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This message was added 5/4/2004:
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I have been contacted by the operator of http://www.pearlsofwealth.com/ezlaptop/ regarding this page. Since she operates a program that goes by the same name as the program that operated at EZlaptop.com and EZlaptop.net, and because her program is in no way affiliated with EZlaptop.com except by name, she feels that this site, which informs people about the ongoing saga of EZlaptop.com/EZlaptop.net and offers a location for all the people who have been affected by the scam that ran at EZlaptop.com and EZlaptop.net, does not deserve to exist. I disagree.
But, I am more than happy to make it clear that the comments expressed here by me are not intended to be regarding her program at http://www.pearlsofwealth.com/ezlaptop/ – I mean only to rever to the now-defunct program that existed at EZlaptop.com and EZlaptop.net, and the problems it has caused.
I am adding this statment to the top, middle, and bottom of both of my pages regarding EZlaptop.com/EZlaptop.net, as a courtesy to the operator of http://www.pearlsofwealth.com/ezlaptop/ – I do not want there to be any confusion – any negative comments made here are NOT about the program at http://www.pearlsofwealth.com/ezlaptop/
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This message was added 2/11/2004:
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IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY SIGNED UP, DO NOT SIGN UP FOR EZLAPTOP.COM.
I cannot say for sure yet whether they are entirely a scam, so everyone who already has an account (that hasn’t been cancelled yet), please keep clicking those links – when you get to 150, let us know what happens!
I just had my account forcibly closed.
I suspected that I had too many referrers or invalid links or something, because my credits seemed too high, so I emailed ezlaptop.com and asked if there was anything wrong, and if so, would they remove the extra credits? I made it clear that I did not believe myself to have done anything wrong and that I wanted to support their company and maintain a positive relationship and an open account.
Their response was to close my account.
Now, I can’t be sure of what happened (I think someone may have used illegal links or I may have had more than 10 referrals, and that’s what I was emailing to find out), but instead of letting me know WHAT was wrong or trying to resolve it, ezlaptop.com just closed my account.
I tried emailing ezlaptop.com several times, discussing the matter in a rational way, making it clear that while I had a guess as to what might have happened, I certainly didn’t break any of their rules myself. I tried discussing the matter as it relates to promoting a positive customer experience and creating an environment of positive customer service, but ezlaptop.com made it clear they are not interested in their customers’ interests or having a positive relationship with the people who are their source of their income.
Whether or not they ever actually send anyone a laptop, because ezlaptop.com is not interested in you beyond your $5, you should NOT do business with them. We can only teach these companies that treating people fairly is what we want by not giving our money to unfair companies.
ezlaptop.com changed its policies to prevent having to give out laptops: On the website, even right now, it encourages you (even on the Terms of Use page) to try to accumulate credits via referrals to reach the (currently) 150 credit goal faster. In fact, when they estimate how long ezlaptop.com expects it to take for someone to earn enough credits, they say that that goal can only be reached by getting a lot of referral credits. ezlaptop.com recently modified its Terms of Use so that when you reach 150 points and try to get your laptop, any credits earned from referrals beyond the first 10 referrals will be removed from your account and you will no longer have the required credits, if you had more than 10 referrals.
There is no way to know how many referrals you have had until you reach 150 credits and get your account closed for having too many referrals. I emailed to ask how many referrals I had, and had my account closed without even reaching 150 credits. If there was anything else wrong with my account, I don’t know it for sure; ezlaptop.com wouldn’t tell me. They just closed my account.
I have done nothing but try to promote a positive reputation for ezlaptop.com in the past, but they had never done anything wrong to me before. Now they have shown that not only are they uninterested in having a positive relationship with their customers, but they are looking for any chance they can get to close people’s accounts.
I will be emailing this message to everyone who has commented here.
IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY SIGNED UP, DO NOT SIGN UP FOR EZLAPTOP.COM.
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Original message follows:
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Yes, it’s true, I am sometimes a schmuck.
For instance, right after buying my novel, Zoe linked me to ezlaptop.com, as an option to try to replace my broken laptop for $5.
IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY SIGNED UP, DO NOT SIGN UP FOR EZLAPTOP.COM.
I get hundreds of SPAM every day. Actually, I also click through quite a few of them every day because they are funny or actually offer something I am interested in, usually to find that the links are bad, and no, I can’t get my allergies enlarged or get debt reduction without a prescription. Sigh.
IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY SIGNED UP, DO NOT SIGN UP FOR EZLAPTOP.COM.
So, for a $5 signup fee (this is like buying 5 lottery tickets, right? It’s a gamble) and 1, 2, or 3 emails a week (I opted for three, what the heck), each of which contains a link that must be followed in order to earn ‘credits’ (1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 credits per link), once I ‘earn’ enough ‘credits’ (150 right now, but their TOS says they can change that at any time without notice), they’ll just ship me a free VAIO laptop. Wheee!
IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY SIGNED UP, DO NOT SIGN UP FOR EZLAPTOP.COM.
Now, if they don’t close up shop and run off with my $5 before then, I’ll go ahead and advertise my book through them; their rates are reasonable, and I know people will click through. Anyone else can recommend some ‘captive audience’ ad click-through ‘services’ … preferably those that have already been verified are not scams… that I could advertise Lost and Not Found via? I’d like to get the word out to as many people as possible, when the time comes.
And now, to sleep, for in the morning I must wake early to do some hard labor before a day of retail followed by a little more hard labor. Happy birthday to me!
IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY SIGNED UP, DO NOT SIGN UP FOR EZLAPTOP.COM.
(Seriously, click the banner and gamble your $5. Everyone who signs up from my banner gets me 2 extra ‘credits’. It’ll be like a little mini birthday present for me, that might turn out to be worth a laptop, if they find enough advertisers and you can stomach clicking through their links three times a week.)
PLEASE NOTE:
CLICK HERE to see the post to which these comments were made.
It appears that the google link is directly to the comments for some reason.
Thanks.
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This message was added 5/4/2004:
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I have been contacted by the operator of http://www.pearlsofwealth.com/ezlaptop/ regarding this page. Since she operates a program that goes by the same name as the program that operated at EZlaptop.com and EZlaptop.net, and because her program is in no way affiliated with EZlaptop.com except by name, she feels that this site, which informs people about the ongoing saga of EZlaptop.com/EZlaptop.net and offers a location for all the people who have been affected by the scam that ran at EZlaptop.com and EZlaptop.net, does not deserve to exist. I disagree.
But, I am more than happy to make it clear that the comments expressed here by me are not intended to be regarding her program at http://www.pearlsofwealth.com/ezlaptop/ – I mean only to rever to the now-defunct program that existed at EZlaptop.com and EZlaptop.net, and the problems it has caused.
I am adding this statment to the top, middle, and bottom of both of my pages regarding EZlaptop.com/EZlaptop.net, as a courtesy to the operator of http://www.pearlsofwealth.com/ezlaptop/ – I do not want there to be any confusion – any negative comments made here are NOT about the program at http://www.pearlsofwealth.com/ezlaptop/
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The following warning was added 2/11/2004:
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IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY SIGNED UP, DO NOT SIGN UP FOR EZLAPTOP.COM.
I cannot say for sure yet whether they are entirely a scam, so everyone who already has an account (that hasn’t been cancelled yet), please keep clicking those links – when you get to 150, let us know what happens!
I just had my account forcibly closed.
I suspected that I had too many referrers or invalid links or something, because my credits seemed too high, so I emailed ezlaptop.com and asked if there was anything wrong, and if so, would they remove the extra credits? I made it clear that I did not believe myself to have done anything wrong and that I wanted to support their company and maintain a positive relationship and an open account.
Their response was to close my account.
Now, I can’t be sure of what happened (I think someone may have used illegal links or I may have had more than 10 referrals, and that’s what I was emailing to find out), but instead of letting me know WHAT was wrong or trying to resolve it, ezlaptop.com just closed my account.
I tried emailing ezlaptop.com several times, discussing the matter in a rational way, making it clear that while I had a guess as to what might have happened, I certainly didn’t break any of their rules myself. I tried discussing the matter as it relates to promoting a positive customer experience and creating an environment of positive customer service, but ezlaptop.com made it clear they are not interested in their customers’ interests or having a positive relationship with the people who are their source of their income.
Whether or not they ever actually send anyone a laptop, because ezlaptop.com is not interested in you beyond your $5, you should NOT do business with them. We can only teach these companies that treating people fairly is what we want by not giving our money to unfair companies.
ezlaptop.com changed its policies to prevent having to give out laptops: On the website, even right now, it encourages you (even on the Terms of Use page) to try to accumulate credits via referrals to reach the (currently) 150 credit goal faster. In fact, when they estimate how long ezlaptop.com expects it to take for someone to earn enough credits, they say that that goal can only be reached by getting a lot of referral credits. ezlaptop.com recently modified its Terms of Use so that when you reach 150 points and try to get your laptop, any credits earned from referrals beyond the first 10 referrals will be removed from your account and you will no longer have the required credits, if you had more than 10 referrals.
There is no way to know how many referrals you have had until you reach 150 credits and get your account closed for having too many referrals. I emailed to ask how many referrals I had, and had my account closed without even reaching 150 credits. If there was anything else wrong with my account, I don’t know it for sure; ezlaptop.com wouldn’t tell me. They just closed my account.
I have done nothing but try to promote a positive reputation for ezlaptop.com in the past, but they had never done anything wrong to me before. Now they have shown that not only are they uninterested in having a positive relationship with their customers, but they are looking for any chance they can get to close people’s accounts.
I will be emailing this message to everyone who has commented here.
IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY SIGNED UP, DO NOT SIGN UP FOR EZLAPTOP.COM.
Hello,
my name is Ivan and I have developed scripts for ezlaptop.com
That guy from ezlaptop didn’t pay me my money, he cheated me and he will cheat you.
I hate that guy, I have all emails which he sent me and I can publish it if you don’t trust me.
Just email me to info@OffshoreDevelopers.net if you don’t think that I’m real developer of ezlaptop and I will reply you.
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please do not delete this post, it’s a truth.
Last time he wrote me:
“What has happened is PayPal has froze my Paypal account! They were suspicous of the $5 payments coming in over and over. So I had to fax papers in like my bank statement, ID, etc.
I faxed in the papers, and I got an e-mail back and their like “Your name and address wasn’t on the paper!!” So now I have to wait longer to run back into town to get the thing faxed to them. Then once I do, hopefully they unlock it this time.”
After this email he disappeared 🙁
PLEASE NOTE:
CLICK HERE to see the post to which these comments were made.
It appears that the google link is directly to the comments for some reason.
Thanks.
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This message was added 5/4/2004:
**********
I have been contacted by the operator of http://www.pearlsofwealth.com/ezlaptop/ regarding this page. Since she operates a program that goes by the same name as the program that operated at EZlaptop.com and EZlaptop.net, and because her program is in no way affiliated with EZlaptop.com except by name, she feels that this site, which informs people about the ongoing saga of EZlaptop.com/EZlaptop.net and offers a location for all the people who have been affected by the scam that ran at EZlaptop.com and EZlaptop.net, does not deserve to exist. I disagree.
But, I am more than happy to make it clear that the comments expressed here by me are not intended to be regarding her program at http://www.pearlsofwealth.com/ezlaptop/ – I mean only to rever to the now-defunct program that existed at EZlaptop.com and EZlaptop.net, and the problems it has caused.
I am adding this statment to the top, middle, and bottom of both of my pages regarding EZlaptop.com/EZlaptop.net, as a courtesy to the operator of http://www.pearlsofwealth.com/ezlaptop/ – I do not want there to be any confusion – any negative comments made here are NOT about the program at http://www.pearlsofwealth.com/ezlaptop/
**********
The following warning was added 2/11/2004:
**********
IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY SIGNED UP, DO NOT SIGN UP FOR EZLAPTOP.COM.
I cannot say for sure yet whether they are entirely a scam, so everyone who already has an account (that hasn’t been cancelled yet), please keep clicking those links – when you get to 150, let us know what happens!
I just had my account forcibly closed.
I suspected that I had too many referrers or invalid links or something, because my credits seemed too high, so I emailed ezlaptop.com and asked if there was anything wrong, and if so, would they remove the extra credits? I made it clear that I did not believe myself to have done anything wrong and that I wanted to support their company and maintain a positive relationship and an open account.
Their response was to close my account.
Now, I can’t be sure of what happened (I think someone may have used illegal links or I may have had more than 10 referrals, and that’s what I was emailing to find out), but instead of letting me know WHAT was wrong or trying to resolve it, ezlaptop.com just closed my account.
I tried emailing ezlaptop.com several times, discussing the matter in a rational way, making it clear that while I had a guess as to what might have happened, I certainly didn’t break any of their rules myself. I tried discussing the matter as it relates to promoting a positive customer experience and creating an environment of positive customer service, but ezlaptop.com made it clear they are not interested in their customers’ interests or having a positive relationship with the people who are their source of their income.
Whether or not they ever actually send anyone a laptop, because ezlaptop.com is not interested in you beyond your $5, you should NOT do business with them. We can only teach these companies that treating people fairly is what we want by not giving our money to unfair companies.
ezlaptop.com changed its policies to prevent having to give out laptops: On the website, even right now, it encourages you (even on the Terms of Use page) to try to accumulate credits via referrals to reach the (currently) 150 credit goal faster. In fact, when they estimate how long ezlaptop.com expects it to take for someone to earn enough credits, they say that that goal can only be reached by getting a lot of referral credits. ezlaptop.com recently modified its Terms of Use so that when you reach 150 points and try to get your laptop, any credits earned from referrals beyond the first 10 referrals will be removed from your account and you will no longer have the required credits, if you had more than 10 referrals.
There is no way to know how many referrals you have had until you reach 150 credits and get your account closed for having too many referrals. I emailed to ask how many referrals I had, and had my account closed without even reaching 150 credits. If there was anything else wrong with my account, I don’t know it for sure; ezlaptop.com wouldn’t tell me. They just closed my account.
I have done nothing but try to promote a positive reputation for ezlaptop.com in the past, but they had never done anything wrong to me before. Now they have shown that not only are they uninterested in having a positive relationship with their customers, but they are looking for any chance they can get to close people’s accounts.
I will be emailing this message to everyone who has commented here.
IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY SIGNED UP, DO NOT SIGN UP FOR EZLAPTOP.COM.
Hello,
my name is Ivan and I have developed scripts for ezlaptop.com
That guy from ezlaptop didn’t pay me my money, he cheated me and he will cheat you.
I hate that guy, I have all emails which he sent me and I can publish it if you don’t trust me.
Just email me to info@OffshoreDevelopers.net if you don’t think that I’m real developer of ezlaptop and I will reply you.
2 modrator
please do not delete this post, it’s a truth.
Last time he wrote me:
“What has happened is PayPal has froze my Paypal account! They were suspicous of the $5 payments coming in over and over. So I had to fax papers in like my bank statement, ID, etc.
I faxed in the papers, and I got an e-mail back and their like “Your name and address wasn’t on the paper!!” So now I have to wait longer to run back into town to get the thing faxed to them. Then once I do, hopefully they unlock it this time.”
After this email he disappeared 🙁
Hi Ivan
This is Jenn, owner of the REAL ezlaptop, the one who’s name your “friend” stole.
Please remove this page. People do not know which ezlaptop you are talking about and it is hurting my business. I’m sure you don’t want to do that!!
REMOVE IT!!!
Jenn
Admin EZLaptop
Hi Ivan
This is Jenn, owner of the REAL ezlaptop, the one who’s name your “friend” stole.
Please remove this page. People do not know which ezlaptop you are talking about and it is hurting my business. I’m sure you don’t want to do that!!
REMOVE IT!!!
Jenn
Admin EZLaptop
I’m talking about ezlaptop.com!
They are real cheaters!
I’m talking about ezlaptop.com!
They are real cheaters!
Ahhh so are you saying I just paid 5 dollars for nothing? and which ezlaptop is the real one? i want a link jenn! and Ivan let’s take down that dude who stole our money.
Ahhh so are you saying I just paid 5 dollars for nothing? and which ezlaptop is the real one? i want a link jenn! and Ivan let’s take down that dude who stole our money.
I’ve emailed the guy who has ezlaptop.com a couple of times about these comments, but he doesn’t respond…
So, I don’t know.
But James, ezlaptop.com, like the matrix site Jenn is talking about, let you know up front that what you are actually buying is “ebooks” So, if you paid your $5 to ezlaptop.com and got your “ebook”, you got what you paid for, exactly, and nothing has been “stolen” from you.
Since the man behind ezlaptop.com won’t respond, all you can reasonably do is keep clicking through the emails, get the required “points” and see if a laptop shows up.
Good luck!
I’ve emailed the guy who has ezlaptop.com a couple of times about these comments, but he doesn’t respond…
So, I don’t know.
But James, ezlaptop.com, like the matrix site Jenn is talking about, let you know up front that what you are actually buying is “ebooks” So, if you paid your $5 to ezlaptop.com and got your “ebook”, you got what you paid for, exactly, and nothing has been “stolen” from you.
Since the man behind ezlaptop.com won’t respond, all you can reasonably do is keep clicking through the emails, get the required “points” and see if a laptop shows up.
Good luck!
Haha thanks Teel, but there’s a funny thing. It seems Ezlaptop.com is down now. How Interesting.
Haha thanks Teel, but there’s a funny thing. It seems Ezlaptop.com is down now. How Interesting.
Doesn’t look down to me.
But even if it did, I think that’s part of the fun. Remember, “this is like buying 5 lottery tickets, right? It’s a gamble.” So as long as you can try to have at least as much fun as you’d have with 5 lottery tickets, you’re a winner! Heck, since lottery tickets play out in seconds after only a couple days wait at most (we’ll say 5 weeks at most, since it’s $5 here), I’ve already got more fun out of it than I would by playing the lottery. And this will keep going for at least another couple of months (or disappear, sure) before I find out if my points were meaningless!
Wheeee!
Doesn’t look down to me.
But even if it did, I think that’s part of the fun. Remember, “this is like buying 5 lottery tickets, right? It’s a gamble.” So as long as you can try to have at least as much fun as you’d have with 5 lottery tickets, you’re a winner! Heck, since lottery tickets play out in seconds after only a couple days wait at most (we’ll say 5 weeks at most, since it’s $5 here), I’ve already got more fun out of it than I would by playing the lottery. And this will keep going for at least another couple of months (or disappear, sure) before I find out if my points were meaningless!
Wheeee!
Haha you know what Teel? You’re right this isn’t that bad after all. It’s a lot better than playing the stupid Lotto. Thank You for the outlook take care!
WoooohOoo!
Haha you know what Teel? You’re right this isn’t that bad after all. It’s a lot better than playing the stupid Lotto. Thank You for the outlook take care!
WoooohOoo!
But, is there somebody here who have recieved his laptop after had been member of EZLaptop???
But, is there somebody here who have recieved his laptop after had been member of EZLaptop???
Not that I know of, but the site has only been running a little under two months, so I’m not sure they’ve even made that opportunity really available yet. See, you get the emails and if you click them you get points and once you get enough points, they send you a laptop. I’ve got about 40 points towards the 150 goal so far, and when I get to 150 I’ll let you know if/when a laptop appears.
Not that I know of, but the site has only been running a little under two months, so I’m not sure they’ve even made that opportunity really available yet. See, you get the emails and if you click them you get points and once you get enough points, they send you a laptop. I’ve got about 40 points towards the 150 goal so far, and when I get to 150 I’ll let you know if/when a laptop appears.
So I totally have only 32 credits so far(11/19/03) How do you have so many Teel, you didn’t start that far ahead of me. Oh well I still love it when I open up my email have emails that I actually requested, yes they are just ads but it is still something I look forward to getting.
So I totally have only 32 credits so far(11/19/03) How do you have so many Teel, you didn’t start that far ahead of me. Oh well I still love it when I open up my email have emails that I actually requested, yes they are just ads but it is still something I look forward to getting.
I know other site which is better then ezlaptop and have lot of deals. And it’s owner is not a cheater and a honest Man!
http://www.supereasystuff.com/?ref=481&deal=3
I know other site which is better then ezlaptop and have lot of deals. And it’s owner is not a cheater and a honest Man!
http://www.supereasystuff.com/?ref=481&deal=3
Hello I am at 21 credits, 129 more to go! This is kind of fun, getting emails and watch my points grow! Hawk
Hello I am at 21 credits, 129 more to go! This is kind of fun, getting emails and watch my points grow! Hawk
I took the gamble too, but as of yet nothing….but hell it is only money, and not that much at that. And, if I can the laptop great.
Ivan, next time get your money upfront.
Does anyone know where they are based? Is there a physical address?
I took the gamble too, but as of yet nothing….but hell it is only money, and not that much at that. And, if I can the laptop great.
Ivan, next time get your money upfront.
Does anyone know where they are based? Is there a physical address?
whats everyones totals?
whats everyones totals?
who wants to sign up!
http://www.ezlaptop.com/?ref=6179
who wants to sign up!
http://www.ezlaptop.com/?ref=6179
I am at 88, with 62 to go.
I am at 88, with 62 to go.
i just got to 97. i thought it was great when i broke the hundred mark. keep me posted if anyone gets a name address or laptop.
i just got to 97. i thought it was great when i broke the hundred mark. keep me posted if anyone gets a name address or laptop.
Has anyone actually gotten a laptop yet?
Has anyone actually gotten a laptop yet?
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Hey, it mentions an eBook you get with the $5 membership fee. What info did the eBook include?
Hey, it mentions an eBook you get with the $5 membership fee. What info did the eBook include?
Has anyone received their laptop? I am hesitantly considering signing up and am trying to decide if this is a scam or not.
Also, any adivce(if I do sign up) on how to accumulate points quicker. Any additional info not provided on the site would be appreciated
Has anyone received their laptop? I am hesitantly considering signing up and am trying to decide if this is a scam or not.
Also, any adivce(if I do sign up) on how to accumulate points quicker. Any additional info not provided on the site would be appreciated
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