07/01/2011. PrestigRev Review and Daily News from the Industry

BEWARE! THIS PROGRAM HAS STOPPED PAYING! PLEASE DO NOT INVEST!

Hi everybody! It’s no secret that manual and auto surf websites have been very much the “junior partners” of the online HYIP industry for quite some time now. It’s a side of the industry that’s never exactly gone away, but over the last couple of years has become less popular with investors to such an extent a number of people new to the business have little more than a vague idea as to what surfing is all about. That’s no reflection on any individual surfing site itself you understand, in fact there’s always been good ones but they’ve sometimes just gotten harder to find. Indeed a couple of years back a selection of good surfing sites would have peppered the pages of most of the main online monitors, including my own. So it feels kinda strange then (nostalgic almost!) the the new year is barely a week old and already MNO is adding a second surfing site to the monitoring list. And in my own opinion it’s a good one. They’re called PrestigRev and they launched just a couple of days ago.

I don’t want to turn this review into a history lesson or anything, but I think it’s relevant just move away from PrestigRev itself for a moment in order to illustrate my point as to why I think they’re better than a lot of the surf related websites we’ve seen since, well, the last two years I guess. You see, the thing is that they’ve managed to improve on a lot of the aspects of the surfing industry as a whole that began to make it less and less popular with HYIP players in general.

For the benefit of those not familiar with surfing (and I know there’s many) I’ll just give a brief re-cap on what it’s all about. The basic idea is that a lot of the people signing up – and not necessarily everyone who’s actually investing money – have something they want to advertise. Typically these are most often related to the HYIP industry but by no means confined to it. It can be anything from your own website to your own ref link in your favorite HYIP, maybe something you earn commission from, or basically anything the advertiser thinks will benefit from being exposed to an audience he already knows is interested in online money making schemes. What happens next is that you, as a regular member of this surfing site, are required first to invest money in this surfing site, then to view a certain number of these ads for a predetermined number of seconds each day for an agreed term, and finally having completed this task get paid an interest fee on your investment (which can either be by the day or on expiry).

Now, I know I might be drifting away slightly from the main point of this article which is to review PrestigRev, but my point will become relevant in a moment when it comes to how PrestigRev have tried to make the whole process a bit more user friendly. But before that let’s start with the investment plans they have for us.

To start with PrestigRev have a fairly eclectic mix of long and short term plans which is in itself something fairly unusual for a surfing website. After you read through all the various options and decide which one is best for you, you will then be required to do some surfing. The surfing requirements will be the same for everyone, regardless of which plan they choose or how much they invest. Every day for the duration of your plan you are going to have to log into your member’s area and surf 13 advertised websites for a total of 13 seconds each. This is not an automatic process – PrestigRev being a “manual surf” as opposed to an “autosurf”. So when you click on one ad a timer will appear on the screen. Once you have viewed one particular ad for 13 seconds you will then simply have to click the “next” button to bring another ad up on your screen. Do this 13 times for a grand total of 169 seconds (that’s less than 3 minutes, significantly faster than the ad breaks on most commercial TV networks) and earn your daily interest rebate.

Incidentally, don’t worry about missing a day here or there, or if you have plans that mean you might not be able to get online for a couple of days at a time. PrestigRev have a solution for that and I’ll get to it after describing the plans themselves. There are six of them in total, three of which are short term and pay on expiry, and three long term ones which make daily payments. I’ll start with the more traditional surf style short term ones.

For a $5 minimum investment PrestigRev‘s first plan runs for 10 days. It offers one single payment on expiry equivalent to 115% of your principal and the maximum investment is a relatively conservative $99. So for a simple example let’s say you invested $50. In return you need to view 13 ads for 13 seconds each for 10 days. Upon completion of that you then get paid $57.50, which is 100% of your principal plus 15% profit.

PrestigRev‘s next plan starts with investments of a $100 minimum up to a $499 maximum. The term runs for 20 days and upon completion you are paid a return of 140% of your principal back. The surfing requirements are the same, except of course for the obvious difference that you need to do it for 20 days instead of 10. And for a practical example of we’ll say this time a $100 investment you can expect back a $140 rebate, or 100% principal plus 40% profit.

The last of the on expiry plans runs for a term of 30 days. The amounts you can invest with overlap somewhat with the previous plan, starting with a $250 minimum. On expiry of the term, and of course you successfully meeting your surfing obligations, you are then paid back 175% of your deposit. So for instance the minimum $250 spend would get you you a return of $437.50 which is 100% principal plus 75% profit. Maximum spend is $5,000.

You may be wondering now what happens if for some reason you can’t get online some day to surf? Is your investment made void? Do you lose a day’s income? Well, there’s not much to worry about on that front. All that happens is your plan gets extended by a day and you can make up the last time later. You still get paid in full but it just takes an extra day (or two, or however many you missed). Say for instance you’re in the 10 day on expiry plan. Something happens during the week that means you can’t get online. Just continue as normal the next day you can access your account, and you’ll get paid whenever you have completed your final days surfing. You see, the surfing doesn’t necessarily have to be on consecutive days, but clearly it’s in your own best interests and yours alone to complete the process in as short a time as possible, so do at least try to get it done in time.

A more irregular set of plans – in surfing terms – come with PrestigRev‘s long term options. They make daily interest payments which isn’t that unusual of course, but surfing programs are traditionally short term and PrestigRev‘s next three plans are anything but that. They all run for a term of 100 calendar days and make various payments based on the size of your deposit.

Just to confirm first in case there may be any doubt, joining the long term plans will entail the very same surfing conditions as the previous set. You will still be required to surf 13 ads for 13 seconds each, once per day. Once you’re satisfied with that then you can consider the following offers. If you wish to join with a $5 minimum up to a maximum of $99 then PrestigRev are offering 2% interest paid daily for 100 days. That allows you to break even after 50 days and double your money by the time the plan expires (your principal being counted as part of the payments already).

For a more ambitious investor prepared to spend from a $100 minimum to a $499 maximum PrestigRev are offering a daily interest payment of 2.5% for 100 days. As with all plans in this program your principal is already factored into the payments, so what you should really be hoping for is to break even after 40 days and finish the plan with a total return of 250%, or 150% profit.

The final investment option will cost a $500 minimum to join. A bit steep maybe, but not so much as to scare everyone away either and in time as long as PrestigRev can deliver consistent payments to the smaller investors they might get a few takers here. In return for your investment (and your surfing) you are offered a daily payment of 3% per day for a 100 day term. That will allow you to break even after 34 days and finish the term with a 300% return on your investment. 200% of which is profit due to your initial principal already being counted. Maximum spend is $5,000.

Now, if the question arose after the short term plans about what would happen your investment if you missed a days surfing there, surely it’s a much more pertinent question now that the term is a full 100 days. This is one of the areas where PrestigRev manages to come up with a clever yet simple solution to a problem that has long dogged the surfing industry. Because of how it all works, ie you the member being required to log into your account on a daily basis and actively surf, programs are almost always confined to being short term and as such very limited in what they can achieve. They just don’t have the purely passive nature that regular HYIPs do. I mean how many people can honestly say today with 100% certainty that they will definitely be online every day for the next 100 days straight? I know I can’t! So why then would you want to join an investment plan that requires you to do so?

PrestigRev have found a way round that, and in the process threw the program wide open to a much more diverse audience of longer term investment fans by introducing a “vacation mode”. This allows you to deliberately skip 10 days of surfing every 30 days therefore ensuring that it’s no longer such a difficult thing to commit to, and if you have any plans over the coming months, vacations, exams, family commitments, etc, etc, it needn’t impact your investment with PrestigRev at all. Most surfing programs that tried to introduce long term plans in the past failed because they failed to address that issue, so kudos to the admin here for making it a bit more accessible.

Payment options are reasonable enough with PrestigRev using AlertPay, LibertyReserve, and PerfectMoney. Payments will need to be requested and can take as long as 24 hours. However your account itself gets credited immediately upon finishing your surfing requirements which wasn’t always the case with other surfing sites running off this particular script, most of which made you wait 24 hours before your account was credited at all on top of which you then had to wait for your withdrawal. Minimum withdrawal to AlertPay is $1 and you are free to leave the program early at any time, though this is subject to a 20% fee of your principal and minus the profits you may have earned. So be careful to note that early withdrawal will lead to you losing money.

PrestigRev is also a fairly decent website in its own right. They’re hosted on a dedicated server with support and protection by Dragonara and are running off a unique custom made script from Gotenks – arguably the best you can buy these days. Communication is taken pretty seriously as well and the admin has opened a forum dedicated to all things PrestigRev. There isn’t a whole lot of activity there at the moment, but the service is there for you and it’s up to members to make proper use of it if they want. Apart from that you can contact the admin directly by filling in the support form found on the contacts page.

What happens next is as always anyone’s guess but a couple of good competitive surfing programs to start the year wouldn’t do the industry any harm and PrestigRev looks to me like it’s been really well thought out and planned. Hopefully the investors might see it the same way and help make this one a hit. Meanwhile however I think you should all know by now the indisputable fact that anything remotely connected with this business carries a high risk, so feel free to stand back, observe, and think it over properly before proceeding. We may or may not yet see a revival of the surfing industry and that’s fine. But assessing PrestigRev on its own merits and it’s as good (at least!) as countless other new programs to hit our screens recently and worth a second look.

DAILY NEWS FROM THE INDUSTRY.

The admin of FelixFunds warned members that the payouts could be delayed for up to 48 hours and apologized for that. The delay was allegedly caused by the explosive growth of the program due to the enormous success of their FaceBook promotion during which the active investors were rewarded with $1 cash bonuses. Anyway, it looks like there is nothing to worry about as the pendings are catching up at the time of writing and I was paid all my pendings to LR and currently only have one to AP which will hopefully be paid soon as well. I personally am really grateful to the admin for such emails that explain the delays which were also sent during winter holidays because it shows that the admin actually cares about his members and he’s quite sensitive to the moods of the people in terms of what they are going to say about FelixFunds on public forums and monitoring sites. So far my experience with Felix, the admin of the program, was quite positive and he was always there to solve any possible issues and I guess that’s what a good admin should do. If you want to read more about FelixFunds please click here to read my detailed review of the program or here for the interview with Felix. I remind you that currently FelixFunds accepts LibertyReserve, PerfectMoney, SolidTrustPay and AlertPay with $1 minimum which you can deposit into a 1.2%-2.3% daily forever plan. Please note that your account in FelixFunds will be credited with earnings on business days only. If you prefer an expiry plan to the ones having no expiry date you’re free to invest in the so-called Winter Holiday plan that pays 117% after 15 calendar days with a relatively high $200 as minimum deposit. Here is the latest news from FelixFunds:
“Our facebook promotion made our membership to explode fast and this took us by surprise. Because of this some payouts has been a little delayed and we extended our payout term to 48 hours to be sure we won’t exceed it. This was a temporary situation today because we didn’t expected so many new members and so many withdrawals as well. We will organize from tomorrow much better to be sure we won’t have delayed payouts again. As you know payouts are manual with us for security reasons and we prefer to hire more people if it will be needed than to risk our members money. All payouts to PM are done. Few payouts on LR left but they will be paid in few hours. Few AP payouts done as well and all the rest will be done in few hours also. I’ve got Andrew from support to help me at payouts so he won’t be all the time on shoutbox from now on. We will see how we will organize to make sure everybody will be happy. Thanks so much for understanding and Be lucky with us!
Regards, Felix”.

Please note that GorgonProjectInvest (reviewed here) is offline at the moment. The admin cannot update the members of the program via mass email but he already managed to update me personally twice and suggested to let the other MNO readers and GorgonProjectInvest‘s investors know what’s really happening with the program. As you might remember from the review the site is hosted on BlockDos which is one of the best hosting providers around and so the first message from the admin of GorgonProjectInvest Paul was met quite sceptically. But the second update cleared things up a bit and it looks like the problem is not a DdoS-attack but an issue on the progrm’s server. I remind you that MNO also had a similar issue a couple of weeks ago and I’m also hosted with BlockDos. I must say that their support is really one of the best around and my site was back online in less than 24 hours. I hope the situation with GorgonProjectInvest server will be resolved soon as well and I would like to republish the second email I received from Paul on my blog below which concerns the recent technical issues with the site on which BlockDos is currently working hard:
“Its actually our web server that is down, we are not having a DDoS attack.
Our web hosts are frantically trying to get it back online. I will update you when we know a bit more, but I hope it wont be down for much longer.
Will be in touch soon.
Cheers. Paul”.
I hope Paul will update us all with an official newsletter from GorgonProjectInvest as soon as the site is back online.

FondosMayores (reviewed here) officially announced that they are back to work from their 3-day holiday. The accounts will be credited now properly on all the investment plans offered by the program: 1.2% for 125 business days, 1.5% for 100 business days, 2% for 75 business days, 0.55% daily until you reach 200%, 5%-8% weekly until you reach 300%. The administration of FondosMayores also announced the launch of their official forum which will be multilingual in order to facilitate all the international members of the program and appeal to the widest possible audience. To register on the new forum please use your real username you have in FondosMayores as the approval of the accounts will be manually processed by the admin to avoid all the naysayers and spammers hanging around and bothering the friendly discussion between members and program representatives. I hope that the official forum of FondosMayores will raise their popularity among the prospective and existing members and sincerely wish them the best of luck in this venture. Here is the latest newsletter from FondosMayores issued today:
“Dear Clients
Fondos mini-holiday finishes today. Thanks for your support and understanding.
Steady roller private portfolio still will be paid tonight with lower rate. All our classic plans will start getting paid on Monday night, as usual. Private Port have been taking care directly with our clients.
We have been still paying all week those clients who had requested cash balance request in their accounts and also accepted deposits.
It is also a pleasure to give you this new tools: Fondos has his private FORUM, in multi-languages. Our clients can register at the bottom of the page, but it is important to write your user id from FondosMayores account, because FondosMayores admin has to accept and activate your account for the Forum.
In this private Forum, we will write and news update and our representatives will be there to answer your questions in your native language. News update will always be translated in many languages by our great support team.
Enjoy this Private Fondos Forum and we will come up with more news updates and features soon. Keep in touch with the forum. Meet you all in there.
www.fondosmayores.meilleurforum.com (paste in your browswer)
Happy New Year and Success to all our clients in 2011!…
The FondosMayores Team”.

That’s all for today. And since I have been offline for the most part of the day due to my visit of the wonderful part of central Turkey called Cappadocia I was unable to request too many payouts and so I suggest to not pay too much attention to the list of programs that paid me today because those not on that list will probably pay tomorrow. So here are the list of Paying programs features on Premium and Standard listings of MNO monitoring page:
FelixFunds, AmilloTrade, BetBankFund, AllianceAdvantage, EasyCashGrowth, AccessTomorrow, PrestigRev, FenixTrust, TerraProfits, PandaTrade and ReProFinance.

More news will be on MNO tomorrow as well as a detailed review of the newly added program Stanbec, so stay tuned, guys, and see you all tomorrow!