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Posted By: The Roadie <wcarton@flash.net> In Response To: See what I mean. Roadie just jumps all over people for no reason but it is OK. DNO (Valarri)
Thursday, 23 June 2005, at 8:37 p.m.
> you guys are really just a bunch of jokers here, y'know?
Hmm, "Bree"'s post (that linked to a site owned by somebody named John Panas) denigrated a domain for being registered in March and said it was a red flag. Their link was to a site registered anonymously in April, with the misspelled tag line "How I Am Putting 1,000's in my pocket per week!! And You can to!"
And you think that sort of stuff should go unchallenged?
That domain linked to yet another anonymized domain, vacationpower.com, whose flash movie (put your marketing on autopilot, etc.) reveals a connection to Coastal Vacations, which has a history of being associated with big-time spammer Eric Bauernfeind in late 2002. In my humble opinion, that's a taint large enough to raise multiple red flags.
That it has an Aussie 2-up pay plan is yet another nail in its coffin. No legitimate MLM needs to have a 2-up pay plan - only the ones who are going to burn out the newbie affiliates who can only GET two sales if they're lucky from their warm market. If you have an example of a 1- or 2-up pay plan that's been successful for a decent time without massive affiliate churn, I'd love to hear about it. It's a rare bird, if not extinct.
I'll leave newbies alone if Maamaw thinks I'm chasing away to many folks who might be valuable contributors. I happen to think that folks who come here to post their unverifiable claims like "How I Am Putting 1,000's in my pocket per week!! And You can to!" don't deserve to sucker in newbies and forum lurkers without being exposed to the critical thinking that might make them better evaluators of opps.
Whew - a run-on sentence if I ever typed one. :-)
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