Saturday, October 15, 2005

4Daily Scam

From XtreamNet Forum: http://xtreamsurf.com/XtreamNet/viewtopic.php?p=1057#1057
Jim Hunt, owner of 4daily http://4daily.com/, has the dubious distinction of reaching new lows in relation to online scams and the paid to surf industry.

Following a series of mismanagement at his venue 4daily, Jim Hunt urged members to upgrade and COMPOUND their earnings in lieu of being paid. After securing as many upgrades and compounds as possible, he then took his site offline. When he reopened it was to an entirely new day for everyone - including all the members who had purchased upgrades and compounded! He had reset EVERY SINGLE MEMBER back to basic and wiped out all upgrades and compound history. He now tells those defrauded members that he considers all members PAID when they compounded their earnings and that everything else is part of the 'acceptable loss' provision on his site.

He now advertises his site as the Revitalised 4Daily.com Now back to FULL PAYOUTS! claiming that members Are in the unique position of being able to get in on the ground floor of a well established and much loved program....having an opportunity... that cannot be found anywhere else on the Net.

Nothing could be further or farther from the truth. In fact the only opportunity presented here is to loose your money and get raped in the process. Research by concerned members then uncovered the fact that Jim Hunt operated another failed/scam cashits.com as Kevin Hewitt!

This information posted to Xtream forum recently: Jim Hunt is apparently Kevin Hewitt (if the info is authentic). *************************************************** kevin@bigpond.com.au Kevin Hewitt Eagleway Pty Ltd 16 Carbon Court Bethania Qld 4205 Australia +614 1971 4799 ***************************************************
Source: http://www.scam.com/showthread.php?t=4179 ***************************************************
Then again, this should confirm it... http://www.getpaidforum.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php?t370842.html ***************************************************
Info provided by "DaveGrier" & "Fun4TheMoney" on the MissionHits forum Thread: http://www.missionhits.com/support/viewtopic.php?t=283

Members who have been defrauded by this individual and the 4Daily.com scam are urged to file complaints. Please see this link for some places you can start with: http://xtreamsurf.com/XtreamNet/viewtopic.php?t=386

These are sites members are welcome to use to spread the word:
http://myweb.ecomplanet.com/SCBU2028
http://www.freespaces.com/rushproj/4daily.html

Monday, October 10, 2005

To be Free or Not to be Free

To be Free or Not to be Free…ya, that IS the burning question!

Ok. Lots of screaming headlines and sites out there: FREE! Join this free, that free, this gives your free stuff, that free this and something else free whatever. Except, when you join (free), hello! You find out that is isn’t. I joined one tonight that just stepped on my last poor frazzled nerve, hence this post.

My pet peeves:
Free information!…then they send you a bunch of sales literature. Like, yeah, that is supposed to be free. This goes for so-called e-books which are nothing more than e-book-a-sized sales brochures.

Free to join!… then you find out you have to pay something to get any real value from the site! That is NOT free thank you anyway.

Free Advertising…only to discover you have to invest a jillion hours or your entire lifetime performing tasks at their site to get any of that free advertising. Time is money you know. (Most of them then offer paid packages…lol, now, this is NOT free.) This is what I joined by in March when I first wrote this article. Loads of promises that looked really good only to find I will have to devote my entire waking existence to working this site to actually benefit from it! (Unless someone figures out how to do this while sleeping…really and truly.)

Free Trial Offer…only to discover that the time period is ridiculously short like 3 days, 7 days and etc. IT TAKES A MINIMUM OF 30 DAYS TO SEE RESULTS in any kind of promotional campaign. Trust me in this one. I have had my first site http://www.xtreamsurf.com/ online and aggressively marketing it since 7/04. I am really just now seeing the fruits of all that campaigning. People are just know saying XtreamSurf? Yeah, I heard of that - year later! A 7 day trial offer is ridiculous.

You get my drift. There is “free” and then there is really free. If something toted as being free ends up requiring you either spend loads of your time to achieve or pay money to get, it is not free.

Why do sites even bother offering free anyway? Simple: to get you to join and try the product. You try, you like, it works, you then want more, you buy. Cool. I am with that all the way. I do exactly the same thing on my free traffic sites! People join free, get credits to run their sites to try it out. They like they stay, maybe purchase something (this helps pay all the “stay-in-business” bills for sure), everyone gets something from the initial “free” offer.

So, there is free and then there is actually free. How do you tell the difference? This is fairly common sense thinking. A site which makes you spend an inordinate amount of time performing tasks to build up credits is not free. A site which gives you upfront credits to advertise is free. A site which once you join free then requires a payment to benefit from the program: not free. A site that actually delivers the initial goods free, really is - well - free.

Bottom line: look, read, analyze. Ask yourself: “Does this site deliver?” Depending on the answer you stay or flee. (also called “voting with your feet.”)
By: Cherie Halliday
http://www.xtreamsurf.com/

Sunday, October 09, 2005

5% Power Investment Day at XtreamSurf

A 5% Power Iinvestment Surf Day will commence on Midnight Monday 10-10 and run through midnight Tuesday 10-11 at XtreamSurf!! . Everyone who has invested funds will be able to investment surf this day for 5%! Whoo hooo!

The really cool thing about our Investment surf is that you get your investment back!! That is right - unlike most programs where that money you invest stays with the program (you earn it back plus by surfing) with our sites when you cash out you have the original investment returned to you plus the profit. Wowsa.

- cherie halliday