Alientrust And The Road To Legitimacy: Is It Golden?

Another MAJOR UPDATE from Alientrust. It’s an impressive update and these guys are definitely walking down the path towards legitimacy it seems. They continue to take major steps to be both a valid company and to make sure it is understood that their advertising is legitimate and carries weight.

However, the main thing I am waiting on is a nice juicy update on Stormpay Refunds!

“Good Evening Everyone,

As most of you have already noticed we’ve made some very large changes in the website to make things better and smoother for all.

But before I get into the Updates there is a very important announcement.

ON MARCH 28, BETWEEN 3AM AND 5AM SERVER TIME THE DATABASE WILL BE LOCKED FOR MAINTENANCE.

Our Techs at RackSpace will be installing some database replication so that we can ease the load on the server, and smooth the Ad Viewing and login problems.

YOU CANNOT VIEW ADS DURING THIS TIME SO MAKE ARRANGEMENTS TO VIEW AT A DIFFERENT TIME - THERE WILL BE NO CREDITS ISSUED FOR THIS DOWNTIME.

Ok - now on with the updates.

As many of you have seen already (by the way the fax machine is running out of ink) we’ve added our Member Agreement and Tax documents into the back office, and it IS mandatory that you send this information in in order to be paid.

We MUST document your earnings for tax purposes and so that we may send out the appropriate documents prior to Jan 30th of 2007. This does not stop you from earnings commissions through viewing ads, or on your affiliate sales, and you may still transfer to your holding account, but we MUST have this information before we can issue a payout through E-Gold moving forward.

This would be mandatory in a few days anyway because this is all information we would need to send out the Virtual Money cards. So - don’t panic folks - it’s all part of the plan.

Secondly, as you’ve seen on the Member Agreement form, our LLC. license has come through, and we will begin changing all references of the company from North Shore Media to W3MA, LLC. starting tomorrow.

For those of you NOT in the know - W3MA stands for World Wide Web Marketing Association. We’ll begin changing over the support site within the next day or so as well.

We’ve also solved the issue that many folks raised concerning not being able to view all the ads during a session PRIOR to selecting one for their survey.

The Survey this Ad Link will now be shown throughout the duration of your session and you’ll simply Update your vote if you come across a site you like better than the one you’ve previously voted for - very simple.

The shopping cart is up - albeit not designed or filled with stuff yet - we’re going to be working on the design over the next week. We won’t be adding any product until get some pics taken of all the gear that should be here on Friday. You can go create an account though if you want and poke around. The payment ifno is LIVE so don’t buy any of those test products in there - YOU WILL be charged if you try to make a purchase. The shop is at shop.alientrust.com

We spoke last week about folks NOT entering URLS for their purchased Ad Buys and we decided to take a very firm stand. We’ve added some validation and a stern message on the page, but inevitably there will be someone who wants to test me - my advice would be NOT to do that.

We will refund you and delete your account - period. This is an advertising business not an autosurf - there’s plenty of places where you can go be complacent - this ain’t one of them. So if you wish to stay here - put your ad in. Nuff said.

I’m sure there’s some stuff I’m forgetting - oh yeah - for added security we’ve added the feature that you can no longer change your payment id in your profile. Believe me this is NOT something we wanted to do because it simply creates more work for the staff, but you will now need to hit the Billing Dept - through the Support Desk to change your payout id. Hopefully these idiot hackers will go pester someone else since they can’t hack in and re-route anyone’s egold account.

I’m sure there’s more but I’m exhausted and I still need to get into the forum for a bit.

Thanks everyone and have a great night.

Vince”

So there you have it people... At least they're alive and definitely kicking, something we can't say for 12DP.