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Just wanted to post a quick update on the state of the Blog. N, I have not given up on it but with all of the turmoil going on in the autosurf industry I have decided to take a small break in posting. Rather than post on something that conceivably change the next day I have decided to wait until things clam down a bit. Hopefully that will not be too long. Until then good luck with your blogs.
posted by bentley92 @ 9:09 AM
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The intended purpose of this post is to let you know what sites I am being paid by. It should also (hopefully) alert you if there are any trouble signals ahead for those autosurfers. Here are my payments for this week:
posted by bentley92 @ 10:15 AM
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12DailyPro’s site is now unavailable and I seriously doubt they will be coming back as well GWPTraffic has seemed to up and disappear. That my friends is just the beginning, both Enjoy2Surf and Sunny-Money have closed their doors as well. They are claiming that the new constraints set by the SEC prevent them from continuing in the “autosurfing” fashion. One bright note is that they are also claiming to be refunding everyone who is not in the positive, well see. NetSurf123 and PrimaSurf have closed their doors for the next couple of weeks. They are claiming to be making changes to comply with the new SEC constraints, another well see. AutoSurfJapan site has been down for the last few days, they are claiming “maintenance”; once again well see if they come back up. Lastly, 123eTraffic has had upgrades turned off for a few weeks now. I’m not sure why this is or what it means but I am guessing it is not a good sign. Okay, for a couple of pieces of good news (or at least better news). Since the StormPay issue I have been paid by DadnDave’s, sadly they are now private. Right at this point they are closed to make script changes but I am confidant that they will be opening back up. I have also been paid by eProfitSurf, twice! As of right now their site is down (it might be up by the time I post this) but they have made major chances including opening their own payment processor, Auto-Surf-Money. One last note, my first play with HYIP didn’t go so well, both turned out to be scams. I may play with them again sometime in the future but with all the change going on with autosurfing it is keeping me plenty busy.
posted by bentley92 @ 2:10 PM
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I am adding a new autosurfer to my research list. After a bunch of sites closing down I though it was about time to add another site. They don’t and have never used StormPay so there’s the good news. The site is West-Gold and here are its stats:
posted by bentley92 @ 10:23 AM
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The intended purpose of this post is to let you know what sites I am being paid by. It should also (hopefully) alert you if there are any trouble signals ahead for those autosurfers. Here are my payments for this week:
posted by bentley92 @ 9:45 AM
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The StormPay fallout continues and AWD-Network is the latest autosurfer to shut its doors. Once again it is blaming its problems on the fact the StormPay has taken all of its money and locked their account as well as other issues (see below for their statement). Right now seems to be a very uneasy time for the autosurf industry. Two points to consider, first, the autosurfers that make it out of this will probably be much stronger for it. Secondly, I’d be very wary of autosurfers that have used and continue to use StormPay. They might claim that they have been unaffected but I think it makes sense to watch them closely and perhaps refrain from investing more in them for a while. One other humorous note, just prior to the StormPay issues I was about to post on the merits of NetIAB with conjunction to using StormPay and 12DailyPro. Rethought that one!
AWD-Network Latest News and Updates
This has been a rather traumatic month for autosurfs. Some have closed and some have had to take drastic measures to ensure survival, after StormPay decided to not only stop dealing with autosurfs but to wipe out many accounts, and in some cases even take funds from members credit cards and bank accounts.
Some members have asked how we were affected. We didn’t want to go into too much detail until we were sure ourselves, but the situation is now all too clear. Although our StormPay account is still active, all the funds were removed by StormPay as charge backs. As I’ve said, the account is still active, but we have no intention of ever putting funds back into the account, just to have StormPay take them from us again.
We didn’t say anything sooner because we did not want to cause a panic among our members. We were hoping to use our reserves until matters were resolved. Unfortunately, about 90% of our short term online investments dealt with StormPay and all have been affected. There is no more money coming in from them, as StormPay have been closing accounts and/or wiping funds. Our long term offline investments are safe, but because they are long term we can not touch them for another 5 months.
It was really a case of bad timing with StormPay. We prefer not to keep funds in the processors, but because it was the start of the month we had funds there to begin payments. If StormPay had announced their intentions a week sooner there wouldn’t have been so much money sitting in the account. We were hoping that we could get the money from StormPay and put it into PayPal to pay all members this month, then we would worry about what to do next. However, since StormPay removed our funds there was nothing left to put into PayPal.
There has also been a problem with MaximumWallet. There is no money going into our account and we have been unable to get any money out. A 7-10 working day time limit on withdrawals is now at 18 working days, with no sign of movement. That on top of the fact that payments have been reduced to a crawl at the Maximum autosurfs, would suggest financial problems. This is why we have been unable to payout to MaximumWallet this month. If we ever actually receive the money owed to us, the first thing we will do is pay out members. However, this is unlikely.
So what happens next? Well, this autosurf was never intended as a full time business. It was supposed to be a part time job on top of our main concerns. We had set aside so many hours in the day to deal with upgrades, site validations, questions etc, but over the past couple of months and especially this past month, it has taken up way too much of our time. Our main business has suffered because of the amount of time I myself have had to spend dealing with the autosurf. Working to recover after recent events is going to be more than a full time job, and I just don’t have the time. I’m forced to make a decision, give the autosurf my full attention and let my main business slide, or close the autosurf.
Now, many of you are already in profit, so although you’ll probably be disappointed at the site closing, at least you know you got something out of it. For the free members, I’m afraid we can’t pay out what you earned, but since you never put any money in you are not losing anything. That just leaves those of you not yet in profit. There is some good news. Although our terms state that membership fees are non-refundable and there is no guarantee of earnings, we are not going to just “cut and run”. We will use what is left of our reserves to pay out the difference were possible. If you upgraded by $100 and received $50 from us, we will pay out the difference of $50.
Now, I suppose there is no point in my saying this, but please do not start complaining to the payment processors demanding refunds. If one or two members complain, then the funds in question are held until resolved. If 10, 20, 30 or more complain, then not only are those funds held, but the account if frozen. If our account is frozen we can not pay out members, including those who complained. No one wins. If you just let us get on with it, we’ll do our best to sort everyone out.
We’ll be taking the forum down. There are members out there who get abusive and we do not want our forum cluttered with foul language and threats. We have already had to remove a few posts lately due to the turing test, and it was nothing compared to this. I know many of you will have questions and will email us, and we’ll all do our best here to answer, but we will not respond to abuse, threats or foul language.
We have been here over a year and paid out all our members on time each and every month. The events bringing our site to closure were out of our control and our decision on this matter was not taken lightly. We’d like to thank members for their support over the past year, and wish you all the best in the future.
posted by bentley92 @ 12:52 PM
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The intended purpose of this post is to let you know what sites I am being paid by. It should also (hopefully) alert you if there are any trouble signals ahead for those autosurfers. Here are my payments for this week:
posted by bentley92 @ 10:13 AM
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