Advertisingandselling.net is a traffic exchange site where members can advertise their sites and/or click on the ads and allegedly earn money. However, it is a scam. I was a member for about eight months in 2006. I paid a membership of about $80; others were paying hundred of dollars for various levels of elite membership. I clicked on all the clicks and reached the payout threshold of $350 three times but never received a cent.
I would chase Todd Ash up every day and he would finally respond with some excuse such as the records were lost in a records dump or that cheques have been mailed and I should have received mine.in the end, I got tossed out because I sent too many emails chasing up payment. I heard from others that they weren't being paid either.
He also invents excuses to throw people out when they become too demanding of payment. After I reported him to BBB, this in part was his response. It is total lies. From what I read on the forums, this is typical of him.
"Mr. Pearce was found in violation of the can spam act which he is well aware of as well as email phishing our system illegaly to obtain email addresses without our consent. He was also using mutiple accounts which is strictly prohibited. He was warned several times concerning this matter and was non responsive."
I can't imagine advertisers making any money from this site either; they will get a lot of traffic, but few if any sales. People don't go to these sort of sites to buy things.
At one stage, Ash was trying to sell the site on eBay for millions (around $2 million to $10 million or more), based mainly on the advertisingandselling name, it seems. Lately, he is trying to sell the site for $50K through Godaddy.
When I was in it, advertisingandselling was basically a traffic exchange site where perhaps half the clicks were broken and there was virtually no support. I reported him to BBB, local police in Arizona and 1 or 2 other places, but he still seems to be operating. I can't imagine things have improved.
As an indication that he's perhaps ripped off a few thousand people is that his Alexa ranking has gone from around 100,000 to 3.4 million in the last two years as people have obviously dropped out in disgust.
Chris
Brisbane
Australia
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