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Thursday, August 12, 2004

Juice Boosted - They've All Gone Crazy for FREE Money

A few forums I've seen have gone crazy over this "Juice Boosted" opportunity, where you get people to sign up for free to speed up their dialup connection. They will pay you a whopping £27 GBP and £1.78 GBP for each sign up your referrals make.

Here's the thing:
The service doesn't launch in October and you don't get paid until then. Hmmmmmmmmm.....

If you'd like to know who owns Juice Boosted, here's the Whois info. I didn't confirm it's accuracy:

onJUICE.com
27 Old Gloucester Streetowner
LONDON, United Kingdom

phone: 44.8707202094
fax: +44.8707620458
owner-e-mail: 2d57454556b6983fbee100beb89b0200-826579@owner.gandi.net

I am no expert in Internet connections, so I make no comments to the legitimacy of this program, but there are others who do:

Scam Alert: Juice Boost
Juice Boosted Scam
Scam Alert : Juice Boosted
What the? Juice.com: Please explain
Is Juice Legit? (skip through to 3rd page)
Techies Say Juice is Not Legit


Read those forums carefully - particularly the least one - before you even think of signing up...okay? So many people are saying, "Heck it's free. I have nothing to lose". That's simply not true. You have everything to lose when it comes to your reputation. Just be suspicious of programs that offer you:

- a dumptruckload of money for referring people to a free service
- who won't pay you for 2 months because they service isn't ready yet

TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE? Yeah, I think so. If you are looking to make a little cash for referring people to other companies, there are plenty of legitimate "pay per lead" affiliate programs. One safe way to do this is by signing up for an affiliate network that has a solid reputation and they can find these companies for you.

A Few Affiliate Networks with Pay Per Lead Programs
> Affiliate Fuel
> Commission Junction

Use your noggin and you'll do okay.




1 Comments:

Blogger Ladybug Dawn said...

Thanks Alice now I have the "Nogin" song in my head (you know, the TV Channel "Nogin" that's for kids?)

Anyway...I'm with you 100% on this one. Thanks for all the information and helpful comments ;)

11:16 PM  

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