11/06/2009. EuropeanSurfers Review and Other News

THIS PROGRAM HAS STOPPED PAYING! PLEASE DON’T INVEST!

Hi everybody! Well this mini revival of surfing sites seems to be continuing unabated despite that many of the new programs are getting at best mixed results. So today I want to review the latest autosurf to come my way, the intriguingly titled EuropeanSurfers. And despite the negative attitude surrounding the surfing industry in general at the moment, I can only review any given program based on its own merits and I have to say I liked this one pretty much immediately. Although that by itself is no reason to join either. But the admin here, like the admins of some of the other surfing sites I’ve reviewed recently does seem to be at least trying to make a decent attempt at promoting his program. The growth has been painfully slow this far though with membership still to break the 100 barrier after a full six days online. Ordinarily that doesn’t have to be a totally bad thing by the way as there are countless examples of slow growth only adding to a programs long term stability. But at the same time we need to remember that there can be a very fine line between slow growth and stagnation.

One thing I am sure about though is that it’s simply impossible to remain in this industry as long as I have without remaining an eternal optimist so I decided to give EuropeanSurfers a fair go, based entirely on their own merits and not the general state of the surfing industry as a whole. Smart move? I’ll find out soon enough!

So to start with, the plan on offer from EuropeanSurfers is a bit more like what we expect from a traditional surfing site without any sort of unique twist put on them as we have seen recently from sites such as TheDollarDiggers. The minimum deposit you need to make, i.e the cost on one single ad pack, is $5 and you may purchase anything up to 1000 of them. Or in monetary terms $5000 worth. Once your in you will be required to surf 11 sites per day for 11 consecutive days. And whats the reward for all that surfing? 11% interest per day on your deposit, earned per day but paid on expiry. That will net you a total return of 121% on your original investment but you should be aware that a 2% processing fee will be applied to withdrawals. Nobody really likes charges like that but I never make a big deal out of it. Payment processors are always going to charge for this but in the case of sites that tell you that no fees apply, well they’ve just factored it into their plan already. And speaking of payment processors, the ones accepted by EuropeanSurfers is quite good and includes LibertyReserve, AlertPay, StrictPay and SolidTrustPay (more on STP issues later in the review). The admin promises to add more if necessary in due course so if you don’t see something that suits you in that list then keep an eye on my blog and I’ll update you when that happens.

Security wise there are no serious worries here. A dedicated server, as should be the minimum expectation anyway, is provided by the good folks at HushHosting who have always provided a good solid and dependable service in the past so we can be sure EuropeanSurfers is in good hands there. It’s running off a licensed script provided by Neversay and customer support is available through an online ticketing system. The site itself looks great and is user friendly and easy to navigate throughout. Hardly a surprise as it comes from Doris, a name that may be familiar to some of you as a designer with a reputation of some renown.

Unfortunately, there is some controversy surrounding this initally promising program now. It seems the admin of EuropeanSurfers bought the STP account of another scamming autosurf called 12DailyShares because the upgrades are still going there. That fact is exactly what is stopping many people from investing into EuropeanSurfers. Some have even went so far as to claim the admin of this program is the same as the one behind the 12DailyShares scam. Add to this the fact that the admin’s past is unknown and there were just too many paid posters being spotted on forum threads trying to mislead the newbies. I wonder if the admin was really so unprofessional as to buy a compromised STP account which would directly link her to another scam or was she really just an amateur that was duped. But if the admin really thinks that the damage done by buying (which in itself is illegal) a verified STP account from 12DailyShares wouldn’t affect the program or the upgrades she is terribly mistaken. Usually when such damage is done the admin loses all credibility and not many members will be upgrading, at least not until the first payouts are processed. So if you want to be on the safe side with EuropeanSurfers I suggest you to wait for a couple of days and monitor the program’s growth and be sure the first payouts on expiry are completed.

In conclusion I must say there is very little not to like about EuropeanSurfers as a site although the admin remains questionable with the acquiring of a second-hand STP account definitely not adding anything to the popularity for the program. So the problem remains will it get the success it deserves? (Admin issues aside, the program itself is good) Maybe. But if the wider surfing community just don’t want to hear about it now then I don’t know what else the admin can do about it. So as with all reviews, I present this to you for information purposes. Ultimately the fate of this one rests entirely in the hands of a that same surfing community to make a collective decision to get involved and the admin herself who should distance herself from scammers and pay to all members on expiry if she wants EuropeanSurfers to stay afloat. I wouldn’t guarantee its long term future however. That much is up to its members and administration team. We’ll wait and see what happens because now only the right and proper actions from the admin’s side can revive the program and make it a long-lasting and a successful one.

Other news for today.

I think though that the real revival of the autosurfing industry can come with programs like EarnerSurfer which I joined just yesterday. The site itself is not geared towards fast growth or fast scamming but rather at stability, slow and steady growth, and the attraction of real advertisers and not hit-n-runners. EarnerSurfer caught my attention straight after I saw it with its beautiful design but even after looking further into it I was not disappointed. It is based on the famous script by Gotenks used to such great effect by some highly successful surfing programs in the past like Aggero and PAC. So the veteran surfers will recognize it straight away. The real difference in EarnerSurfer is that first you should made a deposit and then invest into a plan you wish. However it’s hard to make the wrong choice as EarnerSurfer offers only one investment plan – 7% for 20 days with the payouts made on expiry. Four payment processors are accepted: LibertyReserve, AlertPay, SolidTrustPay and StrictPay. You must surf 20 sites in manual mode (that will definitely attract some real advertisers) to earn your daily rebates. The minimum investment allowed is $10 and the maximum is limited by a $2,000 cap. The admin wants to eliminate the bad influence of hit-n-runners straight away as he probably realizes that such quality programs like EarnerSurfer will not go unnoticed. In a nutshell, I think EarnerSurfer has a huge potential to become one of the most popular surfing programs in over the coming months and I hope the admin will achieve what he planned for the benefit of the whole surfing community. I have already moved EarnerSurfer to my Personal Favorites listing and please expect a more detailed review of the program in a couple of days.

Another great program, GeniusFunds (reviewed here), seems to have read my mind when today I received an email from the admin thoroughly explaining how their new HYDA plan works. If you remember I discussed this new plan on my blog yesterday and wondered why the details of the new plan can’t be found on the GeniusFunds website. Well, the new plan was made clear to me now: minimum to deposit is $300 and maximum is $50K. Depending on the amount deposit you will be receiving fixed monthly interest of 14%-25%. Interest will be credited to your GeniusFunds account on every business day and you have the right to withdraw your principal and profits at any time. However you should remember that after placing your withdrawal request you will get money to your e-currency account only after 10 calendar days. So please plan your investment activities accordingly. I think many investors of GeniusFunds will be interested in this great opportunity as it allows them some much needed flexibility of investments by allowing you to make partial or full withdrawals at any given time. Of course, $300 is a high minimum will limit the smaller investors but there are still other options available. Like the old plans for instance which continue offering variable interest rates of 1.0%-1.9% daily or 6%-9% weekly. More about the new plan can be read in the most recent update from GeniusFunds below:
“We are happy to announce a new investment product brought to you by Genius Investments. The High-Yield Deposit Account or Genius HYDA offers a yield of up to 25% without a fixed investment term. This means that you are able to withdraw your capital, interest or both at any time. This product effectively replaces the Genus CD account, which was discontinued a short while ago.
We at Genius are committed to providing you with the highest quality investment services. The new Genius HYDA is aimed at those investors who do not wish to commit their capital for long periods. It provides interest yields comparable to those paid by our investment funds and at the same time offers unprecedented flexibility.
To find out more, please visit our web site at GeniusFunds. You may also download a full-color PDF brochure from:
http://promo.geniusfunds.com/geniusfunds_world_high_yield_deposit_account.pdf
If you have any questions about either Genius HYDA or any other investment options offered by Genius Investments, do not hesitate to contact me at any time“.

Something that came as a huge blow to many of us today was the lack of news from the admin of Fexity Juliette. Many of you noticed that the members’ area of Fexity website is currently unavailable to members and that no payouts were made yesterday. If it had been a technical problem the admin would have surely updated us about that by now. Unfortunately, Juliette didn’t reply to my email which I sent to her for clarification last night and that only makes me think that the program is gone. I would like to warn you from depositing into Fexity until we get some news from the admin as you still can do it from the main page. To say that I’m disappointed with this outcome would not be an understatement. I’m kinda devastated that being such a good admin Juliette turned out to be a dirty scammer. She was really very fast with all the support requests and queries which definitely attracted many members to the program. In addition the site’s design and script was kinda unique and so I don’t see the reason why she had to stop this successful program. The only word that comes to mind is greed. Well, that happens quite often in this industry when once polite and professional people are nothing more than scammers. I can’t find another word for a woman that simply left the site as it is without even updating her members on what has happened. Fexity has been running for more than 3 weeks so only those who joined in the very beginning should be in profit by now. I’m terribly sorry for those who lost money as I genuinely believed in the admin’s good intentions up until yesterday.

OrybFunds site (reviewed here) sent out another update last night informing the members that all the pending withdrawals to LR had been processed. Also they mentioned that SolidTrustPay would be added to the site soon. In my opinion, the administration should fix some problems with the surfing first because it’s totally impossible to add any site to the rotation. This makes the program’s image look stupid as it eliminates the reason for surfing at all. I would suggest to OrybFunds to drop the surfing plan completely and concentrate on the HYIP side as the surfing is really pointless imho. Anyway, here is the latest update from OrybFunds:
“Just an update to inform everyone that all withdrawals to date have been completed. It took us some time to complete everything due to problems with LibertyReserves SCI a few days back.
We’d also like to announce that we will be adding SolidTrustPay as a payment option to our members. This will be completed within this week or next week. We’re just awaiting our account to get verified.
We also have some special events planned for our members. We will slowly reveal everything in the weeks to come.
We thank all our members for their support and hope you enjoy profiting with OrybFunds. Thank you“.

There is a kinda weird situation around the MajorBarter program at the moment. My withdrawals are pending for more than 24 hours now and that in itself is a warning sign. But the most interesting thing is that I keep getting phishing emails supposedly from a scammer trying to get some money from MajorBarter members. We could see the same thing with many different programs and they were all on the verge of collapse at that point. Of course the admin of MajorBarter refused to admit they sent such emails as he explicitly said this on the website:
“Attention please! We never send newsletter, we never asked you make deposit from link or… Every thing is clear in our site ,Some cheater use our name and asked people make deposit to their account. Our LR account number is : U2355842, Our PM account is: U1019171, We do not accept you If you made deposit to another account!”
The most interesting thing is contained in one post I saw on a public forum. It appears one of the members of MajorBarter had a special email address that he created specifically for the purpose of communicating with MajorBarter and never used anywhere else. And guess what? He got this phishing email as well. My conclusion: either MajorBarter‘s database was somehow hacked or compromised by a third party or the admin himself is sending the phishing emails to get more funds from unsuspecting members. In any case it doesn’t look good for MajorBarter and I would suggest you hold off from depositing in there for now. As you might remember I was quite skeptical about that program from the beginning anyway because they were obvious liars (had stolen texts from other websites) although the program proved me wrong in some way by lasting for more than 7 months and have many many members in profit. However, such disturbing signs shouldn’t be taken lightly missed and in my opinion the days of MajorBarter are numbered. I might be wrong but it’s always better safe than sorry afterwards.

It seems TheDollarDiggers website (reviewed here) was offline for some time yesterday (I didn’t notice that myself) which was enough to create a some panic among investors. Anyway, it seems the admin of TheDollarDiggers Thomas is on top of things and already sent an email to the membership explaining the possible outage:
“I was out when it happened and when I came back I have emails from members asking me if TDD is a goner already. I checked TDD and it was already up and running fast.
I also received 3 emails of DDOS attack threat.
TDD have DDOS protection but I guess if it was really an attack then it must be a big one. I already contacted my hosting provider asking them of the full report of what happened and once I received it I will keep you all posted. I am not sure yet if it was a DDOS attack or they are just doing something with the server earlier.
I am sorry everyone. I know some of you panicked and I understand that. This is the first downtime of TDD since we opened on May 17th. We will do our best not to let this happen again and I trust my provider they can sort this out.
Btw, to member #232 and #184 who bought Ad Packs in 12×12 Classic Plan yesterday, please send me an email for your upgrades not to get invalid. We will talk later.”

By the way, if you want to participate in 12×12 surfing plan recently launched by TheDollarDiggers you should comply with the rules of having 2 positions in the program’s cycler for each 1 ad unit in 12×12 plan. The admin of the program warned that members that upgraded in the new surfing plan should follow this rule otherwise their accounts will be zeroed. So if you’re a member of TheDollarDiggers please always read carefully the updates sent by the admin like this most recent one I just got:
“I am not yet uploading the updating list because I am still waiting for members who bought Ad Packs in 12×12 Classic Plan to comply with the rule we have.
I will give them time to comply before I will zeroed their accounts as per rule.
I am done paying all members with request yesterday so please to all those who got paid, vote in our monitors and post in our forum threads. This will will TDD to be known more.
I am also making plans of adding more revenue generating feature for TDD so it will help us to have more funds to support TDD. This will strengthen TDD and will make all members earn profits. I will give more information about it once I am done negotiating with a future partner overseas.
I am excited to spill the beans already but I must stick with the plan that I will announce it once all is polished.
Thank you all who are promoting TDD and inviting others to join our big FAMILY. 7 more days before I close the 12×12 Classic Plan for upgrades so take advantage while it is still open but please please please comply with the rule we have. Our ratio is 1 Ad Pack in 12×12 Classic is to 2 positions in 3 Stage Cycler.
Make sure to comply or your upgrades will be invalid. Starting today once the excel list of positions is uploaded already which I do every 11pm-12mn daily and you have not comply yet with the rule, you account will be zeroed. I have to do this because it will be unfair with those members who are following rules accordingly.
I want to say thank you to those who emailed me and informed me that they understand why there are rules to follow on each Plan offered of TDD. Please remember that every time I make a plan I always think not of my self but all of my members to be in profit. We are aiming to make TDD one of the best all-in-one program and I need each of my member to help me achieve it.
We work as a TEAM and FAMILY and we will reach success as a TEAM and FAMILY.
If you have any ideas or suggestions you want to share with me do not hesitate to send me an email, I will appreciate them and will take into consideration once I see that it is beneficial for everyone.”

To finish today’s post I’m going to give the list of programs that paid me today: Merchandies, SteadyGrowthInvest, AsianInvestGroup, XagaEnterprise, GeniusFunds, SilverLodge, GoldNuggetInvest, TheDollarDiggers, NovalexFinance, ForexExperts, PanaMoney, Investimates, OilInsider, NorthBizz, InvestmentForge, EnscoOffshore, NanoMoneyCorp, OrybFunds, YesICanSurf, ElegantMoney, SigmaTral, ExcellentProfit (the first payment received) and EarnerSurfer (the first payment received). See you on my blog tomorrow as usual!