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Friday, December 22, 2006

BlueHeavenMails Nails A Milestone

BlueHeavenMails continues to putt along with a quite surprisingly good run and as of now is not showing any signs of slowing down or weakness.

“Right now we have 2988 members and soon we will hit the 3000 mark. Initially we expected to hit the 3000 mark by 31st December and then on the Christmas. It seems like we will hit the 3000 mark today itself, that is, 21st December. This means that now we are growing exponentially. Now we are thinking of our new target of 5000 members by mid January.

Watch out for an update coming soon after we get to 3000 members. There is a surprise for all of you.”

Nicely done guys.

And of course the surprise comes now with an incentive for members to upgrade:

“Greetings!

We have reached our first goal of 3000 members well before we anticipated. Congratulations everyone! Together we can and we will make the difference. This has been possible only because of support of the members. Thank you everyone!

In order to celebrate this occassion we have held a contest which runs from 12.01 am to 11.59 pm server time on 22nd December. Here are the contest details:

Upgrades bought over $100 or more stand a chance to win 10% Instant bonus. You will be eligible only if you buy upgrade worth $100 or more. Members can have a max of 4 upgrades at a time. If the last digit of your e-gold batch number is 5,6,7,8 or 9 then you will win 10% of your Upgrade amount paid directly to your E-gold account on 23rd December. In order to claim your 10% bonus submit a support ticket titled “Contest Bonus”. All the bonuses will be paid on 23rd December.

Congratulations everyone once again!

Happy Holidays!”

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Movement On The Western Front...

Whilst I await patiently for my favourite 'HYIP' to actually do something... It has done something.

It's always a good sign that they are alive and kicking.

Global Online Depository have posted the latest message:

"Update, 2006-12-19

The yahoos at yahoo.com did it again! They disabled our support email address after re-instating it with an apology for a similar action a short while ago. Again, they offered no explanation for their unilateral action.

PLEASE DO NOT SEND ANY EMAILS TO globalonlinedepository@yahoo.com. No thanks to Yahoo, your emails won't be delivered to our Support staff!

Rather than divert email support requests to a temporary email address, we are asking you to bear with us for a day or two longer. Two new channels of communication are being activated.

Mailing List. Global has implemented an announce-only mailing list to keep lenders up to date on all things related to the Company. If you want to receive these emails, go to globalonlinedirectmail.com and enter your email address so that you won't miss any important announcements.

Support Center. We are developing our own online Support Center. When it is complete it will include a Help Desk, Live Support, and Knowledge Base. Corporate email accounts will also be provided for officers and other Global staff members. The Help Desk, a trouble ticket and issue tracking system, will be the first to go live. We expect it be be available in a day or two. The Help Desk will replace email-based support and provide a much more reliable channel of communication.

The Mailings List and Support Center will be hosted on our own dedicated server. Please keep in mind that the software running these new applications is being customized to fit our needs. It is a work in progress. Please be patient as refinements are made. The end result will be well worth enduring a few glitches along the way."

Which is all kind of boring. This isn't what we want to hear: When are we going to be able to withdraw by LyfeCard? When will E-Gold be reinstated? Etc. Rumours swirl, but it appears the beast is somewhat kicking still, with reports of cheques still arriving for some, and the fact that they seem to be forging a larger presence in the 'real world' (more brick and mortar stores, etc.)

Monday, December 18, 2006

Global Mutual - DOES SOMETHING

Being a busy beaver as of late I was going to scratch the muchos lamentable Global Mutual from my "Investments" list. It was one of the originals that had 'something going for it' and appeared to be real... Though it may look a bit like a mangy cat these days.

And just as I'm about to do that it turns out Gordon has been hard at work.

Now when you go to the Global Mutual site, it seems everything leads to the VC Shares. Consolidation is a good thing, and here is the latest positive update. If this indeed comes through, consider this a true comeback from the dead.

It's still a case of wait and see, but at least, when prodded with a stick, GM still groans!

"GMI Go For $10,000 GOLD COMPETITION
GMI Property Trust will mean Commission sharing as properties are purchased, along with a very profitable short to long term investment.

New Investment are currently being drawn up to show how a purchase of $100 of shares each month will create a real nest egg based on Sydney Prime Properties.
Dec-18-2006 02:03:57 PM

GMI Re-Bounds

Welcome back to the Re-launch of GMI. Global Mutual Venture Capital Programs are now twofold.

A New Direction has now been taken, which all members should find to be more secure and more rewarding than the ups and downs of our previous venture capital big dipper rides.

Global Mutual will change its name to International Mutual Incorporated.

Current shareholders are to be paid dividends from GMI property Trust Operations up to Ten times more than their original depsoits or better.

There will be two kinds of shares only. Foundation member Venture Capital Shares and Property Trust Shares.

Properties are carefully selected, financed, purchased, furnished, and corporatly leased for the longterm, then placed in a Property Trust.

Various other Investment Vehicles are also selected to hedge and protect our mutual investment.

Occassionally The Venture Capital Part of GMI/IMI will resurface, in order to raise funds for Company Expenses. There are a limited number of these shares left, so get in early!

Company Officers will take a flat award rather than a percentage. This will ensure the funds go to Investment vehicles.!

More information will be made available in the members area.

From now on there will be at least two kinds of shares available:

Venture Capital Foundation Shares and

Property Trust Shares.

Venture Captital VIP Foundation Member shares will pay up to TEN times the original deposits over the next two years. The Old plan expected to pay out a similar amount, but not for four more years.

Property Trust Share holders will receive approximately 120% over the 3-six month range, be able to sell their shares at a profit, or sit on them untill property sales whereupon they will receive 250-500% profit to boot.

Not a bad come back.

And there is a $10,000 competition to be announced.
Dec-17-2006 09:25:19 PM"

Sunday, December 17, 2006

BlueHeavenMails

BlueHeavenMails continues to be my last vestige of game-playing in many ways.

And fortunately, it continues to kick ass…

So, thither comes a perfunctory “look at us doing well” email. The great thing is they have plenty of room to grow still, so here’s hoping they do.

“Myself and my team is so excited to inform you that we will be reaching our goal of 3000 members even before Christmas. Right now, we have over 2305 active members and we are growing at the rate of more than 100 members each day. We have been around since 63 days now and never missed or delayed a payment.

We would like to make some subtle changes to the program in a very professional way that will extend the life of Blue Heaven Mails by at least one full year.

We understand that change is always understandable and thats why we have the proper protocols in place to prevent a system crash or an exhaustion of the available funds.

Below outlined steps will be taken in accordance with our Terms of Agreement that is on our site for everybody to read as usual.

Step 1. We have placed the ability to sell 900 Blue Points for $20.00 USD dollars until the end of December 2006. After that, members will not be able to sell Blue Points.

Step 2. Now the maximum time the payouts will be paid out has been changed from 48 hours to 72 hours. Even when we had 48 hours as the max time for payouts, we always paid within 24 hours and used the other 24 hours as a buffer in case if anything happens. Here also, we will use 24 hours as a buffer time; so the effective time during which payouts will be made is within 48 hours. However, referral commissions will be paid out within 24 hours of request.

Step 3. We are lowering the maximum to $6000 or 600 Ad Spots so that other less fortunate people can still experience a reasonable return for their lower purchase of Blue AD Spots.

The above changes will be effective starting tonight!

Even after making all these changes, we are still paying very fast as compared to 12by12daily and 13dailypro. We even have the 7 day split up rule which is not available anywhere else. We are the best and will continue to be!”

I like the little cheeky jab at the other ‘big guns.’ At least they’ve got big dreams.

And due to the obligatory wise-punt, gamey nature of it all, here’s my obligatory PAID! (Earlier today, very promptly, for a reasonable amount.)

Thursday, December 07, 2006

Global Online Depository...

Well, I'm a member of the Global Online Depository Yahoo group which seems to get a lot of inside scoops.

The information there is private besides to members, so I can't reprint the latest posts, however one tidbit stuck out:

Apparently the LyfeCard will be active within 10 days.

Here's hoping so!

We now have a date to wait for/cross fingers/look forward too.

Little Engine That Could

I’m out of lame metaphors, so BlueHeavenMails continues to be my ‘little engine that could’ - a program that started off with a strong hook but also weighed down with the possibility, as many other programs are, of not getting the word out and making it past the first few humps.

They’ve done that and continue to catch on, with growth really picking up now…

“Greetings!

Holiday season has started and our team at BHM is really excited about the future prospects of our Program. This is a quick update from the Manager’s Desk:

Right now we have around 1750 members and the membership base is now growing quite rapidly at the rate of roughly 100 new members per day. We will probably reach the landmark of 3000 members by Christmas.

Paul has been providing support in the forum since a month and now he is also assisting with Live Chat Support. His Live chat hours are 5 pm to 1 am server time 7 days a week. So if you have any general questions about the program make sure to get hold of Paul during those hours.

We are now providing a express Email ad service for the members who want to get their email out the very next day. One email ad link is reserved for Express service each day which will cost you $50. But the email will go out the very next day instead of waiting for 7-8 days. If you are interested, then please submit a support ticket.

We have been running since 55 days now and so far we have never missed a payment.

This is all for now…

Signing off,
Ben Kreher
BlueHeavenMails

I was paid yesterday as well, same time as usual.

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

NSFG Breaks The Aforementioned Holding Pattern...

Despite the suck-full-ness of some of NSFG's recent actions, they continue to be a real outfit clawing their way back.

The main point of contention was the fact these guys didn't bother to tell us about their troubles early on, waiting three months to do so (even if said-troubles were real, which it appears they were.)

Here's the month-end update, and I found it to be refreshingly positive.


"Afternoon All,

Sorry for not getting this out to you over the weekend, but like many of you I am very busy on the weekends now with the lead up to Christmas.

Okay, well trading in November was tough with the only day that there was a real break out being the day after Thanksgiving. After sitting there till lunchtime with zero movement Ken had to leave the desk. Typically of course about an hour after this the market rallied, and rallied big.

Because we are trading more aggressively with the Pool account we had an order that we left in place, which we did not have for the Managed Accounts. Following the erratic movements in the final week we stepped away from the markets and let them find their direction.

We ended the Pool account +1.7% up, taking into account that this was another extremely low liquidity month it is a decent result. Couple this with the addition of the money that we add to the fund then we end up at 4.1%.

Not stellar by any means, but since we do real trading we get real returns.

The Statements will be sent out shortly, and will reflect this increase. As before should you choose to elect to take a withdrawal then please end the email to:

withdrawal@ns-fg.com

It will return you the relevant form. You will need to have this over to me by the 15th of December.

On another note there have been several of you that have made additional deposits into your accounts, I have these recorded here however they WILL NOT appear on your statements as I am creating another database for these because they would only be eligible to receive the trading gains and not the additional amounts we put in. Please therefore bare with me on this one while I get that arranged.

The auto-trading system has been performing well and lots as though it will do us proud, there were a couple of minor bugs to do with trade management which we need to sort out. The plan for this system, is to get these all resolved, and then go live with our own money in Jan and then put it on general release after this. When we turned it off to get these sorted out it was up some 8% over a few weeks so it is looking good!


That’s about it, as always if you have any questions please do give me a yell!

Paul"

I also omitted a paragraph about an interesting presentation (19 minutes long!) Ken has created to showcase some trading. It can be found at NS-FG's site.

It's great to see these guys still kicking, and here's hoping they claw their way back to the mantle.

Holding Patterns

As you may or may not have (probably have) noticed, most of my more 'serious' programs, or even my favourite HYIPs, are in something of a holding pattern.

Because I couldn't be arsed, basically, I couldn't be bothered writing up every little tidbit I find out here and there about them.

However, Global Online Depository has been undergoing some growing pains/changing patters as of late so I've been giving them a free pass.

And each time when my 'worry-meter' starts to tick a little higher, life is breathed into them. There's no better way to indicate life* than front-page news updates and that's what we got today:

"URGENT NOTICE: Without warning or explanation, Yahoo has disable Global's Suppport email account. We are scrambling to set up our own email server so that our communications will no longer be subject to third-party whims. Until we announce the new Support email address, please refrain from sending email to globalonlinedepository@yahoo.com. A new Support email address will be announced as soon as possible."

As soon as this problem came up basically, they've got an update on it. So I take that as a positive, and continue to give them a chance to set up the lyfecard and allow us to use it!

Here's hoping.

*Besides paying out, quick support, etc!

Monday, December 04, 2006

Paid To Surf Monitor - Month End/Begin

Another winning month at PaidToSurf Monitor.

First, they win my award of “longest and most redundant program title.”

Secondly, they win the much more important award of “we had another good month paying out over 10%! Our payout window is also open now and we are happily paying members.”

Joy.

And that’s about that, a quality surf pool that keeps on keeping on.

Sunday, December 03, 2006

Blue Heaven Mails - Still The Little Engine That Could!

Whilst most programs I am interested are in some sort of holding pattern, I’m finding the most ‘news’ so to speak, coming from my two current autosurf (styled) programs, along with, strangely enough, the most stability.

Who’da thunk it?

So here’s the latest from the little kick ass engine that could, Blue Heaven Mails.

“I am glad to inform you that Blue Heaven Mails is growing well now. We are just short of 1400 members and we estimate to have at least 3000 members by the end of this month. Here are some of the updates from the Manager’s Desk:

We have sent documents for Incorporation of Blue Heaven Mails in Panama. The documents are processing as I write and we can hear the good news any minute now.

Our Email Ads have become really popular now. If you have an email ad waiting, it might take up to 7 days to send them out because of its popularity.

We already have many heavy hitters and big buyers at Blue Heaven Mails. Four members have already maxed out their upgrade packages and dozen of members are at least half maxed out. This gives a pretty good indication of the fact that BHM is performing well as members are showing confidence in the program.”

So far these guys are paced really well, continuing a steady growth stream, with most important word being ’steady!’ The gimmick is catching on, and there is admittedly (a little) more value to the ‘advertising’ they offer.

Withdrawals are still processed super-quick and I received one just a few hours ago. I’m hoping there’s plenty of life in this old girl yet, but time will tell.

And what not. :)

Friday, December 01, 2006

Surfs Up

Not many updates lately, mainly because I'm waiting for something really important to report. Many things are in a holding pattern at the moment, with updates pending... (Some good, some bad.)

PaidToSurfMonitor just released their latest weekly digest, which basically just contains some food for thought and competitions… PaidToSurfMonitor of course runs their Passive Income Plan which is a great little program that allows you to be a part of all the autosurf ‘fun’ without actually having to surf. (And they also have a great history, and have the respect of many members of the community.)

If you want anything to do with autosurfs, these days I highly recommend these guys as a starting off point…

The main point of the latest newsletter is the continuing evolution of the autosurf ‘industry’ with many now adopting the profit sharing model. (And forgoing fixed percentage returns.)

I won’t print the contents here as it is meant to be for subscribers (though I don’t know if they’d care either way.) Just know that they are alive and kicking!

And a quick note to say that BlueHeavenMails’ gimmick is still paying dividends with quick growth and quick payouts. They continue to be my favourite little engine that could, surprising me that they are doing as well as they are however!