My friend sent me an e-mail that claimed if I signed up for an e-newsletter, they would pay me $20, plus five dollars for every friend that signed up. I went to the web site, and read over their terms of service, and couldn’t see anything that looked suspicious, but then again, what do I know?
They claim they’ll send you a check for twenty bucks, but what’s in it for them? How are they making money? Have you guys heard of this? Is this legit?
I do not know about this specific deal but my experience with these things is they are not worth the hassle even if they do give you the $20 (which they may or may not).
Unless $20 is major money to you, I would skip the offer.
I checked out the website. The “magazine” you’re getting is something like your local “Pennysaver”, i.e. it’s a bunch of advertisements. If you get other people to sign up, you get $5.00 per person.
So one would guess that they are paid more than $5.00 per subscriber from the ads that the magazine carries. Either that, or they are trying to quickly build up a high e-mail circulation level and hope to cash in by selling higher-priced ads later.
I just signed up using my netscape.net email address. I haven’t been scammed much so I’m not very skittish yet. Maybe this is where I learn my lesson. The only thing funny that I see is that a few of the pages have “Beta Test Site” in the upper left corner.
If men had wings,
and bore black feathers,
few of them would be clever enough to be crows.
I’m not familiar with the pitch you asked about, but there’s a general rule you can use. If it looks too good to be true, it probably is. You might also ask yourself if your friends would thank you for increasing the amount of junk e-mail they get.
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The other obvious question is, assuming this works and they really send you REAL money (as opposed to a some kind of lame ‘eZine money’ that you can only apply towards purchases with their sponsors), what stops me from setting up five fake e-mail accounts on Yahoo or Hotmail, then signing those fake people up and referring myself for the full $75?
In order for them to pay you $20, they have to get your mailing address, your real name, etc. Creepy.
There are a lot of great money making ventures out there on the web.
I have not ventured into what was described above, so I can not comment on the particulars.
However, I have received checks from Alladvantage and am awaiting cash from other pay to surf companies. Read up before you join. Most of these sites have good faq pages.
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I got $20 from x.com online bank and $5 twice for refering people to PayPal.com, the ebay “go-between” company.(Works like an escrow-won’t release payment until delivery is confirmed)
Both are legit. The bank is FDIC and is the website for First Western National Bank of Colorado. They said the $20 deal is over, but I’ve gotten ads for $10 if I didn’t already have an account.
I also got a $50 check from essential.com to be my discount long distance co. It cleared.
A lot of sites are blowing millions on TV ads. What’s a little more for actual customers? All they want is market share to get rich on stock multiples. Profits can wait.
Oh, sure, I toss 99% of my “bargain” email, and suggest you do too, but ebusiness is very strange right now.