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Avoid - Some of the companies and products that it is best to avoid.
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Avoid IQSeek. This company did not pay and falsely accused us of fraud. They are not to be trusted. Also known as Easymoney101.com with online reporting by reporting.net or befree.com. Below is a copy of my complaint to befree.com still unresolved after a month.
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Subject:
Your Merchant ezmoney101.com is a fraud
Date:
Mon, 09 Apr 2001 03:30:10 +0100
From:
Anon
Organization:
Plexos.Com
To:
help@befree.com
Hi,
Please bear with me and this long email but it is about a serious matter which I am sure you will want to know about.
We recently took out an account with your merchant ezmoney101.com run by a 'Dr' J Piazza.
It was for the search box program 'IQseek' and we duly installed their code and the agreed rate was 3c/search. But your
online stats only reported 1c/search. I complained and they said they would fix it but they did not. This was the first
thing that made me suspicious. Then the next day they changed their advertised rate to 2c/search and we got paid that.
However they did not backdate the mistaken 1c/search figures and then refused to answer two emails I sent complaining.
I stopped using them because you should not deal with a company that does not reply to you. I waited to get paid what your
stats said then I was going to take the backdate matter further. In all they owe us around $600. Then I got this email
about a week later:-
Subject: The Easymoney101 Affiliate Program
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 16:27:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: jfp@ezmoney101.com
To: ...@plexos.com
We regret to inform you that we have disabled your account with the Easymoney101 affiliate program.
As it states in our Affiliate Agreement, the Easymoney101 affiliate program reserves the right to terminate therelationship
at our sole discretion for any reason.
If you wish to review our agreement please go to: http://www.ezmoney101.com/terms.html.
Please remove your links to the Easymoney101 affiliate program, as we will not be compensating you for any earnings since
your enrollment in the program.
Regretfully,
THE EASYMONEY101 AFFILIATE TEAM
jfp@ezmoney101.com
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When I emailed them that I would expose as a fraud and non-payer they replied with this email:-
Subject: Re: The Easymoney101 Affiliate Program
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 11:11:09 -0400
From: "jfp"
To: "Anon"
Our programs show that your site was generating
hundreds of "click throughs" at the same Ip address at one second intervals.
This is suspect activity, Sir. If you read our terms and conditions
we may terminate and not pay for any reason or no reason at our sole
discretion. Do not threaten!;
we have alliances with other companies on your site who I can easily advise
of your fradulent activity. Our search engine receives 3 1/2 million
visitors per month. You don't want us to list your site as fradulent to all
those visitors, do you?
Regretfully,
JFP
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His accusation is entirely made up. We have been operating with GoTo under your account plexosfree for many months and they
have paid us no problem. You should instantly realise that Piazza's accusation is ludicrous since your own reporting system
monitors the clicks and I believe does not count such rapidly repeating hits from the same IP address. This can easily be
detected and discounted. In addition our impressions recorded with GoTo match closely those of IQseek and are consistent
and
steady following a regular pattern. What more do I need to say except that Piazza's company ezmoney101.com is the proud
runner of the 'Golden Web Awards' as part of I.A.W.M.D. - "World Wide Web Master Association", http://www.iawmd.com. These
are a well known fake award outfit that issues awards to sucker sites and then asks them to subscribe.
In our case anyway they have operated the classic scam of terminating on a trumped up charge to avoid them paying out
anything. Would I be right to say I don't think this is the king of merchant you want?
In conclusion, you have a cuckoo in the nest and it will do your reputation no good to keep them. Mind you with a names
like 'Easy Money 101' and the so-called 'Dr' Piazza, we should have both known better.
I would like them to pay the $600 they owe us. Can you do anything about that? Have you any protection for affiliates
against rogue merchants?
I am going to put up a website up about this because I don't like getting ripped of and then slandered too. Some evidence
to back up what I say is in the snapshots of our reporting.net account plexosiq at:-
http://plexos.com/IQseek.htm
I have also already spoken about this by telephone to a beFree representative in the UK who is contacting the US and
getting back to me.
Can you please acknowledge receipt of this email.
Thanks, and I look forward to your reply.
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Anon
Plexos.Com
http://plexos.com - Webhosting: http://plexos.com/webhosting/prices
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 IQseek - More info on the online stats and the rip off. With actual jpg's of the stats.
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Golden Web Awards scam
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Please note that IQseek.com are run by the same company Easymoney101.com that run and have run for some time, the 'Golden Web Awards'. This is a scheme where you pay them after you receive an award. We enrolled with this a long time ago and quickly received an award. Too quickly I thought and concluded the whole thing was a scam.
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