Monday, February 19, 2007

The Rich Jerk

After my experience with edatajob.com, I was about to throw in the towel with this online money-making business. And then of course I spent my paycheck from folding clothes at Abercrombie and Fitch on another program. This one seemed kind of corny, but it is totally legitimate: TheRichJerk (click to view pitch page). It's really the same idea as edatajob.com, but they use clickbank to process commission payout and they provide mutliple ways to create additional streams of income, not just affiliate marketing. There are plenty of help videos and the member help team is very quick to contact you back. Let me know if you become a richjerk member and I'll drop you some feedback about my campaign. Buddy system is definitely necessary in this business, otherwise you get ripped off like I did with edatajob.com.

FTC vs. edatajob.com

As I said in my description, I would post all the bad business and pursue action against them with the help of the Federal Trade Commission. My first attempt at the get rich quick scheme landed me at edatajob.com. I paid a $47 membership fee, signed up to clickbank.com and google adwords and began submitting ads for them. The program here is to market services and products online from clickbank.com and pay for advertising on google adwords. When someone clicks the link on google and makes a purchase, you earn a commission of 50-75%. With edatajob.com, I was earning $35.25 per sale and racked up well over 300 bucks in one week. Unfortunately, edatajob.com didn't even pay out commission. They did not respond to my inquiries for over a month, and crazy enough, they still haven't! I probably spent close to 50 bucks on pay-per-click advertising on Google for them. If the program was legit, I easily would have broken even and would have earned close to 1,500 per month the way things were going. But because it is illegitimate I filed a complaint with the FTC. Soon after, Google banned ads for such data-entry sites because of a large volume of complaints. Go figure. I've made my case known to Google so that they can report complaints to the FTC. If you've been a victim of edatajob.com, please let me know so that you can file a complaint with the FTC using my case reference number.