{"id":923,"date":"2009-01-22T19:07:59","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T19:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/money-news-online.com\/blog\/?p=923"},"modified":"2009-02-05T12:56:32","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T12:56:32","slug":"220109-surfs-ahoy-review-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/money-news-online.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/22\/220109-surfs-ahoy-review-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"22\/01\/09. Surfs-Ahoy Review and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"

SURFS-AHOY HAS SOME DELAYS WITH PAYOUTS CURRENTLY! PLEASE DON’T INVEST UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hi everybody! Today I want to review a new autosurf and I must say it’s been a while since I can remember such a buzz of excitement around a new program. A quick scan through the major forums will even at this early stage throw up several lively debates and indeed even my own mailbox is quickly filling up with all sorts of questions from investors wondering is all the hype justified. I’m talking about Surfs-Ahoy<\/a> of course. At just two days online and it seems like there is a virtual stampede in trying to sign up for this one. We’ve seen this many times before, but is the excitement justified this time? Let’s take a closer look.
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\nSurfs-Ahoy<\/a> is as I said an autosurf, and one thing in it’s favour is that that particular market isn’t exactly saturated at the moment. Call it fallout from the problems that industry suffered in December if you wish, but the fact is that right now is a perfect time for a well planned and professionally managed autosurf. Yes, I know there are a couple of them out there already, but there is room for another. Not everybody agrees with me on that though, as less than 48 hours after coming online Surfs-Ahoy<\/a> suffered a malicious DdoS attack. Successfully mitigated, (it had little effect anyway) Surfs-Ahoy<\/a> is now in full swing. Kudos to the admid Derek there by the way. He has shown himself at this early stage to be a man of action before a man of words. Good to see another proactive admin who protects his site join that small and elite club.<\/p>\n

So what’s the plan? Surfs-Ahoy<\/a> offers you a chance to earn 13% daily<\/strong> on your investment for 11 days<\/strong> in return for surfing ten sites with payouts made on expiry. Or in other words, that’s a total return of 143%<\/strong>. Not a bad plan at all in my opinion. You can purchase ad packs for just $5 and can buy a total of $10,000 worth of them (or 2000 ad packs in total). The payment options accepted here are LibertyReserve<\/a>, StrictPay<\/a>, and as of today AlertPay<\/a>. I believe the welcome addition of SolidTrustPay<\/a> to this list is also in the pipeline. I should point out two very important facts here. Firstly that while AlertPay<\/a> has been added, the account has yet to be verified by them. That whole process takes about ten days or so. Secondly, in a perfectly reasonable effort to support his own program and eliminate Hit’n’Runners you must be an active member to receive your payout, so remember that you will need to have at least one $5 ad pack there. Please keep this in mind and plan your investment accordingly. Payouts are made within 72 hours although to be honest I would expect them to be made a bit faster than that. In the early stages at least, when the membership level is still relatively small. Payments are not automatic and must be requested. Another thing is that you have to surf everyday. If you miss a day you will not be paid.<\/p>\n

Also something that has become popular with autosurfs recently, which is the non-surfing option, is not available from Surfs-Ahoy<\/a>. That’s OK by me. I mean theres nothing wrong with them but I never considered them as a huge advantage anyway. Granted not everybody likes surfing, but if that’s how you feel then join an HYIP.<\/p>\n

The security of Surfs-Ahoy<\/a> has been proven to be dependable. Maybe that earlier DdoS incident may have been a blessing in disguise as now we all know for a fact that they can successfully stand up to such attacks. It’s hosted on a dedicated server by CIF-Hosting and, well, no need to mention the anti-DDoS protection I guess. The script is licensed from Neversay, ever popular amongst autosurfs and I’m sure known and trusted by most readers here. Even the design which I don’t usually comment on is quite nice in a retro sixties mod kinda way.<\/p>\n

Communication between members and the admin seems to be quite good here too. Only speaking from personal experience you understand, but I have found Derek to be quite responsive and efficient. He isn’t overly active on the forums but that’s not entirely a bad thing in my book either as long as he is where he is supposed to be first and foremost, which is on his own site. Plenty of time for the forums after you take care of your own house first.<\/p>\n

What else to say about Surfs-Ahoy<\/a>? Well I think I’ll just have to surrender to popular opinion and go with the flow on this one. I like it. For the sake of being neutral I tried to find at least one drawback to this site but I can’t. It’s not often I can give a universally positive review, so just to strike a balance I’ll repeat all the usual warnings (which I notice many of you choose to ignore, btw) and remind you there are no guarantees, never gamble with what you can’t afford to lose, and diversify your investments. And now that I’ve said all that I’ll answer the important question “would I invest my own money in this?” The answer is yes. I can’t give a better endorsement than that.<\/p>\n

Other news for today.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It seems that the above reviewed program Surfs-Ahoy<\/a> fell victim to the same scamming monitor hyip265.net that has attacked several sites recently. Their hosting provider though did their best to mitigate the attack and now Surfs-Ahoy<\/a> is available from any part of the world. The came out with the first update today sent to all members. Please don’t expect him bragging on forums but you’re always welcome to send him a support ticket from Surfs-Ahoy<\/a> which will be answered quite fast. Here’s the first update from him regarding DDoS-attack that hit the site and some plans for the future which will be bright for sure:
\n“Hello everybody! Our site is back from a massive ddos attack from a very bad monitor, thanks to CIF Hosting.
\nI will not be succumbing to some idiots who wants to wreck havoc.
\nNow that Surfs-Ahoy<\/a> is fully operational once more, I’d like to welcome you all aboard!!!
\nPardon me for not being active on forums yet. We had quite a very good start up that kept me busy. Aside from the bugs that I have to relay to my programmer to handle. I want to thank all of you for the support and for bearing with me during the downtime. Our membership base so far has been growing quite above the average pace. Maybe that’s the reason why some “grumpy” and “jealous” individuals attacked us or ordered an idiot to attack my site. Anyway, let’s forget what happened momentarily and look forward to what has been planned, i.e., sumptuous earnings! Let’s continue what has been good from the start.
\nI would prefer being busy making payouts and answering e-mails than loitering whole day in forums. If you have an inquiry, please do send it using the contacts page. I will do my best to answer all queries at the soonest possible time. Bye for now guys. Let the fun continue!!!! p.s. Btw, I’m Derek, I almost forgot.<\/em>”
\nBy the way, Surfs-Ahoy<\/a> started accepting AlertPay<\/a> now together with StrictPay<\/a> and LibertyReserve<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I would like to apologize for my previous reaction to Youmilex<\/a> delays with payouts. Obviously the admin of Youmilex<\/a> Edward (read my interview with him here<\/a>) paid to everybody within 48 hours after making a withdrawal request so there was no problem at all. Please, guys, next time read the FAQ before reporting about the delayed payments. As for Youmilex<\/a> I have already returned it to my list of Personal Favorites because it’s showing excellent results to say the least paying 125% in 10 days and accepting all the major payment processors. So 94 days online is an excellent example of a professionally run HYIP that is Youmilex<\/a>!<\/p>\n

I also received a reply to my requests from Mountain-Mining<\/a> where the admin explained the delays with payouts and reported that all the questioned payouts were paid. He also made a promise that everything was back on track and we shouldn’t expect any delays with payouts after the next weekend so I will consider returning Mountain-Mining<\/a> to my Personal Favorites listing later. Here is the explanation:
\n“This Monday we introduced a new Automatic Payment script and used it to make all payments. It seems like this script does not work properly. We now changed that and will proceed all payments manual like we use to do it. Some payments can delay but starting from this weekend (Friday, Saturday) everything should be fine like always before. We started to work with an online database on Monday and also this we change back to our offline database. I am working manual on the missing payments so it takes some time. But all pending payments will be paid. As the new script was also bringing errors to our email server I also needed to fix that with our host. The email should be fine by now. I also made the payments you were asking for. Sorry for that. Sometimes you think less work is helping you but in the end is much more work…<\/em>”
\nI’m still wondering why I was insulted on public forums by the Mountain-Mining<\/a> support staff who showed himself to be a very rude man claiming there were no delays. What is the reason of denying the most obvious things and legitimate complaints? I’m also wondering why the only payouts that were delayed were big (more than $100 each) and they were paid only after I made some noise on public forums. If there was really some glitch in the script, what prevented the admin of Mountain-Mining<\/a> from paying the amounts I reported him about 24 hours ago manually? I believe it’s really simple to do payouts manually or at least answer the support tickets. Please, remember that my blog is never on some admin’s payroll and report to me anytime if you have unpaid pendings from Mountain-Mining<\/a> or any other program in the future. I will do my best to help you with your pendings and expose a scammer or a program that is making selective payouts!<\/p>\n

I’m very curious what status should I give to NoRiskInvestment<\/a> on my monitoring page<\/a>. It seems it’s still paying to some investors and it paid me today as well. Maybe I should move it to “Paying Selectively” again? I really don’t know what to think. But one thing is for sure: depositing now in NoRiskInvestment<\/a> is suicidal for your finances.<\/p>\n

It seems another program almost got to “Paying Selectively” status. It’s Profitower<\/a> (reviewed here<\/a>). Although I’m still being paid to my AlertPay<\/a> account many investors reported on 2-3 pending payouts to LR which was a very bad sign. Fortunately the admin of Profitower<\/a> Simon reported that he had paid some of the pendings today and sent out the following update explaining the reasons for the delay:
\n“We would give you some news concerning the small downtime last night, it was a maintenance on the server. Everything is working fine yet.
\nThe only problem staying is the masspay LibertyReserve<\/a>, (it will be fixed tomorrow), which caused some late in LibertyReserve<\/a> pending cashout. All cashouts were sent manually just some minutes ago (I processed more than 150 lr cashout manually).
\nFinally, We would invite you to join our forum.
\nPlease post some testimonials, it will be great and will help Profitower<\/a> in its development, and it’s permit to show new members how the program works.<\/em>”
\nI would still advise you to approach with caution because of delayed payouts in Profitower<\/a>. I hope I’m wrong but it’s usually the first sign of future collapse. Anyway, I’m moving Profitower<\/a> from my Personal Favorites list until the admin catches up with all the pendings.<\/p>\n

Many investors were concerned that IntensifyFunds<\/a> site (reviewed here<\/a>) was offline for many hours today. Well, it seems to be back now with all the pending withdrawals have been paid. So I returned it to my Personal Favorites again! The admin of IntensifyFunds<\/a> has explained the recent downtime in his email to the members:
\n“Dear Member of IntensifyFunds<\/a>, Ltd. Several hours our site down because main server upgrade to new server. Now all withdraw and deposit has been processed. Sorry for inconvenience.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

NordicMutualFunds<\/a> (reviewed here<\/a>) is also back to Paying status as the site is online and paying after a relatively short downtime which happened last night.<\/p>\n

Although another concern now is StableProfit<\/a> whose site is offline now for some unknown reason. I have contacted the admin already but haven’t received any reply yet. I will be updating you on my blog if I get some additional info on StableProfit<\/a>. Meanwhile, I’m moving it to Waiting status.<\/p>\n

Let’s talk about my blog now and the results of the poll. I know I can’t say that it was fully representative of all the users of payment processors but the results I received were a little bit surprising for me. I remind you that the question for the poll was: What is your preferred payment processor? First place went predictably to LibertyReserve<\/a> which had 86 votes out of 260 or 33%. But the second place went to AlertPay<\/a> which seems to be the most trusted payment processor among those requiring verification. 78 votes of 30% were given to them. In third place was SolidTrustPay<\/a> with 54 votes and 21% of all the voters, and fourth was StrictPay<\/a>, the newest one of the bunch all but swiftly becoming extremely popular, with 34 votes or 13%. And the last one was PerfectMoney<\/a> which couldn’t become popular even despite no fees on the transactions within the system. PerfectMoney<\/a> got only 8 votes, or 3% of all the voters. All 260 people who voted on the poll \u2013 I would like to thank you for your participation. You showed us all which payment processors are the most popular ones among HYIP and autosurf players. And remember you can always read more information about each payment processor in my “Payment processors” section of my site here<\/a>. All the interviews and reviews are collected there.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the recent reflections on topic of payment processors made me think about the emerging companies that may yet compete with the leaders in the payment processors industry in the near future. This includes ECUMoney<\/a> and EvoWallet<\/a>. ECUMoney<\/a> as I already mentioned on my blog is a very promising pick from New Zealand and I really mean that because ECUMoney<\/a> is a properly registered in New Zealand company which offers some innovative features to its clients. As for EvoWallet<\/a> you might also want to check this one out though I warn you that it’s only in pre-launch stage now and even https is not available yet. You may want to sign-up there anyway because opening an account in EvoWallet<\/a> is totally free of charge. I don’t know any background from the admins but I’ll try to find out everything about them once they launch officially, maybe I will even publish a review on my blog. At first glance the EvoWallet<\/a> interface and security features reminded me of LibertyReserve<\/a> and even the fact that the company is allegedly based in Costa-Rica (along with LibertyReserve<\/a>) made me think that EvoWallet<\/a> will try to compete with LibertyReserve<\/a>. We will wait and see if they manage to do it! By the way, I removed V-Money<\/strong> from my list of payment processors because of its extreme unpopularity among investors caused by many factors. I feel there is no need to list it anymore.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I would like to announce another weekly poll which will have the following question: What is the your favorite type of investment program? There will be four answers which you will be able to see on the left sidebar of my blog. Please cast your vote and let me know your opinion on this, it’s important and every vote counts. Thank you in advance for your time! The results of the poll will be drawn in a week.<\/p>\n

To finish the news section I would like to report the payouts I have received today. I’ve been paid by the following programs: Profitower<\/a>, CentFusion<\/a>, FXOIC<\/a>, NovalexFinance<\/a>, Youmilex<\/a>, SilverInvest<\/a>, GrandTrade<\/a>, InvestMonopoly<\/a>, ImokTrade<\/a>, ComradeFinance<\/a>, CadillacVentures<\/a>, ANOI<\/a>, Increaser<\/a>, AggeroInvestment<\/a>, Olympex-Group<\/a>, MajorBarter<\/a>, NordicMutualFunds<\/a>, GoldNuggetInvest<\/a>, EliteFundGroup<\/a>, CapitalCorpex<\/a>, PanaMoney<\/a>, BrainManagement<\/a>, 2008-N<\/a>, NoRiskInvestment<\/a>, Pioneer-Fund<\/a>, IntensifyFunds<\/a>, Surfs-Ahoy<\/a>, 7Inv<\/a> (the first payment has been received) and UCGCapital<\/a> (the first payouts have been received). I hope to have a review of UCGCapital<\/a> soon and can now confirm that the phone number listed on their website is active. It was answered when I called and hopefully I can get more details soon.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned for another review and more news from the industry tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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