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Ok as for the validity of those screenshots? Here we go, hang onto your asses, because it gets better from here, folks.
Here is the thing. I had 5 sites with PIBCash, they were doing pretty damn well for the short time they were there and I never once got any of MY 50% of it for whatever reason could be mustered up on the side of Rodney Connor. I FINALLY, 5 months after I started making money on them, if you will remember the DATE on those screencaps....... on September 2nd, 2003, I called him and told him I REALLY needed my money on those sites, I needed the cash, not to mention it was my money and I wanted it...... which was fair enough right? SOOOOO, I called him on the phone and I asked him if I could do the numbers myself so I could get paid, I knew he didn't have the time, so I had access to everything, I'd just print it all out and figure it up, show him what I had and we'd go from there.
WELL.......... I got HIS PERMISSION... did you see that? HE KNEW I HAD THOSE!!! HE TOLD ME I COULD!! I printed off Eopch stats on what the TOTALS were..... and then I went and TRIED to print out what EACH and every single webmaster made on MY sites.... that became a huge hassle and was very slow, SO, I made screencaps of the stats area, and I printed them off..... took them into my living room and spread them all out and started my work of finding out what my sites had made..... if anyone has ever had to run 7 months of data at one time, You can only IMAGINE the papers I had in front of me..... finally 2 DAYS later...... I had totals and I called him with them. MY share of MY sites had come up to more than $4k.... this is AFTER webmasters were paid, he got his share and fees and such were paid. I bought MY own content and paid MY own hosting..... this was out of MY pocket.
OK.... so here I am and am running numbers like a mad bitch.... in doing this, I started seeing some SERIUOS discrepencies in the numbers I was looking at. I called my husband over to look at them and he seen it too. Talk about freaking the hell out.. my GOD, it was a nightmare. I STOPPED doing any kind of promotion of the program and said I was going to, I am not promoting this and it needs to be fixed and fixed now.
BOTTOM line is, Rodney Connor KNEW and gave me permission to do this, I never would have done it otherwise, but that money was MINE and I wanted it. He paid me all but $2300 that was owed to me and at the time he fired me, he let it get back to me that I would play hell ever seeing this money..... so I let him know if this is how he wants to play, then so be it, but I WOULD get my money, one way or another.
Ok so I FINALLY got my money, almost 2 months later. BUT I had to alert webmasters..... how was I going to do this and not look like just another "disgruntled employee" you ask? I didn't know either, but I KNEW I had to get word somehow to those affiliates without it being blown off as my just being mad, because anyone who knows me knows I don't play that way...... fire me and I walk away, I leave a company, I walk away, I don't make a public scene. BUT I had to do something to get it out because I was NOT about to sit and let affiliates take the fall and lose MORE money on this just because they seen me as a disgruntled ex-employee...... which is what I was being called over and over again..... and in reality, the REASON I had them was for something completely different, just so happened that as a RESULT of my having them I discovered this.
Aaron knew NOTHING about this.... not ONE thing. I immediately contacted him and he then started doing what HE had to do and I gladly kept quiet so that he could do what he needed to do LEGALLY!! He had FAR more to lose than I ever had... and I was damn well going to stand beside him on this..... BUT at the same time, I desperately needed to get SOME way of getting this out there.
So..... for all of you asking..... and wondering...... those caps ARE real, they are NOT altered and they ARE not shopped.... I blacked out the affiliates names on them to protect THEM, they knew their account numbers so they'd know what do do.... I have NO idea how to work photoshop and ANYONE who knows me knows this. OK, well I am learning NOW, bt knew nothing about it then.
I can't tell you enough that Aaron knew nothing of this and the INSTANT he did, he made moves to take care of it, but things take time to go thru the legal system... and that's what he's been trying to do.
When I got fired from this program, I swore I'd not be taking another job with anyone else..... I FULLY and 200% trusted Rodney, as Aaron did, we had no reason not to, or so we thought. BUT this is why I started my OWN program, so I can run it the way *I* want to run it and this is honest and straight up, I couldn't even THINK of having to go thru that yet AGAIN!!
That's my side.... now you have it. Hate me if you want, but say what you want, I DID do whatever it took to get word out to all the affiliates using the ONLY tools I had....... would you have believed me had *I* posted them so soon after I was fired? HELL NO!!!
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