I’ve stumbled upon my long-time irc contact today, whose also a StudioTraffic user. Suprisingly, he’s complaining in his blog about StudioTraffic poor quality of service and low-response time lately.
He also states in his blog that, if this trend continues, StudioTraffic might just be another Ponzie, and announce that he’s going to withdraw from the scheme, quite unbelievable!! I’m talking about a guy who advocates ST for so long and have almost a hundred of referral membership under him!!! Well, something really Bad ™ must have happened…
What about you? Do you have any positive opinion about StudioTraffic lately?
p/s: StudioTraffic is a surf-for-money program which requires you to leave your browser windows open while surfing the internet. You commision will be paid according to your money invested in the program.
References :
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Deafening silence from 12dailypro and studiotraffic supporters.
Studio Traffic is ded. It needs to be burried ’cause it now stinks like rotten meat.
studiotraffic got hacked
all member details exposed
block your creditcards
studiotraffic staff is swiping this under the carpet
see this tread for more info:
http://www.talkgold.com/forum/showpost.php?p=613449&postcount=13
WELL ST IS NOW ON THE WAY OUT OF THE GAME. IT IS AS GOOD AS DIDE
NOW NO MORE THAN A BIG SCAM.
SEE http://www.studiotraffic.co.uk
Ex StudioTraffic Cheerleader is right! The changes are becoming more sudden and are steadily becoming more severe. Now members upgraded accounts are being inactivated by admin. That’s worse than having surfing blocked. John’s compassionate caring side has been just a front and his true colors are showing. Just go into the forum and you can see he is constantly downplaying members & looking for excuses to kick them out the door.
I believe Studio Traffic is a ponzi. At the moment, they have no $$$ to pay members, and as a result are blocking accounts.
Malaysia, Singapore and UK (and Australia too I think) have just joined the list of coutries bing blockedd. The main reason given by John Horan is that, somebody created 4000 accounts and are benefitting from them.
Thus, John decides to block 4 coutries, where he suspects the culprit is from.
Darn… something what the US military might do I guess.
Want to hunt down Saddam…. BLOWS up the whole of Iraq.
I was never an ST cheerleader…. but did give the site some hope
Maybe due to naiveity.
Now I am convinced that ST is indeed a ponzi scam :)
I think I’ll never see the extra few hundred dollars still in there.
Even if I do, I’m going to help stop others from joining.
Cheers!
buildcash.org and 12 Daily Pro is not a scam or Ponzi
You?ve probably seen a lot about 12 Daily Pro, I know it can be confusing so I?ve written a little ?article? to help those of you who haven?t started yet.
You can start a free account for traffic exchange purposes, or you can become and ?Upgraded? member to earn money and receive traffic exchange. I.e. if you surf 15 websites in one day, you can put YOUR OWN LINK in the rotation for a freebie site, or your homepage, or whatever – and you?ll get 15 unique views on your page. I surfed 200 last month, and I got 200 views on my http://www.buildmoney.org account – out of which I got many new members and many new offer completions.
This makes 12 Daily Pro a powerful marketing tool as well as a great investment opportunity.
If you decide to invest, keep in mind that like any investment, there is some risk – there?s ALWAYS a chance of a company goes bust or the stock market failing. Not that it?s LIKELY to happen, but there?s always a chance. So don?t invest more than you can afford to lose.
There are a lot of skeptics. People accuse 12DP of being a ponzi scheme. They say these auto surf sites just gather your money and then when they have enough, they just jet with the $100,000 or more that they?ve accumulated. While that may be true of certain HYIPs (High Yield Investment Programs) or even other auto surf websites, 12 Daily Pro is not a Ponzi scheme in my opinion.
There are numerous reasons why 12DP is legit. They?ve been around for about 8 months, they get 1000 new members a day and they haven?t missed a single payment yet with over 90,000 members. The admin of the site is honest and trustworthy. They are NETIBA certified. They are committed to growing the auto surf industry by supporting other admins of other sites. They constantly keep in touch with updates on the member?s main page. They?ve even organized a ?Get paid to? conference which will be held in January. They have some really good sponsors as well.
You just have a feeling of security at 12 daily Pro, while other sites have ripped me off, 1DollarPts.com, titansurf.com, etc. – 12 Daily Pro has been around and will be around for the long run.
So obviously, I highly recommend it.
BUT like anything, don?t put more than you can afford to loose in. You can put as little as $6 in the first few times to see if it?s trustworthy. The max you can invest is 6K – If you want to be really safe, you can withdraw your original investment and then reinvest the earnings =) that?s what I?m starting to do now. So if you put in $1000.00, you?ll get back $1440.00 – then you can withdraw the original $1000 and just keep investing the $440.00 so EVEN IF they go bust, you?ll never have lost money.
Join me now! http://www.buildcash.org
You get paid 12% each day you surf. You just have to surf 12 sites a day to get paid. So after 12 days of surfing, you get 144%.
Each investment is called an ?upgrade?. You upgrade for ?units? which cost $6 each. You can have a max of 2 active upgrades (investments) at a time totaling no more than 1000 units, or $6000.00
$48.00 (8 units) = $69.12
$96.00 (16 units) = $138.24
$498.00 (83 units) = $717.12
$1998.00 (333 units) = 2877.12
You get the idea.
http://www.buildcash.org is my link to sign up.
Another thing you need to know about is payment. They use Storm pay and eGold as their ?payment processor?. You?ll need one to upgrade and receive cash outs. Storm pay has a 6.9% fee on all incoming payments, which can get hefty on like $1000.00 payments
EGold is the other one they use. The fees are a LOT less but it?s harder to get money into your eGold account. You need to do currency conversion through a site like
Thanks!
Andrew Hillman
http://www.buildcash.org Admin
Quoted by John Horan, owner of StudioTraffic. This is his response to indefinately blocking the accounts of US members November 2005.
“Now, even if US members stop supporting us, studiotraffic will not be affected because we do not have to pay out anymore. Worse comes to worse, we will only concentrate on other markets such as Singapore, Malaysia, China, India, South Korea, UK, Europe. This is the worst scenario and will only happened if current US members react negatively to this. Having said this, as mentioned many times before, time will prove everything.”
“and the owner stated that he does not care if he loses all USA accounts. ”
Where is your proof of this?
I’m not doubting you but I’m trying to play devils advocate, so to speak.
ST is a ponzi scam. They have blocked USA accounts, and the owner stated that he does not care if he loses all USA accounts. The true side of Studio Traffic is begining to show, and it is going to get progressively worse & even more sudden. The problem is for USA members that it is too late to get out! Basically, ST says they will get you out by letting a good portion of your upgrade to expire while you cannot surf because they will not let you. At the same time, they will still steal money from new USA members and promise 1% daily (Oh yeah —-> Starting in 2006 upgrades only last for 10 months) Remember, they are already cheating people out of their current upgrades because they cannot afford to pay for 12 months.
If they block 2-3 months off a 2005 12 month upgrade – I imagine they will block many more months off a 10 month upgrade.
I used to be a StudioTraffic Cheerleader – but not anymore. The GAC was the warning sign, and now the blocking of USA accounts from surfing is a red flag.
ST is a ponzi scam. They have blocked USA accounts, and the owner stated that he does not care if he loses all USA accounts. The true side of Studio Traffic is begining to show, and it is going to get progressively worse & even more sudden. The problem is for USA members that it is too late to get out! Basically, ST says they will get you out by letting a good portion of your upgrade to expire while you cannot surf because they will not let you. At the same time, they will still steal money from new USA members and promise 1% daily (Oh yeah —-> Starting in 2006 upgrades only last for 10 months) Remember, they are already cheating people out of their current upgrades because they cannot afford to pay for 12 months.
If they block 2-3 months off a 2005 12 month upgrade – I imagine they will block many more months off a 10 month upgrade.
I used to be a StudioTraffic Cheerleader – but not anymore. The GAC was the warning sign, and now the blocking of USA accounts from surfing is a red flag.
There just so busy! So much membership so little time! I think all will be fine soon!
Although I’ve never been real happy about losing 2% to Studiopay and it taking so long to process payouts, I consider it pretty much FREE MONEY.
Look at what you have to do to ‘earn’ this money. Sit and watch the computer for about 30 minutes a day. Oooh, I am SO overworked!
Folks, we’re talking about a system that has been paying people good money for over 2 years. What is there to complain about, really??
All accounts have been deleted as if they never existed and any attempts to log in are met with a message that those accounts have been closed by the admin. That is the whole story. Weird, Huh? I think they are smoking crack or something.
Anonymous! You shouldnt be locked out Everyone can still login even blocked surfers! You sure there isn’t more to the problem you are having? That you aren’t sharing here?
Go to my profile where? I can’t get onto Studiotraffic!! I’m afraid I do not understand what you are saying. Please explain. Thanks.
I can’t believe I’m reading this. Go into your profile settings and set your country to USA and put in a phone number.
The programmer did some changes and renamed US to United States. That change alone affected multiple accounts that caused the country field to be blank, thus locking out the account by accident.
Set to United States and wait for a bit.
is anyone in the United states who has had their accounts taken away from them by studiotraffic interested in filing a class action legal suit?
We had a problem with hacking into our Studiopay account and have been unable to resolve the issue. Despite not using any foul language and several days of chat and tickets, etc. we found that the minute we said anything neg about Studiotraffic–where we had been loyal members for years, and/or SP we were immediately locked out of our accounts. So if you have an account, watch out. ST is desperate for that money.
In my opinion there’s a possibility of downfall but that is not as easy as the guy told you. As we all knows that autosurf actually work very similar to MLM that is generate money from the expense of the members and later paid back to them as more and more money generated. Of course they also generate side income but it is just not as much as the money generated from the members. Studiotraffic is still growing but the only thing is that they are having slow pace of growth due lack of new members enter the investment. The only way to help studiotraffic to keep growing is to help them advertise to get more members because they have around 250,000 members which is very high potential to recruit. let say the all the 250,000 able to recruit one upgrade members it will double the number of members to 500,000. In this way studiotraffic is making money and the same for us. That’s all my comment on that
“Anonymous said…
Actually, I believe that the 20% contributions is good for the company. Plus, its not like they are putting this into their pockets, they are doing this for 6 months so they can run an global advertising campaign. I dont see why people are freaking out about this.”
Really.. OK, those of us who did not recieve the so called email I feel as though we are all to be punished. My accopunt level is over the 2K range and just by being blocked I have lost twice my investment in the past 5 days,Are we to be paid back.NO per the letter we got back from Kim. So were does my $100 a day go that I dont get paid? Well the blocking idea of Johns is one way to get the money for the new office move and still make you pay the 20% in additional..
Now the 20% really is not the issue for me, I think that if they can make it through all the bad press they may still make it. However, my excitement for the company is fadding fast.
Plus I have had a withdraw pending from them thats been 10 days old..
One of the other revenus that I have not seen mentioned is Studio Pay. They force you to with draw through there own processor of which they take 2%, and that is one way the say they have been able to get the 1Mil reserve, thats not bad. but now the EAC that will put the withdraw fees at 22% for the next 6 months.
Figure this up, there must be atleast 50000 members with accounts over the min $2000 that are unable to surf.Just 1 day at min $20 (20*50000}=$1,000,000
a day. They dont have to pay out.That stinks.
Well enough of that.
Thanks for letting me get that off my chest.
Have a great day!
& Blessings to you all.
So, we know that Studiotraffic is not a scam.. Well, what are you waiting for, visit http://studiobiz.bizhat.com/ and register now. Do a research and happy register.
Good Luck.
Actually, I believe that the 20% contributions is good for the company. Plus, its not like they are putting this into their pockets, they are doing this for 6 months so they can run an global advertising campaign. I dont see why people are freaking out about this.
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anonymous, note that this 20% is only for members with an account level greater than 2000. While I think this is a decent idea, as it somewhat limits the members who rake in thousands a month, I think they should change it to mandatory for members with account levels of 5,000 or greater, not 2,000. Also, the bullshit John is feeding people about contributing or getting blocked, is ridiculous
I was all into StudioTraffic until today. The owner, John, just said that those who are in profit who do not contribute 20% of their earnings every month (or contribute in some other way, such as working for them), are headed on their way out the door. That SUCKS! I mean they talk about how the good strong people will remain and it will attract more new people and all this crap, but the reality is that we’re getting ripped off now. It’s better if they say you earn 0.8% daily instead of 1%, because when you do the numbers, that’s the reality. But if they told people our earnings would drop to 0.8%, people would freak out.
I mean don’t get me wrong I don’t hate them yet and I do hope that John changes this new policy and takes into consideration that some people really don’t want to donate 20% because they need the money. But if this policy sticks, then StudioTraffic has just made the first move which will make it fail.. people are incredibly pissed already, even though you might not see in the ST forums (not allowed, lol) – people are IMm’ing each other like crazy already about this new policy.
John if you’re reading this (I doubt it), please reconsider this outrageous 20% donation thing.
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They get most of their funds from a) advertisers who pay big money to advertise their business through ST and b) a number of businisses that back up Studiotraffic, who sell products.
Where do StudioTraffic get the money to pay their members?
If the money comes from recruiting new members, I see a problem in that scheme. The legality of this may differ from country to country, but the morality of this scheme is something very questionable.
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I have been using for ST for 4 months and think it seems as strong as ever. I have made a homepage based on my experiences that describes both the positive and negative aspects of ST, check it out at http://beam.to/studioexamination :)
StudioTraffic
StudioTraffic
StudioTraffic is just experiencing some growing pains. It is 100 percent legit, and is stronger than ever. If you didn’t already know, StudioTraffic recently reached a 1 million dollar reserve. They are stronger than ever now!
Jon Manzi
StudioTraffic
StudioTraffic is just experiencing some growing pains. It is 100 percent legit, and is stronger than ever. If you didn’t already know, StudioTraffic recently reached a 1 million dollar reserve. They are stronger than ever now!
Jon Manzi
http://www.studiotraffic.name
Note StudioTraffic can decide to lower the percentage they pay to surf. I am sure they’d opt to lower payout instead of closing. If it is necessary they can even change to 0%, they’ve done that before. They ONLY have like 250,000 members now. It might seem a lot but once all the sister sites start working they’ll reach a lot more people. I think they can reach a 5 million user base by 2008.
Occassionally there are people who have problems with their account, and I know that ST is seriously examining accounts with high levels, accounts with unusual activity, accounts from certain countries, etc. To dismiss the company because of one person’s issue is childish at best. Their sources of income are actually increasing, and they’re putting in more offices in different places in the world… definitely not something you would do if you were about to close up shop and run. People have been talking about the downfall of ST ever since it started, and it looks like their funds and reserves are only getting fatter. I agree that Ponzi schemes will all ultimately fail. But this company differentiated themselves by establishing (and continuosly expanding) their sources of income. Also realize that the more members they have, the more dollars advertisers will have to pay ST to place their ads with them.. there’s even talk about putting ads in the forums, since people spend hours and hours every day on there.
I don’t think ST is collapsing any time soon, the evidence shows that the opposite is happening. BUT, IF they make some miscalculations in the future and they cannot pay out their members.. then my guess is that this will happen in 1-2 years, not any time sooner.
My 2 cents….
Well it could be that he has problems with his account. you dont know, maybe he joined before Studiopay, the verification process and all that started. Maybe he has a problem with that? Only he knows that, They take longer as they are more careful on just “who” they are paying I have no problem at all with them.
Well, they did go strong for a while, but then:
The more members they have, the more they must payout.
In the beginning a lot of members joined, more than they needed to payout. That is why things went well.
They use money of new members to payout the old members. Their “story” of making their money by selling “T-Shirts, mousepads etc” is simply not true.
Unless it is darn expensive stuff that they sold billions of to payout 365% returns on members investments.
At some point the demand for payouts will be more than the investments of new members, and it will collapse.
ST having problems and delays to payout money – Maybe this a sign that the above is starting to happen and they delay payment so that they can get some cash from new members.
It is like a bucket that you fill with water (new members) and there is a hole at the bottom that drains it (payouts). If it drains faster than filling up, problems and collapse will follow soon.
And when a serious advocate of ST decides to leave, well, looks like the script is on the wall.