As the PTR World Turns
I tell ya, sometimes being involved with PTR reward programs is like being in the middle of a bad soap-opera!
Today's episode involves two programs best avoided -- Bournemouth Breeze and StormOfCash.
The story behind Bournemouth Breeze goes back years, but the basic gist of it is this. There used to be this really popular PTR program called April Gold's. It was the hottest thing around and people were actually paying people in advance to get them to join their downlines. The thing was, it was totally and completely unsustainable. They were selling ads for a fraction of the cost needed to pay members. So they got further and further behind and people were waiting forever to be paid. And the whole time the owner and her cheerleaders and supporters were telling everybody not to worry, everything was fine, they'd all get their money. Finally the whole house of cards fell apart and the owner, as so many other con artists have done, tossed her program like a hot potato to anybody who'd take it, and ran off with her tail between her legs.
Enter the new owner, TonyB, who told everybody he was going to save April Gold's, make it better than ever, blah, blah, blah. Of course none of that happened, and within a few weeks, TonyB had run off too. So April Gold's was gone and neither April nor Tony had ever paid the members the hundreds of thousands of dollars they owed them. Of course they were never going to pay that money because neither of them had the money. All those ads the members had been reading were sold for small fraction of the money the members earned for reading them.
But that's the past. And in PTR, the past is meant to be forgotten as thoroughly and as quickly as possible. Or at least that's what a lot of the shady characters involved wish would happen. Especially shady characters like TonyB, who's back with a new PTR program -- Bournemouth Breeze! He and his girlfriend/co-owner (GeorgieB, who was also on staff at April Gold's) just want everybody to understand that TonyB never meant for any of that to happen and he's sorry he wasn't able to pay the members and anyway it was all somebody (anybody) else's fault so why not just accept everything he says (everything he says now, not the stuff he was saying back then) as the gospel and give him another chance. Well, I say screw that! As far as I'm concerned, none of the people involved in the April Gold's scam deserve a second chance to rip more people off, and I think the best thing that could happen would be if everybody boycotted them and refused to join and/or advertise with their programs.
The second program starring in todays episode of As the PTR World Turns is called StormOfCash. Another very popular program of the past (over 100,000 members!), it's been out of commission for a long while now. Until a bunch of guys decided to buy it and "resurrect it." Unfortunately, the guys that bought it are real shady, including one who is well-known as a scammer and (I really can't think of any other way to put it) a total idiot.
As soon as I'd heard who'd bought it, I logged in and deleted my account. I've learned from long and bitter experience that it's best to just "cut and run" when these sorts of things happen. So you can imagine my surprise when I suddenly started getting emails from them, over a week after I'd deleted my account. Apparently, they expect people to specifically opt-out of receiving emails before they delete their account, or else their system keeps sending them emails. What a mess! Of course I reported them to their host for spamming me, but I doubt anything will be done about it. One of their owners went after me in a public forum, then when he realised how stupid that was, he went back and edited his posts with generic-sounding "customer service" type responses. But as an extra little nugget of nastiness, he did let me know that my account hadn't actually been deleted, just de-activated, so they'll keep my personal info forever. Great. Just what I need.
I keep hoping I wake up in the hospital with amnesia to find out that it was all just a bad dream.
And that I'm married to TWO gorgeous-but-very-psycho twin sisters!
Cheers,
Wil
Today's episode involves two programs best avoided -- Bournemouth Breeze and StormOfCash.
The story behind Bournemouth Breeze goes back years, but the basic gist of it is this. There used to be this really popular PTR program called April Gold's. It was the hottest thing around and people were actually paying people in advance to get them to join their downlines. The thing was, it was totally and completely unsustainable. They were selling ads for a fraction of the cost needed to pay members. So they got further and further behind and people were waiting forever to be paid. And the whole time the owner and her cheerleaders and supporters were telling everybody not to worry, everything was fine, they'd all get their money. Finally the whole house of cards fell apart and the owner, as so many other con artists have done, tossed her program like a hot potato to anybody who'd take it, and ran off with her tail between her legs.
Enter the new owner, TonyB, who told everybody he was going to save April Gold's, make it better than ever, blah, blah, blah. Of course none of that happened, and within a few weeks, TonyB had run off too. So April Gold's was gone and neither April nor Tony had ever paid the members the hundreds of thousands of dollars they owed them. Of course they were never going to pay that money because neither of them had the money. All those ads the members had been reading were sold for small fraction of the money the members earned for reading them.
But that's the past. And in PTR, the past is meant to be forgotten as thoroughly and as quickly as possible. Or at least that's what a lot of the shady characters involved wish would happen. Especially shady characters like TonyB, who's back with a new PTR program -- Bournemouth Breeze! He and his girlfriend/co-owner (GeorgieB, who was also on staff at April Gold's) just want everybody to understand that TonyB never meant for any of that to happen and he's sorry he wasn't able to pay the members and anyway it was all somebody (anybody) else's fault so why not just accept everything he says (everything he says now, not the stuff he was saying back then) as the gospel and give him another chance. Well, I say screw that! As far as I'm concerned, none of the people involved in the April Gold's scam deserve a second chance to rip more people off, and I think the best thing that could happen would be if everybody boycotted them and refused to join and/or advertise with their programs.
The second program starring in todays episode of As the PTR World Turns is called StormOfCash. Another very popular program of the past (over 100,000 members!), it's been out of commission for a long while now. Until a bunch of guys decided to buy it and "resurrect it." Unfortunately, the guys that bought it are real shady, including one who is well-known as a scammer and (I really can't think of any other way to put it) a total idiot.
As soon as I'd heard who'd bought it, I logged in and deleted my account. I've learned from long and bitter experience that it's best to just "cut and run" when these sorts of things happen. So you can imagine my surprise when I suddenly started getting emails from them, over a week after I'd deleted my account. Apparently, they expect people to specifically opt-out of receiving emails before they delete their account, or else their system keeps sending them emails. What a mess! Of course I reported them to their host for spamming me, but I doubt anything will be done about it. One of their owners went after me in a public forum, then when he realised how stupid that was, he went back and edited his posts with generic-sounding "customer service" type responses. But as an extra little nugget of nastiness, he did let me know that my account hadn't actually been deleted, just de-activated, so they'll keep my personal info forever. Great. Just what I need.
I keep hoping I wake up in the hospital with amnesia to find out that it was all just a bad dream.
And that I'm married to TWO gorgeous-but-very-psycho twin sisters!
Cheers,
Wil
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