Hamarana

Well, not really.

Periodically, you get an email from pureprofile to tell you that there are campaigns in your account. These can be surveys, or just website visits. Surveys could be paid 20c up to about $15 (I managed to get a $10 survey and a $15 one all at one time, but that hasn’t happened for two years), the max is usually between $2 and $4. Website visits pay 10c. Some pay nothing and are there for interest, and some of those are worth a visit and a bookmark.

I joined Pureprofile when it was an Australia Post venture. Its now privately owned and has changed how it works and doesnt pay as much as it did (how could it!) but I have found in recent times, the things being promoted are worth a look, at least, and the surveys… well… I almost always get filtered out these days. But, 20c for answering two or three questions which give no real personal info… I don’t mind.

Its worth a look, and if you were to join, I get $1 for every $5 you earn, until I reach $5 (maximum per referral)… its all on the up and up… you won’t retire on the income… but for a few minutes of your time around once a month.. pffft…

Here’s the link.

A similar kind of thing, which you can earn 5c daily (and more) from (so its a bit more lucrative, but again, not a retirement income) is RewardsCentral (used to be Emailcash) which started in 1999 in the midst of the boom in paid to read advertising. It had changed its business model and survived long past the demise of most of the others, and its worth the hassle of logging in daily for your 5c. If you actually do shop online a lot, its definitely worth it because you get points for every purchase made via the site. Also associated is MyOpinions which you will have to join separately since it was separated from RewardsCentral.

As a matter of interest, I have earned over $150 from Pureprofile over the years and currently have $49 in my account, and probably around $300 from what was emailcash (the two current sites before their separation). I have currently around $180 sitting in RewardsCentral because I move my MyOpinions points over with every hundred, and it all goes into the eBank to get interest until I get to 22,000 points, at which time I will cash up for $200. Its not a lot but much better than a poke in the eye with a burnt stick.

Links already in the sidebar. Its worth the joining. Choose to use the referral links or not (it would be nice if you did), its still worth it to you if you can be fussed.

I may as well make semi regular (for that, read “annual”) posts about this scheme.

Its now a year since my last post which generated quite a bit of discussion, and I see that its still getting quite a few reads.

For those readers, then, here’s the current status. Please note that I am no longer making any claims either for or against the program. I am tired, I want to retire, but without this paying off, I will be working until I drop. Or decide to take the poverty option as soon as I can.

Status:
1) Still taking new members at a reduced rate (€20 as opposed to €30)
2) Still offering additional policy purchases to existing members
3) New closure date has been set at January 31, 2009.

I think we have had, now, three actual closure dates. All explanations for delays have been entirely believable.

I paid in $50 (AU: at the time, the exchange rate sucked) to become a member: that is all you are doing here, buying a membership. The fee is NOT REFUNDABLE; a point I think which has been completely ignored by many who have joined up… there are some who seem to think its an “investment”. WTF? I have not paid in any more than this, but many have done so. There is one extremely well heeled Chinese businessman who was so convinced that the proposal could work, he bought in not only for himself, but for his entire company, a total of 10,000 people. Wish he was in *my* downline!

There are people in my downline (which now numbers 113) who are still putting more cash into this deal. I’m content with having made my gamble (I put more into the work lotto syndicate than I did here, every year), and now patiently await the outcome. There has been nothing new since the 20th November, at which point it was announced that unless all documents are in, the program will close (on the date specified) with no payout. I could do with that €1,742,000.00 in referral earnings, not to mention the original €55,000 as well. I must confess, I had to suspend disbelief as the numbers surged over €100,000

Anyone want to take a guess at what is going to happen?

Please note, the question is rhetorical, and comments are closed. The last post generated some vitriol which I really don’t feel like having again.

[Edit: 21st December 2008] And now we are on a different URL. Stella sent out an email saying how silly she was because she forgot to renew the domain. D’uh. She’s handling millions of dollars and forgot to renew the domain. yeah, right. So now we are on a free domain (.tv is free) and I reckon its about 3 seconds before the domain disappears entirely, and all that money along with it. Oh well, it was a decent ride whilst it lasted.

You’ve all been reading off and on about my adventure with Global Pension Plan (which is still very much in the wind…) but what most of you don’t know is that I have been spending a lot of my time over the past couple of years on a forum with the name as in the title of this post.

I found GT quite by accident after following a signature link from another forum which I no longer go to at all. Golden Talk is a forum for discussion and information relating to making money online (fast). I’ll leave it to your imagination what that means in real terms.

What needs to be said is this… the forum does not allow idiots, fools, and timewasters to continue to post drivel and rubbish. There’s a strict set of rules of behaviour and thats why I am still there (and am now a moderator). So, if you thought you wouldn’t mind taking a look at whats happening online, in a safe environment (absolutely NO spam will ever be generated by Golden Talk through membership. The same cannot be said of programs you might join as a result of info gained there). All the mods are sensible individuals and can be relied upon to keep things in order.

So… interested in taking a look? Here you go!

The GPP people made it possible to buy more endowment policies (yes, its not a pension, really… we are talking traded endowment policies) prior to the December closure. Many people in my downline have decided to go for it and as a result my referral earnings have trebled. This means that, all things being equal and payout being as they say and on time… I should be able to retire around mid 2008… and I can honestly say I am really looking forward to it.

They are still taking new members, which surprised me, I think they may have dumped the notion of sticking with 100k members, and they are offering another 250k policies up for sale to existing members… However they have set a closure date at 31st December, paperwork to be done by the end of January and payout in February.

I am not buying any more policies, I am doing nicely and I am keeping all my fingers crossed that this comes off. Its doable, its legal, but its in the lap of the gods as to whether its actually a scam.

I posted about GPP back in February and suggested it could close as early as August. Later, we were given a close date at August 31st.

That did not happen, even though the required 100,000 membership was reached before the end of August. Seems a lot of people got cold feet about going through with it, and did not complete their details as requested. However we have been told that closure will be December 31, with paperwork to be completed and returned before the end of January, and payments being completed before the end of February.

The website is now down for maintenance and has been in this state for a few days. One hopes its the preparation for making paperwork available, sorting out all the login issues etc etc, and not the disappearing act.

Fingers crossed. Again.

Bumped to the top

I’ve looked GPP over for 6 months and decided that its a worthwhile investment. Membership is limited to 100,000. As I type this, there are about 34,500 members. I have a number in my downline so I would like to promote their links here, along with my own (its over there in the sidebar in the form of a graphic, as well as a banner at the top of this page).

If you consider it (a return of 55,000 euros for an outlay of 30 euros) its a good gamble. Yes there are requirements for being paid and the offer is time limited. If you are over 66 at the time paperwork is signed, you wont be eligible for more than the loyalty bonuses, but given that this is 2000 euros per person down 12 levels, its okay, really.

If you have any questions about funding, don’t hesitate to ask (Comments section is very useful at times like this) and if not interested, move along please.

I know… it all seems too good to be true, and maybe it is… but, oh well, lets see. Believe me, if it works, I’ll be posting a LARGE sign somewhere, signalling PARTY-TIME!

Addit: Looks like closure could be as early as August. The exponential increase factor is starting to kick in. Current member numbers are in excess of 38,000.

I am unable to find a direct link to Michael’s original list, he most certainly deserves the credit for thinking this one out. The 40 good reasons to join are being liberally sprinkled around the net so I am joining the throng.

Michael H. Lewis’ 40 Reasons Why You Should Join AGLOCO Now (with some additions by me)

1. You can make money safely, legitimately, and easily.

2. It takes maybe three minutes to join.

3. You need nothing more than a working (Windows) computer connected to the Internet.

4. You don’t have to enter any sensitive information to join.

5. You don’t have to buy anything to join.

6. You don’t have to buy anything ever once you are a member.

7. It’s easy to cancel if you no longer want to be a member.

8. All you have to do is download a small free toolbar that won’t install anything else on your computer, hog its memory, or read your keystrokes. ( Bulletproof privacy is a core commitment of AGLOCO).

9. You’ll make the same amount of money even if you never click on anything.

10. AGLOCO is the real deal, not some little scam. A good number of notable entrepreneurs are backing it. A Google search with keyword “agloco” will net you over 1 million pages and counting.

11. Very important: AGLOCO’s business model has been tried before, and proven to work. In fact, AGLOCO’s predecessor (All Advantage) paid out over $120 million to its members (this is what finally convinced me - I was in this one and was paid).

12. You can dramatically increase your income by referring other people to AGLOCO, because…

13 AGLOCO pays you a portion of the revenues earned from the viewbar use by those you refer up to 5 levels below you. So…

14. You can recruit your friends and, all make money together when you help them get referrals. Thus,

15. The sooner you sign up, the more folks will come to you for info, and the more likely it is that you will be the original seed of a large referral network in your community.

16. You never have to read emails from people you don’t know.

17. You’ll never be asked to send emails to people you don’t know.

18. You don’t have to change anything you normally do on the Internet. You surf, AGLOCO pays.

19. AGLOCO’s revenue source is genuine: members use a Viewbar that shows targeted advertisements based on your surf history, with the money generated by these advertisements going back to the members. That’s not magic; that’s common sense.

20. The Viewbar software you will download will not invade your privacy; it simply looks for keywords on the pages you view in order to show related ads.

21. The Viewbar is the size of your taskbar at the bottom of your screen – in other words, it’s small and won’t interfere with your browsing experience at all.

22. AGLOCO has a thorough privacy policy that explicitly guarantees personal information will never be sold or given away.

23. In fact, AGLOCO has three agreements that every member must agree to.( All the bases are covered.)

24. AGLOCO has a CPO – Chief Privacy Officer – whose responsibility is to make sure your privacy is never violated. His name is Ray Everett-Church, and he has more experience protecting privacy than probably anyone else on the planet.

25. AGLOCO doesn’t play; anybody providing fake information, signing up twice, or otherwise trying to cheat the system will be detected by AGLOCO’s anti-hacking instruments. This is an honest enterprise through and through.

26. By signing up, you’re supporting a company that will change Internet advertising for the better.

27. By signing up, you get to own a piece of the company that will change Internet advertising for the better. AGLOCO belongs to its members, which are you, me and the other millions of net surfers out there…

28. As a member, you will own stocks (more if you refer people) in a company that is likely to become huge and thus your stock will be worth something awesome when AGLOCO goes public on the London Stock Exchange.

29. You will likely find that other AGLOCO members, especially now in the early stages of AGLOCO, are some of the Web’s savviest users and developers, and you can learn a bunch from them.

30. You get to be on the cutting edge of World Wide Webware development, which means that as AGLOCO grows, its members will benefit from…

31. Discounts when members buy from companies affiliated with AGLOCO;

32. Possible help with spyware/antivirus protection (remember, everyone from Fortune 500 companies to millions of users will all benefit from a better browsing experience);

33. Community forums where members can meet and discuss not just stuff, but ways and member-based projects to make AGLOCO better (after all, it is our company).

34. Our company is in good hands. AGLOCO pays 10% of its revenues to Infomediary Services Corporation (ISC), which is simply the management company that is responsible for managing AGLOCO. The other 90% of the revenue belongs to us. This 10% will attract the designing talent needed to make AGLOCO great. The corresponding 10% of AGLOCO’s shares go to a foundation dedicated to providing every human being on Earth with Internet access (a little ambitious, methinks, but its all about advertising eh?).

35. AGLOCO’s management team will not get stock in AGLOCO. This ensures that those in positions of high responsibility don’t hijack the company.

36. Though circumstances will vary, you can get paid and earn shares no matter where on Earth you live.

37. If you choose, you can donate your earnings and shares to the charity of your choice.

38. If you get involved in referring more members, you might be able to quit your day job and actually spend time at home, with your family, on vacation, wherever – and still make money.

39. If AGLOCO fails, you won’t lose any money because you paid none in the first place.

40. AGLOCO ain’t gonna fail. The last time such an opportunity existed, people made over $120 million in under 2 years, when far less people had Internet access, and conditions weren’t yet right for such a company to go public. Now, with record spending on advertising and calls from all sides for less irrelevant advertising and a better business/customer connection, the world is more than ready for an Economic Network that gives back to its users.

You’d be mad not to do it. It costs you nothing, not even your time.