Monday, May 19, 2008

*SCAM*ALERT* -- thissiteisforreal.com

*SCAM*ALERT*

I know a lot of you folks are after the internet bucks. Scams abound on the internet and as good neighbors we should expose the posers, pretenders, and plain old rip-offs that we encounter while surfing the internet. There are no "easy" bucks to be made on the internet, but we have a right to be dealt with honestly by these companies and receive what they promised us at sign-up. It's long past time and we need to expose these rip-offs and take back the internet from the scam artists.

After a month of non-responsive emails with customer service, it is time to drop the hammer on thissiteisforreal.com for failure to credit activity and payout. Automatic payout is supposed to be $10 minimum, and they still haven't credited me for $35.00 worth of activity.

Canned responses sent by an auto-response email system to problem-tickets is not effective member service. This supposed survey/gpt site floods your inbox with offers that they do not credit your account for trying.

Do not enable this site by being suckered into joining. If you are already a member and are experiencing similar problems, speak out and let others know!

Monday, May 12, 2008

Have You Tried Doing Surverys @ OTX?

I am quite upset with this survey site! I was linked to OTX about a year ago through my affiliation with MyPoints (which by the way is a great rewards site).

I get several requests per month from OTX to come take a survey. They promise some substantial bucks (5-50 per survey) but they never pay out!!! I think they are a scam outfit taking advantage of members time and stealing the information you provide. I have never been paid for participating in any of their surveys. Their surveys are quite lengthy and time consuming, and after filling out page after page of information and personal answers about a topic. Then OTX asks for your zip-code and then they tell you that your area is not part of their demographics! After spending 5-15 minutes filling out the survey they take all your info and run off! Sometimes they "offer" you the chance to take a different survey, but again they pull the zip-code thing and steal the info without paying you for it!!!

Anyone else tried OTX?
What do you think of them?