About August, I first spoke with someone from AWSM, I think his name was Pat Gilbert, and he was talking to me about buying a clicks for cash slash page that I would make money on. I think the price was around $200. I was hesitant, but after talking to him for about an hour, I decided to give it a try. A short time later I was contacted by someone about purchasing a microsite that would make me big money due to their advanced web site technology. Again I was hesitant on that, but was told I need to act quickly for the site to be ready in time for the holiday shopping season to make big money. I think the price of this was around $1995. So I took most of the money I had in mysavings account and sent them a cashiers check. The holiday shopping season came and went, I saw nothing.
A short time later I was contacted again and told I needed to upgrade to make the most of the site, I paid the difference to make the total price around $4000-$5000. I put this on a credit card.
A short time later I was contacted again and told I need to work on my portfolio, the more sites I have the more money I will make and quicker. I was told that I need another site to make money, and I had to purchase it quick because they had people wanting to buy every site they had, and they wanted to be fair and give everyone a chance. This was about $5000 also.
Meanwhile, every once in a while I would get emails from AWSM saying big things would be happening soon, and information for adding affiliates to my sites from google adsense and commission junction.
Then again I was contacted about making my clicks for cash splash page a full blown microsite, because I had to have 3 microsites so they could be linked together to make money. Again I paid the difference to make the total for this one about $5000.
I asked how long it takes before anyone makes any money on these sites, I was told it takes about 9 months to a year and I just need to be patient.
I tried calling and emails numerous times about questions and concerns I had, but hardly ever had someone get back to me, it was always something like most of our people are out for the holiday season if someone did answer the phone.
I was getting bills and paying them for the clicks for cash and microsite hosting fees. Around March or April I paid a bill of about $800 for a year of hosting fees and clicks for cash. A month or so later I got a bill for about $89.95 for 3 months of clicks for cash hosting fees. I almost sent the check in the mail, then thought about that $800 bill, so I checked my reciept and saw it was paid for a year, so I tried to call and email AWSM about that, and no one ever got back to me.
Then summer came and went, then I got a notice that AWSM had licensing issues with a vendor that could not be resolved, so they could either send me my microsite content on a cd, or turn it over to a new company and the hosting fees would be about 40% the price.
I decided to try the new company, since I had so much invested by now. Turns out the new company, Searchmarketing LLC, is all the same people as AWSM. Now I am paying $99 a month for hosting for 2 sites instead of $50, and just paid $3000 to unpark my third site, that I paid $4000-$5000 to get less than a year ago.
These are blogs, so I do not see how they will make any money. So now I have three sites, paying hosting fees, no money left in my savings account, between $15000 and $20000 in credit card debts that I can not afford to pay, and have never made a single penny from this.
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