Xstreme Payday Scam
Notice:
I will talk about a program that I bought called Xstreme Payday shortly, but you might notice that this page is on a website about dating and relationship. I did this because this is a website that I already have but I want to get the word out about something that I bought that I think will be of interest to others.
So, if you would like to find out how to get a beautiful date, get back your ex-girlfriend, or to improve your relationship with you wife, you’ve come to the right place.
Now, on with the article…
******
I order Xstreme Payday from an email I got from a guy by the name of Tom Bell. I believe is a product that he was promoting, which came from ClickBank.
If you are thinking about ordering here are something to expect.
The first thing I got was a video that I had to sit and watch. This was pretty long and there was no way I could move time along.
I’m sure you have gotten videos like this. Yes, you can pause it. If you are already familiar with such marketing, you can click the Add to Cart or other such wording they have.
The price was $49 – but don’t buy IF you are interested in this.
Like many other internet marketing techniques they use, you can get it cheaper. What you do is, click away from the page. Then you will be prompted to stay on the page. If you do want to stay on the page, hit Cancel.
This will take you to another offer which is $10 less.
Keep this in mind, even if you are interested in buying the product, as you don’t know if there is a discount following. If there is, still click away and they will come back with another offer. Sometimes it an added bonus, other times it’s the same darn offer. (Yea, what’s the bargain, but that is how they play the game.)
The long-winded video was very vague. It was professionally done, but they lack one important element and that was Testimonials.
Perhaps there is a reason why there was any as there wasn’t any person who bought the course that made money. The promoter of Xstreme Payday, showed how he made 10s of thousands of dollars a day and in the course of one year he made over $3 million. I do believe him, and you may think that I’m gullible but be that as it may.
This guy said that he has over 200,000 people on his mailing list(s). Well, if he does, I can understand how he can make this much money. (He did show live-time viewing of his ClickBank account.)
The problem is, if you have over 200,000 on your email list, I guess you, too, would be able to make millions of dollars.
But let’s get real, must people who are looking to start an online business usually have no list or a very small one at the most. So, you have to start from the ground up building a list, which means: good keywords, SEO (Search Engine Optimization), and to be online for years.
But you have to start somewhere, but with this in mind, don’t expect to make even a couple of thousands of dollars a month.
I bought the $39 Xstreme Payday.
They took me to a members page, but it was another up-sale. All the links I saw went to the secured pay site. I didn’t want this, I just wanted to get one-and-only offer that was talked about on the long-winded video.
I was expecting to see files that I could download but there were none. At this time I was still wondering where I get my products. So, I started to write a letter to Xstreme Paypay. The I tried the page one more time.
At the bottom of the Add to Cart, there were some text that you click. This was not in blue and underline as other clickable text are.
When I clicked on the text I was taken to another sales letter page. The sales letter page is for another product that costs $197. This is for coaching and such for the Xstreme Payday program. I went to the text at the bottom of the page, and was I taken to the download page for my product?
No!
There was another sales letter page.
After the first sales letter page the cost of this additional product/service was $97.
I wonder if customers ever get a rebate if they paid the full price?
I had to go through about 5 sales letter pages before it got the page I wanted. This is like a pestering salesman that will not take “no” for an answer – but on the internet instead. This is so annoying.
By the way, there are three up sells to this program. They are:
•Xtreme Cash
•XP Cash Cloners
•Xtreme Paydays Advanced Version
Finally the page where the “downloads” are.
What did I find?
There was a video that the owner of the program recommends you see first. Then there were “5 phases” of the program. Each one is a video – some only lasting a little over one minute! The total running time of the videos is about 10 minutes. And that is it!
Wow! Whoop-de-doo!
Oh, there was a bonus, too…
The “secret application” that I was told I would get in the original video looks like something that only works when you buy into their web hosting package. There is no install file or set-up file – just graphics and such for the squeeze page you make.
Let me explain…
In the first video that is required to see first they said that you need your own website to use the information in Xstreme Payday. If you don’t have a domain and hosting you get it through them. “Brain Host” or something like that is the name of the company.
If you have a web host and domain name, you can transfer it to their host.
The problem is, it looks like the application that I downloaded only works through their Control Panel. In other words, if you already have a domain name and host, you can’t continue using it. You have to transfer the domain name and start paying for their hosting – which means you will still be paying for your own hosting company unless you cancel it.
If I recall correctly, the domain name (if you don’t have one) is the standard price no matter where you get it (about $10/year). Their hosting cost only about $7/month. They said they will design your website for free.
All fair enough.
However…
The price doesn’t add up. You have to pay for one year of hosting, which, if I recall correctly is about $167. I don’t know where they got that figure as $7/month x 12 months comes to $84. So, why the extra money. Maybe I got this wrong and it’s for two years (which they recommend the length of time in the video.)
They said that this is a $1,800 + value if you were to have this website designed.
Who are they kidding?
They use templates and just change the wording around and add pictures. You could do this in about 10 minutes.
In the start-up video they say this will put some paid advertisement in it. This is probably Google Adsense and pay-per-click ads. The guy in the video says you get paid when someone clicks on it.
Yea, about two cents!
I don’t know about you, but I don’t want some cheesy ad that encourages viewers to click away from my page, what about you?
You make the money on your own products or being an affiliate of ClickBank.
What am I left with?
Some videos that are not worth it with a total running time of about 10 minutes and an application that doesn’t work!
When you are “promised” that you will make big money, and the product is really cheap, the chances are the product will do NOTHING. And if it does something, it will be with the purchase of another, much more expensive product.
The simple rule of thumb to follow is, cheap product a person is offering isn’t worth the price, the chances are other products – which usually costs much more – is not worth the price. I’d rather write off the cost of a small product than trying to get my money back after I spent hundreds of dollars.
Even though I put out $39 (I could have put out $49 if I didn’t click away from the page), and it doesn’t even do a little thing for me, do you think I will put out $197 or even $97? Then, there is the extra hosting package costs to make the app work.
HECK NO!
What about you?
The Concept of Xstreme Payday
The concept of Xstreme Paydays is basically this: You pick a niche you have a passion about. They recommend that most favorite is health, making money and relationships (ha, ha, I have one J). Then you write about that niche and have products from ClickBank on it. Then with signing up with Adsense, you will have ads that are related to your niche (more like the main topic of your niche) that Google program will automatically put on – as they do with anyone who wants their ads on your site.
That’s it in a nutshell.
I assume that if you write your own ebooks, have your own home-study-course and make audio/video CDs, this can be added to your site. Xstreme Payday didn’t say this, but it stands to reason you can do this IF you are inclined to create your own products, too.
The free traffic they talk about is through: social media sites, article directory submissions and back links. This is a long, drawn out process. They say they can speed it up for you, but when you don’t even get $39 worth of info for your money, what makes them think that others will give them more?
The unfortunate thing is, there are too many people who do this. When they don’t make any money, they are off looking for another product and many just give up after spending thousands of dollars.
I hope this saves you spending $39, $49 up to $197.
So, if you like the concept of selling products around your niche and adding some of your own; putting it on your focused website – than go for it!
For your success. Don’t give up!
Richard
Brought to you by: www.gettingahotdate.com
