Need a Little Extra Money?

[Ann Omness]

About six weeks ago, I joined one of those "get paid to surf" programs because my son told me he was making good money from it. I'm as cynical as any of you about stuff like that, but I was feeling desperate fo find some way to get ahead. Hadn't been able to afford to go grocery shopping for two months. Anyway, the program has been paying me on schedule as promised, and I've already made a few thousand dollars in profit from it. If anyone is interested, I wrote up an explanation of how it works and my experience with it so far at http://www.bluewavelinks.com/12daily.html

[fetish1]

Originally Posted by Ann Omness

I'm as cynical as any of you about stuff like that, but I was feeling desperate fo find some way to get ahead. Hadn't been able to afford to go grocery shopping for two months.

Congrats on your success with it. I read your page, and I guess the one thing that confuses me a little is, you couldn't buy groceries for 2 mos, but you had $3600 sitting on a credit card to invest in an online program?
"I didn't have any money to invest, so I used my credit card. I
invested $1800 one day, and then another $1800 the next."
I'd be tempted to put a bag of groceries on my credit card before I went 2 mos without buying anything. But here's wishing you continued success with it. :-)

[Wazza]

Is promoting a pyramid scheme a crime in Michigan?

[gobgook2]

Give me a shout on ICQ so I can talk to you about Amway...

[Useless]

2 months? Wow. You must be skinny. Any pics? |fart|

[Ann Omness]

Originally Posted by fetish1

Congrats on your success with it. I read your page, and I guess the one thing that confuses me a little is, you couldn't buy groceries for 2 mos, but you had $3600 sitting on a credit card to invest in an online program?
"I didn't have any money to invest, so I used my credit card. I
invested $1800 one day, and then another $1800 the next."
I'd be tempted to put a bag of groceries on my credit card before I went 2 mos without buying anything. But here's wishing you continued success with it. :-)

I have about $60,000 in credit cards, but I refuse to use credit to pay for consumable monthly expenses. Once you start doing that, you're on the road to bankruptcy. My daughter goes dumpster diving every night at a local fast food restaurant for the food they throw out at closing. It's still packaged and still good, and that's what we've mainly been eating the past couple of months.

[fetish1]

Originally Posted by Ann Omness

you're on the road to bankruptcy. My daughter goes dumpster diving every night at a local fast food restaurant for the food they throw out at closing. It's still packaged and still good, and that's what we've mainly been eating the past couple of months.

UM OK, guess everyone has their priorities....I would risk bankruptcy before I would ever A: send my child to a dumpster for food, B. Eat from a dumpster with cash available on a credit card, C. Eat from a dumpster PERIOD.

[Ann Omness]

Originally Posted by Wazza

Is promoting a pyramid scheme a crime in Michigan?

It's not a pyramid scheme. There's only a one-level referrer program. That's pretty good, though. It pays 12% of whatever membership fees members you refer pay. Since each membership expires every 12 days, you can see how that could add up. Since I'm now paying for a $3,000 membership twice every 12 days, my son (since he referred me) makes almost $1,000/month just off my activity alone, not counting what he's making for doing the surfing every day. I'm not sure of my math. I just got to the maximum level (two $3,000 upgrades) a few days ago. Maybe my son is making more than that from me now.

[Useless]

Originally Posted by fetish1

UM OK, guess everyone has their priorities....I would risk bankruptcy before I would ever A: send my child to a dumpster for food, B. Eat from a dumpster with cash available on a credit card, C. Eat from a dumpster PERIOD.

I would risk bankruptcy before A: telling the world that I eat out of a dumpster and B: sending my child to go dig thru others' refuse for dinner while sitting on my lazy ass admiring my credit score.

If my son was making thousands of dollars per month on some bullshit scam and I didn't have enough money to feed myself and his siblings, I think I'd ask him to buy some food.

[BOSS]

This thread is as wiered as Usless Inviting me to live in his house....

[slaxxx]

I hope you were just making this story up to get referrals, and if you are that's fairly disgusting. Can't imagine what other reason you have for sharing this information and hoping someone clueless takes pity on you...

If you're not making it up, the fact that you have that much available credit and you let your children dig through dumpsters for food is truly horrible, and I hope someone reports you to Social Services. What kind of mother cares more about that than her children eating? Is that not your first priority, your children's welfare? I cannot believe I just read that.

Especially since you claimed to be doing so well online that you quit a "mainstream career in the corporate world":

Originally Posted by Ann Omness

When the Internet started getting popular in 1994, I sold the BBS for $6,000 and concentrated on my mainstream career in the corporate world. In January of 1999, I started making websites for Adult Check, and five months later, I quit my two day jobs. I've been working at home ever since.

If you can't pay for your kids, let the state give them parents who can give them the life they deserve. Un-fucking-believable.

And if you are in fact making this up, you clearly didn't put much thought into it...almost as bad.

[fetish1]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

Last edited by Useless Warrior : Today at 03:11 PM. Reason: Had to add the part about her son not giving a fuck about her starving to death.

Geez I didn't even realize the obvious when I posted. I suppose I was too stunned and amazed that ANYONE would admit to sending their child to a dumpster for dinner while sitting at the computer bragging about her credit worthiness!

[Ann Omness]

To get the facts straight: My daughter is 19, no need to worry about child services. The dumpster diving was her idea, not mine. We're all adults here, nobody is feeding garbage to kids.

As far as my career as an adult webmaster goes, I started in 1999 and the money was good back then. In 2000 and 2001, I was averaging $12,000/month in income. Since 2001, my income in this business has steadily declined, and now it's to the point where I can still pay all my monthly bills, but just don't have money left over for food. Don't worry that I'm starving or anything. I've been gaining weight on the dumpster diet.

I don't really care if the surfing for money thing turns out to be a scam in the end as long as I make money from it before it goes down. It's been running for seven months now, and your own money is only at risk the first 21 days. After you get your first payment, you can take your original investment out and just use your profit to keep going in the program. I would NOT have told you people about this program if it wasn't working for me. If the program lasts another five months (makes it a whole year), I'll have my credit card and my 2nd mortgage paid off.

[fetish1]

lmao While eating dumpster food....such a deal! Deal me OUT!

[Sergio_TeenBoys]

Got pics?

[RawAlex]

I don't know if I am suppose to laugh, be sick, or call the authorities.

Alex

[fetish1]

Originally Posted by RawAlex

I don't know if I am suppose to laugh, be sick, or call the authorities.

Alex

I'm voting for all of the above!

[Ann Omness]

I have to say that I'm honestly surprised that none of the adult webmasters are willing to try the surf for money program I'm in. You put a lot of time into making websites to promote new sponsors, many of which never pay you anything. That qualifies you as risk-takers. And you'd seem like the perfect people to be involved in something like this, because your websites position you perfectly to get people to sign up under you, greatly compounding your profits in the program. You have a big advantage over all the other people doing it. What is it that stops you? I'm really curious.

[Toby]

The ratio of money out vs. money in is too great to be self-sustaining. A net 44% return on investment every 12 days (1338% annual) for viewing 12 online ads each day just doesn't add up. The advertister cost for ad placement would have to be exhorbitant. Any outside investments using the float on funds invested could not possibly be earning enough to make up the difference. The only thing I can see keeping the house of cards from crashing is a consistant influx of new members. While not set up like a tradition Ponzi scheme, this sure has the feel of one.

[Ramster]

What Toby says is true. Over time some of these places die out and you never get paid so why get involved in the first place. And I for one am not dropping a few grand ahead of time to try and make it back plus profit.

Besides I make good money from what I am doing and plan to keep building on it, not something else.

[LowryBigwood]

I had a nice long post wrote out, but I accidently closed my browser before sending it.

I agree with Ramster, I became not interested in the idea when reading about that kind of cash being put into that thing.

Toby makes some good points.

[fetish1]

Originally Posted by Ann Omness

I have to say that I'm honestly surprised that none of the adult webmasters are willing to try the surf for money program I'm in. You put a lot of time into making websites to promote new sponsors, many of which never pay you anything. That qualifies you as risk-takers. What is it that stops you? I'm really curious.

You answered your own question. We ARE Adult webmasters. We aren't looking for a get "rich quick scheme". We work hard and we make money at it. Perhaps if you put 1/10 the amt of time into your 1000's of websites, and picked some decent sponsors and/or learned how to sell your sponsors you'd make money as an adult webmaster too.

Originally Posted by Ann Omness

I've got half a million images on a thousand websites to document and cross-reference before I worry about the banners.

I can assure you, not even our dog or cats have to worry about eating from a dumpster with my webmaster income. You might wanna try it and give your daughter a break from scavaging through the trash for your meals! |goodidea |goodidea

[Ann Omness]

Originally Posted by Toby

The ratio of money out vs. money in is too great to be self-sustaining. A net 44% return on investment every 12 days (1338% annual) for viewing 12 online ads each day just doesn't add up. The advertister cost for ad placement would have to be exhorbitant. Any outside investments using the float on funds invested could not possibly be earning enough to make up the difference. The only thing I can see keeping the house of cards from crashing is a consistant influx of new members. While not set up like a tradition Ponzi scheme, this sure has the feel of one.

I had exactly the same thought when my son first told me about the program, and didn't get into it then. After he started taking vacations with his profits from it, though, I looked at it again. Since the turnaround on the money is so quick, I decided that the potential profits were worth the risk.

[Ann Omness]

In response to fetish1: I usually work 12/hours/day on my website business, 7 days/week. I just can't seem to get back up over the $4,000/month level with my sales, and that just barely pays the bills. I'm working a lot harder now than when I was making $12,000/month. If I was comfortably making lots of extra money from it like you people apparently do, I would not have tried the "get paid to surf" thing either. I had thought the downturn in income from the adult website business was something a lot of webmasters were experiencing, not just me. I guess that's not the case. That's depressing. I wonder how I got left behind when all the money was being divided up.

[Wazza]

Why don't we want a part of this magic pudding?

Because it's a shonk, a shabby scam, and sooner or later the owners will withdraw all of the money and piss off to deepest darkest Africa (or Peru)...

You've said you know that someone will lose their entire "investment" - yet you still promote it to us - why don't you just piss in our corn flakes...