Hi! The news of the day came yesterday when Larry, the admin of AttractiveAds announced that his very successful program that lasted for more than 6 months had come to an end. I’m not saying that I was very surprised by that outcome because everything was pointing to the imminent demise of the program. Larry himself told about it in his farewell update:

“I have tried my best since the beginning for our program. I have struggled from the hacker issue when the program launched, I have been always online 4-8 hours per day, giving fast answer to every support ticket, active on forums, spreading part of the funds to other trusted programs to gain some profits for members’ earnings, pro-active notifying members whose e-gold account are blocked, but still…it is not enough. The DDOS attack to our program we experienced 2 weeks ago (5 days of downtime) really hurt the program’s health. And within the last 1 week, I have been watching the performance of our program everyday. As you may have thought, it has been decreasing slowly but surely. Even though our Alexa Traffic Rank has risen up to 46,950, but it doesn’t reflect our program financial health. The daily upgrades amount dropped, especially for STP upgrades (most heavy hitters are STP users). I am a straight-forward person. So instead of telling excuses, I’d rather to tell you the truth, right to the point“.

I agree that Larry was honest enough about the reasons for the closure but the question still remains: why did he surrender so fast? Why not implement 50/50 rule or change the plans temporarily or do anything else to try to save the program? He even refused my suggestion not to credit the days when the site was offline during the DDOS-attack. So here the next question arises: why on earth didn’t Larry do anything to stop the collapse but just watched silently from the sidelines while AttractiveAds was going down? Knowing that the admin was always on top of things and invested so much time and effort in developing his program I wonder what made him give up? Yes, first I thought that AttractiveAds was affected by DDOS-attack and there was no way but down but then Larry personally contacted me and assured that there was nothing to worry about and that he even had credited all missed surfing days. It made me think for a while that the program could really survive this attack. But as you know there are no miracles in this industry and the inevitable happened.

The case with AttractiveAds is a lesson to learn for us all in my opinion: always trust your gut-feeling and if you see that the program was hit by long and persistent DDOS-attack or slowed down the payments it’s a big red light and the time is right to quit it. I agree that we should support the honest admins but the most important thing is that we should care of our money because it’s really why we are here in this industry: to make some profit and not to be at a loss. My policy here that defines my success is simple: to find the right program to invest, then watch its performance carefully and if an admin fulfills what he promises I will continue to support his program and never hit-n-run. But if only a slight problem happens like I mentioned above I should be very careful from that moment and if the problem persists it’s better slowly but surely to leave the program, because even with an honest admin a program is nothing without members’ support. And as a rule the members leave a program when a problem like DDOS-attack or slow payments appears and an admin does nothing to prevent it from happening again. In case with AttractiveAds the members saw that Larry was very passive and didn’t take any measures after the DDOS-attack (like changing the hosting provider or implementing the fees). It was surely the silent sign of his resigning. I don’t know when exactly he decided to give up but it was surely long before he sent out his farewell email because any admin that doesn’t communicate with his members for a week and keeps accepting upgrades is killing his program by his own hand. Communication is the key here, so I don’t think Larry expected members’ support without telling them anything.

Some refunds were promised in his last update but now the site is not accessible for me so I wouldn’t hold my breath for that:
“AttractiveAds is closed for temporary, the upgrade button is disabled until further notification. Although it is clearly stated in the Terms that no part of any earnings are guaranteed and there is no refund for Ad Pack purchases, all of you put your trust in me. If your Total Cash Paid Out is greater than Total Ad Pack Purchases your account is in profit, congratulations to you. There is nothing further you need to do. If your Total Ad Pack Purchases is greater than your Total Cash Paid Out then you are not in profit. I will try to refund all not in profit members or move it into a lower ROA program. I have not decided it yet. There will be more updates“.

Bottom line: despite some discrepancies and sudden closure I consider AttractiveAds as a huge success. The site that has been going for 6 months with such high ROI like AttractiveAds offered deserves some kudos from me. I know how hard it is to constantly maintain a site for 6 months daily and must say that Larry did a tremendous job here. My only suggestion to him if he intends to open another project soon is not to give up so fast and do everything possible to save his site and members’ funds.

Some interesting news and updates about your favorite programs are expected tomorrow on my blog so stay tuned. I just wanted to mention here that JRProfit site is offline at the moment of writing this but there is nothing to worry about as the admins are aware of that and will do their best to get the site back as soon as possible.

And finally a quick reminder for all the members of SurfProfitPro and BusinessProfitPro: Wednesday is the day for requesting withdrawals so don’t forget to cashout. Have a nice day and see you tomorrow with more news!