means it is already 2 months old but most attention it received only during second half of November and has been picking up steam ever since. It is high risk program because it's ROI is 2.9% with weekly payouts but concept is quite unique and original because ads are not presented as slideshow like in most other autosurfs but as 5 ads in paid to click manner where links are sent daily via e-mail. This combines all three of advertising models and adds quite a good promotional value because blue points earned are very limited which makes each ad higher value and can be sold to other members if nothing to use them on. I even think it has higher advertising value than manual surfs which are considered somewhat useful in promotional campaigns unlike pure autosurfs nowdays. If member viewing those ads is not too overhelmed by being part of multiple autosurf programs but only joined few then watching only 5 ads per day in this manner will become quite memorable thing and of course will receive more attention. So this basically means advertisers are quite motivated to spend additional in this program to purchase blue points and use them which brings more revenue to this high risk program besides other basic income streams.
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ManicAds is something very original and unique if we compare it to other autosurf programs because it includes not just profit sharing based autosurf with rating feature of each site which is more user friendly and better because of common 10 grade use but also built in monitor of other autosurf sites and even other autosurf monitors, built in forum, autosurf manager that allows keeping track of all your autosurf sites in one place and many other extra features. It also allows new feature of buying downlines where you can purchase any new member who joined without an upline and this was hottest feature so is now revised for more effecient use. Besides quite great way of getting downline in other programs you have joined is voting in ManicAds monitor which will be placing your referral link into it's banner ad and program link and anyone who joins that program will be placed in your downline. But in my opinion main feature of this program is that profit sharing model is not based on adpack purchases alone like all other programs have it but on profits from all types of advertising and purchases that are done in this site which has allowed this program to keep an average 9% daily earning since very first day and unlike other profit sharing programs it didn't experience high 70-80% days but kept consistent daily percentage around 9% and it has been going up and down for last 25 days between lowest 7.59% on 21st day and 14.72% on 5th day. Detailed statistics of percentage history can be found on their site.
Site itself is created on customised script with several security addons which will make hacker's job of getting in quite tough if not impossible. To my knowledge this type of script hasn't been reported as hacked yet which is quite good news nowdays when choosing a site to join. As for admin behind this program his name is Mike and he is also known as phpmike. This guy has been involved in autosurfing by offering his programmer skills and of course he created this site on his own. Best part about this is that he can continue to improve it on his own once he finds good idea and how to add it. This is just like my site developed over course of more than one year. Those who followed it since very beginning probably have the idea how it improved over time with new nifty and useful features added so you can imagine how Mike can effectively use his skills for improving ManicAds. So in these days when profit sharing models are bashed and criticised because of their use by several scammers and when quality programs are hard to find this one has proven itself as success already because it still keeps daily percentage quite high after almost month of being online and in my opinion more important part of it is that members will have quite a fun by being members of this site and using all those great features it offers for getting downlines, monitoring, participating in forum and of course earning from surfing so I see quite good potential in this program and recommend joining it.
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There is quite a hype around PTSPayPro which recently launched based on same script that AlertPayPro used and some even considered it as next project of those scammers lead by Rob Ross. Leo from drunkonlife blog has found quite detailed info on this program so if you are interested about this program check out his findings but in my opinion this program is offering impossible returns of 15% daily ROI which is just way overboard even for high risk programs so treat this one as complete gamble especially since there are possible relations to known scammers so I recommend avoiding this one.
Leo also posted quite interesting link to a Tech4Money site which is simply offering purchasing of votes and forum posts at MMG or TalkGold. This is another tool for scammers who want to create fake supportive campaign for quick hype and of course profit and proves again that monitors that are based completely on voting can be abused very easy and also forums shouldn't be taken as only source of info when evaulating programs. |
| 19.12.2006 |
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The struggle for survival has ended for 12by12daily as it is now officially closed. Dave came to this not the easiest decision after seeing how last few weeks after payout changes did not work out as planned mostly because continuing interferance from hackers and scam screamers which resulted in loss of confidence even for most optimistic supporters. Payments were made during these weeks and almost 10000 of those were done judging by ids posted. Of course some were skipped but judging from frequency of reports of those major part of these payments were done.
This sudden end was most damaging to those who took loans and risked money they couldn't afford to loose as there are screams of anger now from people who thought this is a sure thing and decided to use credit cards for funding this autosurf bigtime in some cases even max accounts and now are left with debt of several thousands. Got to say I am surprised how crazy some might become when greed clouds their mind. Autosurf programs are very high risk programs and one should never risk amounts that he can't afford to loose. This is number one commandement in this business and those who fail to follow it are doomed to loose.
I received numerous e-mails from readers asking why I never upgrade thousands in 12by12daily as it could earn me big profits. Well my answer was always quite simple - I just don't have thousands I could afford to loose and this is just too risky even with most reputable admin behind a program because there are quite many outside factors that could affect program's future and get it into trouble any moment which even are not in powers of admin to stop like hacking, ddos, extortion, scamscreamers and so on. I got into profits with 12by12daily during first few cycles and from that point on just slowly increased my upgrade level so I continue to earn profits with each payment but never risked it all for some illusion of big profits in future. From the 5 months of it's lifetime only 2 months starting somewhere from middle of September until second half of November were confidence boosters for this program as it solved most problems it had during first 2 months after launch and this was the time when I doubled my upgrade level by using half of profits to increase it which made me close to 1000$ of pure profit over course of 5 months and around 22 completed cycles during this time with average upgrade level around 100$. This is only way to go in this high risk business and biggest mistake people make is getting greedy and risking it all which can make a fortune for some who are smart enough to time well such big hits and leave afterwards but also can ruin their life badly by getting into large debts if timing is bad.
Also putting all your eggs into one basket which seems happened massively is another mistake many are making. It doesn't matter how great one program is going at any point in it's existence this simple rule of diversifying can save from financial death. Again I will go with my current situation and fact that I didn't put it all into 12by12daily but only 20% of my total funds dedicated for upgrades has put me into only partial loss but considering I never compounded fully it will only make this month less profitable. Unfortunately this month there were some more closings and total loss will be larger but still it's not all gone. There are speculations that fall of big ones will cause domino effect for sites and diversification won't help much. Well partially it is true as some small sites that were mostly doing profits by using members money to upgrade in big ones like 12by12daily and 13dailypro but don't forget that only small sites with budget of 10-12 thousand dollars will be affected by this and mostly this will affect programs that already are in delays of payments not currently paying promptly. Some even went that far to say 13dailypro run into cashflow problems because of delayed payments by 12by12daily. Well that is quite untrue because of simple fact that their account limit of 6000 wouldn't make much profits especially since membership size was as large as 12by12daily had. But diversification doesn't mean just upgrading in one industry as there is quite good alternative - hyips and I enlist some of best currently existing in other opportunities but got to say those are even more high risk so requires more caution. Of course there are more other options like actually involving into some marketing business like clickbank, adsense and so on which just makes diversification even more effective. So my recommendation is to focus more on those other opportunuties for next few weeks until dust settles.
As for people calling Dave as scammer well in my opinion he doesn't fall into category of scammers because all the money coming into program was paid out to members and program was run for 5 months 3 of which was spent solving server, data base, script, hacker and other issues which required giant efforts from admins and are never valued by members who never had chance to see what it takes to run a program with over 30000 of customers getting nervous after few minutes of delays. Speculation that he continued to accept upgrades after introducing 50/50 rule which makes him scammer isn't logical as he was attempting to save this program from death just like he did in first two months and proved at the time that indeed is possible. It was clearly stated in his recent update that this program fell short on funds and clearly upgrading at this time was risk people took in hope of getting their pending payments. So this fight with hackers while trying to recover program had to end at some point and was done when it was clear that there are no chances of surviving. |
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AdShareSurf decided to go ahead with refunds on this failed round and prepare better for relaunch which might happen pretty soon. Timing for launch of this program and attack from hacker brought it down quite quickly so Brian decided not to continue the struggle with data base mess and script issues. His reputation got somewhat damaged by this failure and possibly relaunch will be taken with more caution and critical to it's success will be what changes will be done security wise and also if any modifications to profit sharing model will be made to protect from those large fluctuations in daily percentage. I think most possible change could be adding a limit to daily percentage like it was done at Coastin88 and it has nice been at max value since launch day which can add confidence to site that is using this new feature.
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Current leader XLO Auto surf which recently celebrated 1 year anniversary had to close the site for few days and announce surf holidays while working on more protection against DDoS attacks. Andy decided to not put members through strugle of surfing when site was unstable and this is another quite professional move by admin. Today it is available again and works just fine so you can resume your daily surfing.
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Received first payment from Coastin88 which brought it into 3rd place and currently I consider as only premium site besides XLO. Also finally after solving few issues with incorrect payout status and even change of payout details I received a payment from AdShareSurf. Appears their contact form didn't work when I first tried to contact them and once I got some response all problems were solved very quickly so I am quite satisfied with it. One concern though after all this incident that they were having some issues with hackers as my payout details were changed to different e-gold account and from response I received this was not single case as several other accounts had same account set. Seems there is quite skillful hacker out there as almost every site that got quickly big was hit by him or team of hackers making it hard for autosurf programs to operate. |
| 17.12.2006 |
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EzSurfnEarn announced results of vote and their decision based on members feedback to disable upgrades and signups for existing site and start a second round under .net domain with slightly higher ROI of 2.1%. Admins run this first round for half a year and never faced any big issues up until recently when they found out that that revenue has dropped and can't sustain the returns promised. So they decided to be upfront with members and not allow this program getting into avalanche of delayed payout spiral. Payouts will continue on expiring units as funds become available but this could take some time and those who still support these admins now have a chance to join second round. So I see this like a cut over where funds are still available for either partial refunds or full payments but within longer period of time and fact that upgrades and signups were disabled promptly shows their good intentions. |
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To silence the concerns about removing e-gold as withdraw option for money processor Bob Krimm owner of Tri-Star Media money processor decided to return e-gold as an option for all 3 surf sites. This confirms my assumption that main reason for removing was chargeback risks when creditcards are used to fund money processor that has outgoing direction to non refundable e-gold which could cause lots of problems to money processor itself when some abusers will go ahead and request those chargebacks as banks tend to accept such request quite often without any investigation.
Also Bob mentioned that he is interested in buying 13dailypro.net which was turning slowly into ghost site with upgrades enabled but today disappeared completely. AlertPay confirmed that e-gold transfers took place and were completed this week so it's not their fault that payments were stopped but more like lack of funds to sustain the payouts. AlertPay also mentioned that they could work with refund requests until there is money left in 13dp account so if you used this money processor there is a slight chance of getting a refund. |
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Received my first payment from Club4Elite on second day after upgrade expiry and second payment from Autosurf.bz which both now have joined top 10 programs and slowly but consistently progressing. First one has unique completely customised script which is one of their main strength aspects these days as hackers have very small chances breaking into unknown script so if anyone is looking for secured program then this one has best defence against hackers but their returns are quite high compared to most other programs.
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| 15.12.2006 |
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The program AdShareSurf
that launched quite successfully and got the site of the week award but got hit by a hacker within first days of launch is still under the attack and experiencing quite a mess with their data. Live stats on front page yesterday showed ROI of 0.24% which is way below system minimum but appears FAQ section where this was mentioned as hardcoded minimum was modified and now states that they only will try to keep it above 3%. Payment reports continued until yesterday when the attack started and then admin decided to stop them to clean up the mess:
"Hey Everyone,
I thought I would come in here and let you guys know we are here and working of course. Today, a hacker somehow got into our site and went crazy. Changing Egold #'s again, amount of payments incoming, User information, and several other things.
I have changed everything I can possibly change in the system to be more secure and I am waiting on my programmer to wake up so we can change more. The hacker said he was not going to be getting on to our site again and that "he was done with us". I am actually a bit surprised things aresn't worse than they are. At least the site is up and I can access everything I need to fix the problems.
This is going to be another huge mess to clean up and we will keep working on it until we get it. Nothing is going to keep us down. Our members is what is the most important to me and if I have to go through each account 1 by 1 to fix everything, I will! This will cause delays though, unfortunately we can't make any payouts until this has been updated.
I don't forsee it taking that long to get through and patch everything, but time will tell. I will be updating regularly as always as to our progress and will send a mass email out soon.
Please remain calm, all payouts will resume asap. We were paying members when this last attack came up. Everything will get back to normal very soon! If you can't access your account for any reason, please send an email to me at Admin@highspeedhits.com *** Notice I am using the HSH mail server, this is just for safety. The hacker did have some control over the email earlier but they have all been changed again and we have control, but just to be safe send it to another of our servers.
Thanks,
Brian
Admin
AdShareSurf.com
HighSpeedHits.com..."
Now today situation hasn't changed much and here is another update:
"Latest news,
Brian has been working on the script but some of our info is still messed up and needs to be fixed.
If you have a look at our stats, they are incorrect and with, i.e. total payout amount completely wrong.
Brian wants to work on our few members who are unable to log into their accounts and then he will continue to fix other issues.
If he thinks this is necessary, he will put the site temporarily offline in order to continue with his work.
This is all for now.
We deeply apologise for our current situation and delays to fix the site but Brian will do what it takes to catch up and finish up with all this.
As I said before, he is fully determined to bring the site back to where it must be.
He has all my support and help same as the girls in his staff and I hope he will have all his members support as well.
We´ll keep you up to date as much as possible."
In general Brian has been thrown into same boat with David to fight those dreaded hackers way too early and majority are considering this program same as most other profit sharing failures which dropped down too fast on daily percentage mostly explaining it with major inflow of hit and runners. Well that of course has affected health of this program but I think major part in this drop was timing of hacker's attack who managed to hit it while it was hot and now since it is experiencing problems not just hit and runners are trying to leave but also regular surfers who normally reinvest in surf sites for several cycles. Well it all comes down to fact that this profit share model was cracked quite quickly and ways to abuse it spread fast so I would recommend from now on joining only either established profit share models or ones that introduce daily limits like Coastin88 has. Otherwise it will be just a cycler with it's short life feature dressed as autosurf. Experiments with profit share will most probably continue but main aspects that should be considered are daily limits, how secure script is and of course admin's reputation. Brian only has last one and needs to work on first two things if he wants to bring AdShareSurf back up.
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| 14.12.2006 |
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This week hasn't been too much filled with good news but here is one I would like to mention with great respect.
XLO Auto surf is now officially one year old and currently in better shape than any other program which clearly resulted in it's recent advancement into position number one of top ranks. During this year there were several big crisis in autosurfing world but XLO never showed any weakness signs which is quite an achievement considering into what this industry has turned when most are using simple hit and run strategy for every site they join and keeping progress through this whole time takes talent which Andy admin of XLO surely has. Quite many underestimate the power of low ROI site with daily compounding option which has clearly made it as golden middle of low and high risk programs that most are looking for and this has ensured quite consistent growth during this program's lifetime without any high jumps or big problems except one server issue which was handled quite professionally. I wish him all the best for upcoming year and keeping everything at same professional level as he did until now.
The Zen's Den blog has anniversary interview with Andy where admin expresses his opinion on what has happened during this year and his viewpoints on several issues that I totally agree with so I recommend reading it. |
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Now back to regular news and first I want to mention that as expected ProfitSharePro
I mentioned as one to avoid few days ago didn't last too long and was closed today. What's ironic though is that everyone else including hit and runners, bloggers and forum posters were guilty for it's failure except admin who previously run already 2 quite shortlasting programs. Well he is entitled to such opinion of course but I am quite sure most won't agree with him as this is clearly the case when not the words matter but actions do. While on a subject of failed profit sharing model programs I have to mention that I am quite dissapointed with what is going on at DailyROI as this conversion to old business model now has shown admin in different light which doesn't help this program much. He also is blaming this failure on members and attitude that is shown in e-mails and posts will result in more disrespect even from those who never complained. For 3 days already message in members section says that conversion of funds is ongoing but according to member reports it's quite slow process and responses to unhappy members sent globally are addressing wrong audience. Most probably will just have to write off this one as it's future isn't in bright right now. |
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Treo-surf is now under new terms of 12% per 12 days. Quite seemless was this conversion compared to some other recent cases and nobody had their account zeroed but got early expiry on full amount. Also all pendings up to date were made as Christmas present by Bob.
Meanwhile Tri-Star Media moneychanger ceased to accept e-gold as withdrawal option. Knowing risks this involve especially since mastercard is one of options here I am not too surprised with such move. Quite many moneychangers have faced chargeback issues when still allowing irreversable transactions to e-gold. Quite many have abused this and brought down several online moneyprocessors before. But deposits via e-gold are still possible though and unlike many other processors I have used these deposits are instant which is very convenient feature.
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| 13.12.2006 |
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EzSurfnEarn today announced that they have run short on e-gold funds to cover payments which has caused delays in payments for members who use this processor. Members feedback on possible options provided is asked via poll over their forum and then decision will be made how to move on. Quite respectful and honest approach to problems that eventually can't be avoided in this business but admins are not willing to quit and will be looking into possible solutions. Changed to 3 star risk rating for now until I see where this goes as majority of autosurfers still use e-gold and this affects them.
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12by12daily made an update today explaining in more details situation and basically clearly stating that incoming funds are not covering pending payments. Dave still thinks it's possible to continue if enough support will be given and his determination to make it work is admirable. All members were sorted into 5 categories depending on their account situation with priorities to making payments for each. This basically means that there will be selective payments but in very transparent way. I am currently still in category one as I never quit my every 6 day upgrade strategy although I reduced total investment amount and I will be following it's progress in making payments. Problems with fake upgrades were solved and removed in timeframe that was expected for it and Dave can now focus on making those payments and possibly make some catching up. Right now reports are coming about payments made for date of 26th of November and payment ids enclosing 90xxx.
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13dailypro payout progress still hasn't moved much since yesterday as only 27th of November requests were finished and seems they plan to do this in batches in stretched manner. I can understand the reasoning that they don't want to cause massive wave with making all payouts at once and result in part of this amount go back in creating one high point every few weeks but still their paying ability currently is under large question mark and if they wanted to return trust of members priority should be given to consistent payment flow rather than worrying about possible future waves of cashflow. I recommend using caution with it for some time. Here is the update from admins:
"The only update I can give you right now is that during this waiting, we have discussed how to proceed once the E-Gold was transfered (and it is not all there yet!) and there is no doubt it will take a little while to catch up with all pendings due.
If we simply paid everyone in one day, we could get in a lot of trouble in 3 weeks time.
We are going to do this step by step and catch up to all as fast as it is sound to do so.
We will be sending an email out, but not until all Egold is in our hands.
Please don’t stress, you have a great admin and a great team here, we all want the same thing.
So hang in there guys and give us some slack to make sure things are going to be just as normal as soon as!Karina" |
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Quite worrying news come from E-gold money processor users. Appears that accounts that are receiving money from blocked accounts (those which have set limit on receiving money because of some complaint until verification process is completed) are being blocked as well. This basically means that if any of programs you are involved in gets a limit on their account and decides to still make payments from that account you are going to get your account blocked as well. Reasons for such actions are pressure from authorities E-gold is experiencing because this money processor is heaven for anonymous transactions which are so appealing to hackers and other online criminals. Also can be used by offline ventures that want to move funds overseas untraced. Of course these issues can't be ignored and E-gold managment is trying to balance between preventing fraud and continuing with unlimited and anonymous money transfers they are so unique with. For more info on this situation read this article about e-gold.
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| 12.12.2006 |
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Updated stats and site of the week goes to AdShareSurf which stormed into top rankings like only few ever had but considering it's different business model that wasn't much of a surprise as same happened when AdSurfDaily launched and it kept award for 3 weeks in a row. Now competition among profit sharing programs is tougher and it will be interesting to see how newer ones will grow over next weeks. Quite impressive is consistency that 12by12daily has in terms of growth and even despite recent problems last week it got bigger by another 1500 members which is above average growth pace it had over last few months. Also 13dailypro wasn't left alone during the week of no payments although growth pace slowed slightly. General growth figures compared to previous weeks have increased despite problems many programs experience recently. Probably some are hoping to get a quick buck via higher risk programs for holidays and jumped into some of programs for this. |
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Well if you remember during first half of this year most of largest autosurf programs were quite seriously affected by DDoS attacks and quite often this was one main causes bringing those successful programs down eventually because they had to deal with hardware upgrades, site availability and other issues that followed these attacks which in result meant payment delays, mass support ticket flood and etc. So quite critical became aspect if sites are using any kind of DDoS protection because only this ensured that this largest threat to autosurf sites won't be affecting their business.
What has changed since then? Well nowdays DDoS protection are not as critical as before and barely ever mentioned as there is larger and more damaging issue at hand - hackers. This has always been an issue but wasn't that critical before as it is now. Previously those hackers mostly targeted signle users by sending phishing e-mails supposedly from e-gold or paypal and got into accounts of unsuspecting victims. Later invented various torjans and viruses that allowed logging keystrokes to find out passphrases and still get into those accounts. Now more and more surfers have learned how to secure their funds so second half of this year more and more critical has become security of autosurf sites as we see more and more fall victims to this outrage of hackers who use various methods of messing it up and damaging business. During summer most damaging were attacks on 15hitsdaily and GlobalAdsPro which were repeated several times. Bob is one of rare ones who managed to come back from this situation and so far managed to avoid repeated attacks although questionable was his decision to remove secured protocol using SSL certificate recently. Of course there is also constant fight between Dave and quite creative hackers who managed to find loopholes in his customised and as he thought secured script and create quite a mess which is taking months already to clean up. Lately those attacks have managed to distract him so much that even payments were affected and in result 12by12daily is now focusing more on securing their site than catching up on their payments. There are lots of other programs that were damaged by hacker attacks but one I would like to mention that is related to recently launched potentially quite good program AdShareSurf which was experiencing very successful launch but on 3rd day had to face a hacker attack as result of which daily percentage dropped right away to a minimum possible approximately 3%. Hacker used script injection method to alter some e-gold account numbers to which payments should be made and as claimed by admins no financial loss was done since only numbers in history of accounts were changed but still this scared quite many members who decided not to upgrade. Payments were held off for one day but by now have resumed and all done to correct accounts according to reports despite wrong info in history. But damage that in other cases would look like minor was done and site that started quite great is now facing some problems within it's first week. Well of course such situations also show the character of admin behind a program. It's quite obvious and logical that some scammer would just quickly close the shop and dissapear with whatever funds was brought in during success days but as we can see Brian has resumed to pay. I am quite sure site will continue to operate but we now see how damaging can be even slightest disturbances to profit sharing model programs during their launch. If we remember AdSurfDaily also faces some security and support issues right after launch but it continued to grow and get stronger just not as fast as it was expected so possibly here will be same scenario and percentage will go up during next days.
So basically my point is site security aspect has become as critical nowdays as DDoS attacks were 6 months ago and when choosing programs more attention will be paid now how unique and secure is script. And of course if admins care to secure their sites avoiding quite high business risks that hackers can cause.
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Appears that DailyROI:PS is undergoing some changes which basically mean that it will be switched back to fixed ROI business model and this is done via partial restart. Also it appears that admin James Miranda has approached Bob from TriStarMedia and received some advice and endorsement for this change. New terms will be 7% for 21 days without daily compounding option and this change will make this program go at fixed 2.24% rate from now on. Risks of course increase since such change can be received as result of cashflow problems caused by reduced members activity lately which it most probably is and big question now is how such change will help resume their business but what's quite good thing in my opinion that admin isn't sitting and waiting until things go worse as it happened with Surfoogle but is looking for changes that would allow this program to continue.
Currently this is first case for such drastic change of switching business models and basically shows that James gave up on experimenting with it as there were not much options to play with anymore when daily percentage dropped to 2%. And I expect more to come for those programs that are intending to stay instead of doing few cycles of business. Profit Sharing Model currently is only appealing during it's first few weeks after launch except for one case that was launched few days ago Coastin88 which has introduced new feature of limiting daily earnings at 8%. This is new twist in this new experimental model and will be quite interesting to see how it affects variable daily ROI.
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13dailypro resumed payments yesterday after receiving first half of transfer they requested from Alertpay to e-gold and remaining funds should be transfered today. These of course are good news but it now has lots of catching up to do as they are 7 days behind on payments and pace currently isn't as fast as one could expect but at least some movement can be observed.
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2ndDimensionAds experienced some technical issues over weekend and because of this some portion of payments from first cycle was delayed and admins decided to delay upgrade window as well. It is now open for upgrades only today until end of day and also signups are currently enabled. |
| 11.12.2006 |
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So still quite big question is how 12by12daily is doing after all the drama related to introducing new payout rule. In short situation is still quite unclear and appears another mess was created over weekend in data base by adding fake upgrades via some remote access method and another problem with link errors making surfing impossible for most part of day yesterday. All links were fixed by now and Dave mentioned that such upgrades were monitored and found all the time but usually happened so rare that those could be fixed manually in a matter of few minutes but what happened recently was mass update and fixing it is still possible as those fake upgrades can be identified quite easy but main problem is removing them manually one by one would take weeks so automatic script is developed right now and as estimated by programmer will be finished within 48 hours. Dave during this time continues to make payments but now main focus is on those who were reverted free and some older dates pop up in reports of being paid. Latest paid date at this moment is 25th of November. All of these recent events don't help much in reducing stress for members who have many pending payments especially if those are all eggs in single basket but in general situation before weekend was looking much better because payments were caught up to 8th working day which was just 1 day behind terms so Dave showed that everything is possible. So let's hope there won't be much distractions after this mess is fixed and he will be able to get back on tracks by next weekend.
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Just yesterday I mentioned we should be careful when choosing which new programs to jump in and one of the examples I would like to mention is ProfitSharePro by Tysin quite known member of MMG who has record of over 4000 posts in this forum alone and has respect of most forum members. But main problem I see with this admin is that his previous projects EverLastingNine and most recent hit Council of Gold. Both were hyped up but lasted not too long as they were run as pure ponzi games so there is not much surprise that this new program is one as well just dressed up in newest business model. Of course as with any high risk investment you can take your chances of taking advantage from early joining and running for a cycle or two but don't bother going for more as it will be either closed or restarted for another round in no more than few weeks from now.
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While on a subject of choosing new programs my yesterday's choise appears to have quite unique feature to this new profit sharing model which I missed at first but today learned that it has 8% daily cap to earnings which basically means that there won't be the usual first days of high percentage earnings but scaled change in daily earnings. At this moment earliest when your first upgrade will expire is 15 days if daily percentage will be at highest point. In general I like this new feature as it is kind of like protection against hit and runners for this new business model similar to what 50/50 rule does. In original setup most were just getting in for cycle or two and pulling fully out with all profits but this cap will ensure that this doesn't happen in a matter of first few days. Now if we add sustainable returns of 15% per upgrade that Coastin88 has and good chances of decent other income sources managed by talanted admin I believe we have quite good long term program on our hands for those who like stability instead of jumping from one high risk program to another. |
| 10.12.2006 |
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Seems this December will become as month of profit sharing model programs as most of new programs launched are using this new considered revolutionary business model (although in my opinion it's effective only limited time) which has proven as quite successful lately mostly because of CEP team and their program that is already 10 weeks old. In my opinion main question that is now critical is which of those programs can be trusted mostly because scam artists are still out there doing their job in creating numerous clones of existing programs and of course this new business model has also been picked up by them and it's very important now to avoid their dirty plans and evaluate each new program from the trust and reputation point of view and I currently put much higher value into these aspects.
There is one new quality program Coastin88 started just today coming as joint project from known and of course reputable owners of CEPCoast and AS49. This program uses same features as CEPCoast including advertised site rating by members, low risks, featured site of the week based on members ratings and much more. This program offers lower profit percentage compared to other profit sharing sites and you can earn 15% on each of your upgrades so possibly interest in this one will be slightly lower at beginning but what mostly appeals me is it's long term potential as daily percentage will be kept higher because of more frequent need to purchase ad packs which will expire quicker then in other programs offering higher returns and of course lower risk because of more sustainable returns. As I just mentioned recently most effective time for such type of programs are first days and this site is even still in prelaunch mode and only signups are allowed right now. Upgrades will be enabled starting tomorrow and considering that there already are over 250 members signed up during first day this program could be as hot as AdShareSurf even despite lower returns offered so this is again the time for me to say don't miss out on quite hot program launch. |
| 08.12.2006 |
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Finally found some time to finish one of the new features of my site I intended to add last week. Now every program that is listed will be featured with separate "details and comments" page (for eg. XLO page) which will include all details about particular program and also more importantly place where you can leave your comments about this program. This isn't the usual voting feature that all other monitors have but more like space for sharing your experience and feedback with others about this program. You can of course report your payments in particular programs as a comment but I will be monitoring all comments to filter those dreaded spambots that are leaving fake votes on monitors which are quite often misleading. Links to these separate details pages can be found in main listing under Comments column right after description. Details will include general site info, all rank stats, alexa graphs and of course visitor comments which over time I hope will become as essential and informative part of each details page. As usual I didn't go the easy way of purchasing some common scripts but did all the coding on my own here and there is a chance for some bugs so if you find any please contact me so I can fix them. |
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Launch of AdShareSurf has been quite a success and within 2 days over 500 members have joined with almost 75% of members upgrading right away. Word is getting out quite quickly and I think for next few days it's ROI will continue to jump in high 40-50% per day but eventually it will drop of course as it happens with these profit sharing models. Brian has planned ahead to use reserve fund to control lowest earning days and min level where it can drop will be 3% as in such days reserve funds will be used to keep it above. Daily compounding option of course will keep it higher for longer time but I recommend following strategy for such type of programs:
Initially go in aggressive by compounding first few days until you have doubled or even trippled your initial spend and then start withdrawing until you get out your original investment in this program. From that point on you are as many say riding on the profits and earnings from next days partially can be used to keep your upgrade level as high as you feel comfortable with but remaining earnings withdraw and use elsewhere. So for eg. if you purchased yesterday 10 upgrades for 100$ and if we assume that daily ROI will be dropping roughly by 10% daily then your next days will look like this:
08.12 (ROI=80%) would earn 80$ and 80% used on first upgrade which we all use for compounding to raise upgrade level to 180$
09.12 (ROI=70%) earns total 126$ (70$+56$) and 140% on 1st upgrade which expires and 70% on 2nd upgrade and again all earnings used to compound to level of 200$ which was our goal (2nd upgrade 80$ and 3rd - 120$ with 6$ in balance)
10.12 (ROI=60%) earns 120$, 130% on 2nd upgrade, 60% on 3rd upgrade. Since 2nd upgrade almost expired we use 100$ to compound and remaining 26$ to withdraw(2nd 80$, 3rd 120$ and 4th 100$ with 0$ left in balance)
11.12 (ROI=50%) earns 8$ from 2nd upgrade as it had only 10% left, 60$ from 3rd upgrade and 40$ from 4th which totals in 108$ earnings. 2nd upgrade expired, 3rd used up to 110% but 4th up to 50%. Upgrade level still 200$ so to prepare for next upgrade expiry we compound 100$ again making upgrade level up to 320$ (3rd 120$,4th 100$ and 5th 100$ with 8$ left in balance)
12.12 (ROI=40%) earns 116$ (40$+40$+36$) and this is the day when we withdraw all 124$ in cash balance which turns us into profit zone with 50$ net profit
13.12 (ROI=30%) earns 60$ and to keep our upgrade level at decent values we compound half of this and withdraw rest if 50% reinvest strategy is folloed after getting into profits but that depends on your plans for how long you wish to earn with this site
Daily ROI most probably will drop much faster than in my example and slow down later on exponentially at lower values where min possible will be 3% but remember that even 3% with daily compounding option is quite high return and of course there are no guarantee that even reserve fund alone will help sustaining such ROI for long time but as we know there is quite professional admin behind this and other means of revenue will be involved to keep it higher. But still my advice is to keep your upgrade proportional to daily percentage and lower it in same manner.
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Quite sad news come from camp of 13dailypro as their payments have stopped on 26th of November which makes it 12th calendar day today that is 5 days over terms. Admins announced earlier this week that some delays could happen and this is because of delays in funds transfer from AlertPay to e-gold and knowing how AlertPay sometimes get in trouble with large amount transfers I am not too surprised. What concerns me though is that payments were stopped completely instead of just slowing down since upgrades are still accepted and funds are coming in their account so I don't really understand why such lack of activity for last 5 days. If you haven't yet then hold your upgrades as such approach by admins can make quite a damage to their paying reputation and unless they resume payments by end of week this can turn into ugly thing. Moved this one to delayed payments for now.
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TriStarMedia is making some changes again and this time related to Treo-surf. Bob is trying to push it's growth to higher levels as lately it has stalled compared to other two of their programs. Initially it was intended to turn Treo-Surf into most popular 12% by 12 days with 12% of referral commissions and also drop 50/50 rule for this site. This of course would attract more referral hunters and hit&runners as such terms are quite appealing for them. But today changes were made to this decision by returning back to scaled commissions where only big guns with upgrade level over 5000$ will earn 12% referral commissions instead of previous 5% and those below 1000$ will just have same 1% as it is right now. Also 50/50 rule was left for accounts over 1000$. So as I see it after going for big and bold changes yesterday which were not received too well by existing members decision was cancelled in it's major effectiveness to increase growth. Main appealing part that was left is increasing daily ROI from current 2.8% to 3.7% which could help attract some more people. This is quite similar to change a month ago when max upgrade cap was increased to quarter of a million but next day cancelled because members didn't like it too much. May be it's better to make a poll amongst members before issuing any changes and then announce them when final decision was made? |
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Also don't forget that now is week of 2nd dimension for DimensionAds and those who missed it in first round you now have a chance to signup until Saturday evening and then upgrade on Sunday. I received my first payment from 1st Dimension few days ago and went in for another cycle with it. Have same plans for 2nd dimension as well.
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| 07.12.2006 |
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Another potentially hot site AdShareSurf was just launched yesterday and comes from quite reputable admin Brian Sams owner of currently 3 months old and still going strong autosurf HighSpeedHits. But this is not first project he has taken part in as Brian was managing director of one of largest autosurf programs of first half of this year - AlienTrust. Being part of team for such huge project alone is sign of great experience and appears that Brian left AlienTrust 2 months before it closed without knowing that it was in any financial trouble. Brian is involved with scripts and traffic programs for over 4 years already and he knows how to build a business and maintain it. Main focus in his projects always is advertising and now that he picked the new business model in this new project I think we have potentially one of hottest programs on our hands. Members are joining this one with high pace and seems just after 24 hours of it's launch there will be 100 members already. Daily percentage yesterday was 80% and at this very moment today's percentage is already 71% but day has just began according to server time so it will be going up further. If you have been part of any profit sharing programs yet you will know that joining during first days will give you fastest profits and this one allows earning up to 40% from each upgrade which during first launch days can be done within few days. Don't miss the opportunity and join while it's on high rate! |
| 06.12.2006 |
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For those who like higher risk opportunities here is quite an interesting project Club4Elite created by high yield investment expert Paul Vivenzio and programmer Robert Verikios. They took the approach I usually like by creating unique script with quite original features instead of just purchasing cheap standard script. This approach requires more effort and creativity which in my eyes means their business plans are quite serious and this isn't just quick short time project. Also quite unusual is that this autosurf program is first one to guarantee no loss of money. As admin explains script has built in tool which will alert when reserve fund is at critical point of 75% and then it will be stopped so that everyone can get a refund. Such promise is quite brave but doable as we recently learned when Dust from DSM did the same thing although he didn't plan it. If all programs would do this then autosurfing could be less risky in general. Another quite appealing feature are 2 options for plans where one requires surfing but other one allows earning without it but for smaller profits which also will attract people who like pure hyip type programs so in a way this program is combination of both. |
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Quite optmistic news come from 12by12daily as payments resumed with quite high pace by doing payouts for expired upgrades on 22nd and even managing to complete some payments from 23rd which means 8 working days since expiry and reports of those payments were also posted more frequently than before which shows that people still believe in this program and are willing to support it. Also Dave showed that he can be flexible towards those who have expired pendings after initially set deadline of 24th by allowing those for compounding rule even if members can't afford putting in 50% upgrade for qualifying but these will be given less priority than payments of those who qualify for new rule. So far seems chances of this site to survive are getting better but let's see how it continues. |
| 05.12.2006 |
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Today's most discussed news of course are about latest announcement from 12by12daily which introduced 50/50 rule because of recent drastic drop in incoming funds caused by stretching payouts. Well as I see it we now have GlobalAdsPro situation few months ago all over again. Considering that Trish is assisting Dave I am not surprised to see such turn of events and big question of course is where will this lead. If we remember GAP managed to continue payments for almost 2 months after introduction of this rule with different changes applied but that was site with barely few thousands of members and here we have membership over 30000 members which means much bigger impact from every change. Even few weeks of continuous payments could return this program on tracks and good news are that right after announcement payments resumed and right now payments are made for upgrades that expired on 22.11 already which is 9th working day or just 2 days behind terms and means there are still funds available for payments and these reports of payments will bring back some trust in this program's ability to pay and many will try to upgrade under new terms to get the pending payments. So if you are receiving payment I recommend going to 12by12daily forum and report your payment id and from which expiry date it is. Bad news unfortunately are that hackers still manage to make things worse and main reason why payout interval stretched from 8 to 9 days is because yesterday Dave instead of making payments had to spend full day securing his site from quite smart hacker who found a security loophole by using banner files to upload their script.
So I am quite confident that Dave will be paying out until there are funds available but how long this will continue and if it will be enough to get back on tracks depends mostly on how effective this new rule will be to regain previous cashflow levels as not everyone will be able to come with half of what they put into this program especially those who had large 4 digit upgrades and of course how flexible Dave will be with each case of compounding as making deadline until 24th is quite unfair to those who have all their upgrades expired after this date. Some stressful days are ahead of us because of these recent events and I will be watching where this leads closely.
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Quite many have asked me about 6k-finance hyip that supposedly is run by Charis Johnson former owner of 12dailypro. Well one fact that is certain is that admin is misleading people with rumor about Charis being behind this. It can be simply concluded from reading announcements and posts by admin which show that those are not made by native english speaking person and look more like someone from asia or as some point out Malaysia. Main fact that I don't like about this site is daily cashout ability with ROI of 3.7% which is deadly combination that only works while growth is high and most members continue to compound most of their earnings. Marketing trick claiming that Charis is behind it has fooled some but I don't think this will last long. I am quite sure once reserve fund will stop increasing it will stage some hacking event or just simply dissapear so if you are in this use caution and slowly withdraw portion of profits you get but if you are not yet in it I recommend avoiding this one.
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| 04.12.2006 |
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I am now back and still catching up on most things. But first I would like to thank you all who sent me support e-mails regarding last week's situation.
Everything is ok now and I can return to my daily reports again.
Updated stats today and seems overall activity has dropped somewhat even in leading programs. AdSurfDaily again gets the site of the week award with one of highest growth stats compared to other sites and also quite high jump in alexa ranks. Admins are very active in solving security issues and arranging live events which makes this program also as quite unusual compared to other sites but possibly trying something new is what can bring attention. 13dailypro has finally breached 30000 members mark and still continues to grow by 1000 members a week and make prompt payments. And of course our top leading program 12by12daily still continues to grow with unreacheable by other programs pace. Quite a lot of attention currently is directed towards their ability to pay and current status is that Dave is doing great job in catching up. New terms are that payment will come on 7th working day or near it. Reports show that payments were made during weekend and it was for upgrade expiry of 8 working days so considering that quite a lot of fixing account cash balances and pendings was done last month including auditing if payments go to correct e-gold account then we could expect that this week main attention could go to catching up to 7th work day payout interval. |
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Added DailyROI:PS which is using as some call it profit sharing or as others say lossless business model similar to CEPCoast and this program also had some assistance from CEP team during the launch. Admin of DailyROI James is quite close friend to Trevor admin of CEP. James purchased this site from Mike owner of previously failed program. It first failed after Stormpay scandal and later relaunched which lasted only 2 months. Now with new ownership and business model it received quite good attention and with it decent traffic after launch in November and quite positive feedback so in my opinion it is worth enlisting. Script is unique and admins quite active in improving this program. Cashouts are possible everyday with 2% fee but on Fridays without fee. Although I still am not a fan of this new business model it is getting more and more popular. I think after some finetuning which currently is mostly done by this program and of course CEPCoast this model could become main choice for new programs just don't forget that it's still experimental. |
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Finer Things is now offline just like the famous GoldenRocks. What this means is that you will not need to access site and register your payment but can directly send deposit to their e-gold account and in 30 days receive your payment. This worked quite perfectly as this approach makes hacker attacks to site useless because data base of members is kept offline. Only flaw I see here is if anyone reports this e-gold account and it gets blocked then few days while account issues are solved depositing will not be possible.
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In most cases we don't even know who runs a particular autosurf program and usually only thing revealed about admins are their names (if not fake). In some cases we see legally registerred companies behind but very rarely there is more more background info about admins. Recently I provided some insight and pictures about AdSurfDaily owners but this time some info about CEPCoast owner Trevor E. Reed (happy man in the picture with his fiance who is responsible for design of CEP sites).
First and as he states most important is fact that he is a Christian. Even education Trevor has is BA in religion and Philosophy from Susquehanna University in central Pennsylvania, USA. This mainly shows why he is so open in communication with members and always quite polite so if you are ever in need or have a problem don't hesitate to contact as every e-mail will be read and responded. Originally Trevor launched hyip program called ColonEndParenthesis one year ago from now with quite low and sustainable returns for limited membership. This program has been a success and brought this admin quite good reputation based on which manual surf program with profit share model was launched just 2 months ago and so far is one of best examples in this business model because it was adjusted to more flexible model and it is now used in other programs. There is still no guarantee that it will last forever of course as so far percentage has just gone down mostly but unlike previous experiments like surfoogle it dropped much slower and still has quite high percentage (2% at this time) even after 2 months of running and is more or less consistent. Considering daily compounding option this isn't as low as it seems because ROI in such programs is much higher. Trevor is doing great job constantly explaining this business model to members and adjusting further to improve it's performance. If anyone can make this program with experimental business model a success I think Trevor can do the job. |
| 30.11.2006 |
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I have to apologise for lack of updates this week and main reason for this is family emergency this Tuesday because I had to take my 2 year old to hospital with body temperature at 40C degrees and stay with him. Got behind on all e-mails and other issues I had planned for this week including some updates to the site by introducing some new features
so don't be surprised if I don't respond as quickly as before these days but today situation is much better and I hope to bring my son back home by this weekend and hopefully will be able to catch up on everything by end of week.
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| 28.11.2006 |
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Updated stats and site of this week is again AdSurfDaily which not just had quite good growth and popularity stats but also fixed most of security and script issues that were causing it's launch to be somewhat less success that it was anticipated but people are working on issues and solving them. Quite noticeable fact is that current leader 12by12daily has breached the 2000 members per week mark during last week despite the concerns raised from the changes which is a very good sign of healthy growth. But in general trend of new signups is currently focused around top programs which shows that at this time most of surfers are following the strategy of putting all eggs into one or two most reliable baskets and don't show too much interest in any other sites that offer either lower ROI or were just recently started.
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Now about quite an interesting story related to Tri-Star media programs. Few weeks ago I reviewed their status by looking at alexa stats and didn't like what I see which coupled with max upgrade levels increase and immediate reversing of this decision when it was not received well by general population seemed like sign of trouble at the time. Well I received an e-mail from admin that my info was way off actual situation with these programs so I decided to do more research on this. Results showed that I indeed rushed with my conclusions based mostly on alexa stats so I posted results of my research and I thought I found also main reason of their alexa stats being almost at zero levels for Treo-Surf and 15hitsdaily which was use of secure protocol (https) which uses SSL certificate to secure visitor sessions to the site and data including username and password submission. Just few days later admin decides to remove this certificate (notice that it happened right after I posted results of research) that is preventing Alexa reading traffic stats of Tri-star sites. Well problem is that by doing this security of sites is compromised as it now allows user sensitive data to be sent over internet without any encryption and can be intercepted by hackers who are snooping traffic content.
So this makes me wander why admin makes higher priority getting his alexa stats to higher levels over security of sites and members using them especially after announcing that in his opinion alexa stats don't mean anything mostly because those can be abused by using traffic exchange. Well just a reminder autosurf sites are traffic exchange and mostly because of this alexa ranks are used to evaluate traffic levels of any autosurf site. Also abusing alexa ranks isn't that easy as it sounds because their algorithms are safeguarded against cheating by ignoring spammed results, accumulating only data from unique sources and so on otherwise Yahoo,MSN and Google wouldn't be top 3 sites.
So which is it, Bob? Better have higher alexa ranks which you consider useless or care about security of your members accessing your sites? Didn't an incident with hacker teach you some lessons about vulnerabilities of internet world?
Anyway now that I paid some more attention to Tri-star progress I am quite impressed with what I see and idea of new own money processor which could become quite good
alternative to e-gold and alertpay for surfsites could give quite good additional income stream especially since it allows major processors and plans for including master card. Keep up the good work Bob just don't get into flame wars with bloggers who dig up facts about your past and etc which shouldn't be your concern at all. |
| 27.11.2006 |
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Both leaders 12by12daily and 13dailypro lately are doing some changes to terms so that they can keep up with the fast growth of their membership. Dave now allowed another active upgrade and it is now possible to have 3 active upgrades at same time which means that now it's possible to upgrade every 4 days. 13dailypro decided to start paying every day instead of just workdays and increase payout interval from 5 to 7 days. Well considering that previously weekends were not counted as workdays it doesn't change anything from members point of view as payments will come on 7th calendar day just like it happened before this change but it will allow admins to reduce workload on fridays when most of payments were done. As for 12by12daily there are reports that another hacker interferance happened and some accounts had their payout e-gold number changed but just few hours later it was fixed so seems security Dave has added is working quite promptly to fix unauthorised changes to profiles. Although question stands if this will again increase workload of auditing every account before making payments as affects of previous hacking early this month has forced daily payouts to stretch into 8 days in general during last few days.
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| 26.11.2006 |
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I don't usually repost announcements but since Dave from 12by12daily only posted short version of it in members area and other blogs haven't picked up this new large announcement yet I decided to add it as it addresses latest concerns about payments being day or two late.
"Hi Everybody,
Firstly, let me congratulate you all on the fabulous success of 12by12daily. We are continuing to grow, and hold our place as the premier autosurf on the net. Since the last update, we have had a number of record days, both in terms of upgrades, and also payouts. Which brings me to the point of this update.
Are payouts late?
No, payouts are not late. We do try and make every effort to make payouts on or before the 7th day, but the terms do state "on or about" the 7th day, so the little word "about" gives us a leeway of a couple of days. We do have the right to alter our terms and conditions at any time, so we are going to change the wording of this sentence to read
"We pay earnings to those advertisers and surfers who wish to participate our earning program on or about the 7th WORKING day after the expiration of each Ad Pack. There are no guarantees that we will pay by this date but we will make effort to do so."
This does not mean that all of a sudden we are going to increase the waiting time to ten days, we will continue to try and pay as close to the times we have been, but it does give me some leeway in case of emergencies. As circumstances permit, we may still be able to pay early, as we have done sometimes in the past.
There are a number of reasons for the current delays.
1. As mentioned in the latest update, we are still working through the problems created after the failed hacker attempt. A number of members have used more than one egold account to upgrade with. Some of those I was already aware of, such as if a members account had been hacked, and he/she changed to a new number with my permission. Many others are a result of an upline member or family member making their first upgrade, (breach of terms by the way) and when we ran the program to correct the hackers attempt at changing egold numbers, it automatically chose the first account the member had used. In most cases this was either someone elses account, or an account that was no longer active, or worse, an account that belongs to a hacker. Whatever the reason for using two accounts, each and every one of these accounts has to be checked, and in most cases, changes made in the database. This has proved to be a much larger job than we at first thought. Some members have been asked to contact us in regard to their particular issue, others I have been able to fix myself. The good news is, that the members who had been "caught in the crossfire" are all fixed, and I hope to have the others fixed within about 2 more days.
2. Members are still concerned about the inaccuracies in their accounts, particularly in relation to their current cash balance, and the mistakes in pending payouts. This has also proved to be a huge job, and we have been working on it feverishly and should have a positive result there by the end of the week.
3. The sheer volume of payouts that need to be made. Some of the older members will remember the excitement in the forum when we introduced Autopay. This was a tremendous asset in speeding up payouts, but unfortunately, Autopay does not do everything. All it does is process the payouts. It cannot check for duplicate egold accounts. It cannot check for incorrect pending payouts. It cannot check for cheaters. It cannot check for phoney upgrades, etc., etc., These are all tasks that I have to do. Since the introduction of Autopay, the number of payouts we have to process daily has quadrupled.
4. Family Emergencies. I love you guys, and spend almost every waking hour working for you, however sometimes, my family has to come first. Yesterday my wife had to be taken to hospital, and I was away from the computer for about 5 hours. I have to take her back again in the morning, so that will probably mean I am away for a similar time. For the record, it is not life threatening, and she is gonna be okay. The point of this paragraph is to say, that there are sometimes circumstances beyond my control, which may mean I am unable to complete the tasks I need to. This is the type of emergency mentioned above, where I might need a little leeway.
5. Other administrative tasks. Looking after 35000 members is a huge job, and there are many other little jobs I have not even mentioned above which need to be attended to. Every member who has their egold account hacked, for example, takes about 10 mins to stop their payouts, and there are too many of these. An incorrect payment can take about 5 minutes to fix, and a missing payment can sometimes take up to 15 mins to search, depending on the speed of the egold site at the time. Add, email address changes, passwords not working, fraudulent attempts to change email addresses, or egold numbers, and the list goes on. As you can see, although we like to give payouts the first priority, there are always a lot of other things that need attention.
To sum up, please don't be too disappointed if your payouts are a day or two later than you are accustomed to. 12by12daily is here for the long term. Our future is bright, and there are exciting times ahead. I will have a very exciting announcement later on this week.
David" |
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SlamDunkAdvertising decided to switch from once per 14 days to expiry payout method and seems this has allowed to catch up somewhat on payments which were pending for several weeks now as this gives more time. Robert explained current situation and as it stands now all alertpay payments are up to date and only some e-gold pendings are not yet done but should be catched up shortly. My list of pendings has been cleared at this point and because of payment method change now I need to wait until an upgrade expires. Moved this program back from problems category to delayed payments until e-gold pendings are cleared before moving into regular. |
| 24.11.2006 |
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There is some concern about recent announcement from 12by12daily and decision to double max upgrade amount. It's true that such changes in certain circumstances could be treated as red flag and possible cash flow problem but thing is that other aspects show that this is not the case with this program for several reasons. Firstful their traffic levels according to alexa are constantly climbing for several months already. Second reason is that payments are still paid on schedule with few exceptions when account needs additional audit but such delays have been reported from time to time since very beginning so it's not a new thing and lately became quite rare case compared to beginning. Third is that this program has showed more obvious red flags in first few weeks than any other program out there but is still around and going stronger with each day. And last but and possibly most important is that Dave has always been upfront with members and if there is trouble never hides it but searches for possible solutions. So in my opinion there is nothing to worry right now and this decision just will allow this program to keep up with the growth pace it has picked up and there is quite good research done to show there shouldn't be any concerns at LyfeStylerGroup blog.
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Seems that one of most popular forums MMG (MoneyMakerGroup) has turned into scammer heaven. First it removed scam folder few weeks ago with quite weak explanation mentioning something about compromising investment programs with such folder. Well for sure they are compromising but it's not the programs that get damaged but advertising sales they are making by renting banner spots and setting sticky topics of particular programs. Lately prices have gone up so high that banner at their forum costs several thousands and of course having such folder is doing damage to their business. And appears it's not all as lately censorship cases have been reported when posts of people who criticise top advertised programs are being removed. Well I think they forgot who made this forum so popular and reasons why it achieved top attention. One of main reasons I visited it frequently was this removed scam folder as they were quite quick to react on problematic posts and move programs into this folder when they went bad. This folder actually was one of most viewed and visited so I think now this forum will get less overall attention because of it's new cheerleading approach. This will cause less traffic and less interest of advertisers so it soon could become just some rarely visited forum like many out there without the democracy feature it had.
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| 23.11.2006 |
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Does the word AllAdvantage ring a bell? Well for those who used internet 6-7 years ago it should as this one was the very first paid to surf program with membership of 10 million members and overall payout of 100 million dollars over course of couple of years it existed before becoming a victim to the burst of internet bubble. I even managed to be part of this program and earn few hundred dollars but I joined it too late and didn't use internet as much as I do today. And one of main reasons I joined autosurf industry was because I was already familiar with it from times when I was part of this granddaddy of all paid to surf programs.
Well the great news are it is finally back with new version called Agloco. Difference from our usual autosurfing programs is that it is run via installed toolbar similar to what Alexa or Google offers, it doesn't pay for daily surfing of fixed sites but for hourly presence of this toolbar in your computer which allows rotation of ads in it and the best part about this program is that it is totally free to join - no upgrades needed. Just signup, install the toolbar and leave it running for free cash. No need to click on anything or pay attention just do what you usually do when surfing the web with some google or alexa toolbar installed.
This toolbar after installation will be placed on your desktop just above your status bar and look like this:
Team behind this project include 8 Stanford MBA's and AllAdvantage veterans Carl Anderson and Jim Jorgenson. The sophistication of on-line commerce, better targeting technology following interests of users and showing only relevant ads similar to what Google Adsense is riding on - these things combined as result will make a hybrid of autosurf model we have right now in 12by12daily and other programs with time proven and fine tuned google adsense business model. News about this program are spreading like wildfire through blogs and mostly promoted by people who are not even aware of autosurfing industry including some big names in internet marketing world so this one will be treated as separate entity and will be following different rules of growth mostly because there is no membership fee and large potential for earnings. As estimated already 10000 members have signed up for it and this number will be growing exponentially over next few days. I think this one will be huge so don't wait and sign up for your toolbar of free cash.
Updated - currently total max hours for earning is set to 5 hours and viewbar is still in beta testing but will be released to members shortly based on signup date. Earlier you join faster you can download toolbar and start earning. Hours will be counted only during active surfing so it could take several days to reach the limit of 5 hours and this limit could be changed. |
| 22.11.2006 |
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As you probably noticed growth stats were updated recently and site of the week this time is AdSurfDaily which wasn't just most popular but also fastest growing not just by relative but also in absolute values only behind current leader 12by12daily but still getting such high growth within first week is quite outstanding achievement which allowed it to storm into top 10 and reach even top 5 position in overall ranking. Alexa graph also reflects this high jump of activity within first few days.
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As I promised few days ago I will be doing deeper review of this program and currently I have mixed feeling about it. From one side we see quite successful launch with lots of attention and good activity jump but from other side we can see quite inexperienced actions and weak script that is having lots of problems and issues. Of course we could remember that 12by12daily didn't start too bright as well but I don't think we can compare these quite unknown to autosurf industry admins with Dave Cannard who knows what to do and how to handle such situations.
Here is some more info about admins of AdSurfDaily.
President and CEO of this company called just same as site is Mr. Andy Bowdoin.
They are getting technical help with this program from Heardy Myers and Eddie Williams.
All these guys appeared recently on ASA monitor video cast. CEO Andy just briefly answered few questions but other two had quite good conversation with Jake from ASA. All this was cast at convention in Orlando, Florida during prelaunch of this project and for full conversation check out videocast at ASA monitor
Andy Bowdoin is also President and Chief Executive Officer of GPS Tech, Inc which specializes in both commercial and consumer GPS applications. These allow tracking of your people, cars or using them for hunting, fishing and etc. Andy is the grandfather of the GPS Commander one of their featured products. He conducted the market research with several of his sales people in 1999. After discovering that there was a large market that needed a GPS Fleet Management System, he and other investors invested over $600,000 to develop and beta test this system. Andy Bowdoin has been a marketer and sales trainer for 45 years and is quite experienced in offline business.
But main question we have on our minds is how much experience he has for online advertising and to be more exact will these 45 years of being a marketer help learning what it takes to run an autosurf program. At this time we can see that program was launched and earned quite good attention but unfortunately problems with double upgrades, upgrades not showing up, activation e-mail problems, referral link issues when domain transfer wasn't completed yet, their admin panel accessible which makes their site quite vulnerable to hackers and what's worst quite unprofessional support so far as most of tickets are not answered for almost a week already. Their IT resources are now quite busy fixing most of problems with script.
So to conclude I say this program has good potential and experienced marketers behind it but they lack online advertising experience and I recommend not rushing with large upgrades here and see how they handle those problems that are appearing because of script problems. |
| 21.11.2006 |
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GlobalWaweTraffic was closed yesterday because of almost no growth over last few weeks and recent incident with hacker who managed to get in and create a mess in backoffice. Alex decided to leave this industry for good as he couldn't find a right way to make his site success and will be better off trading forex without additional funds involvement. Refund plan was announced by admin for those not in profits or who upgraded lately. Not too surprised as I had it rated as 3 star risk program for over a month already and chances are quite high that another risky porgram SlamDunkAdvertising will be closing quite soon as well as it's payments have stalled lately for over a week and no signs of regaining any progress. |
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Dustin admin of recently cancelled DesertSkyMarketing program announced that his new project with improved business model will be launched right after new years on January 2nd. As it seems it will adopt profit sharing model with daily payouts similar to what latest lossless model programs are going for. These are quite good news as this means an admin who currently is still in process of refunding members of first project and according to reports those are mostly done already will be making a relaunch which isn't what we have used to see when a program gets to the point when it can't pay and decides to zero everyones accounts and restart which makes many members loose funds if they joined too late. This relaunch will be from an owner of program who predicted possible problems in his project and didn't let it go up to the point when members would loose money.
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DimensionAds experienced unplanned server downtime today but is now back online with yesterday's backup. Admins will be crediting for lost time so there isn't much to worry but this situation appears wasn't planned in this customised script and it will require some adjustments to allow crediting members who actually surfed but records of this were lost.
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Another cycle ended for Finer Things hyip and payment was made just as scheduled. Seems like one of most popular hyip programs at this time as it is receiving quite good reviews and feedback over forums and blogs and some even label it as next goldenrocks. Well we'll see if it lives up to the reputation but potential for this to happen is not that bad. Recent hacking incident was handled quite professionally and not much damage done to the program. Admin is considering moving members data base offline in same style as GR did manage their accounts.
First payment came from AdSurfDaily which I requested on friday but since weekend followed I received it only on Monday as payouts are done within 24 hours after request excluding weekend days. Also scheduled payments from CommandSurf and 12by12daily which was already 19th from this currently top performing program. Not many programs with expiry payout method manage so many cycles especially if we consider that upgrade cycle is 19 days long here. |
| 20.11.2006 |
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The buzz around AdSurfDaily is getting bigger with every day which clearly represents in it's alexa graph but I can't say I am too excited about it. I enlisted this program because I saw quite professional setup and as it seemed serious intentions but currently I see many unsatisfied reports and noticed several issues that are causing this one to look quite a mess right now in my eyes. First it is issues with server move and their proposed workaround to use ip address instead. Well considering this was done during prelaunch stage why not wait few days before domain changes proganate to new server and everyone can access it. Then crediting for daily surfing seems ins't applied to everyone but this issue is worked on. Several concerns relate to unknown reputation of management team and there already are speculations who they are and what crimes they have done. Currently it is promoted in ASA monitor with Jake featuring this program in latest videocast and this usually turns lots of attention to a program. Seeing how popular this one is I will try to do more detailed research and report shortly what I find but meanwhile I recommend using caution and holding spends until situation is more clear.
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Have some new additions to bad ip list as found one nest of scams at 64.20.34.162 which enlists over 60 various sites most of which are paid to surf or click programs with mostly fake stats and impossible returns. Here is the list of sites that are paid to surf and should be avoided as your upgrades in these will turn into donations and no payment can be expected:
2dailypro.com
atttraffic.com
awesome-surf.com
blastmyads.com
clownclicks.com
clixncash.com
conureclicks.com
eurosurfpro.com
globsurf.com
greatclickers.com
k9surf.com
leilaclicks.com
luckyclickers.com
makolinks.net
money-stations.com
pirateclix.com
sportsnclix.com
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Recent addition into other opportunities Online Capital is instantly paying after request and thanks to some referral commissions I was able to test how this program is paying and add screenshots of those. So far quite impressed with this quite hyped investment program that I still consider too good to be true as it offers 25$ bonus on which you can earn right away. Just as side note withdrawing procedure is quite complicated here as it requires separate requests for dividends on each of your deposits which costs 0.5$ per withdraw request so it's not wise to make several small deposits. To make it more clear min withdraw limit is 1.5$ and if you make one deposit of 100$ for daily plan then you will earn 1.3$ daily and just after 2 days will be able to withdraw 2.1$ but if you wait 10 days then you will be able to withdraw 12.5$. But if you make 10 small 10$ spends then you are earning just 1.1% daily and each deposit will accumulate earnings seperately for each deposit and after 10 days you will have only 1.1$ earned on each deposit which means can't withdraw yet. Also withdrawing for each of those deposits will mean wasting 5$ total in fees if you use e-gold option. So plan ahead knowing this information and better make large single deposits rather than several small ones. |
| 18.11.2006 |
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Here is some more info about Autosurf.bz. It has quite unusual domain name used .BZ which is the dedicated country code top-level domain for the country of Belize, a Central American/Caribbean nation. It is an unrestricted domain that is available for anyone to register and is managed by University College of Belize so not every whois data base will return info about this registrant. .BZ domains are inherently useful for anyone looking to promote their "business" on the Web. The letters "BZ" internationally signify business and therefore make a .BZ address a useful, and affordable solution for individuals, organizations, or other groups to promote their "business" on the Internet. Admin has very good knowledge in SEO and is using it at full strength. He picked top level niche keyword as his site name and will be pushing it through search result pages up to the top. I am quite confident he can manage this because of his success with other sites. Here is full whois for those who couldn't find it for due diligence:
"Registrant:
Network, eTalk
ATTN: autosurf.bz
c/o Network Solutions
P.O. Box 447
Herndon, VA. 20172-0447
Domain Name: AUTOSURF.BZ
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Network, eTalk ud6rc5nd3ku@networksolutionsprivateregistration.com
eTalk Network
ATTN: AUTOSURF.BZ
c/o Network Solutions
P.O. Box 447
Herndon, VA 20172-0447
570-708-8780
Record expires on 28-Sep-2007.
Record created on 28-Sep-2006.
Database last updated on 16-Nov-2006 17:14:09 EST.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.AUTOSURFUNION.COM
NS2.AUTOSURFUNION.COM "
As you can see admin is using private registration service for his site but this is only in case of surf site. But as I found admin's full name is Carlos Aldana and he is from province San Andres in Colombia. His experience in autosurf and hyip world so far has been mostly from reviewers side as he is still making daily comments about these industries via eTalkMoney site and this new project he started is still young but in my opinion potential is quite good. Carlos explained that shared hosting is only temporary plan to obtain and analyze the statistics about the rate of growth of this program so that he can decide whether to choose a Virtual Private Server or a Dedicated Server to host this project. The results will allow to take the best desicion which will guarantee that there is no need to change server after a short period of time. And site currently is sharing same host with some other autosurf programs because acd hosting also designed site so it's only relation to other projects on this server.
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DesertSkyMarketing as expected continues to pay full refunds to members and latest news are that Dustin plans to start a new project later on with different business model possibly choosing some variation of lossless version that lately is getting more popular. These are quite good news as admin has proven his skill and honesty so this second attempt should bring in more attention and success.
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| 16.11.2006 |
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Host transfer has been completed and I am moved to a more professional service at DreamHost now. Nameserver change should propagate already for most but if not you just won't see latest news and stats updates for few days on the site where this process takes slower. Sure sign that you are looking at new home of my site is when you will see all news items updated on newspage. Transfer has gone quite smooth and required almost no help from their support as control panel is self explaining for most functions and can be done on your own. I was quite impressed by professionalism of these guys and highly recommend this hosting company. If you are currently looking for a hosting service for your online business plans I highly recommend this one. Main features include monthly payment as low as 7.95$, unlimited domain hosting for same price which is great if you plan to use lots of domains and this essential for internet marketing, up to 2 terabytes of bandwith, 200 Gb storage and much more but of course one of most important is their professional support that will respond within minutes of your request by e-mail. I am quite sure support via phone is even better.
If you decide to use this service use my promo code "PAIPALS" when signing up and you will get 20$ discount which gives first 2 months free for yearly plan or 2 and half free months for two yearly plan. |
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Another in my opinion good quality program Autosurf.bz was started few weeks ago by Carlos from eTalk Network. Quite often we have heard that some program is part of a large network with several income streams but in most cases it was either not true or those network sites existed but did nothing. This time it's different case as other network sites are already well established and network itself is operating since 2003 which can be verified by checking their AdBrite account overview. And by well established I mean each of them has it's own purpose and is already quite valuable simply by having high pagerank which is most valued currency in online business. Having a link from site with high pagerank is worth thousands alone and all of these sites have it in range of 5-7 which is considered as very good value site. Even Google has only 8 but getting link from it's homepage is impossible and highest value is 10 and only site I have seen having it is www.adobe.com that offers Acrobat Reader. Even yahoo.com and cnn.com have only value 9 but getting link from these is impossible. This shows that admin is quite successful in internet marketing. Also Carlos has proven his good reputation when during summer launched eTalk shares project that offered 5-20% ROI for 30 days but this program didn't get much attention at the time so he decided to refund everyone which was actually done according to reports. Also I am quite sure that owner of established network wouldn't risk his existing business by starting a scam project so risk factor here is quite low. So now after several months of preperation he launched an autosurf site Autosurf.bz. In my opinion quite good quality program that currently is not aggressively advertised for more natural growth pace so that funds can be used wisely to sustain returns promised and another interesting feature that hasn't used before is Western Union funding option for those who don't like e-gold. |
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Lately several new programs have adopted the lossless business model with variable daily percentage with different success and one of best performing currently is CEPCoast. But there is another one that catched my attention and just launched with this new business model - AdSurfDaily. What I like about it is Rackspace hosting which offers best DDoS protection, Bank of America involvement which allows direct deposits into their bank account, separate training site with informational materials and phone 850-627-2206 with live support in case you face any problems. Setup is quite decent for a surf site and shows that it isn't some shortterm project launched for few weeks so possibly this one could grow into something interesting. |
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Well as you remember recently I mentioned that Tri-Star media programs could be in cashflow trouble because their traffic levels have reduced in alexa graphs and provided a comparison picture from that date. Appears that alexa is not completely accurate in case of these programs because majority of members are using secure https versions of sites they are in and statistics for secure protocol traffic are not accumulated in Alexa data base. This is main reason why 15hitsdaily and especially Treo-surf show almost no activity lately but in reality program is still paying and traffic levels are higher than represented by Alexa. Which means we can't see exact picture by using this tool in case of programs using secure protocol but still general trend can be observed from those using non secure site version. So to find out more about their cashflow situation I monitored thair fund cashflow stats for several days which showed somewhat different picture from what alexa shows. Since weekend as expected best looking is 24surfpro because it still has positive cashflow and for membership slightly over 750 members it is averaging in payouts around 50% of incoming funds from members upgrades but level of incoming funds is averaging around 5-8k per day so this one is currently increasing reserve fund. In case of Treo-Surf which is second oldest site with almost 2500 members situation is somewhat worse as average daily amount of payouts is larger than incoming funds from upgrades and currently upgrades still cover only around 80% of payouts that range in 10-15k per day so with some shared reserve fund it could be fine for some time. As for oldest and largest one 15hitsdaily with almost 7000 members payout/upgrade ratio is at same level averaging around 25k per day which could mean that it is draining some portion of reserve fund but in general current growth is still sustaining promised returns.
So to conclude I think possible reason of raising caps for max upgrades was to allow members who maxxed continue returning their profits into programs which would allow increasing reserve funds again. And currently situation isn't as bad as it looked in the picture of Alexa graph I showed few days ago but it is quite close to an edge. And question stands how much extra revenue is made on funds in possession which will ensure how long these programs can continue.
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Also don't forget that today another 3rd round of DimensionAds has started and those who are interested in joining it have until Saturday end of day to signup. And as mentioned yesterday XLO Auto surf is back online and today is 6% day so don't miss surfing day especially since this program runs on Aussie time and date change there is on different time.
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| 15.11.2006 |
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After experiencing another downtime in ftp service I decided to move to another host as it seems current host is more concerned about their security and plan to discontinue hosting next year anyway. This week I will be spending mostly on transfering task so don't be surprised if less updates are done to the site while transfer is completed. Meanwhile news will be sent only via e-mail until site is transfered to new host.
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I don't follow hyip scene much anymore but this one Online Capital currently is quite hyped up and aggressively promoted. Usually I would just skip because such launch could be considered as planned scam to bring in as much money as possible before pulling the plug but in this case after doing some research and seeing several hyip expert reviews with positive feedback and also because of the bonus of 25$ offered on signup I couldn't resist and join it since I think all this effort during launch and presence of bank wire option shouldn't mean shortterm project. Company is based in Austria and claims to be having 5 years of experience in forex arbitrage trading. Site is indeed hosted on server that is located in Austria and registration is purchased for another 5 years until year 2011. Returns offered in range of 1.1%-2.5% are quite realistic for forex trading and best part of course is that the bonus of 25$ that currently is given to first 4000 members will be earning money but there are limits how many bonuses are offered and main factor affecting this is how many have signed up from your country. I received mine so seems limit for my country wasn't yet reached and I even made a test spend to match the bonus for quicker profits. Min withdrawal is 1.5$ so in just a matter of few days you can see free money in your account. Website itself is quite professionally prepared with custom script and reports of payments are all over forums so if you haven't joined it yet I recommend checking it out before bonus offer runs out. |
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Updated growth stats yesterday and site of the week this time was CEPCoast which dominated relative growth ranking and even passed some established programs in absolute growth ranking compared to last week. Progress is quite obvious and in my opinion it earned it's place in premium category but I still consider it more or less experimental program which has gained quite a success lately. By the way growth stats this week look bigger because I couldn't do the update last week because of technical reasons and these numbers are now for last two weeks and still top growing programs are also top in overall ranks so no big surprises. Another noticable progress comes from EzSurfnEarn which possibly is related to recent launch of DimensionAds which also brought some extra attention to this program.
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Seems for some it came as surprise but XLO Auto surf announced planned downtime early this week until 16th to make some upgrades but in some places those who didn't read this announcement sent by mass mail already started to panic. Well there is absolutely no reason to panic as this downtime was planned and site will be back tomorrow just be sure not to miss surfing because Andy usually makes first day after downtime at increased percentage to compensate for lost days and if you miss this first day it will mean no earnings for over 4 days.
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| 13.11.2006 |
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Well this week started with quite sad news as Dustin admin of DesertSkyMarketing decided to disable upgrades and close down this program eventually after everyone has been fully refunded and older members even made some small profits. One of main reasons for this decision is failure to motivate corporate advertisers to promote their products using manual traffic exchange service because of low conversion rates they were receiving. But this is not the only reason as some short term ventures failed as well and caused loss of funds and longer term income strams will not be sustaining promised returns. Dustin decided not to leave it running until it's not possible to fully refund everyone and pull the plug early while respectable exit can be done. I am quite confident that refunds will be issued here fully unlike most other cases and applaud for the effort Dustin made to bring this industry closer to coprorate customers but possibly there is a need for different business model that could motivate coprorate customers or different approach.
Just remember that to receive your full refunds you will need to continue surfing until you have earned at least amount matching your upgrade value and additional 5-10% more which then will be paid on weekly basis as usual. |
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Referral magnet book sales are closing on the 150 limit and Vincent decided to announce the deadline for it to 14 November 2006 (Tuesday) 6pm CST which leaves just slightly over 24 hours before this book is taken off market completely. As I wrote earlier I have read this book and in my opinion it is worth every penny and should earn you back the money you spend on it shortly after you apply those methods in your autosurf/hyip earning strategies. Best part is that most of those methods don't even require own website or large advertising costs which makes return of investment even higher.
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CEPCoast recently changed terms which usually isn't too good sign but in this case I got to say I don't know if that matters that much. This program is using the lossless business model where daily earning percentage is calculated based on incoming funds. Program is already more than a month old but still keeps quite high average percentage which hasn't dropped below 6% yet and is more or less averaging around 6-8% for last few weeks. This is still kind of experimental model and predecessors like surfoogle failed to use it correctly but in CEPCoast case some adjustments have made it very appealing and so far quite successful as it is gaining quite good momentum. But I still feel daily compounding it started to use 3 weeks ago by allowing daily cashouts which are done within few hours after request is kind of too risky and I treat it more or less as experiment. First I quickly earned back my initial investment that can be done within 2 weeks in this program and now compounded to higher level using profits by cashing out and upgrading with amount I receive on same day. This is a killer approach for usual fixed percentage hyip/autosurf programs because it quickly builds impossible virtual returns for most members and makes a program to blow up almost instantly when big guys pull out but in this case it could have a slightly different outcome. Possibly something similar but with slower affect of blowing up when everyone starts pulling out funds from this program and such moment could be anticipated quite quickly when daily percentage drops drastically and according to new terms this would happen when it is around 2% but exactly how this will go currently is unknown factor that actually makes this site quite appealing for quick profits at this time.
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| 12.11.2006 |
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Today most popular question in online community is "Death of Internet Marketing?". What is this and why it's so popular you may ask. This is a report created by one of biggest whales in online marketing Mike Filsaime. There is no presale or prelaunch after this report and there is no payment needed to get this report as it is totally free. And even more for spreading this report to your friends or list (you might have) you get a chance to earn some money in your paypal account. Report itself is quite eye opening and very interesting reading as it covers current status of not just internet marketing but whole marketing world (offline one included) with statistics and conclusions where it is heading in general.
I must say I learned quite valuable tips from this report but most valuable conclusion I came to is that at this time entering online marketing is possibly one of best moments simply because online business is slowly turning away from spam and aggressive ineffecient marketing methods offline alternatives used for years in mass media and influenced online marketing as well. People are slowly turning towards relevance of content they want to see, hear or just find for their use is it mp3, movie or an article about topic they are interested in. World is changing and the direction it is taking will allow internet marketers to become successful in this fast growing business opportunity that online world is becoming. This really is one of most interesting reports I have read especially since it doesn't involve promoting particular product and it will be as interesting for those who are taking first steps into internet marketing direction as it will be for regular reader who never considered going into this path.
I highly recommend spending just 15-20 minutes of your time to read this free report.. |
| 11.11.2006 |
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12by12daily experienced slight technical problems recently first facing some old code triggering mass payouts for some members and later hacker attempt to change e-gold account to which upgrades are going and some members payout accounts. Mass payout was "fixed" quite shortly by removing this fake record from history but seems cash balance wasn't updated with previous values for those members that were affected by this. Admin stated that cash balance will be corrected upon payouts and I believe this will happen this way because lately many upgrades that expire at first go into pendings list with incorrect value but later is fixed to the correct value. I think script has been customised to the point that there are daily audit batches run which check amount of sites members have surfed, their upgrade values and resulting payout values which fix those errors. So I think same will happen here as these batches will be run before making payouts and cash balance value will be fixed to correct values. As for hacker attempt seems there are also some script customisations which automatically restore original e-gold account number in case of it's change attempt by unauthorised party. Glad to see Dave is on top of any loopholes standard scripts usually have and we don't see similar problems most other admins have faced which especially critical is right now when this program has earned such high momentum and pace of growth.
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I think it's time to issue first yellow flag for Tri-star media programs that lately are getting less and less activity which means reduced cashflow as well. (See chart below)
As you can see first program 15HitsDaily regained some attention after launching Treo-Surf at the end of August and few weeks later 24surfpro which currently seems healthiest of these 3 programs but also on downward trend. General trend is dropping for all of them and is very low for first two already.
But main reason why I decided to mention this crisis right now is latest announcement about changes in max upgrade levels which is one of the ways to bring in more cash from big spenders who have capped their funds already and are sucking out profits. In my eyes this is warning sign that cashflow situation is getting into trouble. I am not saying it will stop paying right away because e-gold price climbing alone could give some dividends on funds in possession but not for long so be aware that all these 3 programs are very risky at this time and I think all of them will go down at same time which could possibly happen by end of month if not earlier. Some blogs are putting these programs next to big guys 12by12daily and 13dailypro as safest programs right now. Well this is the part I disagree as Tri-Star programs are nowhere close to these programs so don't be fooled into hype caused by those videocasts at ASA or Tri-Star.
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Seems there are still people following ghost sites of the past. Well a ghost site is a program that despite it's unpaying record somehow manages to attract new members and their donations in most cases without any communication but sometimes even maintaining activity from admins side except paying part. One of best examples is VivaSurf which has done several scam rounds already and still is promoted in some places as paying and some people still fall for this trap. In this case even some small bait payments are done at first to get in more money afterwards. I never enlisted this program as I considered it as scam since it's first restart so can't give more details how exactly people are fooled in it but I have received several e-mails already stating this program is still scamming people. So if you somehow got into this trap just forget about it. You won't be paid and it's just waste of time surfing in hope they will someday do this. And if you feel you are in one or several other ghost sites out there but unsure if they indeed are ones then just drop me an e-mail listing sites in question and I will give you more info about those programs.
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| 09.11.2006 |
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Just finished reading "Referral magnet" that is now available for sale for limited time and supply and I got to say that right now I feel like I am a newbie in getting
big downlines. Vincent has basically spilled his guts in this book and showed every method he uses for
getting more referrals. I think most valued this book is for those surfers who don't have their own blogs or
sites which generally seems main way of getting referrals in your downline but appears it isn't and even I learned some new things
I didn't think of before. I have to admit that I was somewhat sceptical if there will be anything new I wouldn't
know but Vincent as usual managed to surprise me.
I highly recommend this guide to anyone who is into autosurf/hyip earning and wants to increase their profits.
I am quite glad he decided to limit sales of this book as there will be less competition using same methods that readers of this book will need to face.
So don't wait until it's sold out and go Buy It before others do. |
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Latest addition is WebHitsDaily that is low risk program running since early May of 2006 so it is already half year old and lately getting more attention especially after dimensionads prelaunch campaign because they were involved in creating this program as partners. This program is run by Deana Pierce and co-admin David who earned quite good reputation over forums and positive feedback from expert bloggers. I have been watching it for some time now but didn't enlist as it was quite low in activity and progress but latest developments have added some steam to this program so possibly this sleeper will wake up now and bring in more people. It offers 3.5% for 45 days and has quite interesting approach for referral commissions as free members earn 10% for each downline upgrade but upgraded members have 5-6% only which in a way encourages free members promoting this program but seems high cashout of 50$ hasn't brought enough motivation for free members onto this program. May be after reading "Referral Magnet" some will choose this option?
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Second round of DimensionAds called 2ndDimensionAds has launched and for next 3 days until Saturday night it will be open
for signups and this time limit is only 500 members. Considering the fact that first
round was filled with approx 500 members this time limit could be reached if most of same members
join and some additional who missed first round come to this program. Upgrades day is planned
for Sunday again.
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| 08.11.2006 |
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Possibly one of last posts related to this book Referral magnet which will be available starting tomorrow 9th of November. Just wanted to mention that Vince plans to limit it's release to just 150 copies or 1 week whichever comes first. Main reason for this decision is major concern readers of leaked chapter had that value of methods explained in this book after it is released to public might drop. Meaning that when everyone will be using these methods competition will be so large that they won't be as effective as they were before. I do agree somewhat with this concern but I don't think it will be that critical issue as I think methods might get less effective for single promoter but they will still work and just will require more time sensitive approach and effort. Anyway if you were considering increasing your referral amounts and purchasing this book I recommend doing it right after launch while it is available for purchase.
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Received scheduled payments right on time from 13dailypro and DesertSkyMarketing and both are now tied in top rankings for second rank. Both are getting quite good attention lately and increase in traffic levels is noticable almost matching trend angle that current leader is having over last few weeks. |
| 07.11.2006 |
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Surf-Down-Under has gone through some redesigning and site looks much better now. Trish has returned full focus to this program that is already 15 months paying and is currently oldest paying autosurf program in industry. Payments are somewhat delayed but still within month after request and what's most important paid consistently. People who loved GlobalAdsPro and made profits with that program have switched some of their attention now to this program and there is some activity increase lately but got to point out that growth is still quite slow.
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Recently received another cheque from Clickbank and this time added as screenshot to Project X entry in other opportunities as this was mostly earnings from first days of using methods in this book. I am still continuing to study this profitmaking industry and learning new ways and recently reviewed quite new product "Dominating ClickBank" video tutorials. Sales letter alone is revealing some quite interesting case studies of how author has made profits with this affiliate network. So it's worth reading just to find out how these methods can be used and if you prefer visual presentation where someone shows exactly what to do and how over e-book or e-course then this product includes 9 video tutorials each covering certain aspect of earning options with clickbank and is giving some unique and original ideas that are not used by many. And even some quite respected veterans of affiliate marketing have learned something new from these videos as author Andrew Fox is showing that there are numerous ways to profit from affiliate marketing and you are not limited by methods described by others but can think of new original ones that nobody else does. |
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Off topic but quite fun site I would like to share with you. This is Ms. Dewey search engine. It's not the usual text page where you just enter few words and get list of webpages that have related content. This girl will be entertaining you while you search and even comment on your picked words. Try searching for some popular and common words and see what she does ...
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| 05.11.2006 |
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Do you know what is one of most valued bits of information for getting more referrals under you? If you probably remember first recordbreaking day of 12by12daily when over 4000 members joined this single most popular program of year 2006 then you also should remember how one of possibly most visited and advertised autosurf monitors ASA admins got angry at getting only just 6 referrals out of those 4000. Do you know why this happened? Simply because they missed the launch of this program and only got into promoting after 3000 others already were flooding the blogs and forums with great news about this program. Today ends prelaunch of Referral magnet that currently offers free report of one of the chapters from this book explaining the very same thing I just described and mentions some other examples and ways how to increase your downline. Sales campaign will start next week and no this isn't some quality autosurf program launch of which shouldn't be missed but it offers earning referral commissions even if you don't plan to buy this book just by spreading the word about it. So if you haven't yet read this free report that already includes quite valuable information which alone will give you some tips how to increase amount of referrals then I recommend checking it out.
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Signups for newest addition 1stDimensionAds have closed and today is the only day you can upgrade in this first wave of this quite interesting program. If you don't do it by end of today your account in this dimension will be removed and you will need to wait for next launch of dimension and as I understand it will start before next weekend. Upgrades ar as low as 1$.
On a side note I would like to mention quite great news to those surfers who like doing this with smaller amounts and without large initial capital as dimension programs include VirtualClix feature which allows earning via payperclick business model and this one is quite simplified version of once so popular StormClix program. It is still raw and fresh as members base is not too large yet but I think as membership will grow this feature will also become more popular and earnings will increase for each user.
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Received a scam alert report today from one of my readers Phil and will pass this info to warn you all as well:
"1) www.autosurfmarket.com
2) www.solidsurf.com
Both are hosted by Enom.inc, where most of the scam sites are listed.
I received 2 emails supposidly sent from forums, I have never visited, so I
wondered how they got my details. I email the administrators of both forums
& got replies that the emails did not come from their forums.
I did DD & on both whois searches, I was given contact phone numbers & email
addresses.
Sending emails to the 2 admins, resulted in them being returned with the
message "unable to deliver, address not found"
I tried phoning the admins & both numbers were bogus.
My only conclusion is that these 2 sites are SCAM sites, as I get a lot of
emails from admins of various sites, all hosted on Enom.Inc (& they are the
only ones who will have my contact details as I have joined some sites in
the early days, when I didn't know much), some I've joined, only to loose
money when they close, just before the first payouts are due & most I have
monitored, & found that I was right not to invest money in these type of
scam sites.
regards
Phill (dogman2)"
As I checked on of them was already parked and other one offering impossible returns of 4% ROI with instant payouts which is true sign of shorttime ponzi scam and considering the way it was promoted I am quite sure it will last few days not more. |
| 03.11.2006 |
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It's been some time since I added new autosurfing program to my list. Reason as usual is lack of good quality programs which would qualify for my list as most of those started daily clones are quite weak attempts to scam people instead of offering quality advertising service coupled with some earnings.
As I expected new month started with another quality project 1stDimensionAds coming from already known in this industry admins Stacey and Jason who own already enlisted EzSurfnEarn and WickedHits. One of them is already 6 months old and other one is over 4 months old and so far not a single problem faced and no delays in payments. Also they have proven that these are not ponzi schemes because these programs despite quite average growth are still paying promptly so we can conclude here that we are dealing with admins that have proven their reputation in industry.
1stDimensionAds is not a usual autosurf program that once started will go for several cycles. It is new and original concept that will run only for one cycle and once a week new dimension program will be started that will allow starting another cycle. Membership amount is limited to 750 and upgrading is only allowed on specific dates. Such approach and their prelaunch phase have ensured quite good attention from population but unfortunately launch of this program didn't go as planned because of technical problem with their host as server had major hardware failure and right after launch site was inaccessible and most of promotional efforts were wasted. Today this technical problem was fixed and program is back online but members need to sign up again for it as data was lost and planned dates for upgrading and signing up will be moved to allow relaunch. Details haven't been released yet but at this point I recommend signing up before limit of membership is reached which could happen within hours and checking out this site with quite modified script and some unique advertising features involving navigational ads inside members area and full range of optional security features like secure crypto card, ip range lock and password recovery using your profile data. Upgrades will open shortly for a limited time and min upgrade will be as low as 1$ for those who like test spends.
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| 02.11.2006 |
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I am quite sure many remember Vincent Teoh - famous autosurf detective who revealed biggest scams even before they finished first cycles and sometimes even in prelaunch. Members of his due diligence club don't need introduction to this man. His researching skill was so outstanding that nobody could match what he found about sites he was researching fully. Quite many scammers were put out of business because their new programs were quickly connected to previous projects and nobody wanted to donate any money to their new sites after they got revealed.
And here are some very exciting news - Vincent just informed me that he is soon releasing book called Referral magnet
Sales campaign for this book will begin in few days but until that you can get a sneak preview of what it will be containing by downloading free report called "The Leaked Chapter".
It's just 12 pages of the actual book that will give you good example of what the new book will be about. Vincent is actually spilling out his secrets in this book so if you ever wandered how to increase your profits in autosurf or hyip programs this is exactly what you need. It won't be just bunch of pages theoretically explaining how this works but also set of video tutorials included that will show how to get those referrals under you.
I am quite confident that this book will become Project X of autosurfing within it's first days so find out more about it by downloading free report and be ready for it's launch quite soon. |
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Surfoogle recently made some changes and transfered all accounts to new improved version but appears it isn't getting much support anymore as after just few days it run out of sites in rotation and nobody can surf. This is caused by method credits are allocated to sites advertised and since just few members purchase advertising or spend small amounts these credits are used quite fast and there is no way to earn more without purchasing them. I am sure this will be fixed soon but what I wanted to point out is that this test project is running into dead end and will probably cease to exist shortly as failed attempt to use lossless business model. Showing actual earning percentage based on income is turning into avalanche of pull outs when it is dropping for too long and using cashout on expiry was making cycle just too long. There currently are 2 more variations of this business model listed CEPCoast and DenaliSurf but I think these are using much better version of it. Daily payouts allow members putting money back in to keep the percentage higher or monthly calculation in second case allows better money managment and lower risks. I still consider both somewhat experimental but seems so far those are working much better than Surfoogle is at this time.
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12by12daily just as scheduled on 7th day made their next payment and also DesertSkyMarketing did the wednesday payout round right after midnight.
Received also my first payment from DenaliSurf
despite the fact that I was below min cashout but admin decided to cashout everyone and reported quite good results for October. This program is using points system which means only at end of each month it will calculate actual earnings made during previous month based on income figures.
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| 31.10.2006 |
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Another month has ended and this one was more stable and promising compared to previous 4-5 months that were filled with numerous shortterm scams dominating the industry. More and more longterm programs with lower risks show up and rewrite the standards for paid surfing programs. I noticed that I haven't done much movements for programs residing in different categories lately which is quite good sign of more consistency. Top leading programs currently are mostly making their positions stronger and earning more and more trust. Hopefully next month will allow more quality programs come into picture to join current set and ensure even more stability. I have to say I am looking forward to this upcoming month with quite optimistic overall expectations but first let's see how first dates will go as statistics show most programs that have cashflow problems or plan to close to keep the loot are doing it early in every calendar month (although I write this mostly in hope that this time it will be an exception to statistics just because I expect it to happen).
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Received payment from XLO Auto surf promptly after request. Andy faced some technical problems with server slowing down as more traffic was generated by growing members base and decided to move both surf and hyip programs to new datacenter and upgrade them. This will mean planned downtime for one day and surf holiday. Also received payment from 13dailypro as scheduled on 5th day even despite their downtime for several hours yesterday and script errors generated because of those problems. I was one of affected ones as one of my upgrades multiplied 5 times but this was rectified withing short period of time and payments are back to schedule again.
GlobalWaveTraffic lately is quite active in creating new earning options like doubler and cycler and as reported yesterday's payouts were on time and without any problems. Also some new ideas like getting paid for posting in forums are offered to members for testing if it's worth as promotional campaign. Considering it's small membership and low growth this could help a bit in progressing so will be interesting to see it's progress over next week.
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| 29.10.2006 |
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CEPCoast got into some trouble with VM cards as their account was frozen and is now under investigation for fraud. As admin states this does seem quite similar to what Stormpay once did and considering how slow VM is with responding I just would like to remind that keeping any funds at their processor is quite risky. If you don't have any other option then just try to withdraw right after receiving funds in your VM account. As for situation with CEPCoast funds being frozen if what they claim that only 5% of members use this processor in this program then this shouldn't affect cashflow too much but could put some members on alert. I would expect daily percentage drop until Thursday some further although more and more people find out that daily withdraw option is available despite confusing notes in members area about weekly payouts. Something tells me to be more careful with this program for a cycle or two to see how it continues to progress.
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Tri-Star has more news as they plan to introduce their own debit card which would replace VM card. In light of recent events at CEPCoast I would say this is quite good move although have to remind that history of addition of own payment processors in most cases has been not so good. In any case don't think that such move makes program last longer or states anything about it's current cashflow status.
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Finally after almost month of waiting I received my first payment from SurfDownUnder. Trish recently switched focus back on this program after semiclosing GAP and already made some small script and site changes to improve it. Payments still are quite long but within terms. Also received quite prompt transfer of funds from CEPTrust processor to e-gold and just as scheduled another payment from 12by12daily current leader of industry by all means.
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BigDaddySurf sent out another announcement about current situation and where this program stands. Well as it seems Nate decided to use some of methods that were used by Trish in GAP and now go with payments on backward order in hope to raise some activity and funds. Not putting much hope in this one to recover.
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| 27.10.2006 |
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There is a topic named "Is autosurf industry dying?" floating around in some forums and blogs. I received few e-mails with same question as well asking my opinion so I'll just bring my answer here. My answer is definately NO. If you want proof just look at google trend graph for word autosurf and you will see that general trend of interest in this business is keeping at same level ever since it was introduced except for quite high jump in last quarter of last year and early this year when media was bringing some attention to 12dailypro situation. After that trend has gone down but not lower than it was same time last year. It's just it isn't the same industry as we knew it year ago and difference mainly is in affects from hyip programs and scammers who raised the limits. 2 years ago when this all started there barely were any programs offering more than 1% per day and main engine StudioTraffic at the time. Year ago situation changed as some quite successful programs offering higher percentage came into picture but also lots of scam projects came along. After death of StudioTraffic we received 12dailypro as replacement that reached it's peak at 300000 members. I would even dare to say that attention switched from ST to 12dp and this caused main problems for ST as people realised profits can be gained faster with higher percentage sites and ongoing success just made this belief stronger with each cycle.
Now what do we have this year? Well fact that higher percentage sites can last for few cycles has evolved this industry to the point where most surfers learned better strategies which involve hit and run approach and nowdays most programs are considered short term projects with only few exceptions. After huge amount of high percentage scam sites over summer many hoped attention will turn back to lower percentage sites but it didn't happen as expected but much slower. High returns are just too appealing even if risks are much higher so currently golden middle is being searched between low and high perentage returns to keep the attention consistent or some new strategies from admins involving running several sites or rounds using just one site. So the industry is evolving and becoming more flexible to the needs and expectations of surfers and admins but as I said in the beginning it is not fading out as some might say.
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CommandCorps sites are now down for maintenance until end of weekend. New script will be installed which will introduce new features like Bulls eye marketing that will allow advertising regionwise which is quite essential when involving corporate sponsors who need more specific audience. Whole weekend will be a surf holiday which means no need to surf but you still get credited as if you did surf during these days. Also just this week new payment processor option was introduced - virtual money card which will expand options for those who use only this processor. |
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Use caution with recently launched only-surf.net. When I first checked I wrote it off because of unrealistic returns it offers and mostly this comes from daily payouts option but ROI as well is 4.3% which coupled with daily payouts could mean that it won't last more than a week or at max two. But appears also that this program is run by known scammer Sam Markoff from add-surf so better stay away from this one. |
| 25.10.2006 |
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Response to Project X was quite overwhelming as I received lots of e-mails with questions and feedback from those who planned to purchase or bought this top ranked e-book on affiliate marketing that moved Ewen Chia and Rich Jerk from their top positions within just few days after launch. Although after responding to all of your e-mails I came to conclusion that this book wasn't as simple to understand for less experienced in internet marketing as I thought it is. Many terms used in it and simple in my opinion steps required quite long explanation and I tried my best to help understand those but I am not the author so it was just my way how I see it.
But I have found something that is not mostly focused on advanced methods but also less experienced or beginners level courses and resources -
Wealthy Affiliate is an internet marketing university for those who wish to study this from the very basics. It doesn't just focus on methods and steps that involve affiliate marketing specifics but also provides collection resources that help in building sites, writing articles, optimizing sites for search engine traffic which all are up to date considering latest events in particular field. Even affect of Project X on internet marketing future is discussed here.
University has courses for each level of experience be it beginner, intermediate or advanced level. But one of main features this university offers is private one on one coaching for each member by creators Kyle and Carson who will review personally each members portfolio and strategy. After that they will show how to improve campaign and increase earnings if there are any problems with it and will continue to guide you through the learning process. Also quite valuable feature is private forum which doesn't contain any advertisement or spam like many other similar content public forums that are filled with those. This forum is dedicated to helping members learn this business and use it for their profits. And I haven't mentioned yet various tools that it offers for researching niche markets, keywords, competition and tracking down your results in various campaigns. All of this together is gathered at one place and if purchased from various places could cost thousands of dollars but here it's price is just a small monthly fee of 29$. In my opinion the value for the money rate here is outstanding in favor of customer and you can cancel your subscription anytime. But I think just their research center is worth the monthly fee as it replaces numerous expensive tools that can be bought separately to cover all aspects of marketing needs. So if you need someone personally guiding you into this quite profitable industry and graduate as affiliate marketer then sign up at Wealthy Affiliate University |
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Received payments from 3 premium listed programs today and within one day after request from 2 regular listed programs Wicked-Hits and SlamDunkAdvertising although this program lately has stalled in means of progress and even reduced in members base over last few weeks so use caution with this basketball themed program. |
| 24.10.2006 |
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Finally I have access to my files on server and just in time so I can update weekly stats and upload screenshots of latest payments received.
Well site of this week is CEPCoast again although I have somewhat disturbing news about this program. They recently changed from weekly payouts to daily which in my opinion usually is not a good sign as it means daily compounding that is main short term project attribute. But in case of this lossless business model this could be an interesting twist if we look at the whole picture not just this single change because it will allow daily percentage to be kept high as many will be reupgrading almost daily and keep money in the system. Although this change was only mentioned in forum and site info still says they are paying only on Wednesdays so this looks to me more like an experiment to see what it does to the cashflow.
DesertSkyMarketing returned it's 3rd spot in overall ranks after server crash but XLO Auto surf isn't too far anymore with it's quite consistent high growth which is highest one among lower risk sites.
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TriStar media announced that they will be moving to their own hosting since they recently purchased a hosting company and will be now offering this service. This fact is quite positive as they are getting another income stream which unlike most other cases is verifyable. Also quite promising sounds reducing payout time from 7 to 5 days at Treo-Surf. Bob Krimm owner of TriStar recently appeared on his own videocast over E-Businessonline his newly purchased monitor site so you have a rare chance to see who is running the show there.
On the other hand plans to introduce a new surf site to existing 3 doesn't sound too good at least in my opinion. Can you guess why? Well managing just one site is very time consuming and if we see how other admins barely manage to keep one site in tact so I am just wandering what is the real reason of addition of another site? Only reason I can think of is that this is a way to get fresh funds in again. In this age of hit and runners when people go into new programs of known admins run few cycles and pull out this possibly is only way to keep them in a loop. Is it bad thing? Well if admins can manage so many sites at once then it's possibly not so bad as market share of surfing funds is increasing and hit and runners are kept in loop for longer. And in fact this new site will be lower ROI unlike previous ones so this could as well be just expanding to cover bigger cashflow levels if large resources are used. So which sites are under more risk older ones or new? I don't think there is any difference as reserve funds are shared so risks are equal here. Conclusion - seeing how active lately admin is with purchasing monitoring site, hosting company and expanding I would say their financial situation seems quite good but risks are also getting higher as there is more effort required to keep everything running smoothly.
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I had a testspend in Unite2Profit which was taken over by Michael admin from GladiatorSurf and presented clearly as a game unlike most of others. What this means is it is pure ponzi game where only members incoming funds are used for payouts so those who join late are loosing. Quite sudden was end of round 1 for as it lasted barely a month after change of ownership and most of members are quite dissapointed how it went. What I think is that some smarter surfers calculated what amount they need to suck in all profits and made a large upgrade and once payout time came for their upgrade reserve fund was dried up. Well as it is in this industry people don't like truth and prefer some mistery behind high risk programs so there are hope to earn on some claimed forex trading, domain selling or whatever other income streams are named. This is the driving thing in hiy programs and lately in most autosurf programs as well. Unite2Profit removed this mistery part and just became some type of cycler with surfing involved. After such failure of first round I decided not to continue and don't recommend this as it won't get much attention anymore. As I see from reports his original site sequel GladiatorSurf 2 is also in trouble as payments are late so possibly some fund sharing was used here which shortened lifecycle as well. Ever since first gladiator was closed I didn't like what this admin did with his programs and most important how so I didn't join GladiatorSurf 2 and also glad I only tested Unite2Profit instead of adding it to list. |
| 23.10.2006 |
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I still don't access to my files on server as ftp service was restored but seems no accounts were added and cPanel interface is not working as well so can't upload any files. Host support unlike previous times hasn't responded since problems started and I am starting to not like this but not much I can do here. Meanwhile posting my news in full only via e-mail to subscribers so enjoy benefits of being subscribed.
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CommandCorp group is 6 months old and both of their sites CommandBravo and CommandSurf are still looking quite good and lately actively improving. Admin Israel is also planning to make donations to charities and as far as I remember only Charis from 12dailypro did this ironically almost same time last year which in my opinion shows how healthy their finances are right now.
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GlobalAdsPro is now just a traffix exchange site but there still are reports of refunds for active upgrades and some pending payments dated in September as well although mostly from those member who were not in profits. Trish is making best efforts to make sure everyone got into profits or at least minimized their losses.
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Updated payments information for cashouts I received over last few days but since I can't upload any files you won't see any screenshots for those payments until access is restored so don't be surprised on broken links there.
GlobalWaveTraffic paid within few hours after I had my 50/50 ratio reached and according to reports others were paid quite quickly as well. Also as scheduled payment was made from CommandSurf.
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| 20.10.2006 |
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My site was down yesterday and even today after host is back online ftp service is not working so update only goes to e-mail subscribers until I can upload files again using ftp. If you haven't subscribed yet and wish to be updated right away when I update news section subscribe to my newsletter on top of this page and even if site is down you will receive updates.
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This is the time when I could say the words "as expected GlobalAdsPro closed down" but this expected happened several weeks later than I actually did consider that it will close so I guess it doesn't go in the lines as expected here but more like stands out of the other cases. Trish showed everyone how really even a site with very high risk returns that runs into cashflow problems can last much longer than we are used to lately and obviously can conclude that in most cases other admins just use various excuses to end it before funds are even close to running out. I think in many scam cases when cashflow trend just starts to go down plug is pulled out and after first warning signs show then just few days go by and programs are closed with various excuses. There are ways to prolong it and sometimes this requires not telling the true status and ignore some requests but in result we got a very high risk program that lasted 6 more weeks after showing first real warning signs. Is she honest with members? In my book that's much more than honesty in this business when majority of members were given enough time to lower their upgrade level even under new rules and minimize their loss. I even think some managed to get in profits by now. So Trish good luck with your original site that is already running for over 14 months and I hope you will run somewhat higher risk site again at some point as I think we can trust you that we won't get scammed.
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DesertSkyMarketing is back online in maintenance mode right now and admin hopes to finish restoring of data by end of this week. For more information visit their forum where admin frequently makes updates and this forum is hosted on separate server.
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| 18.10.2006 |
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Received few payments today and would like to comment on each of them. Somewhat as surprise payment came from BigDaddySurf. This one was one of oldest from 4 pending payment requests I had dated September 2nd. Seems like matrix is giving some results as I mentioned few days ago that this could happen and Nate again proves his character by paying whatever funds he has and keeping his promise to get this moving again. Can't yet say it's on full tracks now as there are still 3 more pendings and no signs of good positive growth so I would treat this more like last gasp but hopefully at least some will get their payments here.
As expected and as scheduled payment from DesertSkyMarketing despite site being not accessible since yesterday but as you remember admin announced that there won't be any delays or problems with scheduled payments today for requests from last Friday. As for next request date I am quite sure Dust will allow requesting those once site is back up even if it is after this Friday. And no there are no red flags here as some were asking me if server crash could be one.
Another payment came from newest addition CEPCoast which quite quickly became most popular and moved previous leader of popularity that was there for several weeks. This payment and recent stats update moved this program quite high into top rankings as well which is rare thing for new programs unless they show progress above average which is the case here. Payment came from their dedicated money processor CEPTrust to e-gold within 10 hours after request with 2 day option. So possibly if 7 day option is chosen with lower fee then it could be received over 3-4 days depending on their fund availability in e-gold. |
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Weekly stats update showed that overall growth still is quite low and only 12by12daily and 13dailypro are standing out with weekly growth over 1000 members per week. Even recent move of focusing more to lower term programs hasn't added more trust into surfers population and currently only long lasting programs like these two are getting most of new people. Possibly more time is needed to prove that high risk sites are not too profitable for majority and are doing more bad in general than longer term programs. As site of the week I will award this to newcomer CEPCoast which moved quite nicely within few days from bottom of list to quite solid 5th place and possibly will be gaining more steam during next weeks. SlamDunkAdvertising is one of rare programs that are reducing in membership amount and last week 20 more members were removed because of inactivity it seems. |
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GlobalWaveTraffic changed their script and design of site recently. Change didn't go flawless as there are some problems faced but considering small membership here I don't think solving this will take much time.
As for EmeraldSurf it could be living it's last days as it seems from discussions in forums and response from members that didn't like the last rule introduction proactively. Payments have slowed down a lot which obviously show cashflow problems here and admins have admitted it that they are even using their own funds (yeah sure nice story!) to make payments now to reduce negativity. So if you were still considering if it's worth putting in those 50% to receive that pending payment or considering reupgrading after last payment I say forget it as you might not see any more payments here.
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| 17.10.2006 |
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DesertSkyMarketing is facing some technical problems with their host. Server crashed and host didn't do the backups as requested so it will be now restored from last offline backup which might take few days to fully restore whole site and info since that backup. Payouts tomorrow will be done as planned and this crash won't affect this event. For more information check forum announcement by admin.
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Tri-Star Media Group Inc owner of Treo-Surf and 2 other surf sites has purchased a monitor site E-Business Online which was part of monitor alliance created by ASA as I remember. Got to say this is first case in my experience when owner of surf site decides to start monitoring service. I just wonder how an admin who needs to worry about 3 surfing sites already will find time to manage monitoring service as well. I know the effort it requires to do a quality monitoring but to do at same time managment of 3 surfing sites on high level will be quite tough task and require a team of dedicated staff. Also as I found out there are plans for another site which will be a money processor. All of these plans are quite great of course but I am still sceptical here and I've seen several cases when such scenario with creating money processor next to surf site hasn't worked but Bob has shown that he is quite determined in achieving his goals so let's see ...
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| 16.10.2006 |
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Does this name "Colon End Parenthesis" or more commonly used sequence of symbols ":)" ring any bells? Isn't this something very positive minded when you see this sign or smiley as many call it? Nowdays there are tons of different smiley variations but this one was the very first that was used in communications over internet. Well but for hyip world this name is somewhat low profile hyip which has been started in January of 2006 and so far considered quite successful program. And now it also comes into autosurfing business with CEPCoast that is using the new lossless business model of variable daily earnings similar to Surfoogle. Admin Trevor is quite respected in hyi world and as it seems it's recent launch in beginning of October has brought quite good attention to this program already and earnings currently are well over 10% per day sometimes even higher than 20%. There is one obstacle for usual surfers as this program uses their own dedicated payment processor CEP Trust which is quite rare apporach in autosurf business but not first case. This doesn't mean that program is more or less risky but at least shows that it's not planned as short term. Funding this processor is quite easy as it allows e-gold, VM card or direct bank wire options. I tried e-gold funding and got my funds in there within an hour after request. Withdrawing from this processor is possible to same options with variable fees depending how fast you want to recieve that money.
Now let's look at other unique features it has and first thing I noticed is ranking of pages you view. This has been one of my favorite features and in my opinion must have option for any manual surfing program that wants to make advertised sites valuable and even get feedback from surfers. This option in CEPCoast is mandatory unlike other cases when it was tried like Surfoogle and if you don't choose rating for site you viewed you don't get credit for this viewed site. I think quite many manual surf admins underestimate value of this feature in bringing more effeciency to ads in rotation. Surfers of course might ignore this and just rate every program with same rating but most people will be glad to give their feedback about ads they see and this is creating a communication between advertisers and surfers that could bring value to both sides. |
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Received payments from 3 premium listed programs - 12by12daily which experienced some server problems today and announcement mentioned that it's because of hosting company this time but should be fixed shortly, 13dailypro that got some extra attention since AlertPay was introduced and from XLO Auto surf within 24 hours after request and which also continues to build long term trust among members.
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| 14.10.2006 |
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It's been some time since I added new program to my list but there just were no descent programs started that were worth adding. Several programs that I was testing either didn't get the attention needed or turned out to be new projects of known scammers. But
there are few interesting sites that are not too hyped but worth checking out so let's review them. First one CommandBravo is another project from Israel owner of CommandSurf who recently incorporated his business and registered it under legit company in state of Florida. This one is higher risk as it offers 5% for 30 days and has been around since middle of July already but recently got increased attention mostly because of incorporation as it seems. So this is case of known admin with semi high risk program and at this point it already has around 3000 members so considering recent increase in activity could be program with quite good potential now. |
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Another interesting project I added is DenaliSurf
which in general is hybrid of what we normally know as paid to surf program and surfoogle business model. Earnings are up to 7% per day for 20 days but actual earning is variable and is calculated once per month depending on revenue. This is another lossless business model combination for an autosurf program which I think is better than Surfoogle which calculates earning percentage daily and when it is dropping becomes less appealing. Site itself is quite clean from ads and simple design which is another positive point in my eyes. Owner of this program has also registered a legit company in state of Georgia called "Denali Media, LLC" so despite unknown reputation of this admin I think he has best intentions especially when we see legit company and new interesting business model. This program was started more than a month ago and currently only problem with it I see is little attention that it received and small membership which can be explained by little efforts of promotion but considering all previous factors I enlisted it to see how this business model works compared to others. And as it seems admin doesn't worry much about slow progress because of business model it has.
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There is another program that is worth mentioning and actually did receive lots of attention and was promoted very aggressively over last week during it's prelaunch and I considered adding it but after some research decided that this one is actually potential scam. MFP or MyFinancialPlan is new project from scammer known under alias Arai and many other names but his real name is Muhd Azrainuddin bin Zainal. More information and even his picture you can find in this page. There are also some quite interesting points why this project seems quite obvious scam - it pays only 3 days in row per month and considering it was started just before these days then intention is quite obvious to generate paid posts for small amounts during first days after launch and then just collect for next 30 days money from upgrades. Chances are quite high that this one will close before next payout dates if not earlier since this information is already discussed in forums and creates a lot of negativity around this program. I recommend avoiding this program. |
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Have you heard about promotional method called negative marketing? Attention is earned using negative comments about various things and in middle of those you receive some promotional leads to programs that are actually promoted. Quite often popular things are used for bashing to get more attention and this method is quite often used in various PR campaigns especially during elections and other political ventures. It's no surprise that we can see some bloggers use this method also in promoting autosurf programs and as one of examples I can mention Bloodhound's blog which is mostly full of negativity and is trademark of this blog. I occasionally check who is bashed on this blog but in general I don't like the immature language and the attitude of this author and barely find anything interesting inside it and quite often conflicting messages are posted. Recently DesertSkyMarketing and Commandsurf received some criticism that their claims about having corporate customers. Well I won't be getting into details who said what here but in my opinion both admins were transparent enough and with best intentions to bring in corporate companies into advertising business what autosurfing actually should be so this attempt to throw some dirt on these programs was just lame attempt to use negative marketing and nothing more as I see it.
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Yellow flag comes from quite new program EmeraldSurf as this weeks payouts were held back and changes in terms introduced by adding 50/50 rule proactively. Does this sound familiar? Well I won't be rushing right away and say it will be folding shortly but this change obviously shows that many hit and runners took one cycle and moved on from this project which caused some cashflow problems and payout requests exceeded reserve fund value so only option left is introducing this rule so members put in back some portion of money needed for payouts or possibly leave this money in as not many might have spare funds to follow up this new rule. I hope it will last few more weeks as this approach can help recover cashflow problems for some time but I don't expect it will be progressing much anymore. So as result reducing risk rating to 3 stars here.
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| 12.10.2006 |
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Fortunately support service was quite fast and in matter of few hours my data base that was removed by accident was restored from backup. So now let's review statistics for last week and announce site of the week which this time was 12by12daily with it's consistently high growth by 1420 new members per week and only 13dailypro
is keeping up to the pace somewhat but showed quite nice progress in daily reach stats after move to new script and introducing new plans. Currently these two programs are biggest whales of the industry and keeping up to the standards of big programs. DesertSkyMarketing is still most popular program but it's growth has slowed down a bit over last week. As for other programs Surfoogle and SlamDunkAdvertising showed almost no progress over last week and I moved them to 3 star risk rating.
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If you have stumbled upon a site Paidtosurfdaily.com lately I recommend avoiding it as there is information connecting it to 24dailypro and PrivateDailySurf owners. Well not saying they can't run a surf program considering how long 24dp lasted but they did poorly when faced cashflow problems and stretched out closing to several months by still accepting upgrades and using various ways to get in even more funds by opening new private program and trying to build prowealth downline by aggressively promoting it during August. In any case majority of surfers population have lost quite large amounts in these programs and such reputation makes it doomed for failure and very high risk because these admins could follow recent trend of scamming before even one cycle ends. So as said earlier better avoid it. |
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BigDaddySurf got some descent attention recently after admin of 15hitsdaily promoted BigDaddyMatrix opportunity to his members which is one of earning streams for surf site and could possibly bring some life in it again. Nate changed recently terms to 9% per 15 days now and plans to reopen e-gold upgrades and possibly make some payments on 16th. Well chances are slim that it could recover but at least few payments can be expected as Nate always pays when he has the funds.
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Received my first payment from Wicked-Hits
within 24 hours after request and just as shceduled payment from DesertSkyMarketing. Also quite prompt payment from SlamdunkAdvertising but as I mentioned earlier it's growth has stalled and this could mean more risk for this program as money flow starts to recycle. GlobalAdsPro is acting weirdly as usual as lately reports of payments within 24 hours are reported but only for small amounts below 10$ while pendings over 7 days are still not paid. |
| 10.10.2006 |
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Was about to update weekly stats but discovered that my host has lost my data base. This is reason why you are currently seeing many empty pages as I was filling them from data base but now since it's gone there is nothing to show. This really sucked as I will now need to restore it manually :(
There is not much point in overviewing new stats if those can't be seen right now so I will leave it after I restore the data base.
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Seems that GAP has gone through another hacking event according to latest news and discussions in forums but no exact details what where and how much. To make these news less negative I just received another payment from GlobalAdsPro so possibly this event wasn't affecting all funds but still I have 4 pendings left and average payout time right now has stretched to 7-8 days already. |
| 09.10.2006 |
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13dailypro is now accepting also AlertPay. This is quite strong move and will allow quite large portion of surfers who don't like e-gold funding procedures to join this program as well which means another boost for this already large program. Also they changed the script although general looks remained the same. Script seems quite similar to what geneticsurf had.
Another large whale 12by12daily
also moved to new server today and those who missed the announcement from Dave it was down for several hours during early morning but is now back up and very smooth navigation which shows that new server is even more powerful to manage such high traffic levels. Also received payments from these two programs recently just as shceduled.
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I have received several e-mails regarding Project X so I will repost here my answers as well so everyone can get more info about it.
You won't earn just by buying this guide and reading it because it is
not an autosurf or hyip where you just put in some money and get paid
later for doing almost nothing. But if you really get into this and
spend some efforts it will really pay off.
Some asked if it's another useless guide that is just hyped up to make some money for author and promoters. Well let me give you a tip about determining value of
particular online product I learned in this guide. At this marketplace link you will see stats for this product and last value there is so called
Gravity which actually is rating of particular product. Good values
start from 50 upwards and having this value over 100 is considered
very well score. Now go to that link I mentioned and check out that
list and you will see current value of this guide. At this moment I am
writing it is 710.86!!! Now compare what other products in the list
have. Do you see the difference? And this value is even climbing because just yesterday it was 689. You can use that page to see what other product scores are for different search terms and you will notice that only few products have this value over 200 and I found so far only one that was over 300
Hope this helped to understand value of this guide. Also don't forget
that it is refundable product for 56 days so if you read it and find
that you don't wanna go this route you can just ask for full refund
without questions asked. And in my experience of buying some products at clickbank in the past clicbank never rejects refund requests because they are reserving allowance fund for 90 days and money from it is used in case customers request refunds. But for this guide I don't plan to request one as I enjoyed this book and have already earned profits just by using some of methods mentioned in it. Well this will be last post on this guide as I already have covered it in quite a lot of details and it's time to focus more on autosurfs again. If you have any further questions just e-mail me to paipals@gmail.com and I will be glad to answer. |
| 07.10.2006 |
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I am starting to wander if I should start paying more attention to this other earning way I am lately getting into more and more called affiliate marketing using clickbank products. Why am I having such thoughts? Well just after 2 days of getting my hands on Project X I have earned back not just money I spent on purchasing it but already made profits by simply applying first few steps explained in this guide. There are no risks like dishonest admins, sudden cashflow problems, delays in payments or any other quite stressful things we have in autosurfing. And what's most important clickbank or any other marketplace of online products isn't going anywhere any time soon as it happens in most cases of autosurf programs so it could be worthwhile longterm time and money investment. Well anyway this is what I have been pondering lately and most probably I will start spending some more time into this field but don't worry I am not dropping monitoring autosurf programs which is my first online passion and will continue maintaining this site and daily news.
While on a subject Ewen Chia reviewed this guide and didn't see much value in it and considered it as overhyped product. Well with all due respect to mastermind of affiliate marketing in my opinion some people are good at selling like Ewen is but some people are better at training like Chris. Ewen does talk about those methods and explains their beuty when it is applied but what he generally lacks in his resource guide is exact steps how to apply them and I still haven't got through all the options I have in there and still confused where to get started. Chris has done this much better and easier to understand for those who are new to this business and that is the great value I see in his guide. Also I just compared the success of applying what I learned from both guides and results are that I got twice as more returns using more newbie friendly guide from Chris because he showed exactly what to do first and how to do it.
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Seems that PatsPro is again doing quite poor service and not delivering what they have promised to implement as programs using this script are again being deactivated. DesertSkyMarketing announced surf holidays until support of PatsPro developers will fix the activation problem again. Got to say this is one of poorest services I've seen in IT industry. Admin should request some compensation because of this unplanned dowtime. Anyway those who missed payout window on Friday before site got deactivated will be able to request it on Monday. Quite good approach by admin here and seems Dustin is really thinking about his members.
While on a subject of scripts one of big guys 13dailypro plans to move to new more secure script shortly. I sure hope it won't be PatsPro which is haveing all those problems lately. |
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Received several payments today so let's overview them. First it was a payment from Midas-Surf which was pending for over a month. Well I am glad to see it finally made it but somehow I don't see how this program could return to life now after letting it drop so deep in spiral of problems and delays so still leaving it in problems category. Also received 2 of 5 pending payments from GlobalAdsPro but I run into a different kind of problem as I can't access this site anymore because of some possible script error for last few days which seems isn't a global issue. Still 3 to go anyway.
First payment from EmeraldSurf was paid well within first 24 hours after request which can be done only on Fridays. Admin besides autosurfing service also provides some quite interesting resources to members about various topics like marketing, blogging and web site building.
And quite prompt payment from XLO Auto surf
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Treo-Surf admin and owner of other 2 sites 15hitsdaily (original one) and 24surfpro recently registered his company in state of Nevada. Well that does sound quite positive but I have some concerns regarding this move Bob did. First it is name used in corporate filing "ASSET MGMT SVCS" which really doesn't sound like his real name or even a human name at all so either he got confused what should be filled in this field or didn't really want to reveal his name but that's just my guessing working here so possibly real reasons is something more reasonable. And btw doesn't this expand into "Asset managment services"?
As for other concern I have is the state and influence of all these 3 sites in reserve fund building and how large proportion of it is being shared to keep older ones in better shape which I think is quite possible. Doesn't this sound like asset managment service?. And a third concern is that this move still doesn't affect longevity of any of those programs as we have seen legit registered programs fail in past and only sure thing we can say now is running with money is less possible action here after becoming more trackable.
Well anyway I still admire his determination to go through the hell of problems he had and still come out doing quite fine. Let's hope he will continue this at least for the promised 15 weeks ... |
| 05.10.2006 |
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After seeing how well was response few days ago to super affiliate resource that was offered by one of gurus of that industry I continued to follow the news and events in affiliate business which is quite closely related to surfing world as requires traffic which is a currency for any online industry. Ewen Chia offered his resource for very cheap price of 10$ and obviously it didn't contain same amount of information that he was giving out in package for 4 digit pricetag that I mentioned. Although it's still useful as Ewen is giving it out in small pieces and after using his advice I made over 200$ within first few days in my clickbank account alone but I wanted to look for something more.
And I found it - Project X. It was launched just few days ago on October 3rd and is exploding like a bomb right now. I subscribed to several affiliate newsletters over last few weeks and I was literaly bombarded by those with e-mails from 12 different sources in a matter of few hours today because this product is hottest thing on the net right now. After first few e-mails I just bookmarked it and didn't get into details but when bombarding continued decided to go ahead and check it out. Such explosive promotion rarely happens but when it does there must be some value in product that is promoted. And after I read whole sales letter page and watched teaser videos with some examples of techniques used I was convinced that this is exactly what I am looking for right now because it's been some time since I wanted to diversify my income streams besides autosurfing or hyip and clickbank is one of easiest to learn and best return value opportunities in my opinion. I have done some steps in it already and earned some small amounts in it without investing much but it's just that there aren't any good guides how to do it from the scratch for reasonable price just highpriced packages like Ewen offered few weeks ago or cheap ones like I promoted few days ago which don't show you exact steps to be taken right away but feeds it out in small bits. But this one is exactly what I need - it contains step by step beginners guide how to get started, some very valuable tips how to learn from best affiliates their secrets of converting hot products into commissions and much more that will help to begin. Price of 77$ currently is not that high as it is still promotional price for first days after launch but more apropriate to the value it offers but this will be shortly raised to higher tag of 197$ and possibly even higher if demand will be high enough. Author plans to control the number of copies he sells. And best thing is that he offers 56 day money back guarantee no questions asked if you are not satisfied with the package and didn't earn any money so don't miss out while it's still at reasonable price and buy Project X and you can even put this product in rotation of autosurfs and earn from it right after buying it.
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| 04.10.2006 |
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Intorducing "Command Corps Media Network, LLC" owners of CommandSurf as your new legit company that comes from Tampa in state of Florida. Israel has followed same path that Dustin from DesertSkyMarketing did and has registered a company and provided all the info including Federal Tax id, link to corporate filings, their office address and even working hours. So now we have 2 programs from two admins that are going in same direction to make this business more transparent and involve more corporate companies that will advertise. These two currently have getting some attention and very positive feedback from experts and general population. Hopefully all will go as planned and also trust will be gained with time.
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Updated weekly stats and for second time in a row DesertSkyMarketing is getting the site of the week title. Within just 1 and half weeks it has gone from bottom to second rank and is now trailing only current leader of industry 12by12daily that is still growing quite nicely with over 1000 members per week. Also 13dailypro is showing progress that is above average compared to most of programs out there but overall growth lately is quite low compared to what it was during first half of this year but it doesn't surprise me after so many shortterm programs ending even faster than most pessimists would think they would. But summer is over and many investors are slowly returning to action so I think this trend will change quite soon to higher figures. |
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As I mentioned few days ago I decided to readd EzSurfnEarn to my list. I removed it back in early august when it's growth almost stalled and risks of it being closed shortly were quite high but time went and it continued to pay promptly within terms which proved that admins are not playing games here with members funds but are really using them to sustain such returns otherwise it would have closed weeks ago. Lately it has picked some more attention from surfers population and recognition that it is around for quite some time already. |
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Somewhat good news came from Russia yesterday where in city called Saratov group of hackers was sentenced to 8 years in prison after being caught for doing DDoS attacks on several British bookmaker sites. This could send some alert signals to those thiefs in online business world who mostly get away with what they do because of anonimity that internet allows. Fact that this happened in Russia which was one of safest countries for online hacking groups as laws and ability of authorities to catch them was close to nothing shows that governments are realising quite fast that crime isn't just done in real world but can also be a serious problem in virtual world and shouldn't be ignored. As I heard this operation was involving cooperation of police from both Russia and UK and they said it is just beginning as many more groups are under investigation currently and could be catched any moment. |
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Received first payment from DesertSkyMarketing today just as scheduled. Their payout procedure requires that you request payment before end of Friday to receive it on next Wednesday.
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| 03.10.2006 |
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Well this month has started not so good as another program closed. This one NetGlobalTraffic was more predictable as I mentioned just yesterday that it will become more risky just didn't expect it to end so quick as well. Seems admin decided to keep the most of the money he got from his new autosurf program and hyip before everyone obviously pulled out. Closing this fast is a scam event for sure so added this guy to my black list and will warn if he starts new projects.
There seems to be some hype around few new hyip programs and 4dayswork is one of latest that is getting lots of attention. Well even if you dare to risk such games be very careful and remember that only those win who join early enough and pull out in time so don't expect it to last more than few cycles and you might be in profit.
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| 02.10.2006 |
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Another month has passed and quite a lot has changed during September in autosurf industry mostly in negative way but there is some possible light in end of tunnel as general attention starts turning towards lower risk programs with more focus on advertising product and we already have few very good examples that I think others should follow if they are looking for longterm programs. If this trend continues then we might have this advertising industry back on their feet and doing what it was intended to do. |
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DesertSkyMarketing today is experiencing some php server problems which causes surfing not to work right now. Dustin informed that it will be solved first thing in the morning when support of his host server responds to his ticket.
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As I expected after last week's events TF-Surf closed after much of struggle with some unexplained moves from server to server, downtime and continuing blocking of e-gold account. Admin of original hyip program tenforever posted a letter on their site frontpage explaining the situation but somehow I don't buy this story. Some may ask why would someone even waste time on creating such sad story. Well I think most probably admin plans to start new project in near future using same membership base and want to clear their reputation by blaming other parties in this failure and etc.
So I won't be surprised if they soon advertise their new project using old program's members e-mail lists.
Also there was another program that closed over this weekend - Aut0surf. I got to say it was quite unexpected for me as it was growing quite nicely over last few weeks and was still quite young considering the length of cycle 21 days which means it was barely entering 3rd cycle but after admin clearly stated that it was not a business but game it makes sense why it didn't last longer. I expect other his projects also get reduced attention now despite their young age so I reduced risk rating for NetGlobalTraffic to 3 stars and plan to reduce it after each cycle further down. Treat it as one cycle project if you are in it and avoid it if you are not yet in. |
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Received one of 4 pendings from GlobalAdsPro over weekend which was 5 days old but today I am again at 4 pendings as another upgrade expired. Well chances of getting those are dropping with each day again as payout interval is increasing again.
Received almost instant payment from NetGlobalTraffic which I requested before Aut0Surf closed but as explained in previous post treat it as shortterm game.
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| 30.09.2006 |
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Quite interesting addition that stands out and has picked some attention from the beginning - EmeraldSurf. Admin name is Juan Carlos Lorenzo and this surf program allows choosing between autosurf or manual surf modes without much of difference except timer is longer for autosurf. This is high risk program with 9% for 15 days and payout requests on Fridays which is the standard model that was set by NowDollar earlier this year. Hasn't done too big advertising campaigns yet but managed to earn quite good attention already.
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Most of former 12dailypro members today received another notice from Thomas F. Lennon about the fees he and his team will be charging for investigating this case. Well as expected lawyers will get their large piece of pie from this without doing much work. And these amounts that in total soon will reach 1 million of US dollars is just for first 6 months of not doing much. I won't be surprised if this lasts for few years and they collect like 5-6 mil in total in the end for this so called investigation where they just collect remaining the money in their pockets. Once all has been taken they will just announce there is nothing left and close the case.
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Received as scheduled payment from 13dailypro
which I moved to premium category as this program has been consistently paying for last 3 months after the restart and meanwhile doing refunds to those who lost during first round. Also received my first payment from GlobalWaveTraffic which is one of those slow growing sites and lately admin Alex has asked members to spend few minutes voting after getting paid. Hmm does this mean growth has been too slow? Well I think it is still ok for another cycle or two but not for large amounts.
On the other note I am quite sad to see that GlobalAdsPro has slowed down on recent payments again and now it is taking 4-5 days to be paid. Considering there is already debt for almost whole week of payments in middle of september this doesn't sound too good. I am currently in it with 4 pendings and possibly will stop upgrading shortly.
Also BigDaddySurf will soon potentially join problematic category as I haven't received any payment since August and my last two requests are pending and even referral contest reward of just 15$ never reached my account. Nate is honest and all but that doesn't help him much with BDS so seems this program is slowly fading. |
| 28.09.2006 |
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DesertSkyMarketing opened it's doors for new members yesterday again for a limited time. Seems Dustin solved several small problems with the script he found after influx of first few hundreds of members. That security pin was not sent just like in e-gold's case when ip changed but he quickly found the reason for it and fixed this issue. I also noticed some new quality sites in rotation during first premium manual ads and as it seems both Dustin and Israel from CommandSurf are working on bringing same companies to autosurfing arena although now it isn't just 2-3 minutes of clicking on automode for this program but some 10-15 minutes at least to get the daily credit. In any case I think these two have made the right turn on this business path and are bringing back best value of autosurf business which is getting traffic to advertisers sites which is online currency if properly used. |
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While on a subject of advertising sites I have added new other opportunity Secret Affiliate Weapon. Have you ever heard a name Ewen Chia. If you are not new to superaffiliate topic then you should know who he is but if not then I am glad to introduce you to most successful and best affiliate marketer in the world who now is passively earning literaly thousands each day and still has time to teach others how to do it as this business doesn't require increased effort to make your paycheck bigger but just the right methods and tools to initiate the process. Some time ago he had a campaign which was offering full cloning of superaffiliates but the fee was several thousands and I just couldn't afford to join this despite how much I wanted to try it and now month later he is starting a new campaign for beginners in this field to learn basics and offers guide how to start to become super affiliate. This campaign has just started and membership to this course is being sold for impossibly low fee of just 9$ for few days while he gathers the testimonials of those who used this course and made their first earnings. I am quite confident that this fee can be earned back using his methods within few hours so if you are serious about making money online I can surely say this is one of best ways with no risks involved as you don't need to purchase any upgrades or make investments to earn money but you just need to find an affiliate program and promote it's products which can give you up to 70% of commissions. You can promote those products he recommends in autosurf rotation and get your sales/ I know how this works because i have done some sales by putting some products in autosurf rotation before myself and already received my first cheques but not as large as I wanted. Now when I have access to what Ewen teaches I know I will be able to increase value of those cheques. Best conversion from this promotion of course comes from manual surf programs. Don't hesitate to join his campaign called Secret Affiliate Weapon while it's so cheap as in matter of few days it could jump to some 79$ or even 179$ which still will be considered as cheap bargain.
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| 27.09.2006 |
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Here is another low risk program that recently has picked up some steam mostly because people are again turning more to lower risk programs - Wicked-Hits. This program is run by admins Stacey Hensley and Jason Grant and was launced back in April of 2006 so is already around for quite some time. Their other program ezSurfnEarn I had enlisted during summer but because of low traffic levels it was receiving and risks that it could stop paying at some point because of this drop in activity of members I decided to remove it from my lists but continued to follow it's progress which seems is still quite ok as payments are only delayed by 2 days according to latest reports. So I would say reputation of these admins is low profile but quite strong as they keep promptly paying in both sites and I possibly will readd ez to list as well.
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For those who like higher risk programs which offer faster returns here is newest project NetGlobalTraffic from Scott McCann owner of Aut0surf.com and this new program is also running using gold weight instead of it's value but difference is higher ROI it offers. Previous owner of NGT sold this site to Scott so don't get confused with it's past performance reports over forums as it is fresh start of this program under new and supposedly better ownership. Bbusiness model of it is almost exact as GlobalAdsPro just difference in currency it uses. Just remember that risk level here is much higher.
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Seems that e-gold is experiencing problems sending those e-mails with pins to verify change of ip or browsers used. I recommend using exactly same ip and browser you used last time to access e-gold and then you will be able to login. This incident could bring up some gap of upgrades in some high risk programs and admins who plan to scam could use this as an excuse for their inactivity in making payments so if you see such case hold off from upgrading at least while this problem at e-gold is solved and payments resume. Trish from GlobalAdsPro and Dave from 12by12daily made it quite clear that they still can access their accounts and there shouldn't be any delays. Quite glad to see them do more frequent updates lately which is a good sign and means workload has reduced for them so they have time for updating members on their status.
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Updated weekly stats and site of the week is DesertSkyMarketing which made quite noticable progress in top listings in several categories. Admin plans to reopen for new members on Thursday if everything is going as planned so if you still haven't joined this one of best programs launched this year don't hesitate to check it out and signup once it's open again.
12by12daily has showed quite impressive progress over last week as well and finally reached top spot in members base rank by passing 13dailypro which is also still growing quite nicely but couldn't match the momentum what 12by12daily has right now.
Also seems that CommandSurf after recent changes is getting more attention and becoming more popular and despite the fact that it was offline quite long periods of time has picked up higher traffic and more members joining on average compared to previous weeks. So if we remember that Israel is going same path as DesertSkyMarketing by involving corporate marketers in rotation and that just yesterday terms were changed to match what DesertSkyMarketing has done I think potential of this site picking up steam in upcoming weeks has also increased so I moved it to premium category. |
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Recently one of known and still running scams GoldnDaily has announced that it will restart and is again accepting new funds from members despite the fact that it was not paying for several weeks already. Just avoid it even if you were in it and made some profit during first round as second round could make you loose even those profits. Usually such scammers don't allow same program run for long during second round and pull the plug even earlier to collect from those hit and runners who were hoping to profit from one cycle. Stay away from GoldnDaily!
TF-Surf had some at least unannounced dowtime yesterday and I even sent it to problems category but today it is back again on .com domain without any explanation why such moves are done. Anyway their stats show that reserve fund is dropping and is now below 20% mark which means risks have increased for this program so reduced it's risk rating to 2 stars and recommend pulling out of it with next payment that will most probably be on 30th of September. |
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Received another payment from 12by12daily right on schedule on 7th day as usual and also within 24 hours after request from Aut0Surf
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| 25.09.2006 |
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DesertSkyMarketing was quite popular over weekend when it opened for new signups and admin decided to temporary close this program for new members while he works on fixing some issues found during first few days and also to control growth as he planned before launch. Script is quite customised and despite the fact that it was tested for quite long time there just are cases when system under stress generates some abnormal errors which wouldn't appear otherwise. Also upgrading will be only possible during workdays to allow more effective use of the funds. Quite professional approach I must say.
Some people have voiced their concerns about this program using PatsPro script which lately is labeled as vulnerable to hacking and not so reliable in surf world. Well considering that Dustin is IT professional himself (more info) and has focused his studies on security then I am quite sure he is an expert in this field and knows how to secure his program. Also he has reviewed other cases when admins claim to be hacked and there were following reasons that resulted in such event - "They didn't secure their server (most had dedicated servers, but not MANAGED, dedicated servers). They left basic things like the admin directory unsecure, the backup directory unsecure, didn't secure the php service, left the ftp service on, didn't use ip access control to the admin section, didn't block known hacker ip addresses". Also relying on e-gold security was one of common mistakes other admins did by leaving their funds in main account.
DesertSkyMarketing is on one dedicated, fully managed server (managed by a guy Dustin refers to as a security freak), the forum is on another server (so if they hack it they will not get to the program script/info), and the support system is on another server. All three servers are with different hosts. It also has an automated script that backs up the entire program (files, database, etc.) every single hour to a different server.
Not to forget firewalls, IP Table security, and DDOS protection. So security has been taken quite seriously here to ensure that this risk is minimised. |
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Seems that another already enlisted program is moving towards same business model and features as DesertSkyMarketing has. CommandSurf that is managed by Israel Lagares who earned quite good reputation as solid admin recently moved to same PatsPro version and will use 20 first pages as manual surf for premium sponsor ads. Admins of these 2 programs even plan to purchase source code of this script so that they can develop it further on their own without relying on quite slow support of current developers. This will also ensure better security and customisation level. Site currently is under maintenance while activation and upgrade issues are solved. |
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Received few payments over weekend as usual and first to mention is latest payout from GlobalAdsPro which has managed to keep their 48 hour schedule in tact for over a week already and there even are some reports that payments from week that was skipped are being done. So as I said earlier Trish is very smart admin and she definately knows ways how to keep a program going. I moved it back to regular listing as payments are on time right now except for that skipped week but don't get too excited as in my opinion it still has some issues to be solved to become fully recovered from problems it had.
Also my first payment from CommandSurf that currently is more offline than on but as I explained earlier they are switching to new script version which is not so painless because of slow support from developers. And my second payout from SlamDunkAdvertising paid within 24 hours after request. It had quite a great start but lately has slowed down a bit in terms of traffic levels and members activity so I decided to move it to regular list for now. And of course as per schedule payments from 12by12daily and 13dailypro. |
| 23.09.2006 |
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DesertSkyMarketing is now accepting new members and Dustin, admin of DSM has mentioned that he will be limiting signups each day to control the growth. And this is not the marketing trick as main reason for this could be because he doesn't want to see same situation what happened with 12by12daily when it started and had script and server problems for 3-4 next weeks after launch.
I recommend signing up to DesertSkyMarketing
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| 22.09.2006 |
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Ok guys here is potentially another explosion in autosurf industry after 12by12daily by seeing how it was going through prelaunch. This is one of those rare cases when I put a totally new program directly into premium category. This time it is DesertSkyMarketing low risk site with ROI as low as 0.8% which was a standard returns level last year for most of programs and which allows more flexible way of using funds to make those returns. But let's return to reason why I added it directly to premium category and it is mainly because it is very transparent program with legit company behind it and I had this program in shortlist for over a month already since it appeared on the web with the prelaunch page which included quite a lot of information about the company and admin Dustin Fennell. You can find direct links to company registration file in state of Arizona coroprate filings, Federal TAX id number and full information on server which it is hosted on. Site is on dedicated server with DDoS protection. There is no need to do a due diligence in this case as everything is already presented with real name, real company and every bit of information you would want to see from due diligence and all this information can be verified. Due diligence usually is done to check who is behind the program and if they are hiding in case it's a planned scam but here admin is revealing everything and in this case if there are plans to pull the plug early for the big loot then admin will have to face authorities unlike those who hide behind fake names and addresses and manage to avoid them in most cases because of anonimity internet still allows.
Dustin was one of moderators at PhoenixSurf for some time but he left them because he didn't want to get involved with unprofessional and money hungry group that NME was. He has now his own thing launched which he prepared quite well. Program launch was delayed by a week to fix all script problems it had and he checked all security holes that got other sites using this PatsPro script in trouble. After all the recent drama with potentially good high risk sites ending within first cycles I think this one has very good longterm potential. If you remember 12dailypro had also limited liability company behind it just like in this case.
So this program is standing out of the crowd and surfing experience is quite different as well. First 20 sites are premium and are in manual surf mode and so far those are quality pages from various online shops instead of the usual set of other autosurf/hyip programs you see in other programs submitted mostly by surfers. These seem to be companies interested in getting real advertising and Dust is here making it happen by moving autosurf advertising in different direction.
Highly recommended and goes directly to premium category with 5 stars. Site is getting some final touches today and new signups will be allowed starting from tomorrow 23rd of September so don't miss out.
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Quite many today received another phishing e-mail supposedly from VirtualMoneyInc with link to site that has lower case L instead of upper case I in last word Inc. Be careful not to fall for this one and if you do make sure you contact VM support to change your account access details as soon as possible before someone uses your information. If you haven't read it yet then better just remove it.
Quite good timing as currently AlienTrust is issuing refunds and as reported quite many have received those but in many cases VM fees monthly ate a lot of that amount leaving it much smaller as they take their commissions even several months later once some money hits your account. |
| 20.09.2006 |
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Today was payout day for several programs but first I would like to mention my first prompt payout on investment I made 30 days ago in one of rare HYIP I enlisted Finer Things so I went ahead and increased my next investment as I think this could be good for few more cycles.
As for autosurf programs just as scheduled on 7th day after expiry received next payout from 12by12daily and quite promptly from TF-Surf few hours after request which can be done every 10 days in this program. Also received payment for pending expiry since 18th of September in GlobalAdsPro. So far admin does everything she says will do just like Dave and just because of such creativity and determination this program is still paying although it skipped one week of pending payments and is now playing quite risky game but this possibly could be only way to make it work if that's possible at all. Remember to use caution as I recommend decreasing your upgrade levels in this program before it stops paying. |
| 19.09.2006 |
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Have you ever wandered why admins decide to do some changes on their program and reasons behind them. Well there are changes that are positive like moving to dedicated server seemless to users, adding antiDDoS protection, improving support by adding live chat or dedicated forum, introducing some special but realistic offers and etc. But there are also changes that in most cases scream problem like adding proactively 50/50 rule, changing payout terms so that you need to wait longer, merging or restructuring several programs into one, suddenly making a new mandatory requirement to upgrade before receiving your payment and etc. So recently quite large so called "Network" of sites like ExpertSurfers, Surf4MLM, ProfessionalAutosurfer and etc decided to make some changes which require joining a matrix with signup fee of 75$ to receive a payment, restructuring of programs, cutting communications and unnecessary maintenance of sites. I will leave the liberty of making conclusions this time to you as they are quite obvious so if you are in any of these try to take the refund option cause this way you might loose less. And don't be fooled by those cheerleaders who will scream if we support it now we can make it because in this industry when an avalanche of problems start there is no coming back.
I didn't join any of network sites firstful because I didn't like the verification requirement and the need to vote for those sites. Joining more than one of them was not smart as well as once one of them goes down all of them will at same time which seems is starting to happen right now.
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Updated stats today and to my surprise site of this week was 12by12daily which showed quite good membership growth which has even increased over last week (could be explained with improved activation process which activates new signups instantly) and if you look at the alexa graph there is quite noticable climbing trend to already very high statistics. Seems recent addition of forum and reports of referral payments being paid have returned even more trust into this program now after so many closed in short timeframe.
Also Aut0Surf has shown quite nice progress during last week when gold price was dropping and concept of this site is leaving value of your investment unaffected as it uses gold not money. So it was getting more attention from those that didn't want to loose on dropping price. And seems that Surfoogle
after slight drop in growth has picked up again and daily percentage has been above 10% for past few days.
But I have to point out the fact that total growth figures have dropped again mostly because of several recent scams that closed suddenly which left many out in the blue and even I after loosing half of my budget during beginning of this month now need to reduce my test spends in programs that I am testing. And also it seems general attention is slowly turning to lower ROI sites as people are getting tired of loosing in those few day projects. New sites that are launched lately also show that average ROI is dropping. |
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This addition XLO Auto surf
is currently one of oldest sites still running and promptly paying. It was started before new year and is 10 months old already and this in my eyes is only drawback I see in this program as it just might be too late but when I look at it's current statistics seems that it got new life just recently and is constantly improving and gained quite a popularity over this summer after so many high risk sites went down. Andy admin of this program is also owner of the HYIP Finer Things
program that I enlisted last month
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| 18.09.2006 |
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Several blogs and info sites recently claimed that gCard one of most used debit cards that allows quickly withdrawing funds from your e-gold account is suspended by some cease and desist order in Canada. I am using it myself and went to research the situation further. This document shows that North York Community Credit Union is mainly related to Uniclear which went down few weeks ago. Drunk's blog post today showed a reply from gCard support which states that this order applies only to cardholders in province of British Columbia in Canada and same was confirmed today by card loader I use:
"Hello,
This applies only for people from British Columbia. For the rest of the
world there is no problem. As you are from Latvia you are not concerned.
Regards"
So I think there is no need to worry and gCard is still one of best debit cards to use for withdrawing funds from e-gold. |
| 17.09.2006 |
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Another smart move by Trish from GlobalAdsPro to extend this program's lifetime as long as possible. Today she made another change in way this program works and instead of continuing payments in order of expiry which currently was around 9th and some 10th of September expiry payments Trish moved to work on making payments for upgrade expiry for most recent date which was 16th. What does this mean you may ask. Well this means inversing total payout sum against upgrade totals. Majority of members currently are trying to reduce their upgrade level to lower levels so the risk of loosing is smaller and newest pendings are actually smaller than those that are one week old. So it requires smaller reserve fund to cover most recent pendings and it could speed up process which would make it seem like things are improving but this will work only for few days. I think this is quite original way of trying to recover things with another wave of good progress so another round of applaud to Trish for creativity but I still say keep your level as low as you can afford risking your money as all signs are showing cashflow is going down and possibly within next week it could become just too slow.
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| 15.09.2006 |
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Today quite many programs appear inaccessible because of the script version they are using which is PatsPro. Slamdunkadvertising, BigDaddySurf, Dragonautosurf and possibly some others are showing a message "This copy of PATS Pro is not activated." which means that server of script developers is down again and scripts used by mentioned programs can't verify their license. Developers of PatsPro promised to solve this in their next upgrade but it seems either admins haven't upgraded yet or upgrade hasn't been released yet.
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Received another payment from GlobalAdsPro that was pending since 8th of September which means payouts have stretched to 7 days already and this is a borderline because when this time goes beyond upgrade lifetime it will mean that members most probably will need to reupgrade twice with 45% of pending cashout which brings it down to situation when you are just refilling reserve fund to receive your own payment and this scenario if properly used could actually last for quite long time. I do applaud Trish for keeping up and honestly paying up while funds are available which allows most of members at least breaking even with these last payout rounds but bear in mind that most members are reducing their funds in this program and at some point people will stop refilling reserve fund to receive their payout as those will be too small to risk larger sum for pending one. |
| 14.09.2006 |
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Received my 8th payment from 12by12daily
right on 7th day as usual for past 6 weeks and also received an e-mail from Dave admin of this program about current status update. This is quite rare thing he does and actually is trademark of Dave Cannard to prove his reputation with work instead of promises so communication usually is very rare but now after so long time of denying how useful forums are for programs he decided to add it. So this is quite an improvement in otherwise quite good program which slowly is fixing all the issues it had since beginning. After seeing yesterdays growth update and coupled with recent developments I decided to return it into premium category. Traffic levels are also stabilised and still very high compared to any other site. |
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Updated growth stats for programs and after the big mess created by recently top performing programs during last few days we now have 12by12daily as sure top program with a gap of almost 20 points over next follower. Site of this week appears is newcomer SlamDunkAdvertising which just started few days ago but received quite noticable support by those who trust Robert. Aut0Surf also has shown quite nice progress over last week and recent drop in gold price below 600$ per ounce has given some publicity to this program that is using e-gold but not affected by price fluctuations as upgrades are bought using gold weight instead of it's value. |
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GlobalWaveTraffic
today changed script from autosurf to manual surf which ads more value to this program ads. So far it's progress has been quite slow just like it happened with first project of Alexa that barely reached 500 members and went private at that point and continued to pay for several month and as I know this was only project that was able to sustain returns for longer period of time with such small private membership.
Surfoogle had some increase in traffic levels during last few days which also resulted in daily percentage jumping from 4% to 10% today. This one is quite interesting to observe as this new model is showing members more properly it's performance statistics via daily percentage level and this figure is updated daily and allows members to decide if reupgrading is worth the time required to get back invested value. |
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This might be old news for some but I still want to warn majority that there is a new party in autosurf arena trying to make some money off autosurf admins by charging 3000$ for a due diligence on their program and offering in return a seal of surfers union verification which also will bring in those who have joined this union as members together with their cash. Currently claims to have over 600 members in this union. Their site is http://www.donotdiesickandpoor.com/
Possibly idea would be good but I am not sure why such high price for doing verification and I see this more like old NetIBA certificate that Stormpay offered last year. Quite many programs tricked their verification with untraceable phone numbers and fake addresses which resulted in several scam programs having such seal cashing in the money from members who blindly trusted this certificate and then pulling the plug when highest value of funds was reached.
This guy also owns following sites http://www.richarddriver.com/ and http://www.thegooglecashfactor.com/ which are just sales pages for internet marketing information he is offering. So looks like guy has more knowledge in how to sell something rather than research and due diligence. Which was proved to be true after reading following discussions
http://www.ozemedia.com/cgi-bin/webbbs/webbbs_config.pl?read=41575
http://www.ozemedia.com/cgi-bin/webbbs/webbbs_config.pl?read=41602
http://www.affiliatetalkforum.com/showthread.php?t=90
So looks like some scam marketer is looking for new ways to cash in rather than bringing in some valuable service for paid to surf industry. If you see such seal of surfers union at any of programs don't rush in as it most probably won't have any value except wasted 3000$ by admin of program who thought it will bring in more cash. |
| 12.09.2006 |
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Quite ironic but this September 11th turned out as last day for 2 programs that I had in premium category just like for 2 towers five years ago. First to fall was ReindeerSurf which I consider a scam despite the partial refunds that were done. And next one was MVPSurf which had their e-gold account hacked again!!! Admin had same situation in very beginning of this program back in June but managed to overcome this loss and recently made quite a progress but it seems some people are just an easy target for hackers. In this case story seems more true than in case of Reindeersurf as admin even shared the info he found on the hacker and considering this is not the first time it could be true but it doesn't matter anymore anyway as this program has no more funds except some portion in Alertpay which will be used for refunds. Kind of hard to give any site now 5 star risk safety rating after seeing two programs on very good wave of progress going into sudden death.
As for Reindeersurf made up story about PatsPro script being main reason for their closing it was confirmed as not true because developers of this script explained that server check for license is done not each time when a user logs in like admin told us but only when an admin logs into his account and now upgraded version doesn't even do this check when server is down. Also it was mentioned that there were no complaints about PatsPro script being hacked and when developers asked 15hitsdaily admin to report them how his site was hacked nothing was sent to them which means they can't patch any holes if users don't report and possibly there just aren't any.
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Received a payment from TF-Surf within one day after request and seems so far this program is slowly growing up but somehow I don't think it's worth premium category as reputation of admins is quite unknown despite their success with original hyip program but fact that their e-gold account was changed several times after being blocked instead of trying to remove block from original accounts in my opinion doesn't show too good intentions of admins as this is way of staying anonymous. |
| 11.09.2006 |
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Oh well ReindeerSurf turned out to be one of those programs that go down without any warning signs even before peaking. Everything looked great last week as this program had dedicated server, dedicated forum which was kept active with various games, excellent growth stats and good paying record before payout schedule changes and DD on it wasn't revealing anything that would scream trouble as well but it seems human factor when you can't predict admins plans was main risk in this case.
In my opinion all of this hacked site excuse was staged to make more or less softened exit. I make this conclusion on facts that this happened just before payout date and so claimed errors in accounts which were added live after site was accessible again most probably by admin himself. Also story about e-gold account being compromised doesn't add up to site hacking incident itself which was added to explain why only partial refunds are promised. Some portion of funds are now used for partial refunds which are confirmed by those who received them but I don't think there will be enough for everyone to at least break even and fact that those are issued on basis of request sequence in forum thread and only to those who never received cashout will result in only small portion of members being qualified for those. This program turned out as one of biggest dissapointments since beginning of summer. |
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If some of you remember one of longest semi private programs earlier this year from one of forex traders Alex Maina which was called NetinvestAutosurf then you should be familiar with admin who is running latest addition to my list
GlobalWaveTraffic. This guy offered not just autosurfing service but also paid lessons into forex trading and considering that program was running quite long time in private mode chances of profits made using forex trading were quite high. This is a bit higher risk than previous project but still below 2% ROI which is considered medium risk in hyi arena. So business model and admin reputation is quite good and only concern I have about this program is that it's on shared host currently. |
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Received several payments over weekend. There were first payouts from newest programs SlamDunkAdvertising
and Aut0Surf which were paid within 24 hours after request. Also worth mentioning is another payout from GlobalAdsPro that currently not just stabilised on payout time which is now 4 days after expiry and holding on this interval but also traffic levels made quite good jump. Could this mean I was wrong about what reputable admin like Trish can do when cashflow problems appear? Well anyway watch closely payout time and if it starts going longer again consider it as alert sign no matter what excuses given. |
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If you haven't noticed yet 12by12daily
now has a forum for a week already where some updates can be found and questions are answered if you haven't received a reply from support. Appears Dave has started to going over accounts in sequence of members id and paying out referral commissions that are due which has been confirmed by some reports as well. Things are looking better for this program which still keeps it's 7 day payout interval according to terms but you got to admire dedication Dave has to manually fix all issues and keep his word on everything he promises. |
| 08.09.2006 |
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Newest addition to my list SlamDunkAdvertising is a site which at first might look like another clone using PatsPro script with not too creative theme or any modifications but there is something that makes it stand out from the crowd of those clones that lately flood the market which raised some interest in my eyes. Admin of this program is not new in autosurf arena and mostly known because of his previous project ProfoundHits which was started back in September of 2004 and run into problems only early this year during Stormpay scandal when most of it's funds were stolen by that money processor. This program was highly recommended by Dave Cannard back in times when he offered his advice which programs are worth joining. Robert did attempt to recover from this big loss but never managed to regain the cashflow needed to support previous levels and after quite long stretch closed during Summer. Now he decided to give this business another try and just today started new project with medium risk returns and this one could be interesting considering his reputation of paying admin.
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Jim Pollak seems is back with a new site PTSI which again is filling with quite an interesting articles and links to information sites. Who is Jim some may ask. Well in a sense he is my mentor who teached quite a lot of things about autosurfing that enriched my experience and helped in making right decisions when joining sites and making profits in them. Jim has been around in autosurfing much longer than I am so his experience of course is very valuable and to most things he writes in his articles I agree but sometimes he is just too conservative in opinions about autosurfing sites and considered as main goal advertising side of this business but nowdays people pay more focus on earning side which means those with higher profits are more popular. He was previously running similar site AutosurfCentral but after CompactSurf crash decided to leave this business to check other opportunities but seems he regained some interest again. |
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While on a subject of informational sites it was quite a surprise to see that DD club in which I am a moderator of forum was down for few hours last night. Vince told me that hosting company suddently decided to suspend it because they don't want to host autosurf sites. Funny to hear that they found out it's related to autosurfing when solving a problem by request of Vince but somehow missed that it's name has this word included. Anyway this wasn't part of their Terms of Service and Vince made them reconsider this suspension after short discussion over e-mails and it is now back up again. If you haven't read about this club on my site yet I highly recommend being part of it if you are serious about earning from autosurfing because I consider this the very best due diligence service out there and is one of main reasons why I decided to help Vince by moderating in his forum. |
| 06.09.2006 |
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Big round of applaud to Trish from GlobalAdsPro for keeping her word and continuing to pay despite slowdown in cashflow which resulted in delays up to 5 days already. I considered that one round of pendings will be quite possible to manage and it apparently was. Although future pendings are quite big question at this point as chances of receiving those are not 45% anymore as it was week ago but possibly around 25%.
Finally payment from Midas-Surf non fasttrack exactly on 7th business day after expiry so admin is religiously keeping max timeframe as stated in Terms of Service. |
| 05.09.2006 |
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Lately
I've been thinking a lot about where is this industry going and more I think about it less I like how new programs are created then researched and bashed away if something dirty is found which makes them less appealing. Most people these days are placing so much focus on Due diligence that they forget what is main reason to do such research. Especially weird are cases when some single action or event has been brought to light and labeled as a red flag but in reality it's not even yellow one and what bothers me most at this time is fact that people don't care about old school autosurf programs that offer low risk earning with lots of advertising and main focus now is on fast earning preferred with daily payouts. Which means most new programs that are launched are using high ROI and are doomed to use pure ponzi scheme and have quite shortterm fate even if they are run by known and reputable admins.
So despite the quite popular opinion that Harrold's media or whatever that group of people are called has quite bad reputation and was considered as a group of scammers I went ahead and joined their new test project Surfoogle which isn't just an autosurf as we know it. This project is an attempt to change the business model from current to a better one as they presented it few months ago when tried to purchase Alertpaypro. Basic idea behind it is that you don't earn fixed percentage daily but your earnings directly depend on advertising revenue of previous day. There are also quite interesting ideas added to improve surfing experience as you can choose what type of sites in rotation will be shown and also you are given chance to rate the site that is shown. I was quite sceptical when I first heard about new business model idea that it won't get off but first few days earnings rate was around 30% which allowed to get into profit within few days after purchase of upgrade. Now it has dropped to 15% per day as growth has slowed down slightly but still is quite high to earn back within one week. Possibly it will go down further but at least here you see it's rate and instead of waiting longer for payment you just need to surf few days more to get it and can reevaluate before each upgrade if it's worth the time to get into profits. So I like this new idea and hope more sites will pick up this model of autosurf program. Just remember that you can start earning only day after you purchase an upgrade.
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Another addition to my list is also quite unusual in a way because it doesn't operate with money but with valuable metals like gold which is very suited for using e-gold money processor. Aut0Surf with zero in it's name is exclusively working with gold and is not affected with any fluctuations of gold price. As you remember few days ago e-gold had some technical glitch which caused gold price to be halved for few hours and admin of this program used this situation quite well for promoting his program that wasn't in any way affected by such price drop. All payments are made using gold weight and min upgrade is 0.25 grams which value currently is approximately 5$. I initially didn't like that it was hosted on shared hosting with few known scams but after that it moved to dedicated host and is now improving quite fast. After doing some research I didn't find any connection to those other sites and lately seeing it's progress decided to join it. It is running for almost a month now which means first cycle for most members has barely ended and is still quite early in the game.
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Updated stats today and site of the week is clearly still Reindeersurf which continues to be one of top growing programs now when it is going into 3rd week of operation. Of course growth leader for this week is newest addition Treo-Surf which made an explosive growth during first few days and quickly reached their 2 month limit but I am still not too impressed about this program as admin of 15hitsdaily reputation in my eyes is quite dirty and seems original site is almost closed as activity of Alexa graph shows complete drop in traffic levels. Possibly admin will use funds from new site for old one to keep it bit longer and ensure some trust in project but at least at this time I consider it very risky venture so gave it 3 stars for now and will monitor how it develops with new setup.
Both GlobalAdsPro and Bigdaddysurf dropped in growth pace over last week and I am not too much surprised as increasing delays in payments directly result in such reduced progress. GlobalAdsPro is delayed by 4-5 days already as this morning only pendings from last month were finished and BigDaddySurf still hasn't paid me from last payout request which was last Saturday and it is now 4th day already. Both moved to delayed payments.
Quite interesting to see that Midas-Surf despite it's low activity in traffic levels had quite a jump in growth stats which I could explain with it's recent decision to limit amount of signups to 1000 just like Treo-Surf did initially. This is a positive thing but unless their traffic levels increase I don't see how they could avoid cashflow problems. |
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Quite a lot of experts these days are throwing around their opinions about lately frequently used 50/50 rules used in various sites. I kind of agree that it all depends how this rule is used and most importantly when it is used. Basically it is way of significantly reducing daily ROI when cashflow problems are faced if such rule is implemented later in the game like it happened in Midas-Surf or GlobalAdsPro. Or if it is introduced initially then it is an attempt to represent medium risk program having high daily ROI which at first glance appears equal to what high risk programs offer but in reality allow getting into profits only several cycles later than without such rule. My personal opinion is that such rule is a good thing if used from the very beginning and used to compound from earnings like MVPSurf uses it instead of requiring additional upgrade purchases before receiving payouts. Anyway there are two quite very well written and kind of long articles about this new rule and issue of relaunching programs at Rootboys Blog and I agree completely to all the points brought up in these so I recommend visiting his site for more details. |
| 04.09.2006 |
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Fx-Experts recently sent an announcement that they had some trouble in trading and will be holding off withdrawal requests and weekly dividends as they need remaining funds
to recover from these. Usually such things mean that it's either end of a program or pause as explained if these news are true fact. Downgraded it to 3 stars and not recommending it until better news or payments resume. |
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Reindeersurf as announced last week changed payout schedule from daily with monthly limit to weekly and as explained from now on payouts will be done on mondays for all requests that were made during previous week. Only one request per 7 days will be allowed which basically means that no payouts are done this week because everyone requested their cash outs last week at least once which means waiting of 7 days from last request until you can request again. This was quite smart move to ensure accumulation of large reserve fund during this week so it can cover next week's payout day. So now to find out when you can request next cash out go and check when you did request it last time and add 7 days to it. I requested mine last Thursday so I will be able to request it not earlier than this coming Thursday and receive payout on next Monday.
BigDaddySurf also changed payout schedule but this program just returned to original schedule of 2 requests per month at specific dates which this month will be 7th and 21st of September. |
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12by12daily was quite slow today just like during first days of it's operation when avalanche of new members were swarming into this site and server couldn't manage such large traffic. As usual Dave isn't rushing with any announcements which is becoming quite annoying considering how this event could loose even more followers of this admin. Another challenge for his reputation but I think he will just credit everyone for lost surfing before paying out as he usually did during July problems with servers.
Nothing else to report today but tomorrow after stats update I will be announcing few new sites that I have been watching over last week and that passed my tests. One of them is quite an interesting one because of new business model used which I like despite being sceptical about the whole idea at first. |
| 02.09.2006 |
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Midas-Surf introduced 50/50 rule just like GAP recently only difference they applied it for new upgrades that are made after this announcement which allows members to decide if they wish to continue when such rule is in place. In my opinion much better approach but still fact that it was introduced now after month since launch doesn't look like too good sign especially if we look at activity in alexa graph which has dropped to almost zero level lately. Also admin added limit of new signups at 1000 members which wasn't announced but appears on their site. Possibly after seeing how well Treo-surf this limit helped Midas-surf is looking for same burst of activity but I don't think it will happen here. And going private right now is least this program needs right now.
Treo-surf didn't yet reach it's limit of 2000 members for month of September but is quite close to it as only approximately 200 signups are left at this time so should be reaching this number any day now. As I mentioned earlier I joined it mostly because of this limit introduced and upgraded with a test spend and also recommend at first going low in this one to see how it develops as I think it has some potential but quite risky still. It's success depends on quite many factors including how admin will manage now 2 sites at same time and if 15hitsdaily will continue to experience problems then reputation and fate of this new site will not be too bright. |
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GlobalAdsPro as expected is continuing to pay but time it requires is slowly increasing and is 3 days right now. There was also 3rd incident with hacker again and Trish clearly brings responsobility on members side for verifying to which account upgrades are made so if you still are upgrading here double check if you are paying to correct account which is 2703877. If you see a different account number stop right there and contact admin about this as chances of it being changed again are quite high considering how ofter it happens lately. |
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Seems that Dave is working on script changes in 12by12daily as recently expired upgrades went into pending without any referral commissions right away and commissions left in the cash balance this time instead of dissapering into void like it was for all previous upgrades when commissions were stripped from pending cashouts just before payments were made. If we remember his latest announcement about plans to make those paid seperately then this could be in the works right now. Reports show that payments are done within 7 day timeframe consistently right now and I even have seen some earlier payment reports like after 5 days and so far looks like all that Dave has promised he has accomplished. |
| 31.08.2006 |
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Well I couldn't resist after seeing how explosive it's growth is and signed up with Treo-surf while it's still possible. Good old marketing trick of limited seats available is doing wanders here. Basically this program is Midas-surf clone but is managed by somewhat successful administrator Bob from 15hitsdaily which managed in quite short time to become number one program at ASA monitor but quite quickly dropped out as initially it was set on shared host and later faced hacker intervention. Seems now he learned his lessons and is trying fresh attempt with much better prepared program setup on dedicated server with secure protocol and crypto card for increased security. After it's launch within 24 hours it hit the limit for month of August of 1000 members and is quite quickly enclosing on allowed 2000 members and possibly will close until end of September. I've lately been thinking that introducing a limit for growth when it's too high is quite good idea for a program so it can control it's growth over time which will shoot at two targets with same bullet - first controlled growth allows better cashflow managment and second people who didn't get in while it was possible will be eager to join once signup window will be open again. So don't miss out and at least join this program before signup window closes at 2000 members possibly this will even happen today already. Upgrading can be done later when it calms down and it's more clear how it is developing. |
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Apparently my post about AlertPay got passed to their staff and I was contacted regarding issues I mentioned with explanation for each case. My own verification was finally finished and other cases explained so I have to say I made wrong conclusions about this issue. Your funds in Alertpay should be ok just withdrawing option to e-gold is requiring verification and most probably will soon be removed as it causes most problems for them. Options to withdraw to bank or by cheque are accepted without delays. E-gold will be left only as an exchange option to prevent fraud. |
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As my subscribers already know yesterday e-gold had some technical problems and for approximately one hour price of gold dropped to half of it's real value and most shocking it was to those who used it at that time and noticed that their balance dropped by half. Nothing to worry except if you did some transactions during that time as spending gold when it has low price means spending double of it's value. Everything is now back to normal and just in case try to watch gold price when you make a spend in e-gold and if it is shown unusually low or off the usual 600+ USD per ounce price then first check kitco.com site for market value of gold if it matches one presented by e-gold. |
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Updated growth stats today and we have a new leader which without much of surprise is Reindeersurf. Rapid early growth and early payouts allowed it to make leading positions in most of top listings. 13dailypro surprisingly has highest growth by total members during last week which is followed by 12by12daily and both of these are currently having largest members base amongst still operating programs although last one is just one and half month old. On the other end of list we can see recent premium listed program BigDaddySurf which showed quite promising progress during early stages of month but seems didn't get more momentum that it needed and now slowed down. Superchargedsurf is still one of slowest growing sites and despite it's quite descent setup and in my opinion potential didn't get the attention it deserved as well so I would be careful with these two over course of next few weeks to see how they develop as such slow growth for that high risk programs isn't a good thing to have and could result in cashflow problems eventually. I recently had some concerns about Midas-surf traffic levels dropping but if wee look at their growth pace it's quite steady and not that bad compared to other programs so possibly manual surf with their limits has affected this drop in traffic levels but program itself could be in good shape still which also is confirmed by paid posts that are as admin said religiously near stated 3 business days for fasttrack option and 7 days for standard payouts.
Summer is over and I must say it was quite slow overall compared to other seasons. Average number is 200 new members join a program per week currently and this number has increased over last few weeks only just by 2-3% but at least it is now increasing compared to beginning of summer when these numbers were dropping and by beginning of June dropped to around 100 members during one week. Launch of 12by12daily gave quite a jump to these numbers as average number increased to several thousands during week of it's launch but then dropped back to slightly over 100. This event did start the overall increase and after almost 2 months it's as high as 200 members per program so I could assume that vacations are over for majority and people are slowly returning into autosurfing business so upcoming months could be quite interesting again and possibly we will see more quality programs launched to increase the interest and make audience wider. |
| 30.08.2006 |
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After several days of mostly good news today we face some bad news. And not just about one program but about several so let's start with something that I was looking at but not seeing earlier. Seems we are running into another Stormpay story as Alertpay lately has started holding on funds and not allowing to withdraw them. There were several reports earlier this month that some accounts were supposedly suspended because of hacker activities and transactions were performaed much slower. Even I faced some trouble when last month one of my withdrawals to e-gold was denied and verification was requested. Well I did submit required documents but after several weeks received response that they don't accept online statements as address proof. Well what can I do if I don't receive bills via mail but to my e-mail and pay them online. Standard mail bills in my opinion are thing of past in most countries as more and more service providers offer online statements and payment options. Anyway back to main issue which is beware of Alertpay and try to get your funds out of there as soon as possible if that's even viable after so much low profile background actions done by them.
As reported some account holders can't withdraw their money because they received them from suspicious surf programs which are under investigation (doesn't this sound familiar?), some have their accounts suspended because of hacker activities, some because unverified and verification takes not just weeks but months already, some mostly admins have their accounts frozen because of complaints about not paying and etc. Well you already got the picture by now.
Also if that wasn't reported yet Uniclear froze everyone's account for 120 days as they are having problems with bank they used for transactions. This one is already out of business in my opinion. |
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As much as I didn't like to believe in this fact but seems latest injection hack of e-gold interface with GlobalAdsPro has done more damage than it seemed at first. As I reported last few days GAP turned into more risky program after incident and despite the received payments I decided to reupgrade lower and I am glad I did as admin made a change in terms of service today by introducing new rule for receiving payouts which requires now having upgrade level at 45% of payout value. This was done post factum and of course was received quite badly by majority of members which most probably will lead to everyone either trying to pull out or just forgetting about those funds if not too large. If you remember GladiatorSurf did same thing before it had to restart and quite many thinking that upgrading with half of payout will let them receive those pending payouts but in reality lost even more into that program. But if we consider reputation of Trish then I would say it's 45% chance that you might receive at least current pending payout if you upgrade but it's really on a verge of 50/50 chances that next payouts will be done as I think they will slow down with each next day from now on. It just doesn't happen this way in autosurfing that terms are changed post factum and everything goes good and dandy after that. In my opinion this 50/50 rule isn't bad thing for a surfprogram but at least don't introduce it late in the game when things already look shaky. Quite sad to say this but seems another good program brought down by some smartass hacker. |
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Lately I was watching how traffic levels are reducing at Midas-Surf and I must say it looks not too good with each day as it dropped even more today. Surely doesn't look like Alexa server glitch as most other sites have quite good progress in their traffic and I didn't notice during recent days any slow response from their server when accessing reports. I moved it to regular category and strongly recommend checking their progress before deciding if reupgrading is worth it. |
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BigDaddySurf released the announcement basically stating that they are short on e-gold funds at this moment for amount of 700$. Well I tend to believe this is because not enough funds were transfered into e-gold for payouts of saturday requests as he plans to adjust payout schedule once more. |
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Today during surfing session I stumbled upon quite familiar design at westernsurf.net site. It sure did look familiar and if you remember scam sites group started by 6dailysurf.com you would probably recognise this design as well. Well I went to look deeper and found quite a bunch of new existing and some of those still running but most of them already scammed same usual way as previous ones did by either not paying at all or just doing one round. One I recognised was worldsurf-tournament.com which was quite promoted lately via spam e-mails. So be aware that if you were planning to join any of these you might become member of donations club for their scam group cause. For complete list of those sites check out my research pages. |
| 29.08.2006 |
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Considering it's end of month and newest rising star Reindeersurf still has initial payout procedure this week I requested another payout and received it within 10 hours after request. Now I have only one request left this month which I plan to use on last day of month. Starting from next week payouts will be on weekly basis and day of week will be chosen using poll in their forum. Also my only concern I had about this program daily compounding was removed and will be made available at random schedule. I never liked daily compounding as it is one of main killer factors for program's longterm success and as it seems it was only given as promotional incentive for those who joined early on. |
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Despite the incident with hacker yesterday in GlobalAdsPro
my next pending payment from them came even faster than previous one or within 36 hours after expiry which is quite good sign but still I consider this program now somewhat more risky than before. Growth pace is still quite good and traffic levels are consistently increasing and because of these factors I still consider it premium program.
Also received my next payment from BigDaddySurf and this time it was 3 days after request. Growth isn't the brightest as well so downgraded to regular list for now. |
| 28.08.2006 |
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Reindeersurf is getting hotter and hotter with each day. Within first 6 days almost 400 members already joined this program which is quite good growth progress. It isn't as high as 12x12 had but possibly that's even better that it is moderate in beginning. Currently allows earning by promoting it in various ways like using ref link in signature when posting in other forums which is prize offer up to 50$, 0.10$ for each post in RS forum and some other incentives that are offered until end of month. I went for deluxe membership right after receiving first payment so you will be receiving max ref commission share as well if you join under me. |
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GlobalAdsPro faced another hacker activity today and I must say this increases it's risk factor so I made it 4 star risk rate now. I still consider it premium program as it's growth and momentum is quite high on a wave but some caution won't hurt after this incident as some members might panic which I noticed in some forum posts already. It all now depends on how well Trish handles this incident if as professional as few weeks ago then it could go even further with growth pace.
Midas-Surf lately is on quite low and flat traffic level stat. Other than that it doesn't show any weakness signs but I reduced it's rating to 4 stars as well because such decrease in activity increases it's risk somewhat. |
| 27.08.2006 |
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Seems we might soon have quite solid rising star which has picked up quite some momentum over first few days. Reindeersurf is top new site of last week and considering their payout procedure I decided to request one before end of month and received it within 24 hours. This site instantly breached into top 10 in overall rankings and is considered top pick. Due diligence from Vince also didn't reveal anything negative regarding them so I moved it to premium category already. Many consider it another round from admins of quite successful program earlier this year but there are no direct evidence of that except some similarities. |
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This weekend turned out quite full with payments again and seems lately most of programs I am in make their payments near weekend. Another payment which is 9th already from GlobalAdsPro I received well within 48 hours since expiry. Site itself lately experienced few glitches and downtime but access was restored quite promptly. Currently top program in my ranks.
Also received payouts from MVPSurf
which recently moved to dedicated server and redesigned site and a payment from 13dailypro
that is slowly regaining it's reputation of consistently paying and reliable program and their recent sponsorship at ASA newscast could give some positive boost into this program as followers of ASA site will start joining it.
Added also screenshot from new HYIP Finer Things that is run by quite reputable XLO admin Andy. |
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For those of you who didn't make any profits or had made quite large upgrade in AlienTrust before it stopped paying I recommend going to their site and choosing refund option in members section. Considering it's good reputation there is a slight chance you might get at least portion of your money from them.
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| 25.08.2006 |
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After several weeks of no descent program launch I finally found something interesting that could potentially become quite solid and worth joining. First it is Reindeersurf which is based on christmas theme and quite interesting features added as I would even say collected best of features previous top programs have used. Their forum does look a lot like wiredsurf had but script itself is quite modified PatsPro version. Currently it is quite aggressively promoted over forums and should be next raising star in my opinion. At least it has everything that one would need to become next big thing.
My second addition is TF-Surf
which was launced by owners of ten4ever hyip that is running for 3 months already and is still running and seems had quite a success during that time as quite many followed to their new program and made over 100 new signups per day so far. It also is hosted on dedicated server and has quite similiar to Surf-Atz business model so should be worth several cycles. |
| 24.08.2006 |
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MVPSurf moved to a new server and made some adjustments to site itself by intoroducing new design and switching to different script. At least today it is still somewhat buggy as surfing didn't credit daily roi for me today but seems changeover was quite smooth other than that. Their traffic graph did reset because of this now but .com domain was looking quite good before switch. |
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E-Gold one of most used money processor in hyi world recently renewed their license in Nevis. Here is a screenshot of renewal certificate which means they are offshore and not under jurisdiction of US laws. If you were around last December you probably remember FBI storming into their offices and making their site unavailable for several days which caused quite some events afterwards including 12dailypro dropping them as unreliable money processor and sequence of events that lead to Stormpay crisis. Now FBI won't be able to do such unexpected raids and bother e-gold with their suspicions. For some it is good news as less worries of their funds in e-gold. But for those who have lost their money to hackers these are bad news as even less chances of getting back those funds.
I also added some more info how to protect your e-gold account from hackers. This time it is instructions how to detect mIRC based resident on your computer which will clean your account while you access your account.
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As lately expected Expert-Ads closed down before referral contest ended. It was done via hacked site excuse but in quite lame way. Hackers usually don't replace whole site with some blackmail demand nowdays but just infiltrate the site and redirect the cashflow to their account. Also e-mail address used is not existing as there is no such yahoo.com.ru provider.
Anyway this program had quite good looking design and script used and it is shame that such greedy admins were running it but at least bad signs were quite obviously showing it will eventually close for several weeks already. |
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Received first payments of referral commission from recent addition to "Other opportunities" hyip program run by XLO admin Finer Things. As it has started just recently first wave of payouts hasn't started yet for those who joined on first dates. |
| 22.08.2006 |
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Received my next payout from GlobalAdsPro
which is growing stronger and stronger with each day. Alexa ranks and members growth are increasing in pace and seems it is now going forward in full steam.
Also received weird payment from Expert-Ads which I recently labeled as closing soon. Payment was without any referral commissions but for 2 expired units and one of which was paid twice. I still see it going same way despite this payout so instead of moving back to regular I downgraded it to problematic. Until I see that they reinstate expresspay and get some growth going up it's not going back. |
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| 21.08.2006 |
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It has been a while since I looked into other opportunities but considering how slow is progress in autosurf arena and not many descent programs around I again looked into hyip programs arena. This time it's a recently started HYIP program Finer Things by admin of quite successful autosurf site XLO which I mentioned few days ago. It offers 80% profit returned within 30 days and min investment is just 25$. Quite many experts agree that for admin who earned quite good reputation with his autosurf program starting a hyip program could be way of expanding his success and at least first few cycles should be quite safe which means if joined now you can quickly get in profits and use those for further earnings in this program without risk. |
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Over weekend received another payment from 12by12daily
and it seems Dave has pushed it back to 5 day after expiry by now already. Looking better and better with each day so I hope this continues that way. Also my 7th payment from GlobalAdsPro and today is one month since I joined this program and it is now doing payouts well within 48 hours after expiry. Trish is doing quite great job right now with this site.
And received a payment from another premium listing program BigDaddySurf. Admin of which decided to switch payout schedule from 2/month to 1/week and will open cashout windows during Saturdays from now on. |
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Seems alexa lately is having server issues which has resulted in mass dropdown of traffic levels in history graphs. They were inaccessible for few hours several days last week which means less data coming in. So if you are following my alexa graph pages you will notice that around 14th of August every program even those progressing quite well had a drop in traffic levels. This isn't related to their performance but to alexa not collecting statistics over that time. Their average stats haven't been updated since 11th of August already. Also if you are making conclusions for a particular program's performance using alexa graph don't make them by looking at a single graph but see if such drop in traffic levels isn't a common trend for all programs as it happened last week. Some people jumped into wrong conclusions too early as I noticed in forums.
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Quite bad news came from Expert-Ads
which state very similar things what Phoenixsurf did just before they folded. Express pay option is now disabled and all pendings after 17th of August are switched to slow payout option which means 7 days waiting. Considering all the things I wrote about them few weeks ago when big referral contest was announced I say this is huge red flag and this program has high probability of pulling the plug before end of next week so I recommend avoiding it. |
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There is quite a big hype around new opportunity ProWealthSuccess which I see quite highly promoted by ASA and also one of closed autosurf programs 24dailypro admins. They even claim that using earnings from this program to pay out refunds. I just want to warn you guys that it isn't as good as it looks and Drunk made quite a report on this program which will let you look at this opportunity quite differently. So don't follow the hype but do your own due diligence first. |
| 19.08.2006 |
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Lately quite many programs use the restart scenario as a way of getting out of cashflow problems and kind of funny to see two totally unrelated programs announce a restart on same day - Prosurfer and 15hitsdaily. As for Prosurfer they had this stretched out for quite long already
as July already showed that this program is in trouble. As for 15hitsdaily then it's admin does act quite sudden after all those events that supposedly happened with hacker getting an access to his data base. One thing puzzles me though why did he decide to go ahead with restart if hacker is still doing whatever he wants in his program according to his latest mail. Or may be he made up this story about hacker and what really happened was cashflow problem? Well anyway it seems that more and more programs decide to use the restart approach and if it continues this way soon we will never know if restarts are caused by lack of funds or just attempt to make it look like there are no funds and get out even more profits so I hope it won't become a normal thing that once program is experiencing cashflow problems it just adjusts slightly their business model and goes for another round.
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| 18.08.2006 |
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Has been some time since I added new programs to my list and main reason was that there aren't any obvious good potential programs and I carefully review each program before adding. I have quite a few currently in my checklist and I am watching their progress over time but all of them are slowly progressing and have too little information yet for considering them added.
Only exception is CommandSurf which is quite new considering it's quite low risk business model. Program itself is themed as military recruitment for watching advertisements and everything is named using this theme. I was watching this program for some time already and after recent review by Vincent on very similiar business model program XLO which is much older and is around for 8 months already decided to join CommandSurf as it is just few months old but is run by an admin who earned quite descent reputation with his blog and comments in forums which show his approach to HYI programs. Business model is very sustainable and chances that money isn't just recycled like in most other programs are high as with such long term upgrade life there is quite enough time to use these funds in other ventures and make profits to sustain such returns that are offered. Industry as a whole is slowly leaning towards less risky programs and people quickly learn that high percentage sites don't last long although most are not ready yet to return to one percentage sites but average daily percentage of new prograns is dropping. In this program time needed to make it into profits is 53 days. So if you had considered or regret that didn't join XLO which is still paying one after 8 months then joining then CommandSurf is quite good alternative or second chance as this program is quite new and promising.
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| 16.08.2006 |
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Another day filled with payouts. Yesterday just before end of day received payment from 12by12daily and seems now payouts are quite consistently kept at 7 day interval and according to reports in forums most members have their payouts catched up according to terms of program. Seems like Dave achieved his goal as promised to catch up on payments.
Then today another payment from 13dailypro which seems has reached lowest point in traffic levels and now
slowly regaining progress. And also from SuperChargedSurf which recently introduced fastpayment option for a fee of 11% and only after choosing it I received my pending payment.
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| 15.08.2006 |
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This was quite a day in terms of payouts. Received payouts from 4 programs in one day and possibly will receive another one as members are reporting prompt payments from it within hours after request. So first one was from MVPSurf
which lately has received increased interest and has higher traffic levels than few weeks ago. Then another payment from Expert-Ads
which still looks quite risky as this payment was paid only 3 days after expiry compared to previous prompt payments it could be considered somewhat delayed but still well within terms.
Next was my first payment from MyTrafficSolutions
which has quite descent start and is now on a good wave of cashflow so I moved it to premium list for some time. And last but not least was first payment from Midas-Surf
which was paid on same day as expiry and according to admin I was in the first group of members who upgraded on first day and earned this early payment but others will receive theirs within 3 days for fasttrack option and within 7 for normal payout option.
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| 14.08.2006 |
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Received another payment from GlobalAdsPro
and it looks like it is currently hottest program out there. While still has some issues with script Trish is doing great job in fixing those and what's most important members are happy to receive quite prompt payments which currently are going out in rate of 24-48 hours after expiry.
Received my payment from Fresh-Surf few days ago but moved it to problematic category because it now went into daily instant payouts mode and there already are reports of errors while requesting those. I did consider it too high risk already because of DD that was done on it but it turned out even worse much earlier than expected. Just don't be fooled with numerous ads over many forums and cheerleader sites as this site is fading quite fast.
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I received few e-mails promoting PrivateDailySurf which recently became public and allowing promotion and it seems some still believe it is good paying program. Well here is my opinion on this program and let me open your eyes and explain why you shouldn't bother with it. I am not a member and never considered to join it as I don't believe in private programs surviving long enough and since very beginning it had problems with delayed payments and it was getting worse and worse. Recent decision to go public is their last hope to bring in more money to possibly show signs of life and boost some momentum but this is way too late. I recommend avoiding this program and if you are in it just hope you will get paid what you have invested. |
| 12.08.2006 |
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12by12daily 5 day plan deadline passed and it seems Dave almost kept it within planned time as forums are filled with reports of payments which are getting caught up faster and faster with each day. Another great thing is that Dave finally learned at least to update members more frequently now on progress of his efforts. I placed it back into premium listing but reduced it's rating to 4 stars because of risks involved with recovery process. |
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All my pendings from GlobalAdsPro are now paid and seems most of members are now paid within 24 hours after expiry of upgrades so it could be that Trish has finished auditing most of accounts. I don't place it back into premium listing yet because of no response to my support ticket that is related to account issues. Once those are fixed I will consider placing it back. |
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AlienTrust has announced more exact plans and options to choose from if you are looking for a refund.
1.Accept a top spot in the new program being launched in September called Zapwire. If this choice is made, you are ensured a top spot in the program and your account at Alientrust will be zeroed out.
2.Be paid out for full upgrade made on June 16th or shortly thereafter. All members will be paid 1000 dollars until each member in the pool is paid. Then it will start again paying members from beginning to end each 1000 until each member is paid and so on until those upgrades are paid out. No timeframe has been given.
3.Accept an immediate payment of 25% of your last upgrade at Alientrust paid in full.
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SuperChargedSurf was downgraded to 3 stars because of quite unreliable reputation of admin that runs this program and increased risks of this program to be terminated suddenly. It is in quite slow growth pace anyway which could be possibly increasing after their recent exposure at ASAuthority but this doesn't reduce mentioned risk and could possibly even increase it as many don't trust "unbiased" opinions of ASA anymore. |
| 11.08.2006 |
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Finally updated weekly growth data which this time got delayed for few days because of technical issues so you will be looking at few days old data but I it still gives general trend. Site of this week goes to Midas-Surf despite the fact that first round of payments is still ahead I am quite confident this will be a paying one and progress it showed over this week was very good so no wonder it is now on top of list in premium section.
12by12daily is still leading in overall rankings despite all those problems it is facing lately but it still managed to get most members per week which is now somewhat over 1k members during one week and this 3 times more than any follower had. Compared to previous progress MVPSurf showed nice increase in pace and is now enclosing to average growth rate which shows that latest changes done by admin are getting it more exposure.
Compared to few months back total growth figures have fallen quite a bit and this summer month is still one of slowest growth wise mostly because industry lacks new stable and reliable programs. There are few potential ones but those need to work out some problems before getting at full steam. About other sites and more details will be included in next weekly overview for e-mail subscribers. |
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AlienTrust posted yesterday announcement regarding refund process which will be quite slow because membership of almost 50000 members requires careful audit and only those not in profit will be receiving something. Well if admin manages to do at least these then he will somewhat save his reputation and have chance for some support if he starts a new project.
As reported by members GlobalAdsPro
is now doing payouts in reverse order which means newer pendings are paid before older ones. I also have noticed quite a lot of weird script behaviours which have caused to show incorrect amounts in members area. It sure looks like Trish is doing a lot of manual adjustments to accounts and thing I don't like here is that support tickets about incorrect account values are just ignored. Membership isn't that large compared to other programs but if we consider that Trish is also involved in 12by12daily issues fixing then I wouldn't expect situation improve much until those are fixed. |
| 10.08.2006 |
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Somewhat busy offline these few days so had less time to update you all on latest events but as I just checked not much has happened during this time which is not a bad thing since sites that pay still pay and etc.
BigDaddySurf has disabled e-gold upgrades and warns members not to upgrade at this time with this processor because site is being under attack of a hacker and you might end up paying not to BDS but some smartass who found a hole in this script. Payday is 5 days away so best time to upgrade here anyway is after being paid and seeing reports of others that they were paid as well. |
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Received payout from my little one from 12by12daily
today which was 12 days after it expired but as it seems things are speeding up as Dave promised and more and more reports of receiving payments are posted. Well this is a good sign that 5 day plan of catching up could be success but it's still too early to say that this program has recovered from early problems it had. Let's first see if payout terms are catched up
and then follow it's progress to say this for sure. Unlike other cases I thing chances are not low here.
Also received my next payout from SuperChargedSurf
which isn't showing too high pace in progress but slowly going up. I think it needs some kick in higher pace direction to become one of elite programs otherwise it will just remain in low profile and low cashflow list. |
| 08.08.2006 |
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12by12daily finally broke the silence and Dave made some progress updates on how things are in their backoffice. Progress was quite noticable already as I haven't been thrown out for more than a week and annoying relogin procedures are now a history already which partially could be explained by dropped traffic levels as well. But today Dave also made a promise to catch up with all payments within next 5 days. Well let's see how he keeps his word as his reputation is quite shaky at this time. Although I think he will use the strategy of paying out only ROI earnings without referral commissions which was stated also in todays update. I did receive few reports that members without upgraded downline are receiving their payments much faster well within 7 day timeframe. This could be explained with fact that audit of such accounts take less time and if Dave decides to move ref commissions to later payments then it could be possible to catch up on all payouts within next 5 days. Don't forget to make another upgrade to receive your payment though but if you have 2 pending payments it's not necessary to upgrade more to receive first payment.
Today some members got concerned about block that was placed on 12by12daily e-gold account which delayed incoming cashflow for few hours but later payments were reported to be coming from old autosurfinfo e-gold account. Appears some members are inpatient and report their delays to e-gold. Well such actions only make things worse and reduce chances of being paid as e-gold don't do refunds and their transactions are irreversible but one thing is for sure rumour that funds were frozen is not true because e-gold doesn't freeze money in accounts but only places a block on account which prevents this account from receiveing money but funds in this account can be moved to a different account and business continues.
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| 07.08.2006 |
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After most recent reports from DD expert Vincent that can be found in his due diligence private club I downgraded Expert-Ads to regular category and Fresh-Surf to 3 stars because of risks involved as reputation of admins in those programs is unknown but the information that was reported after research about them increase risk of those suddenly closing down. More details I will include in next weekly report. |
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Surf-Atz today announced about plans of closing down supposedly because of the usual reasons like hacking, account cheaters and script problems but in reality as I reported over last few weeks already their traffic levels dropped and it was quite obvious that it will result in cashflow problems and last payout could be one of last which turned out to be true. Refunds are planned and as stated most of them paid already. Still active upgrades will be allowed to expire and paid. Although fact that it closes down after last upgrade expires is bad news I think Scotty did all he could to make lifespan of this program as long as possible and didn't get too greedy by pulling plug suddenly weeks ago when there were large funds in this program reserve fund. He already plans to start new less risky but private surf at some point and such exit from Surf-Atz program could get him some support as he earned reputation of quite honest admin. |
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Recently I mentioned that 15hitsdaily which was on my checklist that it is going through server change and since this was main reason I didn't enlist this program as I don't like programs run on shared hostings. Well appears it is still in the process of changing servers and while doing that it supposedly run into hacking issues and now claims to be involving FBI to catch this hacker. Well story of course is quite fun and all but I don't think this program has any future after all these events which could be true and could be just made up story.
Also I was watching NexxSurf as it's progress was quite noticable but never joined it for some reason and now it would be too late as it's traffic levels has reached peak and is slowly decreasing. Also main reason is that their payouts are reported to be now at 5-6 days after expiry and interval is increasing each week so soon could stretch beyond 7 days stated in terms. If you are in this one I recommend pulling out while you can.
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| 06.08.2006 |
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Warning! You possibly received an e-mail today supposedly from e-gold security team stating that they are implementing New Account Sentinel Private Key File™(also referred to as AccSentKey™) to make E-gold even more secure. What alerted me was that I received this e-mail only to an e-mail I never use with e-gold and which daily receives numerous phishing e-mails I just move to spam folder. I contacted e-gold to confirm but in meantime I recommend considering this as another phishing e-mail as it sure looks like one but more legit than other ones. Chances are that you will receive a virus file which will just log your keystrokes and help hackers to get into your e-gold account so don't fall for this or even worse some trojan virus. I will let you know what e-gold answers to this as they usually answer within 24 hours of contact request. |
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Has been a while since I received a payment from any of programs but today I received 2 from GlobalAdsPro which was 3 days after expiry but as mentioned few days ago Trish had a hiccup with hacker activities reported by one of members and she went into manual audits to ensure there are no cheating which caused some delays
and from SuperChargedSurf which was first payout from them just few days after expiry of my upgrade well within their terms of making payments. |
| 04.08.2006 |
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NowDollar has been sold anyway. Unofficially it's same Harrold's media that bought it supposedly run by someone named Richard who plans to relaunch it in one or two weeks with new business model according to which noone would loose just like it was proposed in Alertpaypro which will reopen within few weeks as well. As far as I understood it's somewhat true about that new business model but problem with it will be that with high ROI they will be experiencing same problems current programs have just this time it will be legal according to new terms as once incoming funds will come slower than outgoing payout delays will happen but it will be provided under different way - your daily earnings will reduce and you will need to surf more days to get same amount for payout which will just equal payment delays we have now. Difference could be in fact that you will know sooner when those delays happen as your earnings drop and smart surfers won't reinvest as much as before which brings to same source of problem current programs face. So they will need to solve the dillema of having lower ROI but at same time keeping members motivated to join program with lower returns which lately isn't that easy to accomplish. |
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Midas-Surf is picking up quite a nice momentum after recent ASA newscast in which they were announced to receive a reward of most secure site. Site is just few days old but gained quite noticable traffic increase. Not as high as 12by12daily had but solid one compared to other programs that were recently started. Moved it to premium category as I see quite good potential in this one. |
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SolexSurfing is out of business. This one came unexpected for me as I recently considered it good for 3-4 more weeks but suddenly admin pulled the plug. Such admins are real scammers in my book. If an admin decides to close program like this way too early when even max potential hasn't been reached then it's greed that drives such admin and if I see a program run by this guy again I will blacklist it right away.
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Appearantly there are still subscribers who haven't received a single message from me via e-mail after subscribing to my newsletter. For past few days I have fixed this issue for those who did let me know about this problem so if you are one who still isn't receiving my daily message but you did subscribe using Subscribe button on top of this page then let me know by e-mail and I will try to solve this problem. Deliverable stats increased from 70% to 75% for last few days but still 25% are not receiving these. One of generally working solutions to this is adding my e-mail paipals@gmail.com to your contacts list in e-mail program or site you are using so my address gets on white list and isn't filtered anymore by your e-mail service provider. Also I now added mandatory activation procedure after you hit subscribe which will ensure that you confirm your subscription and reduce errors. |
| 03.08.2006 |
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I was expecting this announcement for some time already and it finally was posted - AlienTrust is now officially closed. Vincent tried to give some excuses like sale of this program didn't go as planned and etc but it was quite obvious for several weeks already that this wasn't going anywhere else. This was one of longest and most successful programs in this industry which brought some quite unique ideas that were used in many other programs that followed and as usual it is quite sad to see quite successful projects end but that's how this business works - nothing lasts forever just need to find right program at right timing to get into profits. Time for AT came to leave the podium.
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I made few adjustments to top ranks calculation algorythm. First I reversed the way top 6 is calculated and from now on newer programs will get higher ranking as at this time most programs don't last for more than 3-6 months which means getting into potentially good program as early as possible reduces risks of loosing and improves chances of getting more profits from such program. Also made top 10 of all top ranks more dynamic by adding affect of which category particular program is enlisted in. Premium category programs have higher ranking weight than delayed payment or problematic category programs.
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GlobalAdsPro is currently experiencing so called hiccup because hacker activity was found and for some time upgrades were done manually but right now are back to automatic again. Several security issues were found as well which requires auditing of accounts and this will result in slower payouts and support responses for some time now. Considering that e-gold site is today unavailable most of the time expect some delays in payouts from all programs in which you used e-gold as payment processor including GlobalAdsPro. While this hiccup isn't over moved it to regular programs.
Also situation with 12by12daily isn't improving too fast so until all issues are solved I can't consider it premium listed despite all the respect I have for admin Dave. 7 day waiting for first expired upgrades has passed and still quite many haven't received their first payouts which does some damage to reputation of this site and brings in quite some concerns which could result in early cash flow problems. In my opinion being in such problem state for too long could reduce chances of this program's longterm plans. No communication from admin for long time is trademark of Dave as he usually likes to act instead of giveing promises which can't be kept up to but quite many don't understand how he manages his programs. |
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Prosurfer seems is going through stage of unsuccessful recovery as cash outs are disabled for several days already and even surfing is not available for most of the day. Moved it to delayed payments together with Surf-Atz which is in it's final stage in my opinion and possibly won't last until next payout day which in on 10th.
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After recent weekly overview I sent to e-mail subscribers I received few e-mails asking about currently top listed by ASA monitor 15hitsdaily which is experiencing it's high wave at this time according to traffic level history. Well I have it on my checklist but it has one major problem in my opinion which is shared hosting. Currently it is hosted on a server with 501 other websites and in my book even 10 other sites on same server for a traffic exchange program is quite a lot but 501 is just too much. As far as I know they are in process of moving at this time but until I see it actually happen and can verify it I don't plan to move it to main list.
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| 02.08.2006 |
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Received within few hours after request payment from BigDaddySurf which allows manual payouts only on 1st and 15th of each month. Seems that this program is slowly with some jumps picking up steam and becoming quite popular so I moved it to premium category. |
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Recently I introduced paid due diligence club which I am part of myself as moderator of it's forum and lately spend quite a lot of time in it. Well Vince recently did a research on PrivateDailySurf which was started by admins of 24dailypro and also revealed everything there is about Lance from Now$ involvement in Harrold's media scandal (I decided to call it so). I was somewhat surprised to see other programs that were previously run by admins of PDS and 24DP but one thing is for sure that their programs are all dead already even latest PDS has delays in payments since very beginning and considering they were semiprivate as well I am not surprised and this is one of main reasons I didn't join it when it was started and promoted via e-mails only. As for Harold's incident evidence is quite clear and show that Now$ is entering it's final phases so despite those reported payments after last cashout date I don't think it will last too long. More details about programs I have enlisted and their current status you will find in today's weekly overview I sent to subscribed members of my newscast. |
| 01.08.2006 |
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Another month has passed and compared to previous one this was bit better with several new good programs coming into picture but whole industry hasn't yet recovered fully and it will take some more time to feel more safely in this quite risky business. Spent some time updating my site again and this time improved alexa rank page by making it dynamic so I can update it more often and added daily reach stats page which better represents daily activities in particular site and even if site is new and has not earned yet place in top ranks we can observe how membership activities develop using daily reach page. This becomes more important for programs that are new and growth rates are not that high.
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Added few new programs which look quite promising but too new to judge fully yet as all of them started during last days of July. All of them are hosted on dedicated server and have some unique features I would like to see more often in good programs.
First one is using crypto card security feature for securing members accounts and also allows locking your ip with exact match or any level of mask if preferred. Site itself is quite well designed and script is somewhat modified standard script. Business model seems like medium risk with layered referral commissions which are as low as AlienTrust had.
Second one is high risk program and first impressions quite good as it has descent setup. Verified dedicated server on Go Daddy Software Inc network.Somewhat modified one of standard scripts that was used in 14dailyplus, gssglobal, nexxsurf etc
Roi is quite high risk 3.3% but with expiry 7 day option and instapay within 3 days which seems as there won't be any fast payouts and actual ROI could be much lower as instapay will be available only for selected amount of first members who choose it according to their faq.
Fresh-Surf :: up to 12% for 12 days
And another program with quite good setup and highly promoted in MMG forum with sticky ads and members support. Offers 2 plans where high rollers with upgrades over 1000$ earn bigger percentage.
All of these are just started and admins reputation currently unknown but I like that those are prepared well which shows those were created with longterm plans and according to my calculations these should last at least 1-2 months so worth a shot for few cycles.
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Received several payments over last few days. First one was from GlobalAdsPro which lately is showing quite good and consistent progress according to alexa ranks. Then today I recieved first payout from Expert-Ads
another premium listed program which still has quite small membership but promotional efforts are slowly increasing in various forums and blogs which should give some boost to traffic levels. Also received next payments from EzSurfnEarn and SolexSurfing. |
| 30.07.2006 |
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On the 6th day after expiry I received my first cash out from 12by12daily which lately is still having server issues but performance of site is slowly becoming better and better. According to Dave's latest announcement script issues have been solved by now and only auditing of accounts are required because almost all accounts were affected by script bugs. Also appears that to receive payout you need to have an active upgrade so in case you only bought one I recommend buying another one for 6$ to receive your cashout. This model also was acquired by GlobalAdsPro but since Trish is assistant of Dave I am not surprised they use similar business models. |
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TotalRune and Instant Money Flow both were run by same admin Paul who announced today that he is closing both and will at this time restart only TotalRune with 10% for 15 days model. Refunds to those not in profit will be issued and as reported by admin only 1/4 of members were not in profit. At this point I moved it to closed category and will see if it's worth rejoining.
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| 28.07.2006 |
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Today was quite a rush at NowDollar's site as everyone charged into their site to make that precious cashout which is currently under question after recent events in which NowDollar and Harrold's Media were involved. As I mentioned earlier program's reputation was damaged no matter if their relation is true or not and today we witnessed result of panic created by those claims. I myself couldn't manage to access site whole morning and gave up in the end as it just was giving mysql errors. Probably this will cost me no payout this week as for many others who couldn't do same. But good news is Lance is on top of this payout batch this time and there already are posts about being paid from today which is quite a good sign and should calm down members somewhat.
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Received my 3rd payout from MVPSurf today and seems Michael slowly but consistently is growing his program up as it gets more exposure and positive reports. He still is doing quite a lot of things manually which ensures security and no cheating which is quite frequent issue among surf programs.
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| 27.07.2006 |
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I'll start today with introduction of possibly most feared man in autosurf industry and he has earned this reputation by doing very deep and revealing due diligence reports which in most cases removes that smokescreen that admins usually try to create for their plans of scamming money out of their members pockets. I did try something similar some time ago but I didn't have the experience and tools to go that far and get such extensive reports like Vince does. One of his most known actions is bringing down eDataSurf by proving that admin lied about having dedicated Prolexic server with anti-ddos protection they are so famous with. There are more to this story but you can find all the details in his site Discover The Dirty Secrets Autosurf Admins Will NEVER Want You To Know. . After realizing that offering this info to public is doing too much damage Vince decided to offer this information to so called secret DD club for a small monthly fee which is well worth the information he provides. This way only those that are members of this club find out what he reveals after researching particular programs that are selected by voting in members forum. This ensures that members best interests are satisfied and new reports are generated every 2-3 days with updates over forum which in my opinion is one of most mature autosurfing forums out there without any cheerleading and spam that usually is waste of time to read. Latest reports include deep research on programs like Expert-Ads, 15HitsDaily, SolexSurfing and Surf-Atz. And recently after Vince offered me to assist him with these reports I agreed to become a moderator of this forum and I currently visit this forum daily to do some small DD reports on programs which are not worth deep research and also get involved in discussions that are brought up.
So if you want to find out in advance which programs will soon have cashflow problems and could be closing down to know exactly when and from which programs to pull out I recommend joining this club and for small fee you might save hundreds if not thousands that get stuck in dying programs then go here and sign up for reports and get access to private elite forum in which I am moderator. Link to Vince site is available also in "Other links" section of my site. |
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Received first payout from GlobalAdsPro
within few hours after expiry and so far looks quite good so I move it to premium list next to Dave's new project which finally fixed script issues but is still facing server capacity problems quite often which requires looking for less loaded server by logging in several times. Also after seeing report from Vince on Expert-Ads which passed 500 members today I decided to move this program to premium list as well because I consider this program as potential rising star.
Also received payout from The Money Road
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Decided to add new interesting prospect BigDaddySurf which is newest project from Nate owner of KnightSurfers, KnightGoldSurf and CamelotSurf. Well previous programs didn't go as well as expected mostly because he wanted to save Stormpay damaged KnightSurf but it didn't work out too well. Few weeks ago I received my pending payout from KnightGoldSurfers which I considered dead for ages already but this payout raised Nate's reputation in my eyes at least. So now seeing that he starts a fresh new quite high risk project I decided to join it and see how it goes as I think he is one of those admins who won't scam but will do everything possible to make it work instead.
I also like the idea to return to biweekly payments at set dates which is kind of oldschool but gives less stress in case some day payouts get delayed for those that pay daily and is point for lower ROI as well for those upgrades that don't expire just before payout dates. |
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According to stats only approximately 60% of my subscribers are receiving daily news over e-mail. I plan to introduce exclusive weekly update over all programs which will be available only to subscribers of e-mail newsletter so to ensure everyone is receiving it please let me know if you are not receiving daily newsletters I am sending for 5 days already and we will look into cause of this problem. I am currently learning to use this autoresponder tool so could be I need to configure something properly for everyone to receive my e-mails or possibly your e-mail provider is not letting my e-mails through. Just drop me an e-mail if you haven't received a single broadcast of newsletter since you subscribed.
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| 26.07.2006 |
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Well biggest news of today start with words "Harrold's Media". Quite a mess they made by announcing the purchase of AlertPayPro at first and later backing out from plans of "saving the surfing industry". Even NowDollar got involved in all of this and was blamed to be in direct relation with all this mess as haroldsmedia.com whois info had Lance B name in it. Well it could be true and it could be false claim but it doesn't matter much anymore as damage is done and people who read the threads in forums where this was discussed went into panic which for NowDollar means trouble with incoming funds for at least one week as everyone will be now awaiting if they continue to pay or not. Quite similar situation like it happened with CompactSurfing and outcome will be now depending on how large reserve fund was at this point in NowDollar so I moved it out from Premium list until situation clears out. Some fuel into fire was added when Lance from NowDollar mentioned that he was discussing selling of NowDollar to Harold's Media which was understood by many that he already is in trouble. I don't think situation with NowDollar was that bad but now it could go bad so I recommend using caution with this program until 2-3 payouts without delays are done which would prove it was healthy enough to overcome this situation.
As for main source of this panic AlertPayPro it seems this program is in deep crisis. It was going worse and worse after transformations and those merging plans with other network sites until the point that it just stopped paying and now this shocking turn of events that it is being sold to some Harold's media. Moved it to problematic section as I don't see how it could recover from current crisis after this another transformation.
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AlienTrust removed infinity server today and is now remaining on polaris.alientrust.com and epiphany.alientrust.com only. Also disabled upgrading and gave some details on progress how selling of company is going forward. Main page www.alientrust.com now has redirect to big ad of Blabber project and they also plan new VirtualLoad project in the weeks to come. No details when and how current debt to members will be paid. As it seems transition to new owners will happened around middle of August only so in best scenario they could resume operations around September only if ever.
Rumors say that buyer of AT is Harrold's Media but after today's mess these plans could change if it's so. |
| 25.07.2006 |
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Finally I recovered access to my site today as one of those dead routers in my trace to host came back to life early this morning.
So I now finished implementing newsletter subscription which was working fully whole time anyway and at this point have noted 40 more subscribers to my newsletter.
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12by12daily is on maintenance today and it is surfing holiday for everyone. Server performance problems and script issues will possibly be solved after this but most important thing everyone was waiting for was how many days will Dave make us wait on expired upgrades and answer was quite simple when he started paying out yesterday and forums were filled with paid posts. Now let's see how he fixes script problems and server issues for smoother performance in future. |
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Finally I received a payment from Prosurfer717 after waiting almost whole month after request of payout and seeing several times deleted cashout requests because of admins enabling automatic payouts, disabling them, enabling again and in the end deciding that automatic payouts are not working as expected and possibly doing final move back to manual requests. As reports show payouts were done daily but with delays which are explained with cashout procedure changes. Moved it now back to regular programs but as usual after receiveing long waited payment from delayed program I recommend using caution with such program as it isn't easy to recover from cashflow problems. |
| 24.07.2006 |
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As I see many already noticed that I added subscribe feature to my site which will allow in future receiving my site daily updates directly to your inbox. Unfortunately in the middle of updating my site I lost access to it and it was done halfway design wise but is functioning properly as during first day I have more than 50 subscribers already. Another surprise for me was today to see that I still can't access my site but subscriptions were still continuing and after checking if my site is accessible by using proxy I realized it is not accessible from my ISP which kind of bites I must say as only way until this is solved is using this newsletter and I can't do any updates to other parts of my site. I will be working on regaining access but for now just check my updates in newsletters via e-mail. Once I have access to my site I will let you all know.
I didn't realize this new e-mail feature will go live without me being able to access my site so I didn't finalize it yesterday by creating a welcome letter. I have done it now and for those who registered before this I will be resending it after this e-mail.
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I received yesterday 8th payout from Nowdollar which is one of 2 current premium programs. Despite it's traffic levels not progressing anymore it is still performing quite well and no signs of cashflow problems yet. |
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12by12daily is still experiencing server load problems but admin is actively working on solving those by increasing capacity of servers he is using. As per recommendations of Dave you should keep trying to login into servers it is transferring you to until you find less loaded server. Addresses like www.12by12daily.net, www.12by12daily.com, server1.12by12daily.net, server7.12by12daily.com and etc are all valid domains for this program and you can safely login into these. This unusually legal DDoS attack on this program has caused several other problems like missing upgrades, multiple upgrades and other things but what I am concerned right now is that my upgrade that was about to expire yesterday is still active. Which means no payout on expiry etc. Let's see how this develops. |
| 23.07.2006 |
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As I expected July is month of new blood in autosurf industry and I am quite glad to introduce another in my opinion potential jewel Expert-Ads that was launched few weeks ago but not promoted too much yet. It is quite high risk (3% ROI) manual surf program with completely customized script with several unique features and in my opinion gathered best features of previously run programs like expertpay feature similar to fasttrack, DDoS protection checking page, ip tracking for better security, credit assignment with purchase of upgrades and limited option of earning while surfing which gives quite high value to ads, pleasant background music while you surf, touring number for login or profile changes, sms notification feature and much more that in overall give very professional look and feel to this program. There are already posts about payments done as it is almost 3 weeks old and first cycle finished. I will try to find out more information about admins of this program and do more DD.
Conclusion is that this could be next big thing once it gets the exposure it needs so don't miss out as I plan to add it to premium category once I am done with my more detailed research on this program and if I don't find any bad signs.
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Some new payments added to screenshots - one from Surf-ATZ which was paid on 3rd day after request. Considering their drop in traffic levels during recent days this shows that potential cashflow problems may appear here.
And first payout from SolexSurfing paid within few hours after request. Admin today changed terms to standard one of one account per ip because some were using this to get around monthly limit of 6 cashouts. |
| 22.07.2006 |
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Another quite promising looking addition Supercharged Surf that was launched today. I was watching this program during prelaunch already for one quite good reason - this program is quite well prepared launch on Rackspace host using dedicated server with Cisco hardware firewalls and has DDoS protection enabled. Currently same hosting is used by DadnDaves, 12by12daily and AlienTrust. Also WiredSurf was one of customers to this hosting package which includes preventier antiddos solution. Such package alone costs several thousands of dollars and is quite expensive purchase which shows that admins of this program are looking for longterm plans. Considering their terms of 11% per 11 days which is medium risk 1.9% ROI I think it will be looking for at least 2-3 months of operations and depending how good growth they will pick up and if any external earning revenues will be added as such prelaunch required some investments made already they could even go for more. All of this was just prelaunch beauties but once it started I found even more things I like about this program - it is manual surf with color test after each ad which gives very high value to sites promoted in this program. Also it includes optional ip lock security which will prevent hackers from accessing your account even if your password gets hacked somehow. In addition to all this they offer toll free phone support number 1-888-495-6059 which you can call during workdays if face any problems with account or need support issue solved.
So to conclude I see quite good potential in Supercharged Surf and if you join today you even get 21% for first day surfing. All the pros I have already described and as for cons I see currently unknown reputation of admins (except the fact that they know what they are doing if preperations were so professional) and lack of detailed FAQ section which currently seems to brief in my opinion. |
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The Money Road is facing some issues with SSL and https:// on their site which causes site being inaccessible in some parts of the globe and I wasn't able to access it for last 2 days but it is now accessible here again. At this time it's growth looks quite good for a program which is 2 weeks old but isn't much promoted in big forums. |
| 20.07.2006 |
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Today I have few quite interesting new additions. Firstful it's GlobalAdsPro owned by Trish admin who is known as owner of low risk Surf-Down-Under as well which is also enlisted and considered still paying. This is another case when quite reputable admin chooses to start higher risk program and knowing relation with Dave from DadnDaves I would say this is another quite trusted admin moving forward. Program is currently in shadow of 12x12 owned by Dave but lately is gaining exposure as well thanx to Dave's site. At this time is still low in traffic levels and growth but I think it will get it's momentum in few weeks after few more rounds of payouts.
Another selection is SolexSurfing which has medium risk returns with quite sustainable ROI of 1.9% and is hosted on dedicated server in HongKong. Owned by Dan Massaro who is quite actively posting in forums and communicating with members. He is quite upfront with his business model and reveals how he is using forex traders to sustain high returns his program has. This isn't the usual claim of we trade forex because admin has quite detailed description how hired traders are working and from the knowledge I have on forex leverage of 200:1 seems quite appropriate for 1.9% returns. This of course could be another bit more detailed fariy story but facts show that site has run for almost a month already with few high roller accounts and payments were quite prompt which resulted in positive feedback so conclusions are that it isn't in much need for new members to sustain it's returns. Lately program has gained some more exposure and slowly is increasing the pace in growth and gaining momentum as it seems. |
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Heh this summer of scams continues as ZeroXtraffic admin fooled everyone it seems. There wasn't anything special about this site but it was better than other choices I had evaluating. I wish I didn't pick it anyway as I didn't have too good feeling about it.
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| 19.07.2006 |
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12by12daily is now down at both domains and Dave just sent out announcement that they are having technical problems with server which should be solved within 48 hours. Missing surfdays will be credited. |
| 18.07.2006 |
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12by12daily today has changed domains and is accessible only from .com domain. This isn't a phishing site like some paranoid ones claim as reverse ip shows this site on same host and ip where .net was so it is actual 12by12daily site although no official announcement from admin Dave has been issued yet. Possible reason for this move is because of traffic load server is experiencing and can't handle during recent days because of unexpectedly high growth. I did login in .com domain and surf without problems. All members details were exactly as they should be so it is connected to same database .net domain used. If you are worried about missing a surfday because .net domain is not accessible just go to .com domain and do the surfing just in case as it is safe anyway. |
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Added ZeroXtraffic to list of newcomers. Nothing special about it but I like how responsive admin is over MMG, TG and some other forums. Site was placed on dedicated host few days after launch. Growth isn't as outstanding as some other high risk sites have but not worst for first month either with 650 members within 30 days. So check it out and judge for yourself why I decided to pick this one instead of recently quite promoted 15hitsdaily (on shared host along with 506 other sites - means unless moves to dedicated server they have quite shortterm plans) or 10giantdays (was on shared host as well when I started reviewing it and few days ago closed just month after launch). |
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Alertpaypro is showing some trouble signs I don't really like - posts in forums about payouts delaying sligthly, no response from support for submitted tickets, repeated verification script resets and traffic levels are dropping quite fast as it seems. I decided to move it to regular programs because of these signs and will watch it closely for week or so to see where it is going actually.
Received a requested payout from GeneticSurf today but it shows some trouble signs I don't like as well. Members growth is still too slow and rotation of advertised sites has 9 out of 10 geneticsurf frontpage links which means ad value here is one of worst. Moved to problematic sites and don't recommend it anymore. |
| 16.07.2006 |
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12by12daily is still growing with impressive rate and will soon reach 10000 mark. Also this program is so popular at this moment that criminals are already setting up phishing sites and sending fake e-mails and trying to get member login details this way. Usually such methods are used for very popular sites like paypal, e-gold and in autosurf business only 12dailypro was popular enough to have such fake duplicates. Well the hype is very high at this time and as I calculated even if growth slows down to just 100 members a day instead of current 100 members per hour then this program is safe for at least 80 days but I am quite confident it will last much longer than this. And best part is we are now just few days after launch of this program. I will update my estimate each week together with growth updates. |
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Vince from AlientTrust made an announcement I was actually expecting to see sooner or later after payout delays it started last month. Vince admitted cashflow problems but also informed that it's not over yet as program is being sold to 3rd party that will handle cashflow and profits for this program. Well it's quite good to hear Vince is looking for solutions and trying to solve cashflow problems but unless AT resumes to pay it's all just words and promises and I wouldn't recommend investing more just based on promises. Leaving it in delayed payments section until further events. |
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Received payment from NowDollar even faster then usually within 36 hours after request which shows that it is still performing quite good and no cashflow problems despite their traffic levels trend getting bit flat lately.
Also second payout from MVPSurf but despite best efforts of admin this program isn't getting the momentum and growth is still quite slow. Also appears it has some script problems as upgrades are not expiring and if this is not fixed promptly could lead to cashflow probs although considering that admin is doing each payout manually after request done via contact form he might have this situation under control. |
| 14.07.2006 |
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Just 3rd day and 12by12daily already has over 7000 members. Of course as predicted growth did slow down but it still is so high daily that none of programs have matched such start ever. Alexa rank reached 2342 place within 3rd day and even Rackspace server is having some hiccups at some points of time which result in script errors like user not found or ending session which requires relogin procedure but still it is doing quite well and required quota of 12 sites can be done within few minutes. Also as reported some members of DadnDaves are getting their delayed payments already. Mine pending from beginning of June is still unpaid though but list could be quite big as DnD has over 40000 members right now although quite many could be inactive already. |
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Added today quite an interesting manual surf program with some unique features - The Money Road. It is hosted on dual server from Pegasus Web Technologies with purpose of using anti-ddos protection and uses secure https protocol for members safety. Script is customised as well and has 3 plans with different terms and ROI. Also quite good feature of recently used in several programs and quite popular vacation mode surfing which means if you miss a day of surfing your upgrade expiry will just be extended for those days you miss and you won't miss any earnings. Adding to normal listing with the usual 4 stars I give to newcomer with yet unknown admins and reputation. |
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Quite sad news came today from Alex admin of Netinvestautosurf which was officially closed today and reasoning was inability to comply with legal obligations despite attempts of keeping membership fixed, disabling upgrades and other means of becoming legit. This program lasted for 7 months and was one of rare slow and low profile programs that paid promptly and usually solved all problems so that members even didn't notice those. Well sad to see another good program close.
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While on the sad note it's worth mentioning that I moved Daily11Surf to delayed payment programs list because their live stats and reports in forums show that payments stopped yesterday morning and considering admin hasn't sent any updates for week already for such high risk program this is red flag. It is though still 7 business days to keep them in terms etc, total paid out stats have changed over last 2 days and gap of invested and paid out reduced from 100k to 70k and now invested is changing very slowly but paid out somehow going up with same pace as before so there is some hope it could be live stats script problem but from recent experience with similiar high risk programs I don't think it has any future even if it's script problem. Damage has been done and panic has spread already. |
| 13.07.2006 |
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Have you ever said wow few minutes nonstop? Well I just did. This new program 12by12daily exploded like nuclear bomb in shining day of summer. 4000 members within just first 24 hours and it keeps growing. Such growth was not experienced even at biggest whales of industry like StudioTraffic or 12dailypro. Well of course I don't expect it to remain at such high level for long but this explosive growth is something to admire and it shows how good reputation Dave earned over whole this time he is in this business. Some experts are concerned a bit how such fast growth will affect program's health as growth could stall quite a bit after first few weeks when majority of surfer population will join it and considering high risk model this could cause some problems after first wave of payouts but there are few things that in my opinion have quite positive expectations for this program. Firstful if you have followed gold price changes you probably noticed that since around 13th of June or exactly one month ago price has increased from 560$ per ounce up to 660$ per ounce which is almost repeated situation from March of this year when it did the jump in price. How is this related to Dave's program you may ask? Simple - with such growth in gold price and exclusive use of e-gold rate of 3.9% can be sustained without much of side investing. Second timing is perfect as lack of good sites in business was in place for over month and just like previous times when industry experienced crisis and surfers were eager for new good programs middle of july is the perfect spot for launch of new well setup programs that will gain good momentum. Third and not least David has shown he knows how to make business in hyip scene and has survived several crisis situations and in my opinion this new program launch is his way to survive another one. |
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You probably already noticed that I have done some background changes to site and now autosurf programs are listed in seperate listings to make their status more clear. From now on programs will be moved into accordance of their status to following lists:
1. Premium programs - currently best performing programs with prompt payments and good momentum.
2. Regular programs - programs that are performing ok and paying in accordance to terms but growth is quite slow and lack momentum.
3. New programs - recently enlisted programs but not necessary that launched few days ago. Sometimes I watch performance of programs for several weeks before enlisting if ever.
4. Delayed payment programs - this listing is for programs that experience cashflow problems and could possibly become problematic. If a program get in here use caution with it as your upgrade might become a donation quite soon.
5. Problematic programs - these are programs that haven't paid for several weeks or even months. These are ones that should be avoided.
6. Closed programs - here will fall those that closed.
Now I am focusing on my next goal which will be quite interesting new unique feature for my site that you won't find elsewhere - predicting how long an autosurf programs might run based on their terms and growth figures. This will not be exact science as I will just simulate cashflow and calculate 2 critical points where first one is highest cashflow point at which scammers usually do the hit and run scenariou (pretending to be hacked, ddos attacked or just stopping payouts without further communication) and second critical point is when cashflow balance turns into negative figures as reserve fund is depleeted and when even honest admins have to give up and try to refund with what they have left. Possibly if I get it automated I will do this for every program that was launched recently even those I don't enlist. I have already done some research and calculated some quite interesting results but I wan't to do some more testing before I publish those. This would be my answer to an ultimate question every surfer has before joining and upgrading in any of sites out there. |
| 12.07.2006 |
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Finally one program I really like was launched and I didn't hesitate to add it straight into 5 star category as I already see it is going off like hot cakes by getting more than 2000 members within first day. 12by12daily is newest creation of Dave Cannard owner of DadnDaves and he made in my opinion perfect decision by borrowing business model of last year's hottest program 12dailypro instead of inventing some new wheel. As stated profits from this new program will be partially used to help fix problems in cashflow in existing program but knowing admins reputation and how he handles business I am quite sure this will work. Program is run on same rackspace hosting which has one of best antiddos protections and everything is set for next biggest program so don't miss out on this great opportunity. I highly recommend this program.
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Received one day faster than previous time payment from Surf-ATZ. Scotty decided to force members vote in forums monitors by implementing mandatory 7 votes to recieve next payout. Not sure how he would log that but luckily he changed his mind and let members decide if such option is needed at all. Well I agree that votes in monitors and forums can help program to get more positive feedback and all but making members such action as mandatory isn't good idea in my opinion.
Also received first payment after scheduled downtime from AlertPayPro. They are quite active these days with optimising program after changes they made during downtime but as I noticed their traffic levels didn't get back to that progressive trend it was before downtime which somewhat concerns me but it could be because of some portion of members getting off the program because of new verification procedures implemented as mandatory but luckily were made as optional few days later so let's see if this will bring back progress in traffic levels. |
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Also updated payment screenshots for month of july for FX-Experts which still is quite consistently making weekly payments according to their trade success. It's kind of low risk and low return compared to other opportunities but has been quite stable and consistent. |
| 10.07.2006 |
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It's been few days since I updated newspage but it's damn hot summer here this year and my vacation in main work started so I have less time for frequent updates this month and coupled with some big events in offline last weekend for my family I barely found some time to surf in programs I have high upgrade levels.
During weekend while I was gone I received few payments from currently in my opinion 2 top performing programs NowDollar and Daily11Surf. Lance from NowDollar decided to keep e-gold as payout option afterall mostly because in some countries it is only viable option for money transfers and it would remove large portion of members if such decision was implemented. Daily11Surf has done quite some progress during last few weeks and considering their setup I decided to move my cashout request day to monday as this should be when most requests happen considering their terms of 1 payout per week anytime. Considering the risks of such high ROI program make sure you check their live stats before upgrading as it is quite good way to see how program is doing at that moment and at this point they are still on prompt few hours after request payouts but it could slow down later this month. I plan to do some calculations this week about more exact dates and will post results here.
Also requested and promptly received payment from recent addition GeneticSurf which isn't growing as one would expect it to but I don't think it is bad thing as their terms are quite medium-low risk and this just means slower pace for growth is normal. |
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There seems to be some confusion about 24dailypro being dead or not because of quite inconsistent reports about this program. Well despite best efforts of ASAuthority to still do the cheerleading about this program I considered
it potentially dead few weeks ago and at this time have 4 upgrades expired and pending for almost month already. Do I need to say more? Also I recently have received reports of members being suspended and even deleted without any reason or explanation given. There have been also some other situations where low star category programs were considered as good. So I have though about this for some time already and decided to restructure my site a bit by splitting one large list into several smaller to reduce such confusing situations which programs are not recommended and which are performing good. Will finalise this by end of week hopefully so don't be surprised if you see main list getting shorter than usual because it will be split into several lists. |
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Recent maintenance downtime for AlertPayPro has brought back program full with new quite valuable features and that in my opinion unnecessary verification procedure. Fortunately just week after return admins decided to make verification optional until end of year which in my opinion means it won't be needed at all. As for other changes only concern I see is their decision to add more payment options next to their main AlertPay option. As far as I remember this was their main slogan that using one processor cuts out the cheating with processors and etc. Well it could mean they wanted to bring in more population as AlertPay wasn't used by majority of surfers. All of these changes that were added seem quite similiar to what AlienTrust did ages ago and could give quite legit look to this program if not for the fact that admin of Alertpaypro is hiding behind unverifiable contact information unlike Vince from W3MA. But anyway looking at their traffic level improvement over past few weeks and growth rate it had during June I think it will be good for month or two. |
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One of programs I liked recently SurferSky closed down in style I haven't experienced for a while - dissappear suddenly and get their site suspended by host. Unfortunately I missed the moment when admins stopped communication with members and day when they stopped paying so I wasn't able to give advanced warnings about it.
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| 06.07.2006 |
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Added quite promising looking new program EzSurfnEarn that launched just week ago. Program is run by Stacey Hensley and Jason Grant who are both from USA and already earned quite positive reputation by running low risk autosurf program wicked-hits. Jason is not hiding his personal info in domain registration records and is quite responsive in communication with members.
Program itself has quite good setup of medium risk ROI with low refs commissions but enough to keep members motivated to promote and the usual limitations of 2 ad packs at once with payouts after expiry. Manual surfing makes ads in this program quite valuable and script seems quite modified from the standard one. |
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Another quite prompt weekly payment from current raising star Daily11Surf which recently added some security tweaks to their program and will soon add quite popular now Virtual Money card as upgrade and payout option.
According to their live stats payments are done promptly and I again was able to follow progress of my cashout request as it first went into pending list and just 20 minutes later once admins verified payout went into paid section. I instantly went into my e-gold and found that payment actually was done as shown in stats. Quite good way to monitor if site is experiencing delayed payments or not before reupgrading by checking these live stats and seeing if pending list is large or not. |
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GladiatorSurf recently announced about closing down and issuing refunds and I am quite confident this admin will keep his word. He also plans to start new program which would basically be restart of current one with modified terms and returned back small referral commission. In my opinion admin didn't realise that removing those commissions removed motivation of promoting this program and with such short term conditions it had this was bad move which eventually killed this program because of too slow growth. Now he learned from mistakes it seems and launches his new project. I will watch how it goes with new program and if it seems good enough will enlist it but as I usually do with relaunches it will have to start from 3 star category if I ever decide to add it.
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| 04.07.2006 |
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Not much to report these days as there is some silence after quite big events last month. Just like last summer quite a lot of obvious scams are now showing up daily so be very careful in choosing new programs
as many will try to fill the vacuum of big guys who left by claiming they have everything like anti-ddos, dedicated server, support and income streams but in reality those are just quickly setup on cheap script running programs with impossible returns. Also beware of those bonus promotions like for each 2 or 3 packages bought you receive additional free
or very huge referral contest prizes. Quite popular thing these days is very prompt or even instant daily payouts with very low minimum which is huge red flag on any program. I was contacted today by admin of GeneticSurf who explained reasoning behind this low minimum daily payout feature they offer. Appearantly it is just promotional temporary offer to allow better growth after launch and will be increased later on. Well if it will be announced that way
and done as planned action by informing few weeks before such change then it is quite good idea but if it will happen suddenly without prior notification then it will be considered as red flag by majority of members which could lead to quite some problems as we already frequently learned last month.
Today I also learned that one of programs I recently was reviewing MsnSurf stopped paying just before I requested my test spend payout. Well my concerns about it turned out to be true even faster than I expected but not surprising event. So use caution now with programs that seem too good now as it's period of time where scammers become quite active with very high risk shortterm programs.
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Received my first payment today from Surf-ATZ which is slowly gaining momentum after interview at ASAuthority video newscast over scype and could be worth some value for month or two more in my opinion. |
| 02.07.2006 |
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New month has started and I hope we will soon forget what happened last month as new programs come and replace those that closed. Those who follow my newspage for longer time will probably notice that I don't choose just any program from those numerous programs created daily in autosurfing arena. Reason for this is simple - I don't want to waste my and your time and money on programs that are more or less obvious scams or just too high risk to last longer than few weeks. That's why I didnt rush in and add every program still operating last month but put most of them on my checklist to test them and I must say not many passed my list. Programs like msnsurf, goodlife-surfing, jcspice, artisticads and some others that still are paying didn't pass for various reasons as I joined them made a test spend but after few days of surfing decided to fail them even before receiving or not receiving payment. Msnsurf at this time has some momentum but it's killer daily compounding option by allowing unlimited payouts daily (even twice and more per day) will end it quite soon. JCspice seemed bit better option as it was advertised even on DnD site but after seeing numerous porn sites and frame breakers I made a conclusion admin doesn't care about ads in rotation and this is red flag for me. Artisticads brings quite positive feedback at the moment but too many empty ads on front page, careless short answers and announcements made it look quite unprofessional in my opinion so I decided to drop it too as it wouldn't last long with such approach I think. Goodlife claims to have ddos protection but as I checked it runs on shared hosting and they never responded to my contact request with some questions so if they don't care to answer I don't want to promote such program especially after seeing their recent announcement about refs contest with such huge prizes which don't go together with their growth rate and cash available so looks more like desperate call for more funds before closing.
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But today I stumbled upon quite fresh (just 4 days old) site I instantly liked and more I found about it more I liked what I see so I decided to make an exception and add it to main list right away. GeneticSurf is I think new generation autosurf which offers 2 plans with medium risk ROI of 1.3% or 1.9%. First that I checked was it's hosting info and seems they have prepared quite well as this domain was purchased in beginning of June and hosted right away on dedicated hosting from theplanet.com which offers ddos protection in their package. Seems since purchase of domain admins were preparing for launch by setting up customised script and creating quite appealing banners and promotion campaign. I am not putting it into 5 star category just yet as it is just too new yet for such high status but after monitoring it's growth and payout reports and if it's as good as I expect I will upgrade it. There are also few concerns that don't make it highly recommended just yet - too new, unknown reputation of admins yet, daily payouts on longterm plan with low limit which I usually don't like but considering it's on lowest percentage plan it could give less damagin affect but still this part of this program is only thing I don't like in this program.
So check it out and let's watch if it grows up big as I would expect it to.
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Received today next payout from NowDollar which was even earlier than usual. Last 2 payouts were coming within 3-4 days but this time I received payment after 36 hours from request which is quite good sign for this in my opinion currently best program momentumwise and cashflowwise.
Also recieved my first payout from one of two raising stars SurferSky which put it into top 10 next to other raising star Daily11Surf. These 2 programs are currently performing quite well and admins are doing daily updates on their status and progress which shows quite good professionalism. SurferSky is now upgraded into 5 star category but remember that both of these are very high risk programs with 3.9% ROI and should be treated as such. |
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13dailypro has officially restarted starting from today and I am giving this program a second chance to recover their reputation as I like their refunds plan and ideas for improving their program for long term plans. Just within first day quite a lot of members that still have their trust in this program reupgraded in it and some even with quite large upgrades totalling in around 10000$ which means 600$ of that money is going into refunds fund and will be paid at first to those who were not in profit for their pending cashouts from before restart and once that list is done money from this fund will even go to those who were in profits but had their latest upgrades pending. In my opinion if this program continues and lasts for more than month with at least half of previous growth rate then everyone will not just get their refunds but also make more profits from upgrading in restarted version. |
| 30.06.2006 |
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Biggest news of last day of this quite terrible month are game over announcement from yet another big program 13dailypro. This time admins decided not to quit for good but restructure current program with lower roi to 3% and reset everyones stats which was done in similiar way by AlienTrust, Prosurfer and some others in February after stormpay scandal. Refunding using remaining funds to those not in profit and later in round 2 some percentage of earnings will be directed for refunds to those who lost in this first round. I can't say I am happy to hear these news as I lost another share of my funds in this one but considering I was already in profits and after data base crash week ago decided to use caution and not reupgrade I lost only 300$ here. Also reasons for restart aren't same as for those programs that restarted in February and clearly show this program was running only on incoming funds. So just like I did with AlienTrust and Prosurfer back in February I decided to downgrade 13dailypro to 3 stars but leave in the list as at this time when there is lack of good programs I better choose being part of program with admin who is already known to public than join bunch of new unknown programs which could just scam without paying at all.
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Now for good news of today coming from NowDollar about introduction of vacation feature which means you can skip surfing for any amount of days you like and upgrade expiry will be extended accordingly to keep 15 surfed days in tact. Even if you surf every other day which would mean finishind surfing within one month for one upgrade you won't miss any earnings from purchased upgrade. This is very good news to those planning ot leave on vacation soon and worrying what will happen with their upgrades. |
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Received my first payment from MVPSurf. Quite weird way of cashing out that requires submitting request via contact form and this of course requires manual processing of requests. While members base is small I don't see any problems but if it grows this could cause some if not changed by then. |
| 29.06.2006 |
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Received very prompt payment from Daily11Surf today and best part about payments from this site you can watch their progress live on their stats page. Once you request it you can go and check on their stats page where you are in line in pendings list and bit later you find yourself in paid section. This stats page is quite good way of reevaluating this program before upgrading by checking it and seeing how large line is for pending payments and how large gap between last paid and your pending. At this time it is just few payments stuck in there which most probably because of wrong payout details added. I am also watching in same way 13dailypro stats page and I see some movement in pendings and paid sections there but it is quite slow like few hundred pendings per day approximately which could be caused by manual verification. |
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I feel quite dissapointed with the industry as a whole lately as I removed another in my opinion quite good program today. AdTitans was one of my favorites but it seems recently increased pressure in forums regarding it's relation to NME caused additional problems to cashflow here and the hiccup I mentioned early this week was worth worrying afterall. According to admin he will issue refunds for those in profits as most of trying to be honest admins promise so there is some hope we will get some of it but I wouldn't count on this too much. So back to the point I mentioned that I feel quite dissapointed about direction industry is taking and it seems it has become too close to hyip type of programs which usually don't last long and it is becoming more and more difficult to find any good programs lately. Some programs in my current checklist that I didn't yet add to main list even closed before I even get part of test spend out as another recently considered quite good program SurfsGold which I was considering to add closed today. Others I have in my checklist just don't look worthy enough to be added right now and I plan to just pull out of those. So I must say currently there are very few programs left that are worthy upgrading in and general risk of industry at this time has gone higher than it was few months ago. I am not sure right now if it will get back up as it happened after February but be aware that at this point any program is risky and could close down any moment even newly created ones as some scammers will try to use thise vacuum that created after so many big guys closing to create some high percentage sites with plan to leech in some quick buck and close it like it happened in February.
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Surf-ATZ admin was appearing today via scype on Autosurf Authority weekly video report today with short interview by Jake but this event comes nowhere close to what Vince from NowDollar did by appearing in their videoreport in person recently which is first time some admin has shown his face.
But in any case such appearance is it in person or via scype is more than most of admins present when providing their details. Nowdays it has become quite important factor how trackable admins of programs are and only few of admins have guts to become transparent enough with their members by sharing their contact or personal details which can be verified. |
| 28.06.2006 |
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Seems I made conclusions on FastProfitsClub bit too fast as just day later after they dropped e-gold payment option which had big delays in payouts I received finally 2 out of 3 of my pending payouts to e-bullion account. Considering their good record with AlertPay and SafePay according to reports from forums and this quick transition I decided to return it back into 4 star category and continue monitoring it's progress especially since their alexa ranks are still quite healthy and progressive.
But I need your help again to get those funds out of e-bullion as it is quite unfriendly with international users for withdrawing options and I don't want to wait cheque for over a month just to pay good chunk of my payout in commissions. So please those who are using both e-bullion and e-gold and have funds available in e-gold please contact me so we can arrange an offer for exchange which would give you small profit as well.
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Appears that 13dailypro stats for pending and done payouts has messed up at this time and could cause some slight panic in public. Also appearantly some smartass put a claim to e-gold on their account which caused additional problems besides fixing mess that was caused by data base crash. This guy didn't receive his payout for upgrade that expired on Sunday 25th and sent a claim on same day which caused this programs e-gold account suspended. Upgrades still are flowing in quite nicely and I've noticed several maxxed account users reupgrading again which means they did receive their payments. Also people in forums are reporting payments from 26th at this time which means well within 5 business days stated in their terms so I still think this program is doing ok but experienced slight hiccup with technical problems. But slight caution never hurts and I would recommend not reupgrading unless you receive your payment which currently is averaging 2-3 days instead of 24 hours like it was before last weekend's crash. |
| 27.06.2006 |
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Finally found time to make the growth update today and probably will be doing those now in beginning of week rather than before weekends. So what's new in this aspect. 13DailyPro has done quite impressive progress by getting almost 3000 new members within last 10 days and considering it's large members base is still at good relative growth of around 20%. AlienTrust is following with average over 100 new members per day but it's relative growth is quite low because of already large members base. Quite impressive growth rate is shown by newcomer SurferSky which did almost same growth rate as 13dailypro if we remember that I added it only 6 days ago. Next in high rate is Daily11Surf and Profitring which still have relatively small membership. Other than these there are not much to report.
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FastProfitsClub admins decided to drop e-gold as payment option. This decision came after delays in e-gold payments exceeded timeframe mentioned in terms or 7 business days and in my opinion is just nice way to make excuses why they are not paying so I downgraded this program to 3 stars now because such method of avoiding payout schedule is quite known already and isn't looking good for it's future. |
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NowDollar on the other hand is showing how to correctly remove money processor options by warning people one month ahead that e-gold will be soon removed as payment option because of constant problems with hackers and mispayed cashouts. They also decided to introduce compounding option exactly as in Alientrust and are now clearly moving towards business model what AlienTrust have went to. I won't be surprised if soon member verification and surveys after surfing will be implemented as well. But anyway Vince is doing quite good job so far and changes made are for the better future of it. |
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AlientTrust that I recently downgraded to 4 stars because of issues with delayed payments just made an announcement about making changes in payouts again which required cancelling all cashout requests made last friday and disabling further requests until undetermined time. I don't really like what's happening with AlienTrust and this announcement didn't make much sense either but considering Vince has found solutions to similiar problems before I still have some hope it will continue to pay but chances aren't too good at this time. |
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MVPSurf members today are experiencing login problems and reason is data base configuration which can be only fixed by hosting company. Michael is working on this issue and if hosting company won't respond promptly he is planning to change host to a better and responsive one. |
| 26.06.2006 |
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After friday's request within 2 days I received my next payment from currently one of best looking program NowDollar and if you check their alexa rank history it has done quite a progress recently and will soon reach top 10000 which only top programs have ever achieved. So considering many positive factors I consider this program currently one of leading paid to surf sites and possibly it could reach top 3 sooner or later. |
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AlertPayPro announced today that it is going offline for 3-5 days for maintenance which can't be done while site is operating fully. Some will treat this change as possible yellow or even red flag but I don't think so for following reasons - upgrades during this time are disabled. During last week site was showing quite often script errors and members were forced to flood support which made it impossible to continue in such way. Upgrade expiry will be extended so after return it will just mean everything continues as these days never happened. Other programs run by these admins are still operating just fine. Main reason for this I see is unexptedly high growth which caused workload problems for existing script and data base. And if we look at their traffic level progress it was still progressive and in my opinion this offline time isn't related to cashflow problems. |
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As for another non e-gold site which I recently added 24DailyPro that announced today cashout terms change without any reasonable explanation given I see a yellow flag here because any reduction in ROI mean possible cashflow problems faced either already or in coming days. Add to this recent decision to take holidays for payment department over weekend I start to think I should have listened to my feeling that this program is running just too long with such high roi. Only reason that made me change my mind and finally join it was that I was expecting cashflow move to alternative processors from e-gold because of recent gold price crisis and possibly resulting in good growth or additional kick for programs like 24dailypro but either it is happening too slow or isn't at all because their progress in trafic ranks is still quite inconsistent and recent changes made me reconsider this program as being recommended. So |
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DadnDaves is back online again and members can continue surfing. Data is dated from 16.06.2006 so one day of surfing was removed from history it seems. No further announcements about how missed surf days will be treated were made yet but most probably Dave will just give increased percentage days as usual in this situation. Site is claimed to be now on new server with updated scripts and at this moment not much changes except smooth sufring as previously were noticed but most probably those are behind scenes changes related to upgrading and internal processes. One thing to note though if Dave wasn't planning to continue or recovery from cashflow problems which his program faced during periof of private low profile operations wasn't going as planned then I don't think all these changes would be worth the time and effort involved which makes me think program has managed to recover if not fully then at least partially and chances of it continuing to operate are much better now. Let's see how delays in payments are solved and then make final conclusions about recovery progress. I do think if anyone is able to make such recovery possible then Dave is the one. |
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Daily11Surf was not accessible today for some parts of world because of hardware glitch in hosts data center and now nameservers are updating it's new address which can take some time depending how often ISP updates nameserver data bases.
As compensation for downtime just for one day Free unit will be given to new signups which normally isn't done. Offer valid only until 5pm server time today.
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| 25.06.2006 |
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Recently AdTitans made an announcement about changes in payout terms which now means that fasttrack has fee of 9% and payout time is 2 days which made this option less appealing considering non fast track payments up to this point were paid within 3-4 days. Reason for this was mentioned research revealed that too many have chosen fasttrack payout and this wasn't planned initially in business plan. Well not sure if reasons are valid or just some excuses to solve cashflow problems but today I received my next payment according to new terms as scheduled but one day later than usual which only shows admin is trying to make fasttrack less appealing for majority of members. In any case this change did initiate some rumours of problems as it usually happens with such situations but if I look at their stats and particularry alexa rank progress then we can see it has hit all time highest at this moment after quite impressive climb and payments are now done as stated so I guess it was wisely made adjustment to roi of both payout options to ensure achieving longterm goal. At this point I still want to see how non fast track payments go but by end of week we should see if this hiccup was worth any worries it brought up. |
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Vince admin of recent leader in industry AlientTrust made weekly update on their progress which didn't look too good in my opinion. Recent delays in payments are starting to become quite noticable which increases worries of members and gives additional problems. I downgraded this program to 4 stars for now until situation clears out. |
| 24.06.2006 |
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Requested and few minutes later received my first payment from Daily11Surf newest rising star in my opinion which is just 11 days old but already going full steam ahead with improvements and communication with members. Traffic levels not updated yet but looking at daily reach data over these first days first appearance in alexa ranks will be with quite high spike and if it keeps the consistency we could be looking at new star of autosurfing. |
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13dailypro was down for several hours this morning with message on front page that it is under maintenance. Later announcement was made that this was caused by crash of data base that was result of huge workload increase after date changed and masses of members went to surf during mass payout process. After recent change of server time which is now common with most other programs such spike in activity is quite expected as majority of surfers do their surfing at same time which is after date change and this is not first time such situation occurs. 13dp team decided to stretch out payout batches during day to reduce workload and also shared why server change was done - as I mentioned earlier by constant requests of majority of members and also to change their main working hours from midnight to 7am now to 7am until 2pm which means because of this change they now have normal work time instead of constant night shifts.
Also if you notice alexa ranks trend after slight hiccup during last few weeks now is back into progressive upwards trend.
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Received also payout from ProfitRing which recently became pure hyip which uses autosurfing script. Members don't need to surf and reason for this appears to be lack of support for script that is used. To avoid making changes admin decided to just remove need of surfing and credit everyone one day and payout requested cashouts next day. In my opinion program lacks professionalism potentially good program needs and because of that I downgraded it to 3 stars. It will be paying program for few more weeks but I don't see it becoming as long term with constant improvements done to site like others do. If admin can't fix basic problems I don't see it surviving slightest ddos attack so the hype in forums is mostly done by those who know admin as forum poster but not as webadmin. |
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FastProfitsClub recently made an announcement that e-gold payouts are now out of 7 day timeframe set by terms and introduced new scaled referral commissions plan which seems more like attempt to draw in more funds. In my opinion this program is starting to show signs of weakness and should be treated with caution from now on. |
| 22.06.2006 |
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Another promising addition Daily11Surf which I picked from recommended currently sites mostly because of quite professional and mature responses from admin in forums and quite positive feedback from members who joined. After one week of operation it already reached over 1000 members which is quite impressive start compared to most of other programs. I also has transparent info on payment/upgrades statistics and biggest upgrade level owners just like 13dailypro. Some quite interesting new features added like 22 second pause before surfing with some valuable featured ads spots. |
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Another payment from currently one of leaders in industry 13dailypro which recenctly after listening to majority of members that are from american continent changed their server time to suit most members and it is now standard timezone in autosurfing which is Central Time. Although their climb in traffic levels has reached highest point after quite long consistent climb and now dropped a bit. I don't think this means trouble as it could be because of many loosing their money in recently closed programs and this reduced somewhat progress in this program as well. But payments are still coming within few hours after expiry and admin is quite active with changes to suit members needs. |
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With recent influx of quite strong programs not accepting e-gold but working with AlertPay I received few questions regarding this processor and what is my opinion on it. Alertpay is money processor which earned good reputation in autosurf industry and is used now almost in each new program. Although I wouldn't recommend keeping funds for long period in any of processors even in AlertPay but adding it to list of used money processors isn't bad idea especially since it allows moving funds to and from e-gold which is quite handy feature. I am not affected much by e-gold price drop mostly because I apply strategy of moving my funds around all the time which I plan accordingly. For eg. in my list of programs I have marked on which date I will be upgrading in particular program and what amount I plan to upgrade in it. Next to this list of dates and amounts I keep approx record when I receive payouts and amounts of those. This way I can plan my total balance for next 4-5 days and decide how much I will withdraw on which day to my bank or debit card. In the end I only have 20-30$ reserve in my account of money processor which isn't much affected by fluctuations of gold price. Reason I don't keep funds in money processors is risk of it closing down. I lost quite significant amounts in Stormpay and EMO when those closed down and since then decided not to keep any funds in any processors. Only exception was e-gold when gold price was climbing like crazy. At some point it was even more profitable to keep funds in e-gold than put them in any of autosurf or investment programs because over 2 months price went up from 500 to 750. Now when it dropped and probably will stay at same
level somewhere we will see less high percentage sites as many of those that were launched few months ago made their profits mainly on gold price increasing.
Also it's worth considering how easy it is to withdraw that money at any point in time. For eg. to withdraw e-gold funds I use debit card which allows instant withdraw. I also have Virtual Money card now which is now being selected by many autosurf programs besides AlienTrust that allows withdrawing using debit card anytime as well. Alertpay at this time doesn't have debit card but I can move my funds to e-gold from them which takes 2-3 days though. They plan to introduce debit card sometime in August which I plan to buy to reduce my costs on commissions those processors charge for moving money around.
And don't forget one quite important reason why large funds shouldn't be kept in any money processors especially e-gold - hacking. Even best security tips applied won't ensure 100% protection so I consider best protection against unauthorised access is keeping little money in emoney processors so in case someone gets into my account there isn't much to take away. |
| 20.06.2006 |
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Just as scheduled within 10 hours after expiry I received payment from AdTitans which is now after fall of mighty ones becoming as one of new age leaders of industry by making their position in top 3 more solid. Recently new security feature was introduced that requires mandatory password change once per 30 days. More and more admins pay a lot of attention to not just security of their site but ensure that members are secured as well. |
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Added few more interesting looking programs which show quite good activity from administration but hasn't yet taken full steam because are quite new programs. SurferSky is bit over month old and has passed 1000 members mark. Admin is quite actively responding in TalkGold and MMG forums and keeping constant communication via members section or front page by informing on status of this program. Currently is experiencing slight server performance problems but members are informed about problem solution progress. Program itself is created on quite modified autosurf script with quite some statistics offered to follow their progress. Business model is similiar to 12dp with payments after upgrade expiry and in my opinion this program could pick up some steam later on once masses from recent dropouts start looking for new good programs. It's low 1$ upgrade price allows doing test spends with lower risk.
Another addition is Surf-ATZ which is offering medium risk returns with quite good value of ads because of allowing only option to get them by purchasing ad packs. Admin Scotty is recommended by autosurf authority guys and so far has earned quite positive reports. Program is using script similiar to profoundhits but with some modifications like online contact button which shows status if admin is available for contact. |
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Quite an interesting affect can be observed over alexa ranks page. Currently almost all still operating programs are experiencing huge drop in traffic levels which could be caused by recent streak of several large programs closing. Even programs that don't accept e-gold which is main cause of this crisis are experiencing this decrease in traffic levels. This actually shows that people are getting more cautious with still existing programs and taking wait and see approach on programs that are still here.
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| 19.06.2006 |
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Damage of gold price fall continues and another leading autosurf program decided to suspend it's operations because of financial crisis which was greatly affected by this situation in world's market of precious metals. CompactSurfing today announced about inability to continue under these circumstances and with this made another large hit to pockets of many autosurfers. Appearantly this gold crisis is making second largest impact to autosurf industry during last year I am involved in this as leading programs are forced to close one after another which additionally gives domino affect on other programs even if they are not directly related with investments members will become more cautious now and reduce their spendings with autosurf programs. What does this mean? Well as it usually happens with business processes there are progressive and regressive flows and at this time industry is experiencing regressive trend which is caused by gold price drop which is influencing funds value in one of most used money processors E-gold. This is one new factor which wasn't considered when business models were designed and now hopefully will become one of main risks to consider when choosing this money processor while launching new program. Only those programs that will not keep their funds in e-gold while gold price is going down will be able to survive such fluctuations.
But that's not all - LunarSurfing which appears was playground for some kids or adults without responsible views on what they do and CashBackSurf which appears is another failure for quite honest admin were closed today as well. One just removed it's site without any signs but other one disabled upgrades and initiated refund plans. All of this makes me look more into programs that don't use e-gold at this time or do transfer their funds out of e-gold after receiving upgrades. |
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Another payment from AlertPayPro which just today announced about changes in their cashout process. No more 10% fee for fast payments because of which free bonus on signup will be removed but just as in AlienTrust 0.5$ earning daily for free members will be in place. Cashouts will be now possible once per week and paid within 1 business day without any fee. |
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DadnDaves is still working on their security but their status is still unclear as announcements Dave and staff were posting showed that there is some improvement but not as hoped it would be so it still can go either way considering latest developments in industry.
Total Rune is working quite long already on restructuring and latest change is that cashouts will now be twice per month starting from beginning of July and only e-gold or debit card will be viable options which means admin plans not to keep funds in e-gold to avoid fluctuations in gold price. Program will required identification like AlienTrust did and no more AlertPay or UniClear options here. Program is still on low steam so at this time I don't see how these changes will help it to get some more steam around it. |
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NowDollar is now protected by Prolexic anti-ddos protection which is quite costly up to 5000$ per month. This shows how serious Lance is about his site security and performance and that program's finances are quite healthy to afford such high quality protection. This program has been put lately into spotlight by many experts and is one of most discussed programs at this time. |
| 17.06.2006 |
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Everyone is holding their breath for coming Monday as CompactSurf pause for payments which was caused by introducing new terms for payouts which require 7 business day waiting after cashout request will be in effect by then. It really is point of crossroads for CompactSurf as this situation is so far largest problem they have faced. If payments will continue from Monday on regular basis as it was before but with 7 day delay everyone will accept this new rule and continue to upgrade in this program probably with some caution at first but once payouts keep consistency cashflow will return to previous levels as well but if there will be another delay then this program might go down the road of closing. At this point I consider chances around 50/50 as panic caused by some members was on bad timing and after seeing so many programs close people didn't think twice to believe in panic reasons. So let's see how it goes next week with recent leader of industry.
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Received 3rd payment from NowDollar which introduced new feature called pay pages which means that while you surf you might find special page in rotation which will give 5$,10$ or 25$ directly into your account if you choose to click on report abuse while such page is in front of you. This means ads will be more valuable as everyone will now pay more attention to content of sites in rotation to find that precious pay page. |
| 16.06.2006 |
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This one ProfitRing will be loved by female part of autosurfers community because of it's design and fact that female is admin of this program. This program created quite a hype in MMG forum when within few days 54 pages were generated which is quite noticable fact for new program that started early in June. Fact that surfing is optional in it doesn't look too good for advertising value but seems people like the idea to have vacation mode surf program in beginning of summer when many plan to go on vacations and forget about surfing.
It currently is put on shared host with bunch of hyip sites but if such hype continues more solid solution will be required to keep up with increasing traffic levels. |
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Received several payments during last few days. One of first came after request within 3 hours from AlertPayPro which recently announced about plans to skip phase 3 and launch phase 4 by date or from 01.07.2006 which will be final one and no more changes to program planned. So far most changes were discussed with members then tested and good ones left as feature of program but bad ones removed. Reason for such decision was unexpected growth rate this site experienced over last few weeks and gap between phase 2 and 3 was just too small to implement those changes and test them.
Next was payment almost instantly after expiry of my upgrade from 13dailypro which is still going strong and looking quite good. Also it's one of biggest competitors for site of week AdTitans paid me same day as unit expired because of my preferred fasttrack option which I selected. Admin is making quite good changes to this program security wise and keeps in touch with members about latest changes and events.
After change in payout terms to weekly payouts I received last week requested from OnWebSurf payment which finally put me into profit zone here. Site is slow in growth rate but quite consistent. |
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Updated growth data for sites and didn't see any surprises. More or less same picture as last week except bunch of programs that were removed from listings and allowed lower spot programs to raise in ranks a bit. CompactSurf has still shown quite good growth rate despite pause that it is now taking before restarting payments according to new terms of 7 business days which is in effect starting from tomorrow. But most members are now in waiting status to see if paying will resume after today and if admin will keep the word of doing it promptly for those that have 7 days waited after request.
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| 15.06.2006 |
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Now that programs using e-gold are bit more risky than those that don't I was looking for programs not affected by gold price fluctuations. Latest additions both use AlertPay and E-Bullion which is currently one of best alternatives besides Virtual Money which is still quite new to make any conclusions yet. I first noticed 24DailyPro late in year 2005 and first impression I had was that it will be short adventure if paying at all with that ultimately high ROI. During January it already started coughing and was killed completely by Stormpay loss. But admins decided to relaunch it just like many others and I still considered it's not worth it. Time went by and this program continued to grow and pay. I did consider joining it several times but usually changed my mind because of this impossible ROI which I couldn't believe is possible for long time. I still don't actually but recent gain in traffic levels and members growth is quite noticable. Also I see how admins are working hard to make it better and improve it all the time according to their announcements and things that are done to site so I decided to give it a try finally. Fact that it isn't affected by current gold price dropping crisis also affected my decision to enlist it.
Another addition MVPSurf is creation of Michael Prusa quite respected member of MMG forum. His first attempt to launch this program was suspended because of SEC interferance and Michael decided to refund everyone and make his program in accordance to SEC regulations and other related laws. Relaunch was made during end of May but few days ago admin faced e-gold hacking incident which made him drop e-gold as payment option. Currently this isn't safest call because of this recent incident but I like what I read about this admin and his responses and actions after problems occured showed that he is determined to overcome this obstacle and continue. This reminds me how Vince admin of AlienTrust faced same hacking problem in beginning of his journey but reorganised and look where his program is now.
MVPSurf is using quite customised script with picture recognition test which is required to pass for next advertisement site. This ensures people who surf are actually paying attention at least to what pictures are on surf bar which is randomly placed on top or bottom.
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| 14.06.2006 |
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I have been thinking about this for some time already and this recent crisis in industry when quite descent programs came to decision of closing probably proved my theory. If you have been watching e-gold price changes in my E-Money page you probably already noticed that it has dropped from high 750$ per ounce approx month ago to 550$ now and seems like it will continue to drop below 500$ by end of this month. Why does this matter at all you may ask. Well it does directly affect programs that are using e-gold because funds in this payment processor fluctuate daily based on actual gold price. Most of programs don't move their funds out of their e-gold accounts or keep significant reserve pool to manage prompt payments. In most cases such prompt payments require larger reserve as it's not possible to know exactly how much people will request for payout or how much funds will be needed to pay out on expired units including ref commissions. So to conclude my point this drop in gold price has made quite noticable affect to hyip and autosurf programs that are using e-gold either exlusively or with alternatives but majority of funds are in e-gold. And reason for this is simple - members send their funds to programs which are suffering the fluctuation loss when gold price drops. For eg. if a program has 1000 members who upgraded on average 100$ by middle of May particular program has now 100000$ on their e-gold account. If we consider this program is keeping 50% of this amount in their reserve pool in e-gold accounts then after one month or today after gold price dropped 200$ per ounce this pool has dropped value as well and only will be at approx 36666$ which approx 13333$ lost just by keeping these funds in e-gold. Do you get the picture? I do believe one of major reasons that many good programs had to close was this gold price fluctuation and bad timing. Throw in some hacker attacks and other problems it accumulates in quite significant financial loss. What I would recommend now until gold price stops dropping is looking for programs using alternative payment processors that don't have this problem of value fluctuations for eg. AlertPay or Virtual Money. At this point AlienTrust is safest call as it uses e-gold only to accept upgrades and instantly moves it's funds to VM accounts which means no fluctuation loss. AlertPayPro is high risk but currently with very good momentum and exclusively using Alertpay. Also good point to consider is how fast payment processing is when not using some fast payout feature. For eg. recent CompactSurf announcement about making payout schedule standard 7 business days now makes quite a lot of sense for me instead of how it was misunderstood as lack of funds to payout. Yes possibly cashflow reduced but 2 major reasons to make such move do make a lot of sense. Read their recent explanation of this change in terms in compactsurf details page. I do agree it's a right move to make payouts more under control with longer processing time to be able to use outside of e-gold accounts to avoid gold price fluctuations. |
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Now about lately quite frequent use of FastTrack or instant payment option for some fee. Usually 5-10% fee from cashout amount if you want to receive payment same day it was requested or after expiry of upgrade unit depending on terms. I am strong believer that fasttrack is better option because each day you need to wait for your next payment reduces your actual ROI of this investment. For eg. if 100$ is in 10 day upgrade which makes 15% each day by 10th day you have 50$ profit or 5% ROI. If you need to wait on this payment full 7 business days which can go as much as 11 calendar days this profit is still 50$ but actual ROI for it drops to 2.38% which is twice as less as if you would receive it same day but with 5% fee for eg. or 42.5$ or 4.25% ROI. Now with it you can reinvest same initial 100$ you used and after next 10 days almost make it into profit zone which means you are no more risking your own money because you made 85$ profit within 20 days with fasttrack options instead of 50$ with normal payout timing. There is ofcourse option to keep your upgrade level at 100$ all the time even with normal payout timing but it requires 200$ investment instead of 100$ which is used 100$ for first 10 days and another 100$ for next 10 days while you wait for payout on first upgrade but risk of loosing all 200$ is much higher in this scenariou and still making it into profit zone requires at least 40 days anyway for normal payout instead of 23 with fasttrack options. I hope I explained the true value of fasttrack options and why I prefer using it. Time is money as popular saying states and if program is offering such option I recommend using it to make more money in shorter period of time. Nowdays programs don't last long and faster you get into profit zone with them less is risk of loosing any part of your money. |
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Recently some blogs reported stormhits as affiliated with well known scam processor Stormpay that stole 50 million from all of us early this year. Well I am not sure what makes it related to this popular in bad way money processor which appears is still operating and somehow received permission to continue transfering money except name and some thunder flashing in their frontpage but I found quite large network of sites in this ip which are mostly scam or will just get you in trouble if you use those. If you ever heard about AdSense you will probably know that using click exchanges to get you into profits are prohibited by Google and this host contains numerous sites that offer such deal. If you have AdSense page and are using these you will eventually get banned from AdSense program. Just avoid any of those programs I listed in bad ip list under this host that is hosting StormHits which in my opinion has no relation to Stormpay except name. |
| 13.06.2006 |
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I haven't seen such dropout rate for leading programs since Stormpay scandal when most programs funds were stolen by this money processor. Today WiredSurf announced about closing down which makes me wander when autosurf admins will learn how important is anti-DDoS protection these days. They seemed to survive one of most aggressive attacks which put them down for 2 weeks and after coming back restarted paying which unlike other cases returned some trust into members since cashflow was raising slowly but appears it was just too slow. Their plans to close the gap on all delayed payments were not successful which was becoming quite obvious with each day as reports of payments were quite slow. Well another good program was shut down by criminals interfering with their methods of hacking and DDoS attacks. Quite sad days for industry and I now even wander who could be next. Success in this business is going in waves and it seems like it currently is at bottom of another crisis so hopefully others will learn from mistakes of these programs and make their programs prepared from the start to avoid such problems that can bring down good business.
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CompactSurf made another announcement today regarding cashout terms and now official length of waiting is 7 business days. What does this mean you may ask. Well as I mentioned there is currently increasing panic amongst members that recent increase in time it takes to receive payment after request is sign of end for this program. Many are pulling their funds out of this program. Obviously this means reduced cashflow and increased risk of closing down if this continues and nothing is done. And there is not much admins can do about this except try to make strict rules about payout times and keep up with them. Latest announcement is just about that but as reason for this change weirdly admins mention hacking issues. Well it might be one of reasons but I don't see it as main reason as hacking will still happen no matter how long is payout time in my opinion. This increase is reducing ROI for this program from 1.9% down to 0.85% making this less risky. If we look at their traffic levels they didn't drop a bit even recently had quite good jump so in my opinion with professional handling this situation can be solved and panic reduced but at this time I recommend reducing upgrade level in this program until situation clears out. Meanwhile program reduced to 4 star category. |
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Just as scheduled within 11 hours after expiry I received another payout from consistently progressing and becoming one of leaders in industry AdTitans. It's traffic levels also are slowly returning to higher levels and overall stats are showing quite good progress for a program that after few days will be 1 month old which is currently best time to join because it has proved itself as good program. Admin recently made announcement about new security features related to signup and multiple account prevention features. What I like now even more in this program is that admin does take very seriously his program's security and constantly is improving it by customising it's script with features I haven't seen in other sites.
Bit later than usual but still within terms I received payment from Netinvest Autosurf which slowly and silently is making their progress through plans admin set up in beginning. May be silent is now good thing as those hackers mostly pay attention to programs that are promoted hardcore. |
| 12.06.2006 |
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There are some updates from Wiredsurf and CompactSurf (see more details page for latest update) about their payment schedules. WiredSurf is currently still trying to close the gap they have to get into 7 day payout term which is scheduled by end of this week. I can't say I am putting too much hopes into getting my 3 pendings at this time although reports of payments are posted daily but quantity isn't what it should be to manage schedule they have planned. Downgraded it for now until I see it make some obvious positive progress.
CompactSurf is lately been top discussion topic and as I mentioned earlier I don't think there is reason to panic yet but too much negativity put on this program can cause problems for this program.
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Today another program closed but luckily I avoided upgrading in it last week when I tested it. Luxury-surf was promoted quite hardcore but when I checked it something did hold me back from upgrading in it although first impression and reports from members were quite promising. I must say last few days have been quite sad for autosurfing and I am quite careful right now in choosing new programs as I feel recent drop outs will affect cashflow for other programs as well and would recommend being bit more cautious at this time. |
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Recent announcement by AlertPayPro about removing forum support section was misunderstood by some blogs and false warnings raised imo as forum is still there and just one section was moved out as it was not effective in way it was set up and is now moved to contact request forms. Yes this program is risky but recent jump in members growth coupled with high progress in alexa ranks shows that it is currently doing quite well. Their plans to enter 3rd phase at 10000 members is now coming up too soon and admins are consulting with members if this mark should be moved further to allow more smooth conversion instead of jumping from phase 1 to phase 3 within few weeks which wasn't expected by admins.
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| 11.06.2006 |
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Received my first payment from AlertPayPro within 7 hours after request. This program is performing quite well but ROI is just too risky to consider it as 5 star program so I will leave it in 4 star category. It can bring quickly into profit zone and it's stats show that it might be around for some time. |
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Well appears yesterday was quite dissapointing as another program eDataSurf decided to close. This one was quite big surprise for me because it didn't show any signs of weakness and business model setup was one of best in the industry in my opinion and I still consider it was closest to optimal model. I am quite sure Ramesh isn't liar and made decision to close this program not because of financial problems so his e-mail with reasons about closing sounds quite true at least in my opinion. Quite a shame I must say as this program was growing into potentially one of leaders in industry. Just weird to see admin didn't realise what he is getting into when he started it.
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| 10.06.2006 |
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As I suspected few days ago Developevisitors is just too slow in progress to continue and Bill made right decision by refunding everyone who was not in profits
and close this program before it makes members loose. According to his last announcement from DV approx 12% made profits and rest was broke even.
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| 09.06.2006 |
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More payments coming in today and one of them was first payment from LunarSurf that changed domain yesterday. I can't say I am very impressed with this program as I hoped I would but so far admins have been quite active and doing changes which in my opinion made this program even less risky without reducing ROI.
Then there came 2 prompt payments from currently most progressive programs AdTitans and 13dailypro which returned both of them into solid top positions right after current leaders. Although they go hand by hand in ranks I am still a bit concerned about difference in traffic level changes. 13dailypro is making outstanding nonstop progress and never lookind down but AdTitans is on a rocky way and after going a bit up made downfall again. I still consider this as result of their business model with quite high min upgrade level. This in my opinion causes high interest and many check this program out but most just can't afford to risk such high initial test spends and decide to leave this site. This causes small active membership from the hordes of signups and as result no consistency in traffic levels which usually is generated by small guys. If this theory of mine is true then situation isn't as bad as Alexa ranks show. |
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Some people are causing panic in forums regarding CompactSurf because of their recent announcement which you can check out in details page. Appearantly payments have slowed down somewhat and this was noticed by many because up until now CompactSurf managed to keep them within 48 hour timeframe consistently even during DDoS attack periods. And now slightest change in payment schedule is considered as red flag and people panic. Well I could say that there is no reason yet but from experience I understand that such shooting in own leg can cause big trouble for program as people will become more careful and start pulling funds out of this program. Considering their payout method of 3 per month anytime this could mean large increase in cashout requests during next few days. Such influx of cashouts could cause some problems but it depends how large is their reserve fund. I do think it is large enough to manage this increase. But my opinion on reasons of this slight increase in payout schedule is same as admins are giving - more people join program more cashout requests to process and recent introduction of alternative own processor has increased their workload. I still consider this program safe call and will shortly see myself how long they process payouts. |
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I am looking for someone using E-Gold and Safepay money processors. If you are using both of these please contact me at paipals@gmail.com.
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| 08.06.2006 |
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Total Rune paid out today cashout request from Tuesday and also it changed their main page to inform members about change of dedicated host because of lack of support from current one. New signups are disabled for this time but I am still quite cautious about this program since it's been slow and not improving for quite some time now.
FastProfitsClub also made a payment today which makes it 5th already and I have to say this program is on kind of low profile but does conistend and prompt payments and so far hasn't faced any major problems. |
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LunarSurf changed their domain from .com to .net which is resetting most statistics for this site but since it happened during early stages I don't think will affect much further progress.
I made growth update one day earlier than usual since I will be very busy this weekend and won't have time to do this later. From results I could call DadnDaves recent return to my list after admin allowed promoting it again as site of this week but as I already mentioned earlier risks are high at this time for this program mostly because of possible lack of trust in what Dave can do with members funds rather than runaway reason. Such jump in ranks just proved how solid this program was and I hope will be again. But real situation will show during next few weeks.
CompactSurf was shortly in leader position but after updating growth AlienTrust returned it's leadership. Both are still the best of best and currently don't show any signs of weakness. WiredSurf currently is still struggling with catching up on payouts and according to their new status update will close the gap by 19th of June. Well first promise they kept and instapay is now enabled again but now it is 3 day instead of 24 hours. Not sure what to say about it at this time but if you plan to upgrade large in it I would recommend holding a few weeks until they close that gap if that ever happens. I already have 3 pending payouts which in my opinion means this program did some kind of comeback but didn't manage to recover fully in time and now is somewhat loosing their grip. Although admins are working on solveing very actively and it's quite good sign for potential good news in coming days.
13dailypro is still quite solid and shows consistent progress but lost few positions to DadnDaves with their solid stats and biggest competition right now for title of raising star Adtitans which again impressed with members growth pace which is unusually high. Adtitans traffic levels are going up again after quite large fall and pace it is going up is quite impressive so I would say it has survived short crisis and is now going with full steam towards top positions in ranks.
eDataSurf is still most popular program and surprisingly is still gaining new unique visitors.
One program that dissapointed me is DevelopeVisitors which seems hasn't gained much growth and potentially will be having some problems mostly for reasons I mentioned few days ago. I predict that Bill will soon prorate earnings and I advise holding spends on this program for now until situation improves.
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| 07.06.2006 |
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Added few new pages which mostly are accessible through "More details" link on main list. Those will contain detailed report about top programs and latest news from admins of these programs which will updated as more news come. For those who are in these programs it will help to monitor their progress in ranks and latest news. For those considering to join them it will be useful as well to see how good communication is from admin and their stats which could help with decision if it's worth joining. These pages will be mostly added and maintained for programs that earn 5 star category.
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NowDollar made batch of payments yesterday for requests made early in this week. Admin proved that recent DDoS attack was handled properly and professionally which didn't affect business. I upgraded this program into 5 star category as it is now picking up the growth and momentum after coming out from low profile approach.
Received my first payment from GladiatorSurf which according to statistics slowly but consistently is picking up the pace and growing into bigger program. Still early to make conclusions but potential seems quite good for this program. |
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This isn't officially yet announced from admon but it seems Surf2 Prosperity and it's hyip site was hacked recently which means huge fund problems for this program. I downgraded this program to 2 star category because this is potential shop closer so not recommended anymore. |
| 06.06.2006 |
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Another new addition which I watched for several weeks already and finally decided to add it. AlertPayPro is very high risk program with ROI of 4.3% but has quite strictly laid out business model plan which recently (beginning of June) entered planned second phase with some adjustments to initial plan and this happened right after program reached 5000 members base. I usually pass such programs as I don't see much point in joining such potentially shortterm programs but as it appears with well thought setup of business plan even such high risk program can run quite long (since February) and according to statistics it is still progressing and gained very good momentum because of that. One problem might be for those not using AlertPay that it only uses this payment processor and for reasons which are explained on their front page which I agree can make a difference to prevent cheating from both sides. But if you have e-gold it allows instant funding from it and later withdrawing to e-gold is also possible so I just transfered some funds to it and use it now as well. |
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Received yesterday scheduled payment from recently added Develope Visitors which in beginning had some script issues but those seem solved now. Bill informed members though that programs hasn't gained momentum as he hoped it would so I will be leaving it in 4 star category until I see progress in statistics for it. Probably such honest approach as announcing a program pure ponzi isn't ensuring people that it is worth risking their money in this program and this prevents it from gaining good momentum it would in normal circumstances. I myself am not sure now what Bill wants to prove with such approach - either that every program out there is pure ponzi just not admitting it unlike him or that even such model can work for some time if handled properly.
Also received as scheduled fasttrack payment from AdTitans which is still making good progress in growth but has quite weird drop in traffic levels which contradicts my theory of members growth affect on traffic levels. Can't really find explanation for this drop at this time as only reason for this I see is members are joining this program and either not upgrading in it because of high minimum or leaving it after few cycles. Will watch it's progress more closely for coming days to see which direction it goes. |
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NowDollar is now back in action after recovering from DDoS attack. They installed new antiDDoS protection now and it seems working quite effectively as site is smooth and fast preformancewise again. This is what I call professional approach to solving problems. Probably will move it to 5 star category after next payout.
MLMAutosurf now turned into MLM-PTC with traffic exchange feature or replaced autosurf with paid to click option. Since this isn't what I deal with I removed program from main list and will probably add it to other opportunities if I see it is worth adding to there. Reason for this change was lack of popularity for this legit model and Bill hopes new model will gain it. What I like about his activities is that he tries to find less risky and more advertising value business models by not repeating already invented and tested models but searching for his own new model. Once he finds something that really is picked up by many I will gladly call him inventor of new online marketing direction but so far this experimenting hasn't given expected results. |
| 05.06.2006 |
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Dave is back!!! Well technically he never was gone but his program DadnDaves was put on low profile for few months after SEC got involved with 12dailypro and promised to go after all autosurf programs out there. As time went by everyone realised what I was saying from the beginning that SEC isn't going to waste their time on small fishes and is only interested in large ones like 12dailypro because it had enough funds raised to interest official institutions. DadnDaves was put on low profile by Dave for some time to avoid being investigated by SEC and any other officials but obviously such low profile didn't do much good for already greatly affected program by Stormpay theft. Dave still honored most of funds that were lost by it's members from Stormpay scandal from his reserve fund and continued to operate. I wouldn't call it restart as this program never stopped paying just had delays on latest payments since no new upgrades were coming in for program that went private for several months. Now it is brought back into public and is allowed to promote again so I am adding it back to my list as I consider it 5 star category program and top listings show it has several high positions as well and after updating all the data it went directly into top 10 list. All that of course is good positive change for this program but now let's look at possible risks of joining it at this time and upgrading in it. It was in stealth mode for several months and not accepting new members so it mostly was running on investments in other sources and as Dave honestly described his situation now new upgrades were close to nil during this time. Advertising value of this program is also quite low as it requires only 10 sites to be viewed and credits collected never are spent so not much to interest advertisers in. Program is oldschool which means 1% site for upgrade age over one year that allows lower risk investments to sustain promised returns but during recent months I have noticed such programs aren't getting much popularity and momentum. Only reputation of most honest and reliable admin is left so I plan to stick with it but I wouldn't recommend investing large amounts in it as risk level is quite high despite best intentions of admin and low risk of being scammed. It's just matter of business model which in my eyes needs restructuring because I feel just coming back into public promotion might be not enough for survival these days.
To conclude I highly recommend this program because of admin who is running it and his skill of investing online but be careful at first and don't invest big until it recovers fully.
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CompactSurf was kind of slow again today which means those online criminals are still trying to get some piece of pie from this successful program by doing extortion acts using various DDoS attacks but as it seems protections is quite good and site is working find most of the time unlike recently returned Total Rune which is still pain to navigate leave alone surf. It still takes up to one hour to surf just 3 sites for me so I am not sure what he did during downtime but site is still as slow as before. |
| 04.06.2006 |
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Newest addition is medium risk program LunarSurf with ROI 1.9% and biweekly upgrade cycle. Site design is quite an interesting and unique in a way which makes it quite appealing and stand out from usual standard clones that are created daily. This program already got quite good attention from surfers community and recent short interview done by eTalkMoney revealed quite responsive admin Matthew and his plans with this program. I like the fact that this program was launched only after careful preperations like DDoS protection, dedicated server with own datacenter, monitored data bases and quite modified script which still has usual elements of an autosurf script but is different to suit this site. Putting it on test into 4 star category for now but potential seems quite good. |
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WiredSurf changed their terms by extending max payout days up to 7 business days. This did raise a yellow flag in my opinion as they are still in recovery process from 2 week downtime and still working on finishing delayed payments which was planned by end of this week. Well upcoming days will show how they managed that. If during next week they will not have returned back into scheduled payout timeframe as before downtime it could mean potential problems but for now feedback is mostly positive.
NowDollar is still down but admin is optimistic about short downtime and according to latest announcement in some parts of world it's available already and just not all nameservers have updated yet to use their new ip. Anyway it will be possible to report missed surfing days and get credit for those once it is back up in your area. |
| 03.06.2006 |
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I have been in this business for one year and today CompactSurf broke another record in my online history by paying biggest payment of 816.40$. I just absolutely love this program and it is one of my top favorites at this time. They recently implemented CompactPay new payment processor. Unlike previously when other programs tried to do same CompactSurf decided to have it as an alternative to existing processors used by Compacsturf and make it totally optional way of transfering money. I think best use for it is for those who use bank wires as it will lower costs because of lower commissions. Also today CompactSurf implemented new feature for verification of their e-mails. Each e-mail they send will contain a code which can be verified in members section to confirm that it is originally sent by CompactSurf team instead of some spammer who tries to misinform people and make trouble to CompactSurf. Quite an interesting and original approach to this new increasing problem for any program as it is quite easy to change e-mail headers and pretend to be sending spam e-mails from CompactSurf. I hope this helps to fix this problem.
Also as scheduled on Saturday I was paid today by eDataSurf and it seems Ramesh is still on top of everything as he continues to improve his already one of best programs business model wise in my opinion. I do feel his program will last for very long time because of quite good setup which is very focused on inspiring advertisers to spend and surfers to pay attention on those ads.
Within 2 days after request I received my next montly payment from Prosurfer which so far has been quite popular but when I look at traffic levels for this program picture isn't that promising as their traffic levels are dropping although members growth is still quite high so I don't think it is going to end just because traffic levels are dropping. |
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NowDollar is next victim of DDoS attacks. Seems leaving low profile zone and aggresive promoting didn't go unnoticed for those hackers who love to do some extortion acts. Admin did put up immedeately alternative site http://www.autosurf2.com/ but it was targetted few hours later and is now not accessible as well. I also found out that this attack was quite wide and did touch several other hosts on one of which some large bank was residing which alerted some official agencies and source of attacks is not being hunted down. Let's hope they don't get away that easy this time as those DDoS attacks have hit our pockets as well lately quite bigtime. As for NowDollar I am quite confident it will be back shortly.
Total Rune finally enabled access to their site but I was quite dissapointed to see that it still was low performing and their upgrade problems right on restart did not look too promising as well. Now everyone needs to e-mail admin about their missed surfing days. Well admin hopes that not everyone will do this and he can keep some funds this way. Not a good move in my opinion which also will increase their manual work until things get sorted out. Will leave it downgraded until I see some positive progress. |
| 02.06.2006 |
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This is already third payment from currently fastest growing program in industry AdTitans and as you can see from latest growth update their pace is very fast even for first month of operation. Traffic levels in Alexa history show less appealing picture but as I already mentioned this is affect of yet low membership and manual surf. Highest spike was achieved during beginning of this program when rumours about relations with Phoenixsurf were released and it gained negative popularity. I do expect traffic levels to even out and start progressing with such members growth pretty soon.
Also received almost as scheduled payment from not that popular but consistently paying program Surf2 Prosperity. Currently waiting for payment after request is approx 16 days. Within next few days should be another payment I requested by 19th of May. |
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As you probably noticed I finally updated growth figures which were not updated 2 weeks already so if you look at those now do consider 2 weeks timeframe that make them look bigger than usually. As I expected AdTitans is still fastest growing program currently and it even passed CompactSurf in this aspect. Quite impressive start from a program that started just 2 weeks ago which means their business model with min 50$ upgrade and medium high risk is very appealing to serious surfers. There is also quite good progress shown from 13dailypro which nearly doubled their membership during last 2 weeks. As you can see in Alexa history their traffic levels are progressing non stop and soon will reach top 10000 which means joining the big boys of industry. One significant difference that made eDataSurf stand out during last week was their popularity rank which went over 500 unique visitors per week. I even went to check my code if there isn't a mistake as there never has been such popularity increase for particular program and so far highest we seen was near 200 and not more but eDataSurf almost reached 600 at some point but now it is slowly dropping as most popular days were during last weekend.
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NowDollar is now 9% site which increased their ROI up to 2.3% and made as medium high risk program now. There are also changes into payout procedure which allows cashout requests now during tuesdays and fridays for cash balance which is over 10% instead of old after expiry method. Both of these changes increased program risk but made getting into profits faster. Currently I don't see any red or yellow flags as such changes usually are done when program is experiencing slow progress but can financially afford higher returns for faster progress so I think it was done to bring in more members faster.
Total Rune is now downgraded to 3 stars because this interruption is just too long already. One thing that keeps me from removing this program at all is that other program run by same admin is back in operation so there is some hope this one could continue as well.
MLMAutosurf is now in restructuring mode to make it more appealing for members. Bill realised that business model might be self sustainable and legit but such model isn't what most paid to surf site members are looking for so is now looking for something better which would please population. |
| 31.05.2006 |
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Our newest leader of ranks AlientTrust paid out yesterday 12th payment and made it's position even more solid by increasing gap from Compactsurf. Vince also announced today that they finished first phase integration with VM and soon plan to remove e-gold and second integration phase for VM cards. Once this is done cashouts will be available anytime and will be instant for VM cards.
Also some members reported that free members are now required to purchase VM card before they can compound their earnings. This also means required verification as purchase is only possible after id is verified. Even though this is bad news for some who were doing free surfing I see some positive things in this decision like preventing fraud for unverified members creating multiple accounts and surfing for free money. This money could be used for advertising and other things which means additional unnecessary traffic and lower value ads. Such things hurt this program and now after introducing this new rule another improvement to it was made. Good to see Vince is looking after his creation all the time. |
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Some people yesterday reported receiving strange e-mail from PhoenixSurf which requested account details for e-gold like account number and passphrase and contained infected attachement. NME group today announced that those were not sent by them and should be treated as phishing e-mails or just deleted without reading. Well this was quite low way to bring down PS even more and try to steal some money from unsuspecting people who hope to recover some lost funds with PS.
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This is unusual way of promoting own program. Admin of NowDollar Lance Barron appeared on weekly newscast at Autosurf Authority. Usually getting to know people behind these programs means just learning about their bio when it's presented in forum or some direct communication via e-mail but this time it's possible to see how he looks like and what he has to say about his program.
I don't follow much ASA activities as they mostly do spampromoting and rarely offer valuable content but introducing admins of autosurf programs is quite good move from them. |
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Another DDoS attack was made against currently one of most popular programs CompactSurf but as it seems their new AntiDDoS protection from Prolexic is doing the job quite well as most of members didn't even notice few hours downtime. Good professional team is behind this program which adds more into their good reputation. Tomorrow we will possibly see new payment processor CompactPay which will be as an alternative to existing payment options for their network of sites.
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Updated bad ip list with following entries:
209.249.221.13 hpinvestor
209.249.221.14 ifyouwant.biz
209.249.221.16 idann.org (apparently a scam)
209.249.221.18 i-stra
209.249.221.19 packinvestment
209.249.221.23 privateopps
209.249.221.24 dornstetten.net (Polyakov scam)
209.249.221.25 solidinvestment.com (Polyakov scam)
209.249.221.26 ditex.org (most likely a scam)
209.249.221.27 fortune500surf
209.249.221.28 eurogoldbank
209.249.221.29 balticdividends
209.249.221.30 tingerinvest
209.249.221.31 ascfin
209.249.221.32 rocksolidfund
209.249.221.34 capitalgold.us
209.249.221.41 wealth2u.biz (scam)
209.249.221.42 vascoinvestment.com
Some of them still running but chances of being scammed in those are very high.
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| 30.05.2006 |
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My host had some problems yesterday again and because of this I decided to start working on alternative newspage hosted on one of blogs so in case site is down you will be able to check out fresh portion of news on this site. I hope to finish it by end of this week. Also growth updates I decided to move until this friday because last few days were quite busy offline.
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As some probably already noticed AlientTrust has moved now into leaders position in top rankings which means after resuming payouts it is now becoming as strong as before and even CompactSurf which is now closely trailing didn't have solid enough position. But both of these programs currently are truly the best of best and are showing it with quite huge gap in overall score from other programs. |
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Develope Visitors appearantly is currently experiencing scripting problems but according to Bill this will be fixed as soon as possible. Main reason for these problems is fact that program was taken over from another owner and script changes were not complete when it was launched. Bill also changed terms today in favor of members and is now day longer which means ROI of 1.8% now. Mostly because of scripting issues and possible risk of problems caused by this to members fund allocation incorrectly I reduced rating for this program temporary until I am sure admin fixed all problems. |
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Second payment from AdTitans which is one of latest favorites in my opinion that replaced PhoenixSurf and should be going big. But their traffic levels aren't showing the upgoing progress and I can explain it with high min upgrade level which is not affordable by most. For more details check AdTitans detailed page. Although it now has more solid position in top 10. |
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Today 14dailygold is not accessible today and I have a feeling we might not see it anymore. As I mentioned few days ago after receiving my pending payment from them it's still to early to see affects to very high risk program with roi of 4% of being down for almost a week. There are no updates from admin today which is most disturbing fact so stand by for few days but if it doesn't change I'll have to write this one off.
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| 28.05.2006 |
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Received several payments over weekend. As scheduled despite all those problems during week with DDoS attacks eDataSurf paid on Saturday. Also FastProfitsClub expired upgrade payment was done within 2 days after expiry and this program continues to show consistent but little bit slow progress through ranks as it's statistics grow. Another victim of heavy DDoS attacks 14dailygold paid out yesterday and showed that it can survive such attacks and return into full operation despite many sceptical comments but in my opinion it's too early to say final conclusions how those attacks affected this program but chances for result being positive are much better now. |
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Quite ironic situation can be observed at 14dailyplus as they recently implemented pin challenge for members who surf from different ip addresses. It looks almost ecxactly as e-gold one by design and by idea which seems quite weird because if you remember they dropped e-gold as payment processor last month and as reason mentioned their poor security but now implement same tools e-gold uses. Well at least this shows they care about their own security. |
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It appears I was wrong about the usual business model of Develope Visitors because after receiving commissions from referral upgrades my upgrade level increased and I was earning more. I checked FAQ and TOS once more but didn't find any reference to this unusual approach mentioned there. Also please notice that Bill has clearly stated in FAQ this program is fully relied on new members upgrades which in other words states that it has pure ponzi scheme elements. It isn't exactly pure ponzi as you might not earn profits if you miss a day or more of surfing and there are many other aspects involved like sites getting visitors and even making sales in case someone chooses some ad while surfing and other things but what I wanted to point out in this case is that Bill wants to show everyone he doesn't care if there will be less members because of such statement but wants to prove he is always honest with members of his programs and won't hide anything. Just if such business is popular and making money he wants to be part of it. |
| 26.05.2006 |
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Added new program Develope Visitors today which is new in full meaning of this word. It was started just today as I understand and main reason I added it to my list is reputation of owner of this program because of who I added it directly into 5 star category. It's another creation of Bill Russel owner of already listed CashBackSurf and MLMAutosurf which didn't gain much popularity among surfers mostly because of their very low risk or no risk setup accordingly. This time Bill started quite popular setup of higher daily percentage program with terms of daily 8% per 15 days which compared to most other popular programs is quite moderate risk and with good momentum gained quite sustainable for long time in my opinion. Site design is somehow quite similiar to what Autosurf4pro has but script used in members section is uniquely created and is not some cheap bought script with slight modifications and high probability of having backdoor for creator of that script. So security and trust wise this program in my opinion already has highest rating. Also as I noticed it already within one day managed 162 signups but same case happened with other of his programs so I wouldn't put much emphasis on this fact to predict future growth because mostly these are trusted subscribers to his programs who were noted first about launch of this program. Anyway if you are looking for joining early another potentially good program with medium risk 1.3% ROI that already has positive reputation this is good choice as I highly recommend this program. Bill has gained his reputation over time and at this time is one of most trusted webadmins in industry who finally returned to running higher risk usual autosurf program. |
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Unfortunately today I have not much time to complete gathering members growth data so I will update those over weekend.
As for news in industry I am quite glad to see 14dailygold is back in action and surfing is smooth again because they have moved to new dedicated server now. I returned it to 4 star category but still be careful before it resumes paying promptly and watch their traffic levels behaviour to judge if it wasn't affected by DDoS attack. What I do like is that he kept his word and brought site back as soon as it was possible after experiencing not just one type of attack but several.
It is game over for Surfice it seems as their login page is gone and since no new information from admins can be found I don't see much point in listing it anymore even in 1 star category so it is removed now.
Same problem with login page is experienced in Total Rune but at least here admin is constantly updating situation. Currently site is being moved to new server and problems with site were predicted so admin will post e-mail where members will be able to submit information about missed surfing days which should be credited. Although more time passes and less I like this delayed solution of problems and as I read in reports people are not receiving payments either.
WiredSurf disabled instantpay today temporary until they have catched up on delayed payments for everyone. This raised a small yellow flag for me so if you were planning to upgrade here with big amount may be it's good idea to hold it for some time until affect of such decision shows results. Idea behind this decision seems quite good as they want in all fairness pay everyone in order of expired units instead of paying instapay users first and only then delayed ones. It's just this instapay thing isn't yet too common in most programs and only experience we have seen with disabling it was when PhoenixSurf problems started last month. So I don't think it will cause problems but caution is always better than ignorance of experience.
Program I don't often mention Profound hits recently announced about possible solution to delayed payments and cancelled all payment requests to introduce new scenariou of allowing requests per 50$ once in 2 days and paying in order of those. This is quite similiar approach to what another oldie AussieEarners have now. Well my 2 months old request was cancelled and now I am in end of line again. I am not too happy about this situation but considering that this is oldest running program and admin is still actively operating I'll just leave it where it is in 3 star category which means not recommended but still with some hope of recovering. |
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My first payment from NowDollar came in today and so far this one seems quite reliable program but slow in progress of members base and traffic levels. Reports from other members are positive and probably this slowness and low profile it has will hopefully help it run for long time. |
| 25.05.2006 |
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As you probably already noticed I have done some adjustments to my site particulary in navigation menu by making it more advanced as dropdown style. It will allow me more freedom for adding new pages to my site without worrying where to put it and etc. Anyway I hope you like the new look of nav menu so enjoy.
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There is a lot of speculation going on if new raising star AdTitans has any relation to falling bird PhoenixSurf. My site was even suspended and admin contacted me about false information I was providing about this program so I tried to research this and found that chances of it being related to NME group owners of PhoenixSurf are much lower than I initially thought. As per their admin only relation to PhoenixSurf they have is purchasing their script with same business model and boost in promotion from PhoenixSurf when they announced AdTitans as site of the week. Just because of unlucky timing to launch this site when PhoenixSurf was on verge of closing officially lead many to think it is in close relation. Well my own opinion on all this is that sometimes even bad news make people or events famous enough for anyone to notice and what matters is what happens next. So far AdTitans has shown outstanding growth pace and traffic levels according to Alexa ranks show obvious progress and also it has been paying promptly according to reports and as I checked their forum admin is quite responsive and open about himself so if you want to know more about this in my opinion great program just check his post here.
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Today I removed one of long leaders in my ranks listings PhoenixSurf from my list. NME group officially announced their plans about closing down PhoenixSurf and promised to make refunds. I don't hold much hopes in receiving approx 300$ I have in this program but who knows. If they care for their reputation they might pay out at least to those who didn't manage to get into profits. In my case I managed to make approx over 1200$ profit with this program so as sad as it is seeing it close it was fun while it lasted.
While being on subject of problems with programs I reduced rating for TotalRune to 4 stars because this site is taking too much time to fix their performance and I need to spend a lot of time to surf those 3 sites required daily. This slowness has been going for several weeks already.
Also be careful with 14dailygold if it comes back at some point as their downtime is too long already and todays announcement by Admin wasn't bringing optimism in hopes of this program surviving this attack. Even if they solve ddos attack their ROI was quite high in risk zone and such long downtime will be affecting their business. As I see it younger the program is more trouble each day of downtime brings to it.
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| 24.05.2006 |
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This probably is quite unusual case for me when I put such high risk program into 5 star category but in my opinion it has earned this right with all the recent activities by admins. Reason why I do it today is because I received my first payment from 13dailypro on same day after upgrade expired without any fasttrack or instantpay options selected which brought this program into top 10 by moving some oldies who either are not progressing or are semidead out of there. But this isn't main reason. I was watching it's growth since beginning of May and after joining it followed how admins are solving problems they face with hackers and script issues and so far I've seen only professional approach on highest level. Alexa ranks clearly show quite outstanding growth and I see quite good potential for this program for next few weeks at least despite the high risk 3.9% ROI in this one. |
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Newest addition to my list is GladiatorSurf which has medium-high risk level with terms similiar to AlienTrust but this one is an autosurf and allows only 2 packages at once. Smooth and easy navigation of recently improved in design site and quite noticable progress in Alexa ranks since middle of May. Site is gaining good momentum right now and is in early stages of potentially good growth for several reasons like positive feedback from members who already joined this site and statistics. It wasn't promoted much mostly because of low referral commission 2% and usual cheerleader crowds are not wasting their time on this one but in my eyes such low rate just means more chances to longevity of this program because less funds are spent in commissions for referral attraction and setting it at such low rate could mean that admin is not looking for fast growth to sustain ponzi type program from newer members but is using funds wisely and generating outside income sources to sustain returns offered. |
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Recent trio under DDoS attack eDatasurf,14dailygold and TotalRune are still experiencing problems and mostly are down and not accessible to majority of members. Ramesh admin of eDataSurf credited everyone for last 2 days while site was down and reduced min quota of surfing to 3 sites while problems are fixed for all. If you don't manage to surf for today or for coming days because of access problem just contact admin support@edatasurf.com and ask him to credit for that day because you couldn't access site. 14dailygold is in even more trouble as those rare members who manage to access site can't manage to surf even one site but admin is communicating via forums and promised to solve problems asap meanwhile everyone will be credited for downtime. TotalRune is still either not accessible or loading too slow that even 3 sites take sometimes as much as one hour spent to surf. If TR admin doesn't fix this til end of this week I will downgrade rating for this site because of this problem not being solved too long.
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| 23.05.2006 |
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My first payment from recently started program AdTitans was paid withid 5 hours after expiry which is very good even for fasttrack mode. This payment boosted this program 12 places up in my ranks and it is now top 10 program which is quite outstanding jump. So far it seems to continue from where PhoenixSurf went on wrong turn so if growth pace it had in beginning and momentum will continue to raise we can expect another great program here. |
| 22.05.2006 |
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Well as it usually happens there is silence and peace before storm hits the ground. I did wander what it will be this time as last weekend was quite peaceful newswise and I guess I hit the nail when I shared my thoughts on their situation. Today some sources announced that during recent conference call with NME group owners of PhoenixSurf they revealed facts that lead to decision of closing this program. Quite sad to see this program go as this was considered so far best after fall of mighty 12dailypro. Well most of us knew it's not forever but 2 and half month of success and then approximately another month of struggle to keep it alive was quite enough time for many to get into good profits with their fast and dynamic model. Owners announced that they will be refunding current principles as much as possible as usual. Reasons for failing were mentioned almost million stuck in EMO, possible theft for half million and another 2 million went somewhere else still unknown. Numbers were run and further continuing of this struggling program was found not possible. Well I don't really buy most of it as I explained mostly my view of things with them in yesterdays news but at least they didn't prolong this agony. This isn't official yet as it wasn't sent by NME group but from attendees of conference call but I am quite sure they will make same announcement to rest of us within few days. My view on this program mostly changed over last month as admins attitude towards members was quite arrogant and as I mentioned this was one of main failure reasons in my opinion. |
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14dailygold,eDataSurf and Totalrune today seem to be under heavy DDoS attack. Admins announced that they will do everything they can to solve this asap. Quite weird that all three went down at same time but I am quite confident all of them will be back shortly.
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If you follow the trend of gold price you probably already know that e-gold price has dropped during last week and today it was 100$ less than last monday. As far as I found out this jump was quite related to China deciding to increase their gold resources and probably they bought quite large bulk of gold at once and now when they filled theyr qutoa demand reduced and so did price. At this time I suggest you don't keep too much of your money in e-gold after payouts but either spend it in upgrades or withdraw so it doesn't drop in value.
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Second day in a row I receive payment from WiredSurf and this time it was instantpay upgrade expiry from Saturday so they didn't just catch up on delayed payments but also are prompt with current upgrade expiry payments. Cheers to recovering WiredSurf! |
| 21.05.2006 |
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This weekend turned out to be quite profitable as I received 3 large payments in total over 1000$. First was payment from recent raising star eDataSurf for 136$. Currently this program is improved all the time functionally and alexa ranks show that it has quite good consistent progress with few drops but general trend is obvious.
Next was quite sexy in numbers payment of 696$ from currently top ranked program CompactSurf
which was so far largest one as I let it accumulate for longer than usual period because of this 3 cashout per month limit. It faced some shortterm problems with DDoS attacks during last week but site was accessible most of the time and is buying anti-DDoS protection service from the best provider Prolexic within few days so hopefully no more problems with DDoS attacks for this program.
Also I received my last pending payment from WiredSurf which now at least in my opinion has put this program back on track. I saw few reports though that people see their payments as done in members area but no money in e-gold was found. Well same case happened with me but after submitting ticket to their support this was fixed within few hours quite professionally so their support is once again on high level. It also jumped up in rankings and reached top 3 again.
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As for other news there is not much to report except continuing negative reports on PhoenixSurf which slowly is fading their trust and now even new creations like http://www.maximumsurfing.com/ are brought down as scams even before official launch. I got to say some people amaze me when a successful program is bringing them profits with unbelievable return of investment level everyone is happy and making the ride on such program into good profit but when it faces problems everyone starts screaming scam and blaming them for every sin there is. Well some might not like what I say about this situation as they have some upgrade payments still pending with PhoenixSurf which now have very low chance of being paid but as I always said I never consider a program that has made for most of members profits as scam because it is not in my opinion something you call with such term. Scam is program that takes your money but never pays or tricks you by paying on your testspends to leech more money in and then stop paying but not a program that pays for several months and makes people double or even tripple of their investments into them. So let's distinguish programs that scam people and programs that make bad business decisions. And PhoenixSurf was one of those which made bad decision rather than had intention to scam people. I stated it month ago that decision to drop e-gold by them and take VirtualMoney exclusively is very bad decision which could cause problems. Surprisingly in case of Alientrsust this same decision caused even more trust for this program but appears it depends how admins handle this changeover of your payment processors. Vince admin of AlienTrust was very transparent about this change and offered quite good information about reasons of this decision and benefits it will bring into his program. Many programs followed this scenariou and PhoenixSurf was one of them but choosing to sell cards exclusively and not accepting VM cards sold by other resellers was not best decision which mainly caused most of their members pull out funds. Throw those DDoS attacks into this basket of problems and you have leaving and complaining members on hand. Then this small snowball turns into avalanche of problems you can't keep up anymore. Next attitude of admin who never listened to what members were asking wasn't best either and now his reputation is quite bad. Well this is my view on things that went bad for PhoenixSurf and I still don't consider it as scam but just as failed business because of some wrong decisions made. This doesn't mean they already closed but it seems chances of recovering here are quite low now and probably some might get some refunds or small payments. So I downgraded it even further to 3 star category which means not recommended.
Just remember these programs are mostly high risk but returns they offer are quite appealing which allows everyone to make some money just you should be careful and not get greedy. Follow my tips and only ride on profits you make in program which will minimise your risks and allow getting more money than spending. |
| 19.05.2006 |
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Another week passed by and we can look into updated growth figures again. Site of the week this time is AdTitans because it showed outstanding growth within first days of operation and after 5 days already passed 1000 members mark with relative growth at unusually for newcomers high 67% rate. Also in popularity rank this program has been climbing since first day and soon might finally throw off current leader that has been there for several weeks already. With such start this program could actually fullfil it's potential and become one of major surfsites as I mentioned when I joined it. First wave of payments will be coming within few days.
Another noticable progress was made by yet another newcomer 13dailypro. Just within first week it stormed into top growth rank and is only loosing to already established leaders. Alexa history shows aggressive increase in traffic levels during recent weeks quite similiar to what PS had in beginning. Popularity during last week was almost as big as for already mentioned site of the week AdTitans so if not for that one I think danish surf site 13dailypro could be taking that award. 14dailygold is still showing tremendous consistency in terms of growth which also shows in Alexa ranks progress. WiredSurf that almost dropped out of top 10 regained some places and is slowly raising back to the top. Rest of programs more or less remained at their positions and didn't show any significant changes in ranks. Total growth this week was even lower than last week and was total of 7439 new members joining all listed programs which is another 10% drop in growth pace. Well industry in total is experiencing a little pause or reduced progress mostly because some of leaders are either experiencing problems with payouts like PhoenixSurf and WiredSurf or fighting DDoS attacks like Totalrune or CompactSurf so all these things affect total growth right now and until things settle down and programs experiencing problems get back on track fully such reduction is possible. |
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Received 3rd payout from FastProfitsClub. Not too much to say about this program as it silently is running without any major problems like others have and paying promptly within few business days. |
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PhoenixSurf announced today that they have paid everyone up until payments for upgrades expiring on 09.05.2006. Well before you get all excited I still have pending payout from 02.05.2006 and found many others reporting same issue of still pending payments before 09.05.2006. This doesn't look too good I must say. As said earlier use extreme caution with this program at this time. |
| 18.05.2006 |
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Added another MLM called called Free Card Matrix to Other opportunities page. Unlike previous addition this doesn't require any signup fee or hidden costs. It just allows joining group of people who are promoting credit cards issued by banks. Issuers instead of buying expensive commercials on TV or other media for millions of dollars prefer to pay this money to promoters who will work for them and get their cards into use which appears more effective use of their marketing funds. Usually issuing cards are related to some setup fees which are covered by card buyers but this time issuers are willing to incur these costs because of the off-setting profits from people's use of the cards over the long term. This offer is available also for international promoters who will not be able to use those cards but will be able to earn by promoting this offer like in my case. This is the first time this approach has ever been done and it gives us a chance to get a piece of the trillion dollar credit card industry pie and best part is there's NO money required from us EVER! That's right - no money out of our pockets just joining the matrix and receiving free card and/or promoting this offer to others which allows earning on this offer.
There is phase 2 in plans as well called residual swipe which will be initiated once certain membership level is reached which will allow small percentage of everyone's card use in your downlines so faster you join this more chances of increasing your residual income with this program.
I considered joining this program few times but never got convinced enough this offer is for real until recently when one of my site visitors explained this in details and how he is now using this to recover from Stormpay loss. He is now using mostly money from Free Card Matrix to fund his autosurf programs and earn even more. So if you are on low fund portfolio and are looking for ways to increase your initial capital this deal is for you or anyone else who is looking to increase income streams without any costs. Don't miss out on this free offer! |
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CompactSurf is running smoothly again today but administration recommends avoiding use of refresh in case their page timeouts at some point because such repeated requests will be treated as DDoS attacks and your ip could get into banned ip list which will prevent further access to their site during that day. I recommend using bookmarked frontpage and relogin in case you face timeout instead of just refreshing current page.
WiredSurf surfing is today up and running smoothly again. They are just few days away from being fully recovered as most of things are back on track with them so seems full recovery here is quite possible.
PhoenixSurf today announced about their plans to compound all outstanding payments and use this scenariou to fix their delays with payments. First thought I had was red flag raising because all this means is they just don't have funds to cover all payments and are trying to delay things even more. Well this could be the case but I also see some positive things such approach could bring to get them back on track. Meanwhile downgraded to 4 star category again until their delayed payouts are back on schedule again so use caution with this program because risk level on this one is now at the roof despite all their attempts to recover from crisis they have since last month.
Also added some new bits of security measures for protecting your e-gold account by doing some simple steps during accessing their site. Tips from e-gold support can be found on my E-Money page. |
| 17.05.2006 |
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CompactSurf and all it's network sites are currently under heavy DDoS attack which makes it almost impossible to access this program not to mention complete the surfing. Admins are working hard on resolving this problem and site should be back accessible soon. |
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Last week I finally received shiny Virtual Money card which I bought from AlientTrust as this is now only option for receiving payments from them. Today I received my first payment to this card from funds that were compounded several times which was requested last Friday. It takes now few days more than it was with e-gold but at least it's cheaper to cash it out afterwards because I can withdraw it directly from VM using card. So I am finally back into weekly payouts with this program and AlientTrust is back into race now with quite close position to current leader Compactsurf.
Also received instant payment from MLMAutosurf. Program made few spikes but now is out of top alexa lists. Bill is currently trying to bring in some incentives like ability to use earnings to fund his other program CashBackSurf which is closer to standard autosurf model but with very low ROI. Seems people just aren't that much interested in lower risk programs when there are loads of higher risk with higher return possibilities. |
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WiredSurf sent an update today and politely asked for support from members by joining their forum and participating in their activities that are announced in forum.
It also provides site updates and discussions about problems members are facing
also it was noted that members of forum (especially if same username used) are more likely to be paid faster than others
also politely ask to share their joy of received payments in paid sections.
I recommend doing this with any program as it will ensure programs health in long run and in return less chances for particular program to be closed because of lack of members support
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| 16.05.2006 |
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Newest addition AdTitans is possibly next big thing in this industry. Despite the somewhat lost reputation of it's owners people are joining it like mad. Within one day over 300 members joined it and alexa ranks made quite a spike into top 30000. There is one concern though if all those new members will like the min upgrade level of 50$ set by this program. Upgrade unit price is 5$ but it requires to purchase at least 10 units in one of 2 allowed packages at once.
There has been a lot of discussion about this program since it was first introduced few days ago by PhoenixSurf owners NME group. They proclaimed it as site that they are supporting but not owners of. Well here are some details I found about this new site owners. Owner of AdTitans is Christian Reishel who is on NME group board of directors and also is founder and owner of Avante Holding Group which has controlling share of Alternative Construction Company. This company shares were bought by NME and why it was listed on SEC website. All of this clearly shows relation to NME group as coowners of new site. They promoted it today as site of the week as well. So what does this all mean? I think they are trying to use remaining bits of trust and reputation they have to create new fresh start and use the quick influx to help recovery of main site as well. Main idea of this is to transfer most of PhoenixSurf members to new site which works only with e-gold. Also a possibility is that they understood the mistake they made with trying to get exclusivly VM card sales but loosing trust because of this and now try to get back those e-gold supporters into this new site. I don't think this is something bad if it turns out like planned but question still stands if members will have enough trust left in it to support the new site with min requirement of 50$. I think time will show and wihtin next week it should be more clear how they are doing with recovering. |
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Several payments were received today. One of which was most expected as it will show how good is recovery process for WiredSurf. This was one of 2 pending payments and increased their chances of recovering in my eyes to approx 70%. Forums and monitors are now also filled with payment reports and some of those for quite large sums which seems quite promising.
Also received payment from Surf2Prosperity which now put this program into profit mode for me and so far admin has kept his 15 day payout schedule in tact.
Yesterday requested and few hours later received weekly payment from Total Rune that still is working on resolving their site performance issues. Min site quota was lowered to 3 sites per day until this issue is resolved and I applaud admin for such decision as it made it much easier to complete the daily surfing. |
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Those who joined 13dailypro probably already are aware of this recently spread hacking problem with some of autosurfing sites. Appears some hacker is having fun with backdoor in scripts he has left which enables him to change payout details of members accounts. Danish program resolved this program quite promptly and communicated this to members professionally. Now this attribute is not changeable and payments will be made to account members used to upgrade with. This should ensure no loss for affected members. But please check your details if those are still correct instead of some hacker account number added. For those of you who are in now private DadnDaves I urge you to verify your details in this program as well. It appears Dave was victim of same hacker also but this was not reported by admin yet only by some members who noticed. My account was affected in both programs and there are good chances some other programs will be affected by this so do verify your account payout details every now and then. I had to fix these things lately several times in some programs and only few of admins noticed this in timely manner to prevent problems caused by such activities of hacker. |
| 15.05.2006 |
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eDataSurf finished without noticable problems move to more powerful server to support the traffic level needs that were reached within first weeks of operation. Also new feature of sponsor page after logging in for more valuable ads is quite simple and in my opinion great idea which hasn't been used before in any of programs. Shows that admin is improving his program all the time and this move is going to add advertising value to this program for sure. |
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WiredSurf is finally accessible fully and it seems new anti-ddos protection is working now. It does seem weird that it took so long for this protection to be set up as such things are quite common things these days and usually are added to site within few days. Plans to first do delayed payments now and then reenable surfing to show they can operate without new membership signups. Well I say they have this final week to show their strength and ability to recover from such crisis. I currently evaluate probability of them recovering at 50/50 and I consider it's quite good probability considering all the delays and events that happened. Next days will show which way chances are going. |
| 14.05.2006 |
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Added 13dailypro to the list. This danish program was created early in this year but only gained good momentum and traffic levels just few weeks ago which clearly shows in Alexa ranks. Program has unique feature of transparent stats for latest payouts, recent upgrades and highest upgrade levels. Daily ROI is in very high risk zone so use caution when upgrading but getting into profits is quite fast as well. Recent increase in Alexa traffic levels show that it gained good momentum.
Also added GlobalGoldSurf which I joined few weeks ago and already received my first test payment. This program is paired with discussion forum which isn't just dedicated to this particular program but mostly contains general information about whole industry. This program has unlimited credits earning feature and assigned credits are used quite fast because of this. This feature is good for those who need to promote sites which pay per visitor. |
| 13.05.2006 |
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Today as scheduled received payout from eDataSurf for 89$. With this second payment I am now in profits and will start slowly increasing the upgrade level so I can get more credits with each upgrade. This program unlike most programs don't issue credits for surfing but only for purchasing ad packs which makes them very valuable and if we consider that manual surfing itself makes ads valuable then combination of these things give highest value of each credit because each visitor actually is paying attention to your site and competition for visitors here is very tough.
Also received another payout from 14dailygold. Jason is doing great job with this program and it is gaining momentum quite fast. Alexa rank history graph shows consistent and progressive trend for it. Just one drop happened during their 2 day downtime for which members were credited as for surf holiday. |
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Quite an informative article about newest ways of phishing money processor account details or redirect money flow to hacker accounts called script-injection attacks written by Matthew Broersma can be found in this site. Just remember to check which e-gold account you are paying to when upgrading. Usually admins put their account details on upgrade page before transfering you to secure e-gold page so you can compare if it's still the same e-gold account and you are not paying some hacker account who changed destination of payment button script. |
| 12.05.2006 |
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Biggest shock of today was announcement from EyeSurf about closing down their program. Just yesterday I wrote that I consider this very good program a potential of achieving top 3 but today it shocks the world with closing plans. Well at least they did this professionally by not turing into scam program which still accepts upgrades after stopping paying like some others do and as I checked out people who recently joined and never got into profits are refunded almost fully for their upgrades.
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Today and last night received several payments where largest one was from CompactSurf for 312$ and was paid as usual within 24 hours after request. This program after taking the leadership is still continuing to progress further and now increased the gap from followers.
Also received payments from FastProfitsClub and Prosurfer which recently changed their website style and added some enhancements to their program. |
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First noticable change happened with WiredSurf that was closely trailing CompactSurf in progress but downtime during last week threw it off the top quite far and will require some effort from them to regain higher positions now. Also I am glad to see PhoenixSurf is regaining it's positions after recent crisis but still far from leadership which it had for over 2 months. Also AlienTrust is picking up pace and probably will make it's positions stronger after payment this weekend which I requested after receiving VM card. TotalRune is still consistently gaining positions in ranks despite their site performance issues and is enclosing on top programs currently.
eDataSurf is still most popular and fastest growing by relative figures program for over 3 weeks already. From new programs another consistent fast growing program is 14dailygold which is closely trailing leader of relative growth and gained another place in weekly members growth rank.
Overall figures this week were lower than over previous week but it can be explained with caution people are taking now since some of industry leaders got into crisis situations and some others did reorganisations with payment processors. Total growth of members in all programs dropped from 9245 to 8693 members joining during last week and average relative growth dropped even more from 19.94% to 10.34% this week mostly because new programs have gained some descent levels of membership. So to conclude this upcoming week will be an interesting to see how leaders continue to recover from crisis and regain their positions in ranks which in result should also reduce the drop in total membership growth for all programs or even increase it. Still I recommend taking caution with programs that are not performing as well as previously until situation clears out because experience shows recovering isn't always a success and to reduce risks it's better to be careful for some time. |
| 11.05.2006 |
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NowDollar is another manual surf program which is in business for over 2 months already and didn't get explosive momentum mostly because of medium risk ROI. It does have good potential though because I see more and more positive promotion posts about this program. It's paid to click area had more than 5 ads with monetary reward which shows that advertisers are getting quality clicks in this program and low budget surfers can get good bonus to their daily earnings. Lance admin of this program so far has managed to run it without any major problems and is now considering to add Virtual Money card as payout option following the major surfprogram decisions. As I mentioned earlier Virtual Money is considered as good alternative to bank wire with descent verification system in place which means programs offering this option are not hiding anything. Also good decision by Lance to leave e-gold as an option and allow already purchased by other resellers cards to be used with NowDollar. It also offers surfing bonus pages up to 100$ which appear randonly during surfing and since this is manual surf it's easy to catch these and claim the reward. |
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Another payout from Eyesurfer was paid within 1 day after expiry of my upgrade. This program is consistently climbing and gaining momentum and still is one of my favorite picks. I expect it to reach at least top 3 rank but if current leaders will recover from crisis sucessfully then it won't be an easy task but good competition is a good thing that keeps competing programs improve instead of stalling. |
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Seems leader of industry for almost 2 months which had quite big crisis during end of April is slowly raising from the ashes and pacing up. Many sceptics wrote off this program weeks ago and considered it dead already. I am not saying it is back into business fully as there are still lots of concerns like proposed removal of e-gold and replacing it with exclusively bought from NME team VM card and finishing paying delayed payments but today I received another payment which was pending for 2 weeks
from PhoenixSurf. So promises about catching up on delayed payments by end of this week now seem quite possible. Returned to 5 star category but still has some catching up to do to regain leadership if that ever will happen after such crisis. |
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Another top program WiredSurf despite the downtime because of DDoS attacks today is accessible occasionally and announced to be back fully by end of week. Surfing holiday is extended until Monday to allow them catching up on all accounting issues and pending payments. I still consider their communication during downtime and support one of the best in industry so another comeback seems quite possible now. |
| 10.05.2006 |
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I must say this is a day of surprises. First I received delayed because of the money processor reorganisation 2 payments from 14dailyplus. These were paid to Safepay account instead of e-gold which I used to upgrade with them. Fact that they dropped e-gold made many loose interest in this site and I also consider this decision quite big mistake so I don't think there is any future for this program.
And later I received my 14th payment
from recent leader of industry PhoenixSurf. Weird thing about this payment is that it was fasttrack upgrade that expired yesterday so this payment was paid within 24 hours despite the other 2 pending payments that are one and two weeks old. So let's not get too excited about possible recovery yet but this looks promising. Admins announced that all payments will be catched up by end of this week so let's see how they can keep their word. |
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Joined today 22USD club program which is basically an MLM (Multi Level Marketing) program with collection of sellable products you can use to earn some by selling on e-bay or some sales site you create. Selling is optional since earning from downline is also quite good way of earning with up to 16 levels deep and allows spill over option which means that you can get referrals from your upline if their pairs are filled. There is only one time fee of 22$ so if you have some in your e-gold this program is worth joining. Those 22$ will be earned back within few days or more if not too much promotion done.
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| 09.05.2006 |
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Managed to get in, update my profile back to correct payout details and request cashout from Total Rune which was paid today already. Site is still slow but admin ensures they are working on this problem and will be solved asap. One thing I don't understand is why not issue surfing holiday for these days since it's nearly impossible to get those 10 pages at some points of time during day. Excuse that we have 24 hours to get those 10 pages done isn't what I would like to hear and I consider this quite poor customer service but other than that it's going quite strong and consistently raising in alexa ranks and in my top lists. |
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Adsense videos raised it's package price today at 12 GMT midday to 97$ as promised in earlier announcement. I have already gone through all the materials and I must say I am quite impressed with it's content. There is valuable information which you could find if spent several weeks researching forums and different sites or buying loads of other packages which would give only part of information provided by Adsense videos. Also it is possible to get money spent on buying it back within just one day because package offers affiliate commission of 50% and after putting this site into rotation of few manual surf programs my hoplink received 4 sales within 12 hours and I even made profit by promoting this material which convinced me even further that it is worth the value if not more.
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More time passes more I understand that PhoenixSurf probably is living last days in this industry. Despite still appearing reports of payments those are not many and could be just simulated as well as I mentioned earlier by one of those teams like Hyipviser.
Situation with WiredSurf isn't much better as well. Today is tuesday and site is still down at least in my side of world. Will be reducing rating for both of these shortly if nothing changes in positive direction. |
| 08.05.2006 |
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This one Adsense videos is currently hottest thing on internet and only available at the low price of 87$ until 9th May 12:00 GMT. I myself found it earlier but didn't pay much attention at first as I thought it's the usual marketing strategy to get in sales and that deadline will move every day by saying offer ends tomorrow and I will look into this later when I have time but this time it's different as deadline never moved and I found authors blog where he states how he plans to sell this package.
Ok let's go in details what is it. This isn't an autosurf or HYIP program I usually enlist here. This is business opportunity for everyone with zero risk but great potential just requires some effort. I am quite sure you know what Google is and probably have heard about their AdSense marketing network because ads from this network can be found nearly in every page you look at. Unfortunately when I applied with this site my application was denied because they don't allow paidsurf info sites into their network. So I never bothered to try this again but had always kept in mind what great opportunities AdSense offers to earn money online. This video set gives you all the tools you will need to set up your own webpages with adsense ads and optimise them to earn literaly thousands of dollars each month without any need to invest as in autosurfing or hyip. If you ever considered to start your own business online as part time or full time this one is the best deal and I can assure you that there is nothing better than earning with adsense but to do it right and maximise your earnings you need right tools and strategy which is offered in Adsense videos. I have planned to set up some adsense pages for quite some time already and was doing some research on this so I have learned quite a lot without these tutorials already but after watching just few of the videos I saw the tools I found before which I considered best for this and in addition to that complete description how to use them and even more useful tools to get the content, right keywords and of course the traffic to adsense pages. This proved to me that Michael Cheney's Adsense videos is actually not just some cat in the bag but real deal that gives what you need for mastering adsense. And best part is you can try it and get a full refund if you don't like it.
So to conclude if you ever considered doing adsense this offer is something you shouldn't miss. I spent 87$ which is less than my test spends in any of serious HYIP programs I have tried out and I already know I will get back hundred of times more when I apply the tools and knowledge provided in this tutorial. If you have any questions about this e-mail me and I will gladly answer you.
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One of 5 star category programs Netinvest Autosurf that was private or not accepting new members for 2 months today announced that they are now open for new members until they reach their next goal of membership size. This program has been around since beginning of year and always kept membership size under control to provide the support and service level at highest level. Usually going private for hyi programs is alternative for closing down shortly but appearantly not in this case as they were private for 2 months and kept paying promptly as scheduled once per month. Alex admin of this program is also offering training in forex trading and does make additional revenue to sustain those profits offered in forex trading reports of which he shows as example for those who want to learn trading of currencies. This is one of currently most stable programs with quite good potential for the future as their plans are laid out for next 2 years at least. So check it out while the signup windiw is open. |
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WiredSurf is still down and announced that they plan to be accessible by Tuesday. Well let's hope this time their plans will be fulfilled as this situation becomes less attractive with each day. Payments are delayed because of site not accessible and members might start issuing complaints and their e-gold accounts get blocked if that hasn't happened yet. |
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Total Rune recently changed their cashout policy to open cashouts once per week on Mondays. Ufortunately today is monday but their site is so slow that you can barely get into members section let alone fix again your cashout profile which changed again after they did some updates on script. Now most members have uniclear set as payout processor. So make sure you ckeck your payout details before requesting cashout. Admin informed members that tech team is working on issues and hope to fix these problems as soon as possible. |
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Received long waited payment
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| 07.05.2006 |
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WiredSurf is doing updates every day on their situation and status with handling the problem of DDoS attacks on their site. You can find those updates in this blog. Appears RackSpace host is not able to handle this attack and this prevents admins to access their members data base and do the payments. Well in my opinion this has been few days too long. Yes I am aware that some DDoS attacks might take a lot of time to solve problems with them. At least they keep us updated via this blog and still credit for every day. Timing for this attack was really bad as this site was just in the way of recovering from crisis situation.
PhoenixSurf is still delayed on payments but slowly catching up. My payment from 29th is still pending and I guess it will be until end of next week as their support informed me it was non fasttrack and according to reports about payments today were paid only 22nd and 23rd dates for non fasttrack upgrades.
Fasttrack upgrades that expired recently are reported to be paid within 2 days. All of this looks promising but while they don't solve this crisis situation I reduced their rating to 4 stars. |
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Today I finally received my Virtual Money card I purchased from AlientTrust on April 18th. Appears it came to my country on 28th according to post records but final delivery was delayed for one more week because of holidays in my country. Anyway quite nice looking card and what's more interesting I found in this package was signed letter from executive director of W3MA owner of AlienTrust program. If you are looking after programs with legit owners this is one of them. To issue these cards W3MA went through a lot of verifications and only thing that could stop now AlienTrust is failure in executing their business model. I must say their support is on high level as well with live chat feature and quite responsive e-mail communications which ensured me if I won't receive my card by end of next week they will resend new one. AlienTrust is now back into 5 star category. |
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I once mentioned this but recently these guys showed another activity by spampromoting their offer again. I am talking about Hyipviser team that offers admins of programs to promote their program in various forums and voting monitors (autosurfmonitor.com, surfdaddy.com, surfratings.com and etc). They are selling votes on voting monitors and forums for price of 0.15$ per vote in monitor, 0.25$ per good post in forum and another 0.15$ for follow-up to keep the thread in forum updated. So once again don't put a lot of trust into those votes as it can be simulated with software that is also on sale and can generate unique ip and e-mail votes on those monitors according to requirements set by users of this software or those buying direct service of Hyipviser. This is one of main reasons I never added voting feature to my list and don't consider adding forum. Forums and those monitors with votes are good thing to gather information when researching particular program or checking news but you need to learn skipping most of the spam and flames and get valuable pieces of information out of those. Especially important is to find which votes or posts could be simulated by these cheaters from hyipviser and similiar teams. If you see someone posting proof of payment in forum and has made only few posts in that forum or their other posts are general and short you are potentially looking and simulated voter. Some advanced forums keep rating of their members based on their activity so if you are looking for trustable posters check their rating and listen to those with senior ranks in particular forum. |
| 06.05.2006 |
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Today as scheduled I received my first payout of 99$ from new raising star eDataSurf. Admin is keeping very good communication with members and acts very promptly when problems appear. Next week program will be moved to new more powerful server to keep up with increasing traffic levels. This program is one of my favorite picks at this time. |
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Another payment received from CompactSurf for 350$ within 24 hours after request. This is largest payout so far from this program and this program recently reached top rank in my listings by throwing off the throne Phienixsurf which was longest leader since 12dailypro end. |
| 05.05.2006 |
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It's Friday again and let's look at the updated growth and alexa 3 months average rank stats and how those changed during last week.
Big news are that we have a new leader Compactsurf and former leader PhoenixSurf managed to drop right down to 3rd place because there were 2 quite good programs trailing very closely each other in competition for leadership. I am not surprised about CompactSurf reaching top rank as this program was consistently raising in ranks and unlike other two top 3 programs had no big issues except promptly solved DDoS attack. PhoenixSurf surfing is back working and new Rackspace server seems very smooth but they are struggling to get payments back on track. WiredSurf managed to change their program but faced script problems and DDoS attacks which have their surfbar off already for 5 days but growth figures and alexa ranks show that both are still one of best out there. Be still careful with PhoenixSurf though as it should fix their delayed payments issues to become less risky choise.
eDataSurf is still one of most popular and has highest relative growth rank. This weeked is coming second wave of payments and I should be receiving mine as well. Also worth mentioning for high growth figures are EyeSurf and 14dailygold both of which have very high and risky roi but this seems is what many like in these programs mostly. Other than these there is nothing to report much as other programs didn't experience significant changes in their growth to affect their total ranking.
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PhoenixSurf announced recently that their debit cards from Virtual Money (same issuer as for AlienTrust) will have exclusive deal and they will make payments only to cards issued by NME their mothercompany. Well Vince from AlienTrust made it clear that this is quite blatant lie and there are no exclusive offers provided by Virtual Money owners and verification procedures are no different for other cards bought from different resellers. I tend to agree that this is quite poor attempt to just make more money on these issued cards by taking away customers of other resellers like Alientrust. If I hadn't bought this card from AT I would probably choose to buy one from NME and use it as well at AT since they don't limit using any resellers cards but since I already bought one I am not sure if I want to buy another one just to please NME. Anyway let's see first if PhoenixSurf recovers from this delayed payment crisis that they are having right now and then decide if it's even worth buying another card from same issuer. |
| 04.05.2006 |
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Another prompt payment from currently private program Netinvest Autosurf which is one of rare cases when going private didn't mean end of program but actual non ponzi structure which is sustainable and can work for long time as it seems.
Today I requested another instant payment from MLMAutosurf and I must conclude that my initial understanding about it's business model was not complete. After several days of surfing and receiving my first commission I found out that it isn't fixed amount of days like I thought initially simply because by surfing you earn 10% from your account level and then this earned amount is deducted from account level and added to your cash balance. What this means is that you can earn forever because of such setup. For eg. if 10$ upgrade adds 4$ to account level then first day earning will be 0.40$ and leave level at 3.60$. Second day earnings will be 0.36$. So this doesn't mean that upgrade will last 10 days but at least for 55 days and even then you will be earning fraction of cents. Also another discovery was that referral commissions are variable and depend on your upgrade level. As I understood initial percentage is 10% and once you reach level of 100$ it is 20% and goes up to 30% when 1000$ level is reached. All of this isn't clearly explained in terms and can be learned after upgrading and surfing which I pointed out to Bill when I joined this and he promised to look into this to reduce confusion. But main point I want to mention here is that I consider this business model very good step towards legit direction in autosurf because it is self sustainable and more I look at it more I like it. Just one problem people are looking for easy money and in this case just surfing won't make you profits but getting referrals will so it won't be as popular as other programs among surfers but for advertisers who also earn with surfing this is must join program. |
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If you have followed price of gold you probably noticed that it has skyrocketed during last few months. When I yesterday checked graph in my E-money page I almost fell off my seat because it went up by 20$ within just 24 hours time. Just 6 months earlier it was 450$ but now it is almost 700$ per ounce. What does this mean for us? Well if you have some funds in e-gold they are not just sitting there but getting up in value just like the money you have in investment or autosurf programs. For eg. if you bought e-gold worth 450$ last summer you can sell it now for 680$ and best part about this is you didn't have to do anything except trusting your spare money to money processor with history of 10 year success. I got to say e-gold is currently partially an investment program with longest online history and lowest risk considering this price growth just be careful though as currency values tend to go up and down and at some point price could go down as well but after researching some reasons for this raise of prices of valuable metals I don't think it will drop significantly.
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New PhoenixSurf payment reports are still posted and most of them are for 28th fasttrack and 23rd non fasttrack with few exceptions in 29th FT and 24th non FT. One of my pending is fasttrack 29th so I should be receiving one payment by tomorrow at latest. More I follow their progress of recovery more hope I see but still consider caution with them as delayed payments is one of main killers for a program and at this time they are on borderline of being outside promised 7 business days which currently is 9 business days for non fasttrack and 4 days for fasttrack. Also Alexa rank graph shows that traffic levels dropped for a few days but yesterday returned to previous level. |
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Surfice never opened cashout window during usual time window of 4 first days of month. This most probably means it is almost officially dead. Site is still there and possibly still accepting upgrades but I downgraded it to 1 star program now because of it becoming a ghost site where admins are not doing anything to recover their program and are just taking donations. |
| 03.05.2006 |
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OnWebSurf paid me 2 days after request and is quietly running low on radar but as I mentioned when I joined it I see good potential in this program because of their network of sites and services they offer where surfprogram is just part of that network which is responsible for advertising their services and offering members to promote their own sites as well.
Also CashBackSurf made their monthly payment. I have not upgraded large sum in this one as it is longterm lowrisk program which I mostly use for advertising so payouts are also quite small for this reason. |
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PhoenixSurf has resumed their payments and it seems they fixed their e-gold access problem with new security on their site. At this moment I saw latest date was payment for 29th of April FastTrack upgrade expiry but I also have seen several nonpaid reports for much older dates. Could this mean selective payment approach or just priority is given to FastTrack payments now? In any case I still recommend to use caution with this program because of recent problems they faced. I am not announcing it as dead yet as some other experts are because I do believe there is still chance that it will continue but don't upgrade before you receive your delayed payouts and possibly reduce upgrade levels to reduce risk. |
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WiredSurf despite the fact that they are having surf script problem and issued surfholidays seem have regained the momentum and recovered from their aprils end problems. As you probably noticed in my ranks they went back up into top positions after almost falling out of top 10 and I would even say they could possibly overcome PhoenixSurf at some point and possibly reach top rank. Recent activites offered for members while surf is not working are quite good sign of attempts to keep members active and regain the momentum. Also if you check the Alexa rank you will notice quite significant jump over last few days and this spike almost reached top 5000 which could make their positions in 3month average even stronger now. |
| 02.05.2006 |
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Another payout from Eyesurfer was paid within 1 day after expiry of my upgrade. Eyesurfer concept of allowing your site in rotation to be viewed based on advertisement package you buy is one of best in my opinion as those free earned credits by looking at other sites are same for any upgrade level in other programs but in this case advertisers are directly inspired to buy larger advertisement packages and bring in more money for surfers. Same way AlienTrust and recently PhoenixSurf allocate promotion credits to members.
Also as you will probably notice that EyeSurfer program is currently even more popular (according to rank 5) than Compactsurfing which is currently quite close to become leader of combined rank by throwing off the throne long time leader Phoenixsurf. Eyesurfer is consistently progressing to the top and is still one of my favorite picks at this time. |
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This is second payment of 25.75$ from Total Rune which was paid next day after request. Appears that my previous request was deleted because of somehow changed payout details or processor name to be exact. Now when I fixed it payment was done promptly. Totalrune currently is showing quite nice progress in Alexa ranks according to graph and has quite solid place in combined rank as well so I upgraded it to 5 star category as recommended program. |
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First payment from FastProfitsClub was paid on 3rd business day after expiry so is well inside terms of 7 business days after expiry. Not much to update about this program at this time as they are quietly without big problems operating quite low on radar and not yet in my top 10 but after this payment started slowly to progress up. Unfortunately their script doesn't allow me to monitor their growth and contact request was ignored so I am not going to increase it's rating to 5 star category. Just not meeting the required criteria yet. |
| 01.05.2006 |
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Was away from internet for few days and unfortunately my host again is having problems with DDoS attacks. Same problems still bother PhoenixSurf and their new security against such attack appears to be so good that they can't even use e-gold for mass pay. Well I have never heard of such brute protection and I hope they fix this issue soon enough as their move to new server is already too long. At this moment I recommend holding off new upgrades because of these problems until the situation clears.
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And yet another problem with program that was slowly dropping in ranks but recently made one of pending payments.
14dailyplus decided to drop e-gold because of their poor security. Well doesn't this decision sound familiar? In my opinion it's not their security which I consider quite good if you follow basic security steps. Appears they didn't follow those or are just trying to make excuses for their escape. I won't be surprised if their next announcement will be that e-gold account was hacked and no funds to pay. Anyway I no longer recommend it and downgraded to 3 stars. |
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Tried the instant cashout with MLMAutosurf and it does work instantly. Even confirmation page from e-gold is shown with batch id.
Received extra cashout request from CompactSurf for 167$ within 24 hours after request. CompactSurf recently introduced new earning option lottery and is preparing for launch of their own payment processor.
And also I received one pending payments from 14dailyplus. In light of their recent weird decision to drop e-gold this looks strange but considering it was made just day before this decision I could explain this only with possible problem with e-gold only happening on Saturday. |
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Unfortunately another program from other opportunities looks like buting the dust. Sorcex was quite promising from the start and the arbitrage trading they were doing and all the limits and variable daily percentage made sense for actual trading. I didn't even receive my first payout as it expired just on same day as they "moved". Today I checked their site and was redirected to known scam Solidinvestments. Well high risk tends to dissapoint quite often but recent few weeks have been becoming quite unfortunate for many programs in hyip scene.
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| 28.04.2006 |
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Well today is Friday again and let's look at updated member growth data affect on ranks and overall progress of programs over last week.
As usual PhoenixSurf still shows all the signs of true leader and still leads but their move to new server and recend DDoS attacks only slightly reduced difference from second place in total points.
Biggest progress was of course made by Compactsurf which has secured 3rd place in combined rank which is result of consistent prograss in every rank.
Recently added raising star eDataSurf has also showed quite noticable progress. First it managed to become most popular program and now
it conquered relative growth rank which is quite remarkable considering that this program started just 5 days ago. Once I receive first payment from it
I won't be surprised if it manages to get near top 5.
Another quite remarkable progress despite all the caution signs was shown by WiredSurf
which nearly trippled their weekly member growth over last 2 weeks. I received all my pending payouts from them today
so all I can say it seems they managed to recover and are gaining back the strength and momentum with every day since those changes. Recent payouts of all delayed payments returned it into top 3.
EyeSurfer also is showing quite good consistency in progress which I am glad to see as this program has quite good potential and is one of my favorite at this time despite it's high risk ROI.
14dailygold showed quite good members growth over last week and if not for new raising star eDataSurf it would still keep the best relative growth rank. Coupled with recent prompt payment I received placed it very near to top 10.
AlienTrust has given up two positions in result of payout procedure transition to virtual money cards. I still haven't received mine but expecting it any day.
Totalrune was climbing slowly and consistently and their relative growth of 10% is quite good result but slightly delayed payment which I requested on Tuesday doesn't allow it to get further and made it drop few places.
14dailyplus is becoming less attractive with each day as I already have 3 pending cashouts for almost 10 business days for first one. Although they are communicating with members and faced some problems during last week so I still see some hope of them recovering but be very cautious with this one until situation clears out.
KnightSurfers dropped out of top 10 and Surfice is near to same result. Both had extremely low members growth which for few months old programs is death factor. I don't recommend these anymore and will remove them quite soon. |
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WiredSurf is back into business. Today I received both my pending payouts. One was pending since 18th but second one expired only yesterday. So I can conclude that they finished all the changes and now are getting back on track quite fast. It is now back into 5 star category. |
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Quite good news to those who wished death to Stormscam money processor after their theft in beginning of February. It appears they applied for money transmitter license renewal but were denied. See this report from Fair Trade Authority according to which Stormpay is now out of business officially. Yay to that. Just sad to know what did this scamprocessor actions do to autosurfing business and people involved in it. I am quite sure those who are in this since year 2005 were all affected by this somehow.
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There are reports of SnailSurf and Star7Group programs not paying anymore. These were quite promoted recently so if you are in it or are considering joining any of these still running programs be warned that chances of not getting paid here are quite high.
Also be very careful with programs like EgoldSpinner and fijifunds members of which are posting problem posts in forums so end might be near here as well.
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| 27.04.2006 |
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Sorcex is still accessible at old ip instead of domain name. Use https://193.138.231.234/ to access it while domain name registers with new ip address. Payments are slightly delayed while they are finishing server move so there isn't much use for accessing them right now but at least they are still there and according to reports in members page still doing trades. |
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PhoenixSurf is under DDOS attack and today is announced as surfing holiday. Site was mostly inaccessible since yesterday already and it appears some rampage of caught cheater. Some guy from South America had 250 accounts which all were deleted. PhoenixSurf support is doing all they can to solve this problem but currently they can't even access mass e-mail to send out information to members about this problem. |
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First payment from 14dailygold was paid within 36 hours after upgrade expiry and went up 5 places in top listing. Program has quite good growth pace and alexa ranks also show nice progress. |
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Another unusual addition to my list directly into 5 star category because I consider this as most legit autosurf program in the industry but before you get all excited about it read carefully details of this new program called MLMAutosurf. It is creation of highly reputable admin Bill Russel owner of CashBackSurf and Autosurfinvestors.com. Bill has also an information site and manages the mailing list Autosurf_News_Uncensored in which he shares his valuable experience and advice on earning online with main focus on autosurfing industry. So as we see reputation wise from administration or owner point of view this program has very good handicap already. Now let's look at the business model and reasons why I do consider it as most legit program. Main reason for such label is that program can sustain itself without any outside revenue income required because this is feature of MLM (Multi Level Marketing) structure. Revenue comes from members who are bringing in new signups to this program. As per terms 40% of your upgrade is used for paying you back after 10 days of surfing but only 10% of this 40% per day is paid. 30% is used to pay your direct referral and 20% is used to indirect referral commission. If you get at least 2 upgraded members in your direct downline who match at least your upgrade then you break even because you will receive 100% of your upgrade paid to you where 60% will be referral commissions from those 2 upgraded members and 40% will come from 10 days of surfing. So this isn't the usual autosurf business model where HYIP feature is used to attract members to such advertising opportunity which favors mostly surfer population.
In conclusion I highly recommend this program but only to those who are promoting their own product, service or in other words to advertisers. If you are only surfing for the earning feature and never promote anything then this isn't for you. Be warned that if you just upgrade in this program and do the autosurfing you will only receive total of 40% after 10 days of your investment and that's it. This makes actual ROI for it negative or -6%. If you don't intend to promote anything you won't be able to earn back initial investment. Some time ago Vince from AlienTrust considered changing his program into this business model but since it was already full of surfers majority of members protested and requested to bring back old HYIP/Autosurf model. Now Bill made same attempt with new program so let's see how it goes. First day already had almost 200 signups to it which is quite good start.
To those who seriously consider this program as your promotional tool you can use my referral offer which will not just give you commissions from downline but also from upline which can get you even in profit with 2 matched upgraded downline members. |
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Seems my host is having problems with webserver uptime and my site is inaccessible from time to time during recent days. Don't worry I am not going anywhere. If this host becomes so unreliable I will be moving this site to more secure place.
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| 26.04.2006 |
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Another first payment this time from quite popular in some monitors program Prosurfer for 38.95$ and moved into top 10 programs in my listings. It was requested within 3 days after request so well within promised 7 business days. |
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13th payment from PhoenixSurf for 181$ was paid within 24 hours despite their fasttrack option being disabled while doing the server move. I guess this applies only to new upgrades that you can't set it to fasttrack for few days. Today administration announced details about new Virtual money card and started taking orders for those. Well I decided to wait a bit for my VM card from AlienTrust and will see if I can add it to PhoenixSurf as well and use same card for both programs. |
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Some good news regarding WiredSurf as most members who reported delayed payments have received even for maxxed accounts. Mine that expired on 18th still is pending but payments are pacing up so hopefully will receive it soonish. Thos who did choose new instapay for their upgrades that were about to expire have already received payments for dates 23th and 24th. Weird approach but well if they can afford doing this then situation isn't as bad as it seemed. |
| 25.04.2006 |
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eDataSurf is quite popular according to visitor popularity rank. So far I haven't seen such high interest in any site within just 2 days. As of this moment this program had 141 unique visitors that were referred by my site which resulted in 15 signups in my downline. As I explained yesterday I do believe this program has quite good potential but I didn't expect it to be that high. Just within 2 days it received visits from twice as much people as currently top program PhoenixSurf had during last 7 days. If it continues to storm into other ranking lists like this I won't be surprised if we soon have new leader :) |
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My first payout from Eyesurfer was paid within 2 days after expiry of my upgrade. Seperate payment of 75$ for my upgrade and almost instantly seperate payment for referral commissions. This program currently is one of my favorite ones as I love the unique setup and concept that was put into this. After all those clones with slight modifications of one autosurfing script this program has set some new standards to this industry with their original made script. Surfing is quite fun and smooth. It is quite popular according to visits it had from my site visitors and after this payment batch I upgraded it to 5 star category. This program could soon follow the path of Compactsurf in progressing to top of my rank listings. |
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For those of you that have joined in my downline and would like to get some bonus earnings from my referral offer please be noted that it will be more convenient for both sides if you notify me by e-mail when you make your upgrades and in which program not just for your first upgrade but for the following ones as well. It will not just ensure I don't miss your upgrade but also will ensure faster payments from my side as well. For more details check this page.
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Vince from AlientTrust reassured us that Virtual Money isn't just another crappy money processor without money transmitter license. For more details check his news report with several references. If anyone is from Texas and can confirm this info please let me know as my attempts to research this were not successful. However I do believe Vince has done his due diligence about this company before making such serious decision and this response has calmed my worries about another bad decision from autosurf admin when choosing payment processor. I now believe this could become as one of best options for AlientTrust members to receive their payments. Since you can use your earnings in Alientrust to upgrade it doesn't matter if you withdraw them afterwards to e-gold or virtual money. Main fact is that money is in secure place or bank account which hackers can't touch without leaving traces. I know Vince has had some very bad experiences with e-gold so I am not surprised of this decision now and I now tend to believe he made the right decision. If PhoenixSurf chooses Virtual Money over E-gold in 2 months as they announced today it could make some more interesting turns in other program operations as there will be more secure options already setup for them as well. |
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WiredSurf launched their new instantpay system today which will allow faster payments for 4-6% fee which reduces total earnings somewhat. This is exact copy of fasttrack option that was introduced first by PhoenixSurf. Also WiredSurf has increased their ROI from 1.8% to 2.3% by prolonging upgrade age to 9 days but reducing daily earnings to 15%. As I said earlier there are several reports of delayed payments here and even though I consider these activities as positive thing which could possibly make this program stronger but as experience usually shows such changes and promises rarely help. I recommend holding off with upgrading here for some time until situation clears out and if it actually manages to recover and get back on prompt payments as promised. Situation should become quite clear within this week. |
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Surfice was downgraded to 3 stars because of increasing reports of delayed or nonpayments made by them. Recently forum was removed to prevent negative feedback from members. All my payments were paid so far and I am in profits with it since I never compounded but I wouldn't recommend upgrading in this program at this point. Risk is just too high that we won't see any payments from it anymore.
Also KnightGoldSurf is now down to 2 stars as Nate hasn't resumed paying as he promised recently and it's just been too long since last payment for any hope that it will recover. |
| 24.04.2006 |
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This is unusual addition to my list. I usually add new programs with only 4 stars because usually programs are started by unknown admins with no proven reputation and once they prove their reputation I only then add 5th star. But eDataSurf I added directly into my 5 star category because this is creation of Ramesh who is known and reputable expert in autosurfing industry and owner of information site eDataMerge. I frequently follow his page which is constantly updated with new information about respectable programs which have been carefully selected. I consider this an honest admin who has earned his reputation already and now is starting his own autosurf program. Consider this as another DadnDaves scenariou where Dave approximately year ago stared his own program after earning good reputation with his information site. Site is medium risk with 2.1% daily ROI and payouts are automatic and done weekly with 6 day delay. Surfing is manual but only 10 pages are required per day which makes it intensive value for ads in rotation. All the requirements for a good surfsite in my opinion have been implemented here. Did I mention it just started yesterday? Well this is unique chance to join a program which is just started but already has good reputation. So this one is highly recommended for your diversification portfolio. |
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Fifth payment from currently one of top programs CompactSurf. Recent bonus payout request allowed me to request an early cash out for this month schedule which was paid within 6 hours after request. Appears I had missed the link counting for this program href and this caused it to not count visitor interest for this site resulting in last place for it at popularity rank which prevented CS from reaching top programs. I fixed this now and within a week popularity stats for this should be appropriate as well. I expect it to get into top 3 by next friday. |
| 23.04.2006 |
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Sorcex today opened their doors for for new members again. They have been almost daily paying me small ref commissions and in few days I will be receiving first package payout. At this time I consider this one of the best non surfing opportunities so if you are haven't yet joined it try it out. Has good variable daily returns based on sports arbitrage trading which I am currently considering to do myself and provide my research results to you as well. This opening might not be for long because it is planned for short time so don't miss out. |
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12th payment from PhoenixSurf for 189$ was paid with some delay but still within 48 hours after expiry. Delay they explain with server move and some script problems related to upgrade packages which were solved quite promptly and delay was almost not noticable if they wouldn't announce all those issues that were takec care of.
PhoenixSurf is planning to go same path as AlientTrust did with their withdraw option which means replacing currently available e-gold as withdraw option with Virtual Money card. Umm my first thought was this sux. I am so used to using e-gold for all operations and all these attempts to replace e-gold so far have ended badly and etc. But when I think more about it this might turn out differently. Main reason why AlientTrust went this route was to remove risk of loosing money in any processor which became vital after Stormpay scandal. I do agree that it is critical to secure funds and even though e-gold currently is most reliable it isn't protected against hacker attacks and AlientTrust recently faced another attack. Seems PhoenixSurf is also dealing with some hackers right now when you look at their recent e-mail where they remind us about their e-gold account number.
So what is Virtual Money you may ask. It is just one of debit cards offered worldwide. Reason why this was chosen by currently 2 top programs in industry mainly is because members can have their cashouts received on this card and funds will be transfered into them using bank wires which means funds will be kept outside any money processor in safest place you can think of - bank account. No hacker can get into these without traces. What I don't like about this is that members will have no option of reinvesting received money without hassle of transfering money back to e-gold but there is a possibility that both programs will allow funding using VM which might remove this problem. Another problem I see is possibly requiring separate card for each program but this is uncertain at this time as well and if they allow adding existing card and not require purchasing new one I will gladly use one I purchased at AlientTrust. And last but not least problem I see is that VM is based in Texas (Intgold, EMO and etc) and at this time has no licence for money transmitting outside state which is quite important problem because of which mentioned money processors were closed. So in conclusion this change might be for the best after all but only if VM don't get into trouble with licence issues. I will now try to watch this change and report more if I find anything new. |
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Also I received third payment of 30$ from Reliable-Investment Hyip from other opportunities listing. I received it within 1 day after request and this one is now in profit zone so will be slowly increasing it's level from now on. |
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WiredSurf is now downgraded to 4 stars because of several delayed payment reports. They recently started some change plans with increased ROI and shorter withdrawal time but all that was just promises which at this time haven't been kept. Selective payments scenariou is currently used here. Situation should become more clear in coming week but meanwhile I recommend holding your upgrades with this one. |
| 21.04.2006 |
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Well today is Friday again and I updated members data for each program and updated top listings with this fresh data. Biggest growth award still goes to PhoenixSurf which this week was even increased by 30% compared to previous week or in numbers 3201 more members compared to 2139 last week. At this time there is no program that can come even close to this growth pace. This even caused need for server upgrade because cuurent server couldn't handle traffic levels anymore.
CompactSurf is still trailing and also had increase in membership growth by 15%. I am quite glad to see that AlientTrust plans to replace e-gold by VM card withdrawal didn't affect membership growth and it even increased slightly. Biggest improvement was coming from WiredSurf because they doubled their weekly growth from around 500 to 1000 members joined per week after easter holidays and it seems their recent activities are already making improvements they were looking for.
As for growth relative to membership total numbers newcomer 14dailygold has done better than others with 20% relative growth. Eyesurfer recently announced they are finishing their first phase of accepting new members and will close new signups for some time. Appears this was initially planned already.
Overall improvement award goes to Total Rune that has managed to reach top 5 within first week in my list which shows quite good potential for further growth. Their Alexa traffic levels have also doubled over last week and it slowly is returning to levels it had before Stormpay scandal.
So in conclusion I can just say that top 3 still is improving fast and CompactSurf is slowly catching up with them. Rest of programs are quite far from these and their place is changing almost every day with the payments coming and popularity changing. In my opinion this just proves the confidence in those 4 programs and that these will be still paying for weeks to come. |
| 20.04.2006 |
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Yesterday as scheduled ended 15 day period for Naked Wealth investment. This 2 week period was worth 20% on my investment which makes ROI average of 1.3% daily and I received my first biweekly payment right on time. For more details on this investment program check Other opportunities page. |
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Added few more bad ip entries to Bad IP list page reported by members of those sites who did some test spends which were never paid. Some sites gave links to other potentially dirty programs using reverse ip of the host. So if you find any program not paying anymore or never paying please send me info and I will add it to bad ip list.
Latest addtion publicsurf.com showed 2 related surf sites and fact that it was hosted on server with 203 other websites obviously showed no intention to run it for long time since it wouldn't be able to perform well with membership increase and incresed traffic levels. Surfsites that are planned for longterm are never placed on shared hosts but use dedicated servers and quite often even require upgraded servers once they reach too high traffic levels. That's what is happening with PhoenixSurf these days. Membership growth and traffic levels made this server to become very slow and now they need to move to more powerful one. Admins announced surf holidays meanwhile until tommorow.
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| 19.04.2006 |
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Added 2 more programs to my list. Prosurfer has been around for long time and recently made changeover to new site. Has earned quite solid traffic level in Alexa ranks as well. Reports show it still is paying promptly. The trick with free cashout only once per month and other requests with fee is quite smart move and is combination of fasttrack and monthly payout.
Surf2Prosperity has been around for 2 months and in terms is similiar to 12dailypro model of 12 sites per day for 12 days and 12% daily. Cashout procedure is only exeption with limit of max 2 requests per month which reduces their ROI because of required waiting.
Both are not the newest programs but have good reports on many monitor listings with top places in some.
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It appears that some programs are starting to drop AlertPay payment processor. As I checked it still is working and hopefully performing transactions but it appears their customer service and issue solving is quite poor and admins choose not to go into trouble of manual payouts because AP doesn't allow mass pay or has problems with it. Well once again E-gold is the best choise with their protection from creditcards fraud where people buy upgrades get payments and later chargeback initial upgrades which has brought down already several payment processors like IntGold, Stormpay, EMO and others. E-gold doesn't allow direct funding with credit cards so fraudsters can't cheat them with this quite popular method.
But still don't keep too large amounts in e-gold as hackers just love to harrass people with phishing mails, fake clone sites, trojans and other ways to get your account details and get your money. I added new information about keeping your e-gold account safe in E-money section so check it out and earn your money safely and securely.
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Well E-gold price has gone insane as it has raised same amount during last month as it did during last 7 months. Last summer it was around 450$ per ounce and in beginning of March it was at 540$ per ounce. Well guess what it is now at 638$ per ounce. This means if I had 10 ounces of e-gold in my account since last summer I would have made profit of almost 2000$ just for having e-gold. Isn't this another reason for buying some gold while dollar value or any other currency value drops against gold value? It's like low risk high return investment to buy e-gold and use it for autosurfing or other earning options.
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| 18.04.2006 |
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WiredSurf announced about plans to go private at disclosed number of members. Hmm in my opinion this looks more like a test if they can increase the growth pace with such move than actual plans to go private. This private going thing so far hasn't been good sign for any program in hyip/autosurf business except those with very low ROI. This time I have mixxed feelings about this decision. They recently also announced possible changes to the program regarding daily ROI which will be increased (this is first!) possibly and introducing something like fasttrack payments procedure. Anyway I see a lot of activities on side of administration to improve the program and it is in my opinion positive sign and even this private going plan is put in semicarefully by saying it could happen but that doesn't mean it will ... |
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This is first payment of 8.8$ from Total Rune which I received within 2 business days after request. Total rune cashout policy allows requesting cash out once a week when min cash out level is reached.
Also I received finally my second payment of 41$ from Reliable-Investment Hyip from other opportunities listing. I received it within 1 day after request but hassle was with requesting it because somehow withdraw page didn't work for me or more exactly submit button on it just didn't do anything. I was contacting support but they took quite a long time to fix it. Now it's finally fixed and I can continue working with this program as my next payout shortly will put me in profits. |
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This is another long planned addition to my site and this time it is simply FAQ page or information on frequently asked questions. I will be appending new topics here quite frequently and You may submit your questions to the e-mail listed on bottom of each page on my site.
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14dailygold at first glance to terms seems another clone of XXdaily masses but when looked a bit more closely I found heavily modified standard script with quite good daily communication from admin and very smooth navigation. Program is hosted on Dutch server and whois is protected by Privacy guard service. Program is over 2 weeks old and growth so far has been quite good. It is in the early stages and already passed first wave of payments. So far only positive feedback about it can be found in forums. Roi is very high risk but it also means quick ride into profits which at this stage has very good chances. |
| 17.04.2006 |
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CompactSurf host is under DDOS attack and because of this surfing is not possible until problem is resolved. Admin of CompactSurf announced today as surfing holiday. Site is expected to be accessible again by tommorrow. |
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11th payment from PhoenixSurf for 262$ was paid within 24 hours after expiry. PS is still on top of things and paying promptly. |
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This is my first payment of 141$ from 14dailyplus which was paid during Easter holidays and was about to become 6th business day but came as a nice surprise egg during non business days :)
Well this payment adds good value to this program and they jumped in top 10 from rank 10 last Friday to rank 5 right after current favorite hotties. Getting higher might be harder for some time now and followers are not far behind but for now it has joined top 5 programs in my listings.
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Quite an interesting new fact about PhoenixSurf - they are now listed by SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) as restricted shareholder after all the legal work and business model reshaping they have done. You can check that listing under this SEC website link. Search for phrase "Phoenixsurf.com" as this is quite large document to read and isn't just about PS but about many companies listed by SEC. If someone doesn't know SEC made quite a influence on autosurf industry few months ago when they got court order against 12dailypro and all autosurf programs suddenly started attempts to follow their regulations and recommendations. After these news it seems that PhoenixSurf is the only program that actually did it and has officially enlisted by SEC. I am not sure about the affect of this but in my opinion this quite an improvement for any autosurf program towards legality of program to be officially listed by SEC if you know what I mean. Other legit programs might want to follow same path now. |
| 16.04.2006 |
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My fourth and largest payment so far from quite fast growing CompactSurf. They recently announced that shortly new payment processor owned by them will be launched. Unlike other cases I don't think this move could mean anything bad because of one very important reason - it will not be exclusive option but just an alternative to existing ones. Members will still have a choise to use e-gold or other preferable options. |
| 15.04.2006 |
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FastProfitsClub is quite similiar to 14dailyplus especially since the change to manual surf today. This is one of main reasons I decided to add it because as I already mentioned several times autosurf program with manual surf is more valuable advertisement wise and will bring in more advertisers money for surfers to earn which means longer life for the program and more money earned for involved. Program has quite good reports regarding prompt payments and gives frequent updates via forum announcements and members section news. Payments are made as usual within 7 business days after expiry of units. Program is high risk end with quite quick return of investments. Program is quite new - barely 2 months old so still has potential to grow. |
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This new addition is in low risk category and is for those looking for good advertising opportunity more than quick profits. Surf-Down-Under has multi level advertiser packages which offer earnings in range of 0.5%-0.8% daily but their advertising offers are wide and will be quite a good surprise for advertisers. This program is still offering paypal as option which nowdays is very rare thing and for those of you who feel paypal is only legit argument this site is for you I guess. I never considered paypal as main factor for program's legitimacy especially since paypal started suspending accounts of every autosurf program unless they proved that they follow SEC regulations. Curently only attribute that makes into any of top 10 lists is it's age which is 4th oldest program in my list at this time. |
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Another prompt payment from AlientTrust for 105$ yesterday after request. But there are some bad news as well which made me review it's rating and downgrade it to 4 stars until Vince does reverse this decision as well at least I hope he will. Alientrust from now on will only offer withdrawal option through debit card they gonna sell to members. Reason behind this is Alientrust administration doesn't want to risk their money in some 3rd party money processors like e-gold, Alertpay and Uniclear. Well imo this is bull shit but considering their recent problems with hacker who accessed their e-gold and stole some money again (!) this could be reasonable but who knows if that wasn't staged as well. Anyway there are just too many obstacles in the way to get paid now - survey, document submission for verification and now only option for withdrawal is card you first need to purchase and then wait until it comes into your mail. I still consider this one of best autosurf programs but this was just too much of paranoia act. |
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WiredSurf is still keeping their promises for voting club members to pay within 48 hours after upgrade expiry and this is my 6th payment already. |
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It seems that I joined Millionettes at a bad moment. Autosurf programs that have huge increase of members base within first few weeks usually face the traffic limit of host they use and need to eventually move to dedicated server. This happened to this program as well with their extrafast growth but appears they have chosen poor quality host for their dedicated server. Is it true or not we'll see in few days but making change for more than a week isn't a good sign for future of program. I downgraded this one to 3 stars which is not recommended temporary until situation clears out. |
| 13.04.2006 |
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Well one of biggest changes to my site has been implemented, tested and added to site under link that replaced Alexa rank which is now sublink for Top 10 section. This addition required quite a lot of background work and changes which took a lot of my time and I didn't do much of updates during last 2 weeks but from now on we will have quite good tool for analysing the situation in the industry and progress of top programs. This is quite unique feature of autosurf monitor you won't find anywhere else. It is customised fully on my ideas and will be flexibly changed and improved over time as I think of new ideas I can add in it.
So what is the major change I have added you may ask. It's multilevel ranking for autosurf programs I am listing in my site. Multilevel because it also features top of the tops which puts all ranks into one combined ranking. Currently I have various 10 top listings but I already plan to add 2-3 more in few days. If you will notice new ranks have feature of comparing the status of particular program with previous week ranks which will give more clear picture if particular program is on the path of progressing in particular field or has regression signs. Most of data will be changed on a weekly basis except popularity and payment information. Popularity rank is quite unique and will represent popularity of each program by measuring amount of unique clicks on each of programs. This will be measured using data over last 7 days. I now plan to analyse frequently situation in ranks in my newspage so watch this column as well when checking ranks page.
Current situation in ranks clearly shows 2 leaders in industry which are PhoenixSurf and AlienTrust and this just proved the fact that my favorite 2 programs are indeed best of best. PhoenixSurf is still growing fast and their recent introduction of new sites for business expansion seem quite professionally made. Leaders are followed by WiredSurf and fast growing CompactSurf which I think will quite soon catch 2 leaders. Quite awkward situation appeared with KnightGoldSurf which paced in from rank 13 last week into rank 7 now but I can only explain this with their recent inactive members cleanup which dropped significantly members base and made their growth as negative figures and now when it again is in positive sign they gained several places. I still don't recommend it because admin is facing problems with paying members and this possibly might be on final stages right now. Don't look at their progress as good sign because week ago they did same drop out of top 10 and now just returned to same position they were 2 weeks ago in my ranks.
Another program that made quite good progress this week is Eyesurf which rushed into top 10 and is most popular program during last 7 days at this time and also has quite high relative growth rate which almost matches CompactSurf pace so I do think this one could be next rising star.
I am quite excited with this new addition and I hope you will like it as well. Feedback is welcome and if you have any ideas what kind of rankings to add don't hesitate to write me to the e-mail listed on bottom of this page. Also if you know of any program that could potentially be in top 10 let me know and I will check it out. I have already several programs in preperation for addition but want to do the usual research first to make sure those are not short term programs or have dirty records. |
| 12.04.2006 |
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10th payment from PhoenixSurf for 123$ was paid within 12 hours after expiry. Nice pace and I instantly can reinvest part of it which reduces risk to a minimum. I just love that fasttrack option. I have seen reports that non fast track payments take up to 6-7 days which means ROI for those is almost 0.55% lower because for fasttrack it is the max possible 1.875% (15% profit within 8 days) but for non fast track option waiting reduces it down to 1.3% (20% profit within 15 days). This means with fasttrack I can get almost 30% within the same period I am waiting for nonfasttrack payment to come. Non fasttrack can only be effective if it is less than 4 days waiting. |
| 10.04.2006 |
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I have spent last 2 weeks working on major upgrade for my site which will involve dynamic multilevel ranking system for all programs I have listed and I plan to finish it by end of this week. It is actually done already but I am doing some testing before putting it live. Changes required some coding added to my pages and if you at some point see some php or mysql errors please let me know as I might miss some bugs.
All these changes now will allow me to increase the amount of sites I can feature on my list and what's more important will allow us to follow their major attributes progress compared to other programs. While doing this testing I already started increasing number of sites featured here and first pack of new sites include 2 european based sites which are French Autosurf4pro and Swedish Millionettes. First one has been around for few months and gained quite good reputation already but second one is fresh creation which already reached over 3000 members base and this is quite impressive start for few weeks old program. Both sites have few unique features I didn't see in other programs which gives good first impressions and in my opinion both have quite good potential. Standard whois and reverse ip checks showed clean record and no privacy protections.
Another addition Total Rune is an old program but recently made reconstruction because of Stormpay scandal and as I watched it has regained partially the momentum it had before february. What makes it even better in my eyes is their recent change into manual surf which I consider as healthy move for any autosurf program because it increases ads value and already during testing of my multilevel ranks I have noticed that top places are taken by manual surf programs which just proves my conclusions about manual surfing. |
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I received few mails with concerns about 14dailyplus which is labeled by Investdaddy monitor as "problem". Well I haven't received my payment yet as well but my 7 business days wait is not yet up and will be by end of this week only. Also I noticed voters at InvestDaddy are confused about this rating because they are reporting paid still every day. Program itself recently went over server change and had busy time in script changes as well because it is now another manual surf program and just as I mentioned in earlier news I consider this a very good move for any surf program. Recent news announcement last friday was mentioning that all upgrades that expired before 1st of April are paid now. Taking all of this in account I don't think it stopped paying but just has been busy with the changes and because of this some payments were delayed few days later than usual but are still within 7 business day rule. |
| 09.04.2006 |
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This is 9th payment from PhoenixSurf for 181$. They recently introduced new site with pixel advertising option and seems are expanding their business. |
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Sorcex made an announcement today that they will go private once they reach 1750 members. Currently membership is 1250 large so it shouldn't take too much time for this to happen. Well another program chooses to limit their membership for better control. Considering they already have daily limit for deposits and program became quite popular within few weeks I am not surprised with such turn of events. Team doing the trading isn't large and to manage the increasing amount of members and funds they would need to expand as well but this is not what they planned. In my opinion another proof they are doing what they say which is arbitrage trading. My recommendation is to join now even if you still have doubts about it and deposit once you feel comfortable. They also introduced option of withdrawal through bank wire which skips withdrawal fees from e-gold and also shows they don't plan to leave as bank wire is direct connection to owners of program. |
| 08.04.2006 |
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Added Eyesurfer to my listing of autosurf programs and I am quite excited with first impressions from this site. It is using a script I have never seen in any autosurf site before. At first it might be a bit confusing since you don't see the usual layout of your members section but it still is intuitive interface and has all the usual elements. Script is working very smoothly and seems is not involving too much sql queries while loading which makes navigation quite fast. ROI is bordering on medium and high risk leaning more into high risk direction. Payout method is the usual 7 business days after upgrade expiry which is quite popular for most new programs now and I think it is most effective one. Anyway check it out and find out yourself that this one is sticking out of the crowd of surfsites and has good potential to join current top programs in industry. |
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As expected by schedule AlientTrust paid me 67$ yesterday after request and now this was payment to a verified member because as I mentioned yesterday I got verified within few days. By the way for those of you who didn't yet rush in and fax those documents it might turn out that you won't need afterall. Appears IRS doesn't need such sensitive info as AT requested like social security number for US citizens and other sensitive data for international members. This was pointed out by one of members in their forum and AT is now confirming this information once more with IRS since they were told otherwise and if it's true they will cancel this mandatory requirement. |
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Added some more info on E-gold security issues in payment processors page. Many are very concerned about their funds being safe in E-gold so I shared with my experience and recommendations for making sure funds are as safe as possible. Also if you want to find out how protected you are from phishing e-mails you might want to check out this quiz which will show several phishing and legal e-mail examples and you need to decide which ones are fraud or legit e-mails from original issuers. I admit that I didn't reach 100% score in it. I failed in one of questions but I don't consider it a big problem because my mistake was considering legit e-mail as fraud and I wouldn't click on such link anyway in e-mail that was shown. So try it out and find out how prepared you are against those phishing e-mails.
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| 07.04.2006 |
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My Sorcex investment is still in the 20 day lock period but my first referral commission was paid automatically to e-gold today. |
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Second monthly payment from small forex trainers club owned program Netinvest Autosurf this time for 40$. It is semiprivate now because intended 500 upgraded members were reached few weeks ago but new signups are still allowed as far as I know but offer is different for those joining now. |
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AlientTrust verification process is not going smoothly as planned initially because at first they were overhelmed with e-mail submissions and decided to disable this option and leave only fax verifications available. Then fax broke down for 4-5 hours and they had to replace fax machine and added 2 more fax machines to make faxing in easier. Then laptop that held all e-mail verifications was infected with virus and all those e-mail verified members had to resubmit their documents. In any case I am glad I decided not to rush in with verification process in first days and wait and see how this all turns out. Week after announcement of new procedure I faxed my documents to them and just 2 days later I was set to verified member status. Well even though they had some problems communication with members was good and it seems waiting to be verified isn't that long. Now let's see if my today's request will be paid as usual on Fridays. |
| 06.04.2006 |
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This is my first payment from quietly working for almost a year program OnWebSurf which originally had the multi business setup but wasn't promoted as much as other programs because of it's low ROI and longterm model. |
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My third payment from this European rising star CompactSurf which now offers also business packages including offshore swiss accounts as their new branch of compactnetwork. Their growth rate is quite impressive and so far very prompt payments within 24 hours after request which are limited to just 3 per month. |
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WiredSurf is keeping their promises for voting club members to pay within 48 hours after upgrade expiry and this is my 5th payment already from this program which is running just bit over 6 weeks. |
| 05.04.2006 |
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Naked Wealth is pretty quick with their referral commission payments. As I compared batch numbers it was just matter of minutes after downline deposits and I received my first payments from them. |
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I recently have paid a lot of attention into researching sports arbitrage trading and possible return values it can generate and I must say I am quite impressed with what I found out. It isn't easy and requires some training and time but when you have the resources and knowledge it can be very rewarding income opportunity. Until I can provide you with further details I decided to join and introduce another new non autosurf program Sorcex which makes their returns mainly on sports arbitrage trading. Returns are variable just like in FX-Experts but paid also on weekends since many sports events happen on weekends and also can go up to 3% per day. Average returns are 1.5-2% which is quite high but I can confirm that it is sustainable with arbitrage trading. Best part about this business is that if you place your bets correctly there are no risks of loosing except human error when placing the bets. This program might give you some small insight into this industry and when I will provide more details how to do it yourself you will be somewhat familiar with it already. Min investment here is 25$ and current max limit per day is 300$. They also have daily limit after reaching which further investments are not possible that day and you need to wait for next day to invest again. Currently investing window is open for only 3-4 hours after host date change which happens approx at 10pm GMT. If you put your mouse pointer over that red triangle in right bottom corner it will show GMT time. As I understand this is done mostly to control the cashflow incoming each day and manage their funds in bookmaker accounts which in my opinion proves that they are doing legit business unlike other programs which have no daily limits and just take whatever is deposited to them. Also I noticed their members section doesn't work correctly in some version of browsers so if you find blank page in front of you after login try to use different browser or update browser version you are using. |
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My 8th payment from PhoenixSurf for 335$ as usual paid within 24 hours because of fasttrack option. |
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Ozsurf admin Brad decided to close his program and refund everyone all the money he has invested from members funds. If he does what he says it will be an unusual refund procedure where even those in profit will receive their upgrades back. Quite sad to see good program close but it seems recent hacker attacks on his program and damage done by Stormpay was unrecoverable. Or may be it's the only way to get away from hacker who is stalking this program. Either way this one was quite good program.
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| 04.04.2006 |
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For those of you who liked the ride on GoldenRocks HYIP I found a new program Naked Wealth which is quite similiar and offers variable return in range of 15-30% for 15 days for min investment of 25$ and 7-10$ for min 10$ plan. Their latest biweekly cycle had reports of nice 23% return on payments received by members. There is no membership site for which you need to sign up and login but just information site that is same approach as Goldenrocks had. Deposits are made directly to their e-gold accounts which are seperate for each plan. When making a payment you can put e-gold account for referrer and your own e-mail in memo field. If you want to get your share of referral commission then you have to put my e-gold number in memo field while making a deposit. After that contact me as explained in this page. |
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Auto-paid.com bites the dust just week after creation. Well enough is enough. Such high risk programs are not worth even the time spent on them let alone donations made to them. This program proved the fact of daily compounding killer which I was aware of but never learned to see in practice since I never joined such high risk programs before. Fact is if program offers withdrawal daily without any limits it is pure ponzi and will only live until ratio of withdrawn amounts are less than 70-80% of deposited amounts. I thought if you follow the rule of getting in early you can make some profits while the program lasts but I was wrong. In fact auto-paid.com would last some days longer if not for some large investments that were made into it. Withdrawaks on those sucked in all the previous deposits and ratio went from 30-40% into 70% just in one day. From now on I won't join and list any program that offers daily withdraw option without any limits. And I recommend you avoid such shortlife programs as well as it seems making profits in such is not possible because of short time it exists.
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Looks like EMO payment processor which was potentially quite good alternative some time ago is now officially dead and not returning. Court order has been issued to transfer their assets to a receiver who will initiate refund process for account owners. Here is a link to scanned copy of court order in this matter. |
| 03.04.2006 |
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My second payment from Surfice was paid within 24 hours after request that is allowed few days in beginning of each month. This program has surprisingly survived both Stormpay and EMO crash. Stormpay they added just 2 weeks before problems with Stormpay started and EMO was their choise after Stormpay crash but also not for long time so affects seem quite small if any. |
| 01.04.2006 |
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Another month has passed and to sum it up it wasn't yet good and stable as I was hoping it to be because several very good programs that were affected by Stormpay continued to have problems and either reorganised or restarted which anyway did mean loosing previous investments. There were few good newcomers to fill the space that was left by 12dailypro but still after the incident trust in autosurfing has faded because most even trusted programs appeared to be fooling most members around with the claims of legit business. And now this industry is treated almost in same way as HYIP which means most people just don't care about advertising part of autosurfing. Well I still think it has future and just needs some reshaping like it is tried by some. For internet business bringing traffic to your website, product or whatever you want to promote is like putting a billboard on central street of some big city. Using it correctly is what is required for health of autosurfing business as well. Value of ads increasing should bring in more advertisers money which would ensure more audience coming and so on. I still consider best model of autosurf program should be manual surf (yes manual not autosurf) with limited amount of credits earned by viewing other sites but majority of advertising credits is bought when upgrading. Currently there are two programs that almost reached optimal paid to surf model in my eyes but still lacking one of components I mentioned. Alientrust is much closer to it because it is manual and credits can be obtained only by purchasing upgrades and amount of credits depends on level of upgrade which ensures interest of advertisers to invest more to advertise their sites. Another program which is close to that model is PhoenixSurf currently top rated program in my list which only lacks the credit addition depending on upgrade level. This is serious flaw for it as this reduces interest of advertisers to put in more money because it doesn't matter how much you upgrade it doesn't affect amount of credits you get but only the payment you will receive. Well good news is that they already consider this option added.
In any case March was much better month compared to February and in my opinion recovery process is almost over and industry should become more stable during April and more potentially good programs should come out of hordes of new programs created each day during next few weeks. Meanwhile I will continue to look into other online earning opportunities besides autosurfing and provide you with reviews on those. Currently I am evaluating 2 options which involve more effort and knowledge than just starting the autosurf script for daily slide show but at least in this case you will not be depending on those behind autosurf or hyip programs and their skill to sustain those ROI they offer. During next few weeks I will give more details about both of those industries and possibly prepare some guide on how to start with those once I have learned my own way into them. |
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Another payment I received yesterday from PhoenixSurf for 505$. Program is just exploding with the growth which you can notice in my yesterdays review. I will be adding detailed due diligence report on their program shortly so you can see more clear picture why I have chosen this program as top surfsite in my list and trusted with highest upgrade level in it. |
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And again by schedule AlientTrust paid me 62$ yesterday after request even though I haven't yet verified with them but I consider to do it next week. I know this company is real and will be adding my own detailed due diligence report on it. |
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Requested my second instant payment from Auto-Paid and as expected received
payment of 2.4$ instantly. As I already added to main list comments I recommend watching their drawdown percentage. I expect that problems with payments could start when it comes close to 70%. Don't forget that this is very high risk program and I don't expect it to last longer than 30-40 days. |
| 31.03.2006 |
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Here is another high risk program Auto-Paid with 5% ROI that I joined to get in make the profit, ride on those for some time and get out once it goes bad.
I like the design and smooth navigation of this one. Payments are made automatic and you even are given
the e-gold batch id right after you request the payment. I went to check my e-gold account and payment of 1.5$ was already there with batch id provided.
As you probably guessed it allows daily instant withdraw which means after you request it there is no admin verifications or waiting payments are instantly paid into your e-gold account. This also means you can get your 15% from your first upgrade right after you finish surfing.
Yes I know the daily payments are killer thing for hyip and autosurf programs which mean very short life of such programs but if you join early in such and testspends are paid it's quite a good chance to make a quick buck from these. From the experience with those shortlife HYIP if site design is of good quality and basic whois research doesn't reveal any dirt then chances of getting into profit are quite good. This is the case for Auto-Paid
and seeing how it is promoted over several other autosurfs already I think people like it and growth will be fast. Don't forget that I still offer the 50% share on ref commission if you join in my downline which can bring your profits even higher especially in these high percentage sites. For more details check this page. |
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1cent2surf and 2cent2surf are now official non paying sites. I was expecting those to run a bit longer but it seems admin was too greedy and took the loot before reaching point of fund reduction. As you have noticed during recent weeks I have added several very high risk programs with ROI above 3-4%. Well it appears people aren't afraid from high risks and accept the possible losses and like the walk on edge
of loosing because the short return is quite appealing. I made this conclusion from the e-mails I am getting where most of you tell me those low percentage sites are not that interesting unlike high risk ones and ask me to review mostly high return sites. Well I start to agree with many that getting high returns in shorter terms is better than stretching the wait for several months to realise you don't get into profits anyway.
In other words it's better to try getting 20-50% profit in 10 days than 50%-100% in 6 months because even if it's higher risk and you loose some but in the end with experienced approach and careful selection you can get even higher profit within those 6 months. I still don't plan to join every autosurf out there that is created every day but now I adjusted my strategy and increased my quota for higher risk programs. It doesn't mean I won't join lower risk ones when those come but at this time I haven't seen any worth the time. Do remember tho that with higher risk programs the strategy of riding on profits becomes even more important because you have to consider fact that site will not be there for long and compounding will make you loose. It's important to plan ahead when to upgrade and withdraw.
For eg if we consider latest addition Auto-Paid then getting into profit and riding on it would mean putting in for 10$ surfing 5-7 days and withdrawing daily since it allows it to get those payments daily and only after 5th day considering to upgrade more. Since their min upgrade is 10$ and it is barely few days old I plan to upgrade once more on 5th day just before surfing when I have withdrawn 60% of my upgrade which would allow me break even on 9th day. Next upgrade on 10th day and so on each 5 days. By 15th day I would be riding on profits since money I use to upgrade is taken from profits I make with this site. |
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Program growth report
As usual on friday I report results of growth progress of listed sites and how good they performed compared to each other.
Top 5 by member increase
1. PhoenixSurf had 2345 more members
2. CompactSurf with 1833
3. AlientTrust with 1611
4. WiredSurf with 786
5. 14dailyplus with 429
Top 5 based on relative increase compared to total count of members
1. CompactSurf with 72.65%
2. 14dailyplus with 32.21%
3. PhoenixSurf with 15.83%
4. OzSurf with
11.64%
5. WiredSurf with 10.42%
As you can see compared to previous week CompactSurf has made the biggest progress and is not only loosing to PhoenixSurf in top 5 by members increase. PhoenixSurf is still going strong and it shows this week as well in the position in both top 5 listings. Dropout from previous week is 1cent2surf that stopped paying which resulted in growth reducing significantly. Yesterday added 14dailyplus has quite high relative growth rate. |
| 29.03.2006 |
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I added replacement for 1cent2surf that started to have paying problems. Newest addition to my list 14dailyplus has very high risk 4% ROI but has some unique features and was started in beginning of March. Their business model is different from 1cent2surf because you can receive your payment only after upgrade expires within 7 business days. This means longer life for program and now is as I call it golden time to join and try getting in profit because there has been enough time passed for first members to be paid and it is still new to live several weeks so we can get in profit with it. ROI is only 0.3% higher than 12dp had but business model is quite similiar. Why did I choose this one out of hordes of other similiar programs offering same high returns you may ask? Well I didn't just find it today. I was watching it for over a week already before I joined it and what I noticed is that growth of this program is over 100 members daily which makes it 50-60% members base growth weekly. If you will check my previous post on last Friday regarding members base you will understand what these numbers mean. Not many programs reach such good growth. But this factor was not the only one. They use SafePay as payment processor which is newcomer in the industry but I have read good reviews on it and recent interview with president of Safepay is given on their site which reveals several interesting things like why did Stormpay fail and what are plans for future. Anyway it comes recommended from other experts as well but remember that it's high ROI is in aggressive high risk zone and use caution with it. Use the strategy of getting in profit first and only then increasing your level further. |
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Second payment of 81$ from newest rising star CompactSurf was paid within 24 hours after request. You can request payments any time but only 3 times per month. Many experts say that their bank wire option is quite good sign of verified company under the legit business because unlike e-gold funding which is totally anonymous bank wire is traceable and any deposit made using this option leads to owners of account. So this proves they are not the usual autosurf program hiding behind
anonymous payment processor accounts but existing company with bank account. Unfortunately only amounts over 1000 are possible using bank wire but that is understandable because of the fees of bank wires it's not a good idea to process lower amounts. |
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As I suspected Vince from Alientrust came forward to members and announced that next payments will not be affected by verification procedure yet to allow members more time before getting verified. This is a good sign. Only problem I see now is most members still don't like the idea of providing their private info to semiknown company online. I did due diligence early this year on this program and found our that it traces to real company registered in US and I am not afraid to provide the info for verification but I can understand concerns of others. This could lead to decrease of members base for the program if decision is not reversed. |
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Thomas F. Lennon receiver of 12dailypro assets announced today that chargebacks against 12dailypro are allowed again now after court ruling for removing limitations that were given in beginning of March. This means if still haven't done your chargeback against Stormpay you can do it now. |
| 28.03.2006 |
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And another payment of 254$ from PhoenixSurf paid within 12 hours after request. I got to say if fasttrack keeps the 24 hour mark it might be better option afterall. Last 2 fasttrack payments came within 24 hours which makes considering the 5% loss daily ROI 1.6% but if you use non fasttrack option daily ROI is as low as 1.17-1.53% for 5-7 day waiting. So numbers are saying it's worth using fasttrack to make more profit faster by compounding your member level higher within shorter time. |
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Be careful with 1cent2surf and 2cent2surf sites now. As I initially mentioned these 2 are highest risk sites with very short lifetime expectations and it seems it has gone to the point where payouts might stop. Last payout for me came day later than usual and admin started some issue handling. Cashout option is now diabled which all together could mean it's time to pull out of this one and stop upgrading. I managed to make 75$ profit here using the half compounding strategy which means after payout upgrading with half of what was paid to increase the earning level but making profit all the time as well.
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PrivateOpps has decided to go private for some time. Reasons mentioned are problems they have encountered recently from hackers who are doing DDOS attacks and mass spam mail sending with their mail address which caused several providers to terminate contract with them for possible abuse. Well from experience I would say this isn't good sign. Mostly going private was good for lower risk programs like FeederFund but for such agressive risk program like PrivateOpps it reminds me of recent events with GoldenRocks which at first went private but then closed their shop. Well anyway joining it before it closes for new signups wouldn't hurt anyone because you don't need to pay to join and if later it continues to operate as usual instead of closing down you could even try to earn something. So don't miss the window. Some of contracts now have min of 50$ requirement so it has become more affordable HYIP. |
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One of top autosurf programs AlientTrust has decided to put their members through verification process before making any further payments. Well it wouldn't be so bad considering all previous changes made that were in tact with SEC regulations and recommendations but what I didn't like is the fact that it was decided without any notice and now even if you have large upgrade purchased you can't get a refund or payment on your previous earnings without verification. Not many feel comfortable providing such private information to some semiknown company from Texas especially internetional members. Well I would recommend to wait a bit before rushing in to send those verification documents as Vince is usually responsive and if members protest he changes the decisions to suit their needs and I hope this will be the case as well for those not willing to go through verification hassle. On the other hand this is another good move to reduce abuse from members and ensuring company is involving verified members who have signed contract. |
| 27.03.2006 |
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Unusually fast came my next payment from WiredSurf for 86$ which was paid on 2nd business day after expiry. They just announced that priority of payments will be going to those who post their payments on their forum and in autosurf monitors that are listing Wiredsurf. This is an interesting approach which I haven't yet seen in other autosurf programs. To become one of prioritised members you need to go to forum and sign under voting club section by replying to sticky note with your members id. After that you need to post information about your payment to same forum "Payment posts" section and also post your votes in list of rating sites. |
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Another payment of 16$ from highest risk program in my list 1cent2surf which cam a bit later than usual. Does it mean they are starting to get low on funds? Let's see how fast my bidaily request tomorrow will come. Their members growth is still rising though with each day averaging around 220 new members per day. |
| 26.03.2006 |
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Biggest news of today is that recently created money processor Auto-surf-money is closing down. Together with it ends the agony of previously known as good reputable autosurf site EprofitSurf because administration decided to refund everyone who was not in profit and restart operations from zero. Well they did quite good during February and paid as promised despite losses to Stormpay but their recent decisions and changes to business model after SEC ruling on 12dp went wrong way to go in my opinion. Many members were unhappy with those changes and the new feature of bonus click which nobody was ever able to click in time somehow was so annoying that I even didn't bother to click it. It's sad it went this far and I don't plan to rejoin it's new attempt. Good reputation has gone and it's quite hard to regain.
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Long waited payment from WiredSurf for 175$ which was paid on 5th business day after expiry. Also quite good news to members who used EMO because WiredSurf decided to honour all payments made despite unavailability of funds that were in EMO and take responsibility of choosing EMO instead of penalizing their members by withholding payments for upgrades made from EMO. This is very good news in my opinion because it proves their share of funds in EMO was too small to bother with holding those and recalculating all commissions and payments to be made because of such decision. |
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I received another prompt payment from OzSurf today within 24 hours after request. Brad still continues to impress me with the responsive and professional handling of his program. Recent activies with cleanup of sites in rotation and new offers to use earned credits for banner impressions are quite good for advertisers. |
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Made few improvements to my Alexa statistic rank page to reflect more exact rank numbers. As you will notice there are some odd things like currently one of top Alexa ranked programs AussieEarners is in bottom of my list and I even not recommend it at this time because of problems with payments etc. Well it's because AE is one of oldest still living programs that I am still part of and has around 50000 members that bring constant traffic and this keeps them high in the ranks. Other programs that have few high spikes are just low on membership and such spikes happen mostly when history is recorded at higher traffic moments which may vary for each program over time. Today I added button with exact ranking place at the moment for particular program. If you refresh the page after few minutes you will notice that the place has changed for most programs. |
| 25.03.2006 |
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FX-Experts has made total of 3.5% profit during this trading week which is 0.5% above their average. Wednesday was quite successful one and brought 1.1% alone. I added my recent weekly payouts from last 3 weeks to other opportunities listing. So far all the experts are quite excited about this HYIP program because many additional research results have been confirming real trading done under this program. |
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Another payment of 126$ from currently top program in business PhoenixSurf was paid within 5 business days. This was non fasttrack payment and as you can see difference is just 3 days but it saves those 5-8%. |
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Just as scheduled AlientTrust paid me 80$ yesterday after request. |
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I received 2 payments of 11$ and 24$ from recently added very high risk program 1cent2surf during recent days and those were paid within 24 hours after request. Program is quite new with aggressive return level but it brings very high risk with it so be very careful. As you see from yesterdays research it is still growing rapidly so chances of getting paid are quite good at this time. |
| 24.03.2006 |
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PrivateOpps is still facing some exorcist attacks but is not giving up by paying them. First it was several DDOS attacks and now is something new I haven't seen but as I have researched is newest tool of extortion masters to spam with e-mails using targets domain. This leads into complains from spammed people and DNS service termination of this domain eventually. They are currently working on fixing this because already 2 DNS services terminated their domain service and now PrivateOpps is looking to install their own DNS service so they are not depending on outside service. If main domain is not available you can try http://209.249.221.43/105861/ which is direct connection to their server while domain is not registered in any DNS. I verified this addy and was able to login and request my first payout of 9$ which was paid within 24 hours. Although this link also is under DDOS attack and might be unavailable at some moments but don't worry just try it later. There is no surfing required so it's not much to worry about since money is still being earned for you and this site just allows access to it.
Some might think it's another program trying to run with our money. Well yeah it might be but from my experience I can say probability of this is quite low. To confirm that I requested that payout and it was paid out without delays. Also all signs of site not accessible are just as admin is saying so I trust this actually is the case of extortion to be handled. Not an unusual thing in HYIP btw and has been dealt with many times just requires some time. |
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Today is friday and I will sum up my results of members base progress research I made last week for programs I have listed. Details of each program progress you can find in main page under details column in brackets. Numbers represent current members count updated today and difference in bracket since last friday or amount of members that joined during last 7 days.
Top 5 based on members joined:
1. PhoenixSurf had 2951 more members
2. AlientTrust with 1959
3. 1cent2surf with 1321
4. CompactSurf with 1271
5. WiredSurf with 1057
Top 5 based on relative increase compared to total count of members
1. 1cent2surf with increase of 61.82%
2. CompactSurf with 50.38%
3. PhoenixSurf with 19.93%
4. OzSurf with
19.36%
5. WiredSurf with 14.01%
Why do I collect such information you may ask. Well this info can be quite useful along with alexa ratings and as I have noticed nobody else does compare these numbers over time but this is quite useful information because it shows how popular particular programs are and from experience I have learned that these numbers can also represent how successful particular program is. Both of these can be very good arguments for how long a particular program will continue to run which is main question many are wondering when joining a program and considering to put some money in to earn by surfing. As we all have learned over time programs never last forever and joining early in successful program can bring high profits to lucky ones. Those who joined early 12dailypro literally made thousands of dollars profit (me included) and didn't even need to buy large memberships in beginning to get those profits. I am quite sure if I followed this progress back in end of 2005 I would be even more careful with 12dailypro than I was and would loose less of course. So you can consider this information as loss reduction tool for programs you have joined. I will only list programs I have joined but if you find some program with top 5 progress in any of listings I added and I haven't listed it please let me know by contacting me to e-mail I listed on bottom of this page and I will include it to my monitoring list.
Back to this weeks results. As you can obviously see PhoenixSurf has made the most progress and was only beaten by recent additions 1cent2surf and CompactSurf which were launched just recently. CompactSurf has announced referral contest which doubled their membership within one week but 1cent2surf has very aggressive ROI which appeals many who want the quick buck. With such progress even such ROI as 5% daily is possible but once this progress will reduce I will pull out my money from this program so watch closely my reports on this program growth. I plan to maintain daily watch on their growth as well. 1cent2surf recently introduced sister site 2cent2surf but from experience I don't see point in joining sister site because if they stop paying then they stop paying on all related sites. Also I am quite pleased to see OzSurf making the top 5 percentagewise because I was worried a bit that their progress since stormpay fiasco was too slow but it seems Brad is doing right things if members are joining more and more now. Almost 20% increase is quite good progress in my opinion which even outmatched WiredSurf which is still consistently growing despite possible problems with EMO which makes me think it was just small proportion of members using EMO and because of this didn't make large impact on their business.
AlientTrust is also worth mentioning because second place just after PhoenixSurf is considerable result and shows it is getting back their growth rate just as before Stormpay problems. Also if you notice top 5 memberwise first 2 places were taken by manual surf programs. This is good thing because it means people are not lazy or afraid of doing this manually and ads value increase which will bring in more advertisers money for surfers to earn. I even think this manual surf idea might be spreading into other programs as well over time.
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In other news
Stormpay has announced recently that they discontinue their service of being money processor as they were and will now only offer auction services. Cheers to that and I am glad those criminals were forced to do this. Just a shame it did cost many fortunes and was unnecessary thing happening because of some greedy scumbags from Clarksville who almost pulled this off. At least I hope they didn't as it seems they are in a lot of trouble for not having license to operate outside the state of Tennessee but they did manage funds worldwide.
AlientTrust has made some changes to their manual surf script and you can now vote for site you like during surfing. Link of this site will be stored and provided in survey at end of surfing. This is quite good user friendly change because it was quite a hassle to save yourself ling of page you wanted to include in survey. Now it's automatic and you just fill rest of info. Vince is doing great job by improving his program and setting new standards to the industry.
E-Gold news. Gold price today jumped over 10$ higher and is now over 560$ at the moment of writing. You can check its current status here. As I already explained in same page when such jump occurs it is quite good time to make withdrawal from e-gold to your bank account because you will sell less gold for same price or you can make upgrades for same reason. If price goes down later you will earn additional profit on your upgrade made at this high point. I had 500$ sitting in my account just for this moment so I can withdraw to bank now. This withdrawal is now worth almost 510$ because of this fluctuation. My e-gold balance went from 500$ this morning to 510$ right now and as I look at the chart it just continues to rise. Forex trading in action :) |
| 19.03.2006 |
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My first fasttrack payment of 214$ from currently top program in business PhoenixSurf was paid within 48 hours. Considering non fasttrack payment came within 4-5 business days it seems it's not worth the hassle at least currently to loose 5-8% for the receiving payment 1-2 days earlier. |
| 21.03.2006 |
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Here is another high stake gamble in scope of other opportunities called PointShareGold which is mix of HYIP, MLM, Forced matrix, paid surfing and network marketing which all are combined together to make advertising campaign. Min purchase is 90$ worth but you can double this money within 20 days or earlier if find 3 referrals for each purchase you make. Product they sell is PointShare package which includes banner impressions, advertisement spot for your website, e-books with resell rights and etc. You can skip having all of that and just wait those 20 days to get your money doubled as well. Also residual income of 350$ monthly and 1000$ yearly. Yes amounts are insane but if you can afford to risk 90$ I recommend you try this as people are being paid and program is quite new just over month old. I joined it after following lead of several quite reputable HYI experts who gambled with this one and are already in profits. Their downline also has reported as being paid so I decided to risk this one. Breaking even is quite quick within 20 days you are riding on profits. Free members earn 10$ for each referral so after finding 9 refs you can purchase one share as well to get full benefits.
Complete guide how to make purchase in this program and other info you will find on PointShareGold guide page |
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PrivateOpps has been offline for few days. Admin has sent the info to some forums that he is switching ip address because of another DDOS attack on them. Well it sure looked like DDOS because when I tried to access page it was loading forever and never made it. This is sure DDOS attack sign. Considering the fact you don't need to surf in this program few days offline doesn't matter that much. |
| 20.03.2006 |
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Today is fifth day in row I am receiving payment and not just one. First I received 56.53$ from recently added very high risk program 1cent2surf which already has put me into profit. Program is quite new with aggressive return level but it brings very high risk with it so be very careful. |
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Another payment of 262.4$ today I received from PhoenixSurf. This one was with standard 7 business day payout schedule and was paid on 5th business day. Fasttrack option allows cashing out within 24-48 hours but then you receive 5-8% less depending on amount of cashout. To enable this feature you need to click on blinking yellow sign in your members section next to your upgrade info. You can change it before it expires anytime. |
| 19.03.2006 |
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My first payment of 60$ from newest rising star CompactSurf which has followed the path of WiredSurf with various other services business model and quite deep due diligence information provided on self. Their unique feature to allow bank wire is quite an interesting twist which I haven't seen in any programs yet. |
| 18.03.2006 |
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My second payment from KnightGoldSurf that is run by once quite popular admin of KnighSurf but after Stormpay fiasco members who were loyal to him rejoined this new site but others are bit more careful and members base is growing slowly. |
| 17.03.2006 |
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Occasionally I join very high risk programs that I know will not last for long but is worth risking to make quick buck or few. This time it's 1cent2surf and this one reminds me of once quite popular 50cent2surf by content and kingofautosurf by design. Both were quite successful for some time but both died from stormpay. Its ROI is just too high to consider it as legit but considering fact that it just started week ago and is already paying its members I decided to join it. You are in profit with it after just 20 days which allows making quick buck with it while it lasts. Considering the effort put into design and somewhat unique script I think it will last for few months before closing. Be extra cautious with this one though and don't upgrade what you can't afford to play with. Considering upgrade costs 0.01$ it gives a chance to use the change you have left in your e-gold. |
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Today one of my readers confirmed me that AlientTrust is actually paying free members to view their sites at 0.5$ rate daily. Once you earn 8$ you can use it to upgrade and earn 0.8$ and compound until you can reach 35$ within reasonable time. Such feature nowdays is very rare as most programs don't offer signup bonus anymore as in good old days. AlientTrust is paying as scheduled every Friday after request so this new feature could be giving more audience to this program now. |
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Just as scheduled AlientTrust paid me today and now I am riding on profits here. |
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Netinvest Autosurf has announced that it will close for new members this coming Friday 24th of March because they have reached already 500 upgraded members. Just few days left before they close and so far I have learned that Alexa admin of NIS is quite mature admin and this site was even mentioned in famous Wallstreetjournal article about autosurf industry along with 12dailypro but Alexa decided not to respond to this crap brought onto them which I think was good move. You just can't win the war with media if they want to tell lies about you and it's not worth fighting with incompetent reporters. Netinvest
Autosurf isn't just an autosurf but also an opportunity to learn Forex trading in their paid classes and surfsite is just small advertising promotion project they created next to their Forex activities. Admin has quite laid out plans for next 2 years to come. |
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Added new information to main index page for each program in my list - members count. I will now keep track of this and show weekly progress of each program. Latest data is from today 17.03.2006. Next update I plan to do after one week on next friday.
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| 15.03.2006 |
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CompactSurf is another new age surfing site which offers also other services like phone cards, webhosting, offshore business package and others. Setup is quite similar to WiredSurf one and is slowly gaining momentum and claiming in Alexa ranks. |
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If you remember 4daily scam you should know that this scammer has created 2 new sites letsearncash.biz and bestoppstraffic.com few weeks ago so beware of those if you stumble upon such site. Added both to scam listing page.
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If you watch those Alexa rank changes daily you should have noticed that both PhoenixSurf and WiredSurf are changing in quite similar way. I could explain this only as similar members base which equally reacts to changes in both sites. WiredSurf is now a bit riskier because of recent EMO crash which as they admitted has caused their fund freeze for unknown time but shouldn't affect whole network operations as they only plan to hold payments to those who upgraded with EMO. If majority of funds came from e-gold as it should logically be this could be very true and we shouldn't worry much but let's be careful with WiredSurf for a bit and see how it survives one of their payment processor problems. Alexa trend showed some downwards movement but went right back up. My second best choice at this time PhoenixSurf recently stopped default fasttrack payments which caused small panic among members as many already got used to 24 hour payouts but let's not forget their TOS states it's up to 7 business days. Should be allowing to choose Fasttrack payment option with 4% commission fee shortly. According to Alexa rank this mass payment delay caused small downward spike but is back up again which is because payments resumed.
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| 14.03.2006 |
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Quite big news today were announced about recently becoming so popular EMO. They announced that they are under DDOS attack. Well it seemed quite weird to me from the start since the page with announcement was available but if it would be DDOS attack noone could connect to their page. Appears all of this was just smoke before real situation which ironically is quite similar to Stormpay problem - they lack funds and this time we know exactly how much it is - 2.4 million dollars. They only have 3 million but it should be 5.4 million. This became known to public after Attorney General of Texas announcement that EMO assets have been frozen and assets passed to receiver just like what recently happened to 12dailypro. In addition to that it appears EMO didn't have license to operate. I still think E-gold is the best thing that happened to internet and all these non licensed e-gold wannabes should be better avoided. Watch my new money processor page for more details shortly as I am currently researching all those money processors used in autosurf programs. |
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One of longest autosurf programs StudioTraffic has finally decided to close the shop. Most of it's members left it long time ago already but they somehow were continuing to operate and even recently did some activities like unblock some accounts including mine and make new business model. But most funny thing is they announced that Stormpay problem didn't affect them and they just found out by accident that some as they called "black listed" autosurf programs were closed. Blacklisted by whom may I ask? Well if this happened like 6 months ago this would be one of biggest news in industry but this "Titanic" was sinking just for too long and wasting everyones time. No wonder they did operate so long - they just reacted to any situation with like 2-3 month delay. Support tickets were not responded for 3 months. Closing down was delayed for 6 months. Everything was slow as much as humanly possible. Another funny thing is that they realized Stormpay scandal has actually affected them only 1.5 months later after it happened. Ironic isn't it?
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| 13.03.2006 |
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Added new information page today for those who wanted to learn how to fund your e-gold accounts. I received quite many e-mails where people were confused and considered it quite complicated process. Well I was confused at first myself when I opened my first e-gold account year ago and even when I learned how to fund my account I wasn't quite sure it's safe thing to do. Now I know that e-gold is one of best and safest money processors in internet. It even survived FBI raid back in december of 2005 and still operates despite small reputation loss at the time but has regained it's reputation already and is currently again most popular choice and most used for autosurf and hyip programs. Will soon add reviews on other money processors as well. |
| 12.03.2006 |
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EprofitSurf will be resuming their operations tomorrow with new domain and new business model. This one might be one of weirdest changes I've seen in autosurf industry so far as they gonna remove daily constant roi but add bonus that you need to catch and as I've seen it so far it's not just matter of catching it but clikcing it before others do as from all my attemtps of clicking it I always received a message of being too late. Well I won't make conclusions yet and let's see how it turns out as so far EP team has been doing everything for their members and reputation has been quite good.
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There are quite a lot of other things I would like to mention so here is short summary of other things happening lately -
EMO is offline currently because of DDOS attacks on them.
OzSurf went offline and according to message on site they are fixing some errors. KingOfAutosurf is still gone and it seems this one might be biting the dust.
Surfmunkee suddenly parked their domain but according to members reports in forums their alternative site was also parked for some time but later resumed operations.
Studiotraffic introduced new earning rules which are more preferable for those with lower account levels. Considering their speed of fixing things and response to tickets I still consider it bad choice but will watch further developments here. They finally realised it's better way to communicate with members by posting news in members section which is good thing.
FX-Experts made total of 2.5% on our investments value last week.
PhoenixSurf owners NME group plans to hold a convention for 75-100 persons later this month on 25th of March in South Carolina. |
| 11.03.2006 |
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My second payment of 52.8$ from AlientTrust paid as scheduled on Friday according to their terms. Also it seems Vince has decided to allow free members option to earn as well. I haven't confirmed this myself as I am already upgraded member but people are reporting such possibility which was made because of SEC recommendations and I see it as a very strong move to involve more poeple and increase audience of ads that are in rotation of AT. |
| 10.03.2006 |
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Another addition to HYIP list PrivateOpps that has become quite popular and is promoted and talked about quite a lot. I finally decided to research it more carefully and despite their high returns I never found any complaints or bad reports about it. Their model is quite similiar to Feederfund but here you purchase contract units of different income offers like Forex trading, Domain trading, Arbitrage trading. Most of contracts offer variable returns during business days in range of 0.7-2% with principle returned but various holding periods of your principle. Each contract offered is provided by a private investment club or company which is researched carefully by PO team. This program offers medium to high risk contracts but initial minimum investments range from 100$ up to 1200$ so this only for those who have been quite successful so far and can afford such risks because returns are definately worth it. Breaking even is possible within 2-3 months because of daily compounding feature. Units of contracts are issued with limited amount and latest addition ARB.1 is already close to being sold out after just 2 weeks after introduction. Additional units are issued from time to time. |
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My second payment which made me profit already from PhoenixSurf with payment of 309$. They are on a wave of popularity right now and are not just in top 2000 of Alexa ranks but slowly going up which at this level is not easy to achieve and requires constant increase in traffic. While this progress maintains it is quite safe choice imo and I increased my level as well but will be watching their progress in ranks very closely. |
| 09.03.2006 |
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My first payment of 174.24$ from latest hit in autosurf industry WiredSurf was paid 2 days after upgrade expired. As you can see in Alexa statistic rank this first payment wave has given another raise in ranks just as I predicted and now it should go into top 1000 for sure. |
| 07.03.2006 |
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AlientTrust has now opened new registrations again. They plan to close doors for new members when membership will reach 100000 members. It's a long way to go considering they have now approx 20000 members but now is considered the early stages of quite good reputation site and changes Vince made are in accordance to SEC regulations so it's not an investment program but advertisment program. Main key reasons for this is that when you upgrade you are actually purchasing advertisement credits for particular site you are entering for promotion. Also manual surfing and survey in end of each sessions ensures that people actually pay more attention to ads in rotation. This is even better news for those who promote their product or service. |
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DadnDaves is finally back in business but considering new terms I agreed to it is now fully private and I can't list it at my site anymore or discuss any details of new business model. Those who are already members you can start surfing again.
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EprofitSurf and Netinvest are still offline making changes to their business model. Netinvest announced they will be back by wednesday or at latest Thrusday. Eprofit hasn't said anything yet but their weekend plans seem to have extended over several weekdays already.
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There is a new site in internet which claims to represent new receiver of 12dailypro Thomas F. Lennon. I am not sure why would Mr. Lennon need a seperate site and not use official SEC site or 12dailypro for news on their investigation but you might try sending him an e-mail or call him on those listed numbers. Be careful tho and don't submit any sensitive information as such sites that pop up suddenly and claim representing law can be phishing attempt to leech some valuable info. By sensitive information I mean if this Lennon guy will request any passwords or account details of any other sites besides 12dailypro. Even payment details like transaction ids could be sensitive but not as much as usernames and passwords. |
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Alexa statistic rank of web sites traffic level is quite good performance representation for autosurf sites. More traffic means more success and if a site manages to get high progress in Alexa ranks it obviously shows it's growth but if an autosurf site is dropping in ranks it shows that there are problems and members are leaving the site. I have added new page called Alexa ranks to my site which will be copy of my main list but will show comparison of Alexa rankings for each of sites and my comments. These ranks are updated daily dynamically and maintained by Alexa site. I just added their script which represents graphically statistics of particular site performance in ranks. You now can follow each of those sites and see that for example recent holidays during last weekend up to today at EprofitSurf shows significant drop in ranks for that site. Alientrust on the other side has been gaining the growth again which shows that Vince has done something right to regain trust of most members again.
Alexa ranks is like baromether of autosurfing industry. Now you clearly can see by numbers what momentum both new top rated sites WiredSurf and PhoenixSurf have gained during their first few weeks. And ofcourse can follow their performance now more closely. For such shortterm upgrade lifecycle sites it is very good tool to decide if it's worth increasing your upgrade level or reduce it if ranks are dropping. |
| 05.03.2006 |
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Guess what. 5th day in a row I receive payment which makes this month beginning quite successful.
This time it's my second weekly payment from FX-Experts one of my favorite HYIPs I joined recently. This week was much better and I received 40$ thanks to many referrals that joined in my downline and invested. |
| 04.03.2006 |
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Last few days have proved me I have chosen right programs during postStormpay era. This is already fourth day in a row which brought me not just one payment but multiple payments from different programs. This is very good sign imo that admins are still trying to work despite all the aura floating around.
This time it was my first payment from quite an interesting project Surfice for 36.5$. I like the concept of this program and it should be one of future gems in top notch programs around autosurfing. Constantly improves it's options and features which allows surfers to choose best ways how to earn. |
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My first payment since restart of AlientTrust without Stormpay and 47.04$ was paid as scheduled after request on Friday. I still consider this a very solid company and their attempts to follow new SEC regulations by introducing multilevel earning where those with higher upgrade levels have to surf more to earn more and recently introduced manual surf in combination with survey after each surfing session allows to increase value of ads in rotation and collect valuable marketing information from viewers that advertisers will love to see. |
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As for other news - PhoenixSurf has announced that they will enable manual surfing as well to follow SEC regulations and plan to add other features that would ensure their legit business model. Well all the hype around this program I think is a bit too much. Especially their recent announcement of receiving some AIS badge from some company nobody ever heard let alone the proclaimed top reviewers of autosurf programs. Domain for their site was created just month ago so I more tend to believe it's same trick that Stormpay used with Netiba certification by proclaiming them as independent 3rd party but in reality it was their own creation. Again I urge you to be careful if you join this one as I don't buy their announcements much but just using their roi to ride out some profits as I don't think it will be longterm here despite their constant hype news. |
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Netinvest Autosurf announced that they will be offline until Monday to fix their script problems. Everyone will be compensated. But what's more important is that their plans to go semi private at 500 upgraded members is very close to filling all the free spots. Only 100 more spots for upgraded members left so if you have some 15$ you can spare at this time I recommend buying their membership and upgrading min level so you don't miss their increased earnings later. |
| 03.03.2006 |
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Another day filled with payments from various programs. I am really glad that most programs I have chosen are continuing to operate and do payments despite recent Stormpay and government involvements in industry which have caused many sites to close.
This time it's one of newcomers PhoenixSurf with payment of 64.16$. I considered this program as my mistake at some point but payment was done next day after upgrade expired which proved all those reports about this site were mostly rumours which I fell for. I still consider it very high risk but in light of recent events such shortterm upgrade sites are now almost best option because even low ROI doesn't save sites from government regulations now and until situation clears out I will mostly upgrade in shortterm programs like PhoenixSurf. Don't forget it's high risk and upgrade with what you can afford to loose in case it closes but breaking even point is very quick and with momentum it gained joining at this stage should ensure it for at least few more cycles. |
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Also today I received my next payment from OzSurf for 25$. Brad has been paying consistently and promptly despite all the mess that is happening around. His upgrade life is medium long and it's good chance to break even within few weeks after which you can increase earnings with profits. |
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Today is Friday which means another scheduled payment from KingOfAutosurf and this time it was for 11.34$ |
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Today my Stormpay account was suspended. I was quite surprised it took so long for them to notice I made a chargeback but they finally noticed. I noticed quite a coincidence though that it happened right after I made several recommendations on Jim's forum to make those chargeback despite their continuous threats about illegality of those. It might mean that they are watching forums and be careful with what you post there. If you still hope to get some money out of them try to go low profile in forums.
Yesterday every member received an e-mail from Stormpay stating
"You are receiving this notice because of your recent involvement with 12dailypro.com.
The S.E.C. has issued a standing order preventing chargebacks against those purchases/investments. Any customer requesting a chargeback or refund either through their credit card issuer or bank are in violation of the order. Specifically, users are prohibited from “using self help (including, without limitation, initiating or processing chargebacks of any monies used to purchase or upgrade membership units in or with 12DP) or executing or issuing or causing the execution or issuance of any court attachment, subpoena, replevin, execution or other process for the purpose of impounding or taking possession of or interfering with”.
For a copy of the complete S.E.C. order, visit:
http://www.stormpay.com/SEC_v_Johnson_etal.pdf
Sincerely,
StormPay Inc.
1690 Golf Club Ln.
Clarksville, TN 37043 "
Funny thing is that they even try to scare people with such messages. I remember at least 2 more messages they sent where chargebacks were called illegal. I wander according to what laws those are illegal? And this ruling they quoted yesterday barely mentions chargebacks against Stormpay but against 12dailypro. Stormpay took everyones money out of their accounts and moved those into 12dailypro account but most Stormpay members were not even upgrading at 12dailypro and used Stormpay for either other autosurfs or totally different services or purchases. Many earned that money by clicking on Stormclix daily for just few cents each and lost it all on one day. Despite all that Stormpay claims about chargebacks being illegal I am quite sure banks issuing those chargebacks know better if those are illegal or not. I as customer requested it because Stormpay made unauthorised transactions with my funds and didn't even notify me of reasons for these. My contact requests were ignored and bank didn't need any other reasons or explanations why I requested chargeback. As I read many others who requested too have received their money out of Stormpay without questions asked.
I am quite sure Stormpay sent this threat once more because they just can't do anything to prevent those chargebacks and since SEC has now taken over funds in 12dailypro account these chargebacks are paid from Stormpay own prockets which is killing them. If you still haven't filed a chargeback I recommend you do so and don't be afraid to do it. Worst that can happen it will be denied by your bank. |
| 02.03.2006 |
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Today started with quite good news. Cashout I was expecting for over a month because of Stormpay fiasco it was delayed.
DadnDaves paid me today long expected 520$ and proved his reputation once more. He hasn't announced any news since middle of February when he laid out his recovery plan after Stormpay scandal but actions speak louder than words anyway. Surfing earnings have been resumed since yesterday as well. |
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Also today I got paid 20.95$ by KnightGoldSurf for first time and it already made me break even what I have paid in so not bad for few weeks of surfing. Will continue on safe side with reinvesting half of profits now. |
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Reliable Investments which is one of HYIP I joined recently also paid me within 24 hours after my request of 5$ that I made to test how promptly they pay. |
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Now to the bad news of this at first so promising looking day. Most shocking news today are that GottaLotta which was most promising program since Stormpay scandal has decided to become just traffic exchange which actually means end of paidtosurf program. Well at first sight it seems like SEC ruling has greatly affected this decision but I don't really buy it. This time I missed the bad signs and appears payout date moving week later during January and later proactive reducing of earnings for January from 1.25% to 1% were signs of I saw but didn't make right conclusions. Well at least refunds are already done for those who upgraded with paypal and I do believe everyone will get their refunds. Also according to admin it might continue paysurfing at some point but only when outside revenue sources will be established. |
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Be careful people as this is quite bad time for autosurf industry as whole because of government institution investigations and possible regulations which will affect this. I recommned to not make big upgrades at this time into autosurfing. I am myself flooding most my funds into several HYIP programs I have started to follow since new years and already have recovered losses from programs that either closed or stopped paying. But also am looking into other earning possibilities as there is no guarantee hyip won't face same story with government regulations which will mostly affect those promising impossible returns. I am quite sure autosurfing will continue but it will change it's form into less profitable thing and more advertising focused. |
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Netinvest Autosurf today announced that they will become semi private when upgraded members will reach 500. This site is not just an autosurf but also training place for those willing to learn forex trading and paid classes are offered here. I received my first payout from Netinvest Autosurf yesterday so they have proved paying ability as well. As I mentioned it's not a good idea to invest big in autosurfing now but this could turn out a good program with small semi private membership and joining it and making small upgrade would be a good idea. By semi private I mean that they won't accept new upgraded memberships after 500 members and free members will be able to earn as well but never as much as first 500. |
| 01.03.2006 |
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Well new month has arrived and it's time for new payments now. First I received came from NetInvest Autosurf for february earnings. This is first payout from them as well and I must say I was quite confident that I will receive it from Netinvest even considering Stormpay scandal because they dropped Stormpay as payment option right after their ultimatum to autosurf programs for exclusive rights. |
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Well new month has arrived and it's time for new payments now. First I received came from NetInvest Autosurf for february earnings. This is first payout from them as well and I must say I was quite confident that I will receive it from Netinvest even considering Stormpay scandal because they dropped Stormpay as payment option right after their ultimatum to autosurf programs for exclusive rights. |
| 28.02.2006 |
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Bill Russel has reopened his site CashBackSurf with new terms which are claimed to be according to SEC guidelines and recommendations. I haven't yet researched those guidelines in full details but first impressions I have is that autosurfing programs will now start to focus on making their service which is advertising more valuable using manual surf or other incentives and less on earnings part. This has been done at CashBackSurf and even if you were a member of his old site you now need to signup again by agreeing to new terms. Bill is one of most reputable admins who also shares his expert advice with his members and does quite good due dilligence job on programs he invests. This is a site I recommend as potentially very good newage autosurf site. |
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AlientTrust today enabled manual surfing and also adjusted terms according to SEC guidelines. Now you have to surf daily amount of sites according to your members level. 25 sites for those below 1000$ level up to 90 sites who have max account. Quite soon surveys after surfing will be added to ensure people are actually watching ads in rotation. This will ensure value of credits purchased and advertisement focus here is quite significant already. As I said I consider this a solid company and will continue surfing in this one. |
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Biggest news everyone is talking about today are press release by SEC (Security Exchange Commission) last Sunday. Some even rush in panic and call this as end of autosurfing. Well fly isn't as big as elephant because this ruling was done based on information provided just by Stormpay and any evidence provided by 12dailypro was just ignored. Charis plans to make an announcement approved by her attorney any day now. As I see this ruling by SEc was quite unprofessional and I am quite surprised SEC can do such things just based on claims from one party but I guess it's how US laws allow it.
Here is Charis response to this ruling:
" To those watching for a comment from me on the 12dp forum regarding today's SEC press release and the cooresponding filing, there will be none there.
The website is to now be under the control of the SEC and thus I am unable to post anything on the site without approval.
I hope to have my attorneys agree to the release of a statement within the next day or so which will clarify our position, dispel the inaccuracies in the filing and explain why we reached an agreement with the SEC that was in the best interest of members, despite such inaccuracies.
Keep in mind that the SEC never interviewed us, never talked with us, never examined our data, never looked at our bank accounts, and never examined our books before placing this filing. All information came from outside sources, primarily StormPay and an ex-convict seeking media exposure.
Before reaching the agreement, my attorneys provided documentation to the SEC in the form of bank records and EMO records showing the funds withrawn from StormPay were utilized for business purposes, with more than 70% used to fund LifeClicks' EMO account. They were also provided documentation that showed that StormPay does not have a merchant account option and that when you add a bank account to your SP account, their terms state that the name of th bank account must match the individual name on the StormPay account. We were following the StormPay TOS. The SEC omitted these things in the press release, I would assume because it would weaken their case for the original filing.
Regardless, we are and will continue cooperating with the SEC in whatever way they require of us. " |
| 27.02.2006 |
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FX-Experts paid their weekly dividends last Saturday and my first week earned me 8$. This was my first payment from currently most legit HYIP program I have joined. Check it out if you still haven't and want to diversify your investments into different industries besides autosurfing. |
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Studio Traffic still manages to surprise me. Here is another good surprise from them. My account was blocked around their mass blocking time which was end of November. This brought this granddaddy of autosurfing into mud of negative reports and several sites that promoted how bad it has become. Well I still consider it not the best choice for your earning options but if you are already in it there might be a chance you can get your money afterall. Few days ago I received finally response to my ticket I submitted on 24th of November and my account was unblocked and best part I was compensated for whole 3 months of missed surfing. Well what do you know I actually was put on holidays by admins of ST for this time and I must say I can't complain much about their response time now since they saved a lot of time for me. Will try to withdraw now and if I succeed I might even upgrade ST to 4 stars |
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Well it seems Phoenixsurf is my mistake of this month. Today it started to show mysql errors which is one of defined signs of poor run project which might have short life. I considered it a very high risk from the start but momentum it gained sucked me in. It isn't over yet but I downgraded this one to 3 stars for now.
Also if you have been or recently have joined site called surfdailysurf.com and are now receiving frequent double or tripple bonus offers then don't even consider upgrading in it or joining it. This is scam ghost site I didn't list in my scam list since it didn't have any other scams related but I have been in it for few months last summer and was surprised it's still going. Also such double or especially tripple offers are one of top signs for scamsite. Usually these are sent before closing the shop.
Another scam potential site which was quite promoted engagesurf.com has been showing mysql errors during recent days so beware of this one as well.
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AWD-Network surf site announced that they have been robbed by Stormpay and are now closing their site. This wasn't the only reason as their time spent on surf site was affecting their main business as well. They promised to refund those who were not in profit and I kind of believe this site will do what they say.
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| 26.02.2006 |
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Charis Johnson admin of 12dailypro recently announced that a settlement with attorneys of Stormpay has been reached and it will be announced early next week after which refunding process will be initiated. Also Charis mentioned 12dailypro will not resume it's operations and as for any other sites it will be announced in next weeks news. At least some movement in their confrontations. ABC4 have again released several news reports by Brent but I don't follow those anymore that much because it all is usual newsreporters way of doing sensational reports for ratings of program and not caring about people involved in this. I realised it's just waste of time to read those reports because it mostly focuses on Brent's obsessions and unprofessional reporting skills which involve conflicting statements within his own reports.
Also Charis stated her new sites and programs will focus mainly on advertising and not money making which now is main focus of most autosurf programs. Considering what she said before about new site I am quite sure agenda hasn't changed much - manual surf, more incentives for watching each ad and etc. Anyway let's wait few days for official announcement.
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After some reorganising and reopening new sister site I received first payment from transfered account in KingOfAutosurf paid 12.95$. Seems members who upgraded with e-gold here are now back in business as for weekly payments. |
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Here is another interesing link for Stormpay saga. This is european consumer protection program similiar to BBB in USA which made some report on this Stormpay and Netiba research they have done and conclusions they made. Quite an interesting read and some new facts brought up. |
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I recently joined Phoenixsurf. Appearantly from some additional research I did the momentum they gained for first few days of new members avalanching into this program was quite smartly used 12dailypro success and somewhat copycating terms of 12dailypro. I still think it will go big because of this smartly used strategy but personally I don't like this program that much anymore as I did after initial research. If you decide to join it remember that it's very high risk one and make sure you put yourself in profits with it and keep it that way by reinvesting only half of profits you make.
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| 24.02.2006 |
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PhoenixSurf is another addition to my list in category of high risk programs. 8 days of 15% gives 120% on your upgrade which is 2.5% ROI. Payment terms very similiar to 12dailypro - you can have up to 2 active upgrade packages and will be paid within 7 business days. Although there is a new feature called express payout where you can pay 4% commission but receive payment within 48 hours. Site itself is with unique design and smooth navigation which makes good first impression. As for owners of this program it is owned by NME (New Millenium Entrepenuers) - group of young marketing and internet marketing professionals and have been around in forums for some time already so they are known people in the industry.
They received 2000 signups within first 2 days. This is impressive I must say and that's one of main reasons why I joined besides reputation of owners and proven as working terms but I would recommend if you join it to be extremely cautious. Server and whois check revealed dedicated server and clean record. But ROI is quite high so make quick profit and ride on it after that. |
| 23.02.2006 |
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WiredSurf growth has been skyrocketing during first 2 weeks of their operation and they reached the point when 2 dedicated servers can't handle the traffic 2 days ago. Site currently is being moved to Rack Host dual-dedicated account same provider as AlienTrust have chosen.
This is some momentum this new autosurf program has been gaining and it shows people are eager to find replacement for 12dailypro and this might be it because as I check different forums, blogs and newsletters I follow regulary I see people are heavily promoting it and very positive feedback is given so far. Program is experiencing few glitches here and there but support is responding almost instantly to tickets and solving problems reported very fast. |
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If you remember few days ago I wrote about new e-gold feature of declining payment receiving from blocked accounts which has default value set to refuse.
I suggested that you change it to accept but as I later found out it's possible that your account might get suspended if you are receiving such payments. So now I would say it's better to have it set as refused. Admins like Dave from DadnDaves are recommending this as well. |
| 21.02.2006 |
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Appears that ref link I used yesterday for Wiredsurf was not correct one and those who used it didn't sign under me. I found out this today when received confirmation request for my ref offer and noticed I don't have any referrals. If you still want to join under me follow this link WiredSurf. I corrected other links as well. |
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Another prompt payment from OzSurf paid 26$ within few hours after request. |
| 20.02.2006 |
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I don't get excited about some new program quite often. I remember the gut feeling when I did find 12dailypro back in May of 2005 and joined it while it had only around 2000 members and I knew it had great potential even tho I was still a newbie in autosurfing with few weeks of experience. Now almost year later I found a program that made me feel same way and I could almost shout this should be next 12dailypro which I usually don't but this time there are several reasons why I should.
WiredSurf is quite new program that was started last month and at this point has around 600 members. It provides secure https connection and quite informative site for beginners. They did answer usual due dilligence questions and posted those on site for everyone to verify. Even added some googleearth links so you can check sattelite images of their location. Autosurf script used is unique and somewhat similiar to what PaidResponse once had but without any technical problems. Surfing itself is very smooth and support system seems quite prepared for member inquiries as I was responded to my questions almost instantly. Their business plan for Wired network is also published on site and is quite well put together as I see it. Upgrade system is similiar to 12dp with bit longer upgrade life cycle and 7 business day waiting to receive payment.
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Long waited payment from EprofitSurf finally reached my e-gold account. Although they do it through their own new payment processor and paid out to it yesterday after which I requested transfer to e-gold and today I received my 119.7$ after fees paid. |
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AlienTrust has restarted operating and accepting upgrades via e-gold. At this time it is still autosurfing instead of manual as they planned but might not be for too long. Terms now are 10% for 13 days with 4% commission for withdrawals and no referral commissions. I still consider North Shore media a solid company with longterm plans and because of this rejoined and invested again in it. |
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GoldenRocks has decided to become private investment club. Their forum is now open only for 10 days for new registrations. Terms have been changed now to a variable returns instead of fixed as it was before and february rate is now set at 65$. Some say it could be end of this great program but as I looked at what most members say it was planned long ago and finally done so only few were surprised to see such change. |
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Added new page to my information section with quite an interesting research done on HYIP failure data particullary how long HYIPs pay and when stop paying. Main conclusion I made from this research is that if HYIP survives 45 day period and still pays it's not a ponzi. And less it depends on new members but actually does invest, trade or whatever they do to make profits then more chances there are that it will run long time. |
| 18.02.2006 |
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For same reasons of involving more in HYIP industry I explained yesterday and after receiving another payment from GoldenRocks I looked for my investment diversification options and found one good program which doesn't have huge min investment amounts like others I joined previously. Reliable Investments is quite similiar on first look to all those mass ponzi clones you can see spampromoted everyday in different moneyforums and e-mail listings which offer fortunes over few days. But it is different and let me tell you why I think so. They have been running for several months barely promoted and at this time have barely 350 members which obviously shows they don't rely on new members to pay old ones which is how ponzi scheme hyips are run. Also which is quite important they don't run using cheap GoldCoders script which is used by 95% of hyip programs on internet and is considered one of main red flags for ponzi programs. Reliable Investments is based in Portugal and was started on October 3rd year 2005. Min spend is 1$ for daily program or 10$ for periodic programs. I think it's good idea to have one spend invested into both daily and periodic. With daily you can always check if they pay and with periodic you can get higher returns. For eg. monthly program offers 200% profit after 5 months with breaking even point after 2 months. |
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Added new page to my site quite useful to those who do due dilligence on new programs and want to check if ip address has hosted any scams previously. Bad IP blacklist will be updated over time with new scams so if you find any recently closed program is it autosurf or hyip or some other money making scam site and it isn't listed in this list feel free to contact me and submit your information by e-mail. I'll verify it and add it to blacklist. |
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Alientrust today announced they have problems with EMO to create their merchants account and according to Vince EMO is currently freezing accounts of autosurfs. This is unconfirmed as I haven't seen anywhere else any complaints about EMO but some autosurf admins did mention delays in communication with EMO which I explained as possible staff shortage in dealing with avalanche of new members from different autosurfs and many programs adding it as new payment option. But after these news I would be careful with this processor. They did remove international wire option in end of January. Same thing Stormpay did just few days later. Might be that EMO could be not a good choise for autosurf programs so don't rush with depositing into this money processor too much funds. Looking at this I come to conclusion e-gold is still the best. They were investigated by FBI but nothing illegal was found and noone got their account frozen. They have complex funding options but it is safeguard against deadly chargeback features that have killed many money processors and latest scandal involved Stormpay which decided to cover their losses using our money. |
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Well as sad as it is two programs just closed their shop after recent Stormpay scandal and as it appears their investment failures as well. GrandHits and 911Hitz were struggling their way through several months but somehow managed to pay and work through different issues but recent problems piled up and killed both programs. One of reasons I never join sister sites owned by same admin
is when they go down they go together and it ain't diversification to join related sites.
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| 17.02.2006 |
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Considering latest scandal with Stormpay and affect of it on whole autosurfing industry which made many programs suffer great damages I decided to diversify not just in several programs of autosurfing but look into other directions outside. HYIP is quite good way to make money if you know what you are doing and don't fall for those fake high percentage offers. When I look at HYIP programs I skip most of those few day projects that offer with min 1$ investment doubling your money within few days because I have learned from own experience and from reports of others that those are clear ponzi schemes and nothing else which last just few days and in most cases are just waste of time and what's worst also waste of money. Real HYIP are directed at serious investors and have min investments of at least 50$ or 100$. With GoldenRocks that I joined after quite careful research I have already recovered the damage StormTheft has done to my finances in autosurf programs but this one I still consider extremely high risk program and only reinvest partially to keep myself in profits all the time. Another very positive sign for a HYIP program is variable percentage and dividends paid only during workdays because that represents how it actually happens in any market is it forex or stock markets. Trades don't happen during holidays and trades are never at fixed success rates.
FX-Experts is one of newest HYIP programs and recently have been reviewed by best experts in HYIP scene and also has provided their trade records statements to prove how they make their profits using members investments. I do recommend this one and I see quite good longterm potential for this program. Risk zone for it is low because of average daily ROI of just 0.7%. |
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Auto-Surf-Money is the new money processor launched by EprofitTeam owners of recently merged autosurf site EprofitSurf. They decided to create independent money processor so they don't need to keep funds in some 3rd party processors like Stormpay who can decide to freeze their account one day like they did in beginning of February. This is quite strong move and usually is done only by biggest programs who can afford such independence. Now all payments with EprofitSurf will be processed only through this new money processor. It's quite possible if it proves it's credibility with time that some other programs might offer upgrading with this processor as well. It offers funding and withdrawing with e-gold, paypal, bank wires and cheques. |
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E-gold has created new account setting called "Block payments from limited accounts". This is set as default setting so everyone currently by default is blocking any payments that are sent to you from some limited accounts. Considering hyip programs and autosurfs quite often get complains and as result limitations on their accounts some of programs you are in might not be able to pay you if you have this setting on. At this time I don't see why this was implemented since reasons explained in e-gold webpage seem unexplained but anyway I urge anyone who uses e-gold to change this setting so you can receive payments even from limited accounts in case you are expecting payouts.
This change is quite weird and might cause a lot of confusion to those who were not aware of it and even unpaid votes when admins actually tried to pay but couldn't because members wouldn't let them because of this new setting.
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AlienTrust finally showed some signs of life but still it's more like planning stage how to restart their site. What I like about this is that their initial plan to become MLM where you earn only if you get referrals was not supported by members and many claimed they will not continue with such program. After this admin decided to scrap initial plan and listen to what members suggested and end result seems more sufficient. Main change from existing model will be removal of referral commissions and manual surfing with turing challenge and some questionarrie after viewing ads to prove that you actually were looking at those. Well it means many will leave it anyway but value of ads will be greatly increased which is postive thing and just as I wrote earlier could mean longterm potential for such program. With such model I am definately continuing with AlienTrust
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| 16.02.2006 |
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ABC4 seems has gone to harrasment stage in 12dailypro story. Their recent news report was simple hunting down by Brent H instead of initially started Jeff Johnson trip to Carolina for some answers.
Latest story is just explaining how many places they went and how noone wanted to talk to them. No wonder. I wouldn't either. Jeff actually did meet with Charis even in person and got his answers but ABC4 refused to report real story and just made up quick their own which should make their ratings high now. As usual media doesn't like truth that doesn't bring sensational news with it. |
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FBI has released press release which states that they have started initial investigation after receiving numerous complaints. What I like about this statement is that they call 12dailypro as an internet marketing company which it actually is unlike media supported ponzi scheme or money maker label. This means their initial investigation has made some positive evidence that it actually is marketing company. I wander tho when they will release similiar release about Stormpay. |
| 15.02.2006 |
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Not much to report except one thing. Yesterdays news coverage story was initiated by member of 12dailypro Jeff Johnson and as it seems from hiw own post in one of forums he was mispresented as being against 12dailypro which he isn't. He was just trying to do something about money he lost and find out what's happening and shed some true light on this story by telling people that Stormpay is one who stole money. Appearently ABC4 is just looking for ratings and twists story as they wish.
There should be another story shortly where he meets Charis lawyer and gets some questions answered. Let's see how it will be twisted.
Anyway main thing I wanted to mention regarding this Stormpay scandal is that according to Jeff Stormpay has revealed their plans and those don't look too good. Stormpay plans to hold those funds until all chargebacks against them cease and then refund what's left if any. Considering there is 60 day charge back term for credit cards we might need to wait until end of March for any movement in Stormpay to happen and even if any funds will be left considering how they have lied before they might adjust the information and refund either nothing or just some small percentage of what is ours. So it seems if you didn't charge back and get your money there is very small chance you ever will. Mostly it will be depending on how successful will be class action suits from 12dailypro and others against Stormpay.
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| 14.02.2006 |
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EprofitSurf has reorganised by merging with Autosurf.biz their partner site of Eprofitteam and is back in businees since today. Seems after merging many have lost their compounded upgrades and all referrals but other than that everything is correct. They announced new feature of random bonus during autosurfing where you can catch bonus anywhere in between nickel up to 100$ for spending your time to watch each of their ads. This is the carrot approach unlike what AWD surfing did but both approaches should make credits and ads more valuable and this is what this business should be about not just earning part. If people want pure earnings then hyip is definately the choise where you don't need to do anything besides giving your money away. Also they introduced new money processor which was available for few days during merging process and I managed to sign up with it but official launch is scheduled for tomorrow and all payments will go to this processor. This is safeguard attempt from money processor fraud like Stormpay one and at least in my eyes shows their longterm plans for this site. This is currently one of my favorite autosurf programs and I recommend it highly for those who haven't joined it. |
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Quite an interesting discoveries have been made by John McCallum from Fairpatton.com about Stormpay theft and particullary their owners. John has involved several people from all over the world into his research team and dedicates his time mostly to research biggest scammers like 4daily owner, 6daily scam group and etc. Latest focus of course is brought to Stormtheft story. Fact that owners of Stormpay have purchased several large properties near their office building and drive Porche Cayenne (worth 90000$ alone) means they are doing quite good with their internet business. |
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Somewhat better news coverage story was today released by ABC4 and you can also watch video report which main focus this time was Stormpay and claims that were filed against them. At least they are now trying to do more professional job and make neutral stand unlike they did in beginning. Possibly because of spam that they received after such reports. Fact that owners of Stormpay are ready to speak with media is not surprise but rejecting camera into their offices was quite obvious way of saying we will lie but not show our eyes so you can't say we are actually falsificating anything. What a scumbags. I hope they really get what they deserve after what they did. ABC4 now plans to get interview from Charis which will be covered in Tuesdays news. Let's see what they will say now about 12dp. |
| 13.02.2006 |
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Another paying as scheduled site OzSurf which already paid me 2nd time after Stormpay problems. I consider it medium risk considering many factors but communication and response time to problems is at the very best level here. |
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DadnDaves have announced their recovery plan after Stormpay problems and everything seems good in it except removal of refs commissions. Seems quite unfair to those who promoted it. I would understand if it was reduced percentage to some 1-5% or some advanced membership level introduced like at KnightGoldSurfers but such ruling makes all past promotion efforts useless and waste of time.
Anyway DadnDaves resumed surfing but earning is 0% until March. Also CashBackSurf is planning to reopen operations by 1st of March and with different rules and I like what I read.
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AWD-Network has introduced turing challenge during their autosurfing which is better than manual surf approach in my opinion but still makes you pay attention or you get suspended from
earning for few days. This is quite fair decision and I think many autosurfs should choose to use similiar challenge for ad viewers
to make those ads more valuable and efficient. Considering their low ROI this one might become one of my favorite longterm programs once I receive my first payment which is quite near now since I decided to invest in this quite reliable project considerable amount. |
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As for Stormpay news I must say nothing new has happened except another announcement from Stormpay. They claim to be under DDoS attacks and explain their unavailability at some times with this. I researched this a bit more and found it to be reported true from independent source. Rest of the announcement is quite in same lines as before. They try to explain mistake they have done and hope they will come out clean with it. In short I could translate it as following "We have taken your money to secure our future. We put it all into frozen autosurf accounts so we can claim them illegal money and can keep it for ourselves. We did this because don't have enough funds to pay you all because of recent chargebacks from creditcard companies we experienced from members joining various hyips. We will adjust any records so that they show as our money and not yours. And if you say it isn't we will prosecute you."
I have updated letter in my information section with another one from Dennis. Check it out for quite an interesting viewpoints on this matter and particulary Chronicles latest article. |
| 11.02.2006 |
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What speaks louder than words is payment without delays. GottaLotta usually pays previous month earnings between 7th and 10th of next month. Yesterday on last day of these dates I received my 2nd payment of 61$ from currently one of my most recommended sites at this time. |
| 10.02.2006 |
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This mess created by Stormpay has dealt big damage to autosurf programs who used it especially to those who had most of funds in Stormpay. But let's face it world is not over and there are plenty of programs out there who never used Stormpay or were not affected as much. From experience of payment processor caused problems in past I can say that full or partial refunds will be issued and people will get money back especially since so many legal authorities involved now but it will take time and I am quite sure it can go into months not just weeks.
Meanwhile I started checking other programs who continue to operate and what's most important pay to their members. I have chosen 2 new programs to be added to my list which I have been watching for some time already and seeing how they handled this Stormpay issue decided to join. First one is KnightsGoldSurf that was started just few days ago but already has almost 5000 members. Main reason of this is that admin of this site Nate has
another site www.knightsurfers.com that was quite popular and one of top ten sites voted at Jim's AutoSurfCentralCafe
but had their most funds frozen in Stormpay. Nate is one of few who continue to work on getting back their funds from Stormpay
and meanwhile started fresh site without Stormpay option.
Another site I have chosen to add is Surfice which was launched during December and recently added Stormpay as payment option but only 2 weeks before Stormpay started freezing accounts so was not much affected by this problem. Script used by them is similiar to PaidResponse one but seems this one could be a longshot. Attitude and some unique features like personal account manager and advanced cashout options make it stand out from the crowd of autosurf programs. |
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Autosurf-biz and Eprofitsurf announced today that their merged site launch will be delayed until monday because of some panicsurfers who made chargebacks at Paypal and made them additional workload to manually adjust accounts of those members. Sometimes I am just amazed how some people don't learn some patience.
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Quite a well put together site about Stormpay scam actions with several facts outlined and screenshots provided can be found under this link. Check it out if you still think Stormpay is not guilty of all this mess they caused. |
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12dailypro announced today that their joint agreement few days ago has been violated by Stormpay several times and at this time any contact attempts were ignored. All of this seems like quite good Stormpay strategy to delay time and cover their tracks as much as possible meanwhile spreading false information about merchants they stole money from. Seems those still waiting for your stolen money by Stormpay it will take quite some time to recover it if at all.
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Another article posted by local Clarksville news portal Leaf-Chronicles. This time it has more information about the situation and even some funny ponzi example quoted from Girsky. Well at least media is now seeing both sides of story before reporting. |
| 09.02.2006 |
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Another news report was made about Stormpay and 12dailypro war. This time it's more professional and not so onesided as previous ones with even one 12dailypro member explaining how it works generally but still just brief overview of situation and mostly comments from BBB about how pyramid schemes are doomed to fail and claiming 12dp is one of them. Click here for it's transcript or video. |
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Latest news from 12dailypro - new site launch will be delayed by advice of attorney. I think it's a good move because there is no need to rush right now. It's better to focus and solve the matter on hand with Stormpay and then start new site. Here is some insight of what it will be posted by Charis on 12dp forum:
The new program is membership based but is heavily geared toward external advertisers.
Members receive powerful advertising services, interact and engage with advertising content of other members and external advertisers and have the opportunity to earn for doing so. That is the ONLY thing the new site has in common with 12dp. Everything else is fresh!
The ancient idea of a surfbar is no more. Along with being manual, the new site's advertisement viewing area allows advertisers to deliver interactive elements for members to engage with along side their sites. The site will also collect key demographic information from members which will allow us to sell powerful advertising and demographic reporting packages for our advertisers.
The program is planned to have a referral program during pre-launch, but not after. However a separate affailiate program will be available which will allow people to earn commissions for all outside advertising sales they refer.
We are very excited! Waiting is not easy.
On the other news Stormpay has changed their terms again. They removed their commission based new rule they added on 30th of January and now they want to disallow any chargebacks made to them and make it so that you agreed to withdrawing funds from your bank accounts and credit cards.
14. Funds Recovery: By using the withdrawal method of sending funds to your US Bank Account, you authorize StormPay to retrieve any funds that were paid to you and then charged back by the purchaser for any reason if the funds cannot be retrieved from the users StormPay account, or collected from the original purchaser. If you received the withdrawal by check, you understand that the defecit amount can be turned over to a collection agency for collections. It should also be noted that reversing the funding method (ie. chargeback) used to fund your StormPay account is considered fraud and will be prosecuted to the fullest extent allowable by law, as well as your StormPay account will be terminated.
This section was changed recently and is not how it was originally written. Well it's not what I signed up for when I joined so give me my money back and I can continue with others not requesting such dumb rules.
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I added to my information section quite an interesting letter sent to local Clarksville newsportal after their recent article that had quite onesided story stating only opinion of Stormpay owners. Dennis has put it all together quite well and if they are not sponsored by Stormpay on this issue which after their next article about Business Bureau complaints gives some hope on neutral stand then possibly it will be considered for another article which would reveal Stormpay in all of it's crimes. Public media can sometimes do wanders when represented properly.
Bill from CBS provided a link where you can post your complaint about Stormpay to Class-Action suit against them. Just takes few minutes but could help in the matter if you were affected and lost money in Stormpay. |
| 08.02.2006 |
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The Better Business Bureau of Middle Tennessee has released yesterday status of complaints against Stormpay and their further actions in this issue in a special report. It appears they have received 18,926 complaints during recent 7 days. Due to volume of complaints they will pass this to federal authorities for further investigation.
12dailypro announced today joint statement with Stormpay that they have been in productive discussions in which Stormpay confirmed that they are able to fulfill any withdraw request made by 12dailypro. Also it was revealed that investigation is going on by FBI and states of North Carolina and Georgia. Recent chargebacks made by Stormpay is an attempt to secure the funds for future refunds. Well what can I say about this announcement. I read it over and over several times and this just doesn't come into the whole picture happening around stormpay at this time. Even more questions were raised than answered by this announcement so I will refrain from stating any versions that crossed my mind on this matter and will continue to patiently wait for outcome of this mess created by Stormpay. Not much more I can do about this.
Dave has posted an open letter on his surfsite and on info site with quite fair questions which generally are on everyones mind just not formulated that good.
Netinvest Autosurf have announced that they have successfully pulled out their funds out of Stormpay and were not affected by this mess in any way. Considering they have dropped Stormpay from day one this ensures that they will be one of few I am recommending right now as programs you can safely invest. Also an announcement of few term changes was made to ensure that they don't face similiar problems with money processors in future. Well as I would call this is the time when some learn from mistakes of others on others expense which not everyone is able to manage. Thumbs up for this one. If you haven't joined it yet Netinvest was launched early this year and has quite good potential with quite clear layout of their future plans.
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| 07.02.2006 |
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This is latest move by Stormpay scam. They zeroed everyones accounts using chargebacks to autosurf programs. Will report more once I find out more details. |
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Wow this one is a busy day.
I can barely keep up with the news coming in from all sites.
Here are the latest from Autosurf.biz and EprofitSurf which as I earlier mentioned plan to merge. But big news is they have decided to create their own payment processor to avoid keeping money in other processors and be dependant on this fact. I just checked it out and it already has over 2000 members. Here is the link to new payment processor Auto-Surf-Money which is due to be launched on 15.02.2006. But you can already signup for it and refer others to it. This fact quite strongly says that these two in future merged programs are planning to be here for long haul and this recent Stormpay bump is just something that made them do these steps faster than planned. |
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Latest news from 12dailypro are that they will start refunds today in following order
1. E-gold/EMO - means those who still have pending e-gold upgrades which were directed to EMO
2. e-gold/money order - e-gold upgrades which were chosen to withdraw via money order
3. compounded EMO
- those who compounded and have chosen EMO as withdrawal option
4. EMO - those who upgraded with EMO
Time schedule is not set because it depends on their progress with Stormpay problems. Seems most probable is payout to first and may be second groups in short term. I am in first group so will report if it's paid out.
Also Charis announced new site that will deal with EMO to be launched tomorrow. I plan to add it to my list with my overview when it is available so watch my page for news about it. Some have asked why Charis just doesn't continue existing 12dailypro with EMO and she explained it's because of possible 12dailypro investigation as claimed by Stormpay and doesn't want to make any trouble for EMO so separate site is better option to continue with. |
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Many programs that were affected by Stormpay account freezings are currently making strategic decisions and plans for recovering from this damage they have taken which means delays of payments made and as an excuse usually their uncertainty of what Stormpay does with their account is used. There are a lot of chances many can decide to either close for good or for time being while their funds are being released if delays go any longer.
But there are programs that continue to fulfill their obligations and continue to pay. As I already mentioned one of first ones was Autosurf.biz which paid me 22$ on Thursday as per weekly schedule they have even though Stormpay already had frozen their account. Latest news from Autosurf.biz and EprofitSurf admins is that they plan to merge these 2 because of Stormpay problems they had to face so they can recover and continue without Stormpay.
Another man of his word who continues to pay even though his site was affected by Stormpay greatly is Brad from OzSurf and today I received my payment of 26$.
Both continue using e-gold and even though some have decided to drop e-gold because of their reputation problems I don't think e-gold is going anywhere and as it has run for 10 years I am quite sure it will continue for several reasons:
1. no credit card funding which means no charge backs which ruined Stormpay and many others before (EvoCash, IntGold)
2. their security is one of the best just people need to learn using it correctly and use full security options with ip sensitivity and others
3. it is backed by gold reserves and funding e-gold means actual purchase of gold from reserves
4. yes they had problems with communication during downtime and such but it seems they learned and recent scheduled maintenance was announced and no surprises anymore like in December
5. US state has released a press release which cleared their damaged reputation by confirming that there was investigation but nothing illegal or fraudulent was found.
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Another big program AlientTrust which has Stormpay account frozen has announced today that they will continue with existing site. Existing upgrades and cash balance of earnings will be reset to 0 but will be stored for later in case Stormpay releases it's funds or what's even better hope when they have made enough earnings will refund from those just like they recently did with e-gold refunds of hacked accounts. All referrals will be left in place and new money processors chosen will be e-gold, Alertpay and Uniclear. After learning the lesson with Stormpay admin decided to keep their funds in bank account and increase payouts to bi-weekly which means it will be made less risky actual ROI as well.
Some might be very cautious right now but I am planning to join new 12dailypro site and upgrade right away and also continue using Alientrust and my referral offer for both will still be in place. Those who already joined under me and got their share of commissions will have their count of upgrades reset for both AlienTrust and new 12dailypro site which is due to be launced tomorrow. Check details of my offer under this link. |
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06.02.2006
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Many autosurf programs have started to search for other options of payment processors to replace Stormpay. Besides EMO there is one new processor worth mentioning that has been chosen by many and looks like is good enough to support autosurf programs for several reasons. It is ALERTPAY
It offers quite attractive rates for transactions and flexible account options for various purposes. If you plan to just use it for surfing and receiving your earnings then personal account is right choice. Making a payment is free but receiving one is set at flat rate of 1$ so more you earn less you pay them. ALERTPAY is member of Canadian BBB (Better Business Bureau) which has listed it as customer's satisfactory record. |
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Not much changes so far either. Everyone concerned about Stormpay issue and all experts are currently digging their background and looking for bits of information that would lead to possible resolution of this problematic situation at Stormpay.
Here is a LINK to one of local Clarksville news portals where reporter is reviewing what is happening at their office building and it appears they have signed a contract recently to sponsor new racetrack building and I've heard it involves 2 million dollars. I wonder if it's out money they going to use.
Also some people have contacted their VISA card support and were reassured that their payments to Stormpay will be refunded if Stormpay doesn't release funds in near future and continue these illegal operations with others money. Also claim from Stormpay that charge backs on them are illegal is not true and VISA representatives have confirmed it's what Stormpay does is illegal not vice versa. I plan to contact my VISA card issuer next week regarding same matter and how much time I have to request the charge back of my original deposits to them in case Stormpay will end up denying my withdrawal attempts.
Stormpay during recent days is having technical problems and quite often is unavailable. Some say its DDOS attacks which might be true. Their Alexa ratings have been skyrocketing lately.
If you want to check out cease and desist letter from the state of Tennessee against Stormpay owners here is a LINK |
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05.02.2006
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I updated my main list by moving those who are either temporary closed or not allowing upgrades because of Stormpay freezing their accounts to lower positions and adding updated comments.
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Not much has changed today. Stormpay still holds as hostage funds of almost every autosurf program. Also does some weird actions with those like refunding randomly back to members as if they are new admins of every autosurf program out there.
For those of you new to autosurf industry many programs currently are facing major problems because of fraud from money processor Stormpay that has stolen money and holds it as hostage without reasons and doesn't respond to admins requests except legal actions. I recommend holding your money for yourself until the situation clears and all settles back to normal or seminormal when programs will move to use other more reliable processors like EMO. Most of programs have their funds frozen in Stormpay which has made great impact to autosurf industry because major portion of cashflow
has been set to halt and admins of autosurf programs just can't access this money. Most likely reason for this is lack of funds at Stormpay to pay all those who were pulling out of them after new policy enforcement which required autosurf programs to use Stormpay exclusively or loose it all. Next week might be turning point in whole industry as I see it depending how all of this will resolve.
Also I don't think requesting refunds at Stormpay for those upgrades you made in autosurfs will be accepted and money refunded. It will just make this all more delayed and as I have seen reports mostly these are rejected with some lame reasons. If you have option to charge back your transaction into Stormpay then this is one you could try and this one Stormpay fears most of all at this time because yesterdays e-mail from them included legal threats to those planning to charge back at their creditcard companies which just proves my theory of them lacking funds after massive cc charge backs done which doubled the money they lost first by some hyip scammers (5dayfunds and profits4investingtoo comes to mind) and later by dissapointed customers which were rejected refunds at StormPay so they went to CreditCard company and requested charge backs |
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04.02.2006
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Stormpay made an official announcement today. You can find it HERE with my comments added.
12DailyPro, AlienTrust and CashBackSurf have temporary closed their service until this Stormpay situation clears out.
EprofitSurf and AutosurfBiz (btw I received payment to e-gold yesterday just as scheduled from them) will announce their plans on Monday.
GottaLotta decided to still allow Stormpay until they receive official request to remove it from Stormpay.
I would recommend holding your spends into any program for some time until situation is resolved because even if program has chosen to drop Stormpay they might have invested in others who have their funds frozen so this will affect both. Will try to keep you updated on this situation status.
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03.02.2006
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Well latest news are not so good as I hoped they would be. 12DailyPro announced that some investigation is done in BYU campus Utah state where students have been misrepresenting 12dailypro as an investment ponzi scheme and investigation has been initiated in coopearation of StormPay on this matter. You can find the article of their news HERE.
Charis already mentioned possibility of refunding members if Stormpay releases funds. This sounds like there are already plans to close down the shop. What a shame because but it might be the end of paradise we all knew as 12dailypro. Other autosurf programs funds are frozen because of their large investments into 12dailypro using Stormpay and until investigation is finished they will be suspended so there is hope other programs might survive after some time and continue operating but using only Stormpay.
All of this is NOT official but just my overview on situation based on small bits of information I received.
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Well latest news on problems caused by Stormpay are following - 12dailypro decided to drop Stormpay afterall because after choosing them as exclusive money processor Stormpay has frozen 12dp account and legal actions have been started by Charis.
AlienTrust decided to close their program for new membership because of technical problems they are working currently on. Just few hours later when they found out their Stormpay account is frozen as well they choose to close surfing and upgrading as well until problems with Stormpay are solved. This means no payouts today either.
Dave from DadnDaves also announced that his account in Stormpay is frozen so he offers members to change their payout option from stormpay to paypal or e-gold and will pay as much as he can in order of received requests.
Bill Russel from Cashbacksurf decided to drop Stormpay as option for his program and clear all accounts linked to Stormpay in any way. And good thing he did that because later he received charge back request from Stormpay with reason void which means no reason at all. I already contacted my bank and was advised to block my credit card linked to Stormpay just in case and they assured it is the only way they could access my money.
Stormpay site itself is down second morning in a row. This all looks very bad I must say. Some are already screaming Stormpay is scam. Well good old rule of diversification is what saves you from such problems. I am glad I didn't use SP exclusively.
Here is report on Stormpay which has an intersting information about their past and current status.
If you are in mood to play some darts on picture placed on wall HERE is good example you could use. This is picture of Steven C. Girsky, owner of Stormpay.
My own opinion is that Stormpay currently is under investigation by some federal or government institution which was initiated by mass charge backs on creditcards from Stormpay during january. I do think Stormpay will continue to operate just like e-gold did after their investigation but
damage has been done and many will drop it because of this unprofessionalism and behaviour from their side. There is nothing much we can do except wait and hope it will be sorted out.
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02.02.2006
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Appears that autosurfing industry has come to the crossroads of a turning point in it's history. Largest programs like 12dailypro, eprofitsurf, autosurfbiz, aussieearners and many others have complied to StormPays new policy of having it as an exclusive money processing option. But it seems it's not an end to the story. At this time their accounts have been suspended for some 3rd party investigation (some claim it to be another FBI raid) and don't allow even incoming upgrades to these accounts. Well I hope this will be solved soon enough or it will halt business of biggest whales and hold their majority of funds as hostage. Stormpays recent actions are very poor business performance which shows how unreliable it can be and no wonder many avoided this processor mostly because of their fees and their lies about no connection to Netiba company which actually is owned by them and does almost no verification for their certificates. Even my 1 year old could respond to their verification :P
Well people cross your fingers and let's hope StormPay won't ruin large part of the autosurfing industry as we know it today. If it happens only those will survive who didn't have majority of funds in SP. At this time only GottaLotta, CashBacksurf, ProfoundHits from my list plan to drop Stormpay as their option so cheers to those who don't accept such unproffessional approach from money processor and are independent from such behaviour. Will update you on situation as I find more. Meanwhile try to get your money out of StormPay if you can just in case it get short on funds when many start pulling out. You might loose on commissions but at least you wont all you have in SP if worst scenariou happens. Also considering that SP debit card is still out of stock I found out gCard provides option to fund it from StormPay and some have successfully withdrawed this way. |
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31.01.2006
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Well what do you know. 12DailyPro today decided to drop EMO which was chosen just month ago as replacement for E-gold. After reading the triller like story by Charis on news section first thought I had was this is bull shit. It raised every red flag in my mind possible and I saw all those sceptics at talkgold and some other hyip forums now shouting loud how they were right about further delays just on 31.01.2006 which was deadline for 12dailypro for catching up with backlog of e-gold transition payments. But after thinking some more about it from other point it didn't go together. If they decided to close the shop they wouldn't have paid 90% of delayed payments from transition and almost catch up with them. So I started looking into this and researching what really happened and was quite shocked what I found out. Appearantly StormPay changed their terms just yesterday according to news section (https://www.stormpay.com/stormpay/user/helpdesk.php?view=news&y=2006&article_id=47 for their new policy) in their site which now are very strict about dealing business with merchants who offer multiple payment processors. They either request to stop relations with others or will stop dealing with merchant who declines just like Charis explained. It all made sense now and it seems they have chosen best timing to take over monopoly on 12dailypro success and get their big share of success. Well I am confident this isn't runaway sign but appearant blackmail by Stormpay and reasons of fraud mentioned are just smokescreen above real resons of getting big share of commissions for having exclusive relation with 12dailypro business which seems to be largest merchant of StormPay at this time. Well done by StormPay but this surely made their reputation suffer now in eyes of autosurfers which might lead to their end in longterm. For some these news could be a reason for panic but I thought it over and I am confident 12dailypro is at their best to solve another problem in their way.
Long live 12dailypro.
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30.01.2006
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Added 2 more programs to my list.
CashBackSurf is owned by admin Bill Russel who is not just very responsive to his members but also frequent guest in various forums and shares his expert advice and experience with others new to industry. Surfing is very smooth and their recent switch from e-gold to EMO was planned even way before 12dailypro decided to do the same. This looks like a longterm program with quite low risk.
KingOfAutosurf has been around for some time and after seeing it recomended by other well known experts I decided to give it a try. Site design is quite professional looking and unlike others has turing number challenge. Admin is monitoring actions of members and provides proof in his forum in case some fraud is detected after which accounts are suspended. Performance also is quite fast and smooth. I already received my first payout because of weekly payouts and low cashout. This is medium risk program. |
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Really good news which many have waited. Will 12dailypro resolve their transition from e-gold to EMO problems? Today I received payment for compounded upgrade which expired on 21.01.2006 from 12 Daily Pro which clears their warning flag and at least in my eyes I am confident that it will continue to run for long time now. Resumed investing in it as per my 50/50 strategy again. After 2 more days backlog should be cleared and people will see that Charis kept her word almost without further delays as many expected. My favorite program returned to top of my list now. :) |
| 29.01.2006 |
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My 3rd payment of 390.04$ from AlienTrust got delayed for almost 2 days but reason is their switch to dedicated server which was done with bit of bad timing but handled well and everyone who missed any surfing was compensated for these days. AlienTrust is gaining more and more attention and in my opinion has potential of 12dailypro which is rarely found in autosurfing these days. Many claim having such potential but only few have meet up to standards set by 12dp. AlienTrust managed it so far and is going stronger and stronger. Unlike 12DailyPro it plans to go private once reaches 100000 members so don't miss out on this great opportunity. |
| 27.01.2006 |
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This payment of 208.80$ from 12 Daily Pro was paid just as scheduled for an expired upgrade from 21.01.2006. Seems 12dp is slowly getting back on track and will make almost all payments due for 31.01.2006 except EMO compounded ones which will be delayed few days as per today's announcement. Current status is Stormpay 21st of Jan expiry upgrades are paid but EMO is 5th of Jan upgrades are paid. Weekend will be quite busy for 12dp. |
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27.01.2006
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Added new feature for my site - detailed report. At this time I only made it for 12DailyPro but plan to make it such report for all programs I have enlisted. It isn't finished yet and I will add more information to it within next few days but you can go and check it out here.
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26.01.2006
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Big Boy Scripts scammers are still continuing to clone their autosurf sites to scam people out of money. 4 more sites added to their huge list. Check it out at research page and don't donate to their ghost sites.
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25.01.2006
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Only one day left to sign up with DadnDaves. I highly recommend this one!!!
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This one was quite a surprise. I joined SurfMunkee back in summer of 2005 when it was one of the top autosurfs at the time. Later on delayed payments and other problems made it go downhill with it's reputation and I decided to drop it from lists just before new years.
Also said I don't recommend it anymore etc. Well what do you know I received 2 of my pending payouts few days ago as a complete surprise to my Stormpay account. I upgraded using e-gold but appearantly they dropped e-gold like many have done recently.
This put me in profit with this one and I readded it back to list. Purchased subscription for another month and will again watch it for some time in case it regains it's good reputation. I've seen others report payments done lately as well. So may be there is still some hope for it.
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21.01.2006
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Just 5 days left before door closes in most reliable program in the industry at this time - DadnDaves. Don't miss it out if you are not a member yet. You don't have to upgrade right away but if you don't signup now you won't be able after 26.01.2006. Many have waited for this program to reopen for new members for several weeks and now it's open for just 5 more days.
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17.01.2006
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This one is quite an interesting addition to low risk category.
NetinvestAutosurf is run by forex trader Alex Maina and daily trade reports are shown in forum and on site. As an optional feature it offers learning forex trading with a test account. My initial research on it showed only positive feedback from quite reputable people in industry and some even know personally Alex. Program plans for next 2 years are explained and considering low risk of ROI it offers I do think this one is longterm and joining it is pretty safe. |
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16.01.2006
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Big news from one of my top listed programs DadnDaves. Program is now open for new applications for 10 days only and will be going private after that. This is currently most reliable and trustable program out there so don't miss out the opportunity to join before it's too late. Click on DadnDaves and signup. You can upgrade later if you want but don't miss the window of signing up with it.
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13.01.2006
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Added another scam group (my3daily, earn14daily, lucky7surf, mad-surf etc) to research group. This one has 30 autosurf sites running on same host. Almost all of domains are registered under same name. Status of not paying is given by autosurf monitors and member votes in those. In most monitors these programs are placed into scam/closed lists even tho most of them are still running and accepting money. Stay away from these sites.
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09.01.2006
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PaidExposure and PaidResponse the hugely promoted projects during summer of 2005 finally bite the dust. This I think was longest stretch of closing down in the history of autosurfing. At least no need to worry about it anymore.
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| 07.01.2006 |
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As sad as it is I am giving 12DailyPro first warning sign. Situation has been getting out of control for few weeks already and I did not pay much attention to it but todays decision of delaying payments even more and changing payment processor has made me rethink my opinion. There is of course chance it is as Charis states and it will be truly a change over from e-gold to EMO but all recent events with account suspensions payment delays are signs of problems. I am not going to call 12DP a scam but I will put my investments in it on hold until situation clears out and I receive my pending payments. I advise to you all doing the same if you care about your investments. Risk zone for 12DailyPro is at this monent at the roof and if it will survive this hiccup it will continue business for quite long time. Let's hope Charis is first one to survive such situation. |
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06.01.2006
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12DailyPro is having another hiccup of problems which I am quite certain will be solved within few days. These were caused because of recent changes made to site which didn't go as smooth as usual. Many jump the bandwagon of screaming scam already but after my recent payment from Stormpay which was paid on 3rd business day I don't see any reason for this. Yes e-gold payouts are much slower now but this was warned before xmas by Charis. Payments are still coming and should be back to more regular schedule soon.
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05.01.2006
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I am proud to announce another addition to my site. SCAM list with detailed information why these sites are considered scam.
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03.01.2006
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Added new program Simply6 to the list from another pair of proven in business admins Todd and Lisa. This is new site in their group of sites and should be as successful as previous ones which got only good reviews so far. |
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And another addition AlientTrust which got me quite excited to join because of quite original and unique script used together with an interesting concept of missions to increase your earnings. Surfing in it is quite fun and reviews for it have been also only positive. Pays weekly on Fridays if your account level is min 35$. |
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02.01.2006
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My first payment from one of newest additions to my list OzSurf. Well my first experience with it looks very promising. Only problem so far I see is the server time used which looks like some asian or australian time but hosting server itself seems located in New Jersey. Also after my query regarding this admin responded that this will be looked at after new year to match server time of most other autosurf programs so if that happens I can add flexibility of this program as advantage for it. |
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01.01.2006
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Seems this site is not just fastest in terms of navigation and surfing but also with cashouts. Received today my first payment of
21$ from ExekoSurf just one hour after midnight of new year. I wish every site that pays monthly would be that quick with payouts. |
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SunnyMoney changed their terms today and now daily earning is only 1.5% instead of 3% and upgrade lasts now for 100 days instead of 50. This halved daily ROI to 0.5% and is now in very low risk zone but change itself in my eyes doesn't look good and could mean 2 things. From my experience when other programs reduced daily percentage those were facing major problems and didn't last long. Or this could be first that manages to flexibly change terms to survive any problems faced. Fact that it went private and is planning to do it again once another 1000 paid members added is giving hope that last scenariou is more possible but for now I would not upgrade with large amounts here. |
