XPICS: How Did You Rob Them? (THROWBACK) - GoFuckYourself.com

Platinum Lantern · 11-08-2003, 01:07 PM

I was 14 at the time, and owned zero domains...
I remember I was surfin the web one sunday, and I saw something that said "Webmasters, Make 18 cents per click"

Sounded like a helluva deal..
then I click it and find out it's a porn program...

I signed up and soon realized I could beat my allowance of $10 a week by clicking on my own banners (They had like 8 sites I think), logging off the internet, logging back on (to get a new IP address so the next 8 clicks would be unique/new to the system) and REPEAT....

I did this for about an hour a day....
and suprise suprise the check came...

I was making money from nothing
Had my 8 banners set up on a tripod page....

Then I got to thinking..
how can I make more...
then one night it hit me...

After seeing how the password sites were promoting XPICS...
I did some usenet spamming, I'd post a message in every group with a large audience, the video game board, the alt.gun room..
whatever....

This is the way I'd set up the hustle
"Hey Everybody, We just got a list of stolen/hacked passwords to some porn sites, now you can get in for free! The might not last long, so get them now. If they don't work right now give them about few hours and try again sometimes if a password is being overly used it will keep it from working for a few hours*)

I'd set up the links like

http://fake:[email protected].../myaccountcode

I was making like $60-$100 a day...
not to mention one weekend they had a 40 cent's a click promotion...
DAMN..
That was some easy money man....
I miss those days

I only wish I had got in on it sooner....
and been able to make more before the industry changed up...

With XPICS, some people got shaved by XPICS, some people robbed XPICs...

This is truly a Throwback Story

WiredGuy · 11-08-2003, 01:15 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Platinum Lantern
With XPICS, some people got shaved by XPICS, some people robbed XPICs...

I wonder if there was no webmasters robbing them if shaving would have been less.

WG

fsfaz · 11-08-2003, 01:18 PM

Well, considering XPICS robbed the consumer with "Free Trials" all day and never told them they were getting charged, I'd say anything you did to rob XPICS was fine.

Jimbo · 11-08-2003, 01:20 PM

yeah I sure remember their first page click count for 18cents, the problem is too many people had pages with 6-8 frames 1 for each site so the cash flows by spamming on IRC, newsgroup or whatever.

so many people robbed them...

but they sure were my first sponsor along with cyberthrill

souvenirs!

makefuckingmoney · 11-08-2003, 01:22 PM

xpics just auto cross billed you..haha

Platinum Lantern · 11-08-2003, 01:28 PM

Funny thing about XPICS..
no live stats for them..
the stats updated every morning at like 11

Somebody mentioned Cyberthrill,
I think they were like the first Super Crooks to run an affiliate program...

There policy was promote our site..
you won't get paid..
you gotta love it..

I NEVER GOT PAID
and some of those clicks where from real customers

Smokey The Bear · 11-08-2003, 01:47 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by fsfaz
Well, considering XPICS robbed the consumer with "Free Trials" all day and never told them they were getting charged, I'd say anything you did to rob XPICS was fine.

Gee thats great advice. NOT.

The free trials were stated just as clearly as most of the sponsors do today. ( they were just one of the first to do it )

Eventually they started fake rebills, but that still doesnt make it ok to rip off people either way.

They were almost the pioneer of rebills for the adult industry.

They didnt go bust from bad webmasters they went bust from merchant abuse.

Xplicit · 11-08-2003, 01:53 PM

ahhhhhhh the good ol' days

LOL I had fake warez sites, fake password sites and much more back then. Usenet spam, E-Mail Spam.

I'd often spam the URL to a toplist to get my rank up, much safer than spamming direct links to your own site or sponsor.

I was 16 years old pulling in $500+/day

..... now im 22 and broke as hell. Why the fuck did I ever go 'legit' ???

Mr Pheer · 11-08-2003, 01:59 PM

I never "robbed" them but I did send them alot of clicks by releasing passwords to my paysites then using pennywise to redirect those hits to a page of xpics banners, and I sent about 20k usenet clicks a day to that page of banners... and some toplist traffic (remember toplists?!) was enough to bring in $20k a month and buy my first house after a few months of thier checks and epoch checks

tranza · 11-08-2003, 02:05 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Platinum Lantern
I signed up and soon realized I could beat my allowance of $10 a week by clicking on my own banners (They had like 8 sites I think), logging off the internet, logging back on (to get a new IP address so the next 8 clicks would be unique/new to the system) and REPEAT....

I did this for about an hour a day....
and suprise suprise the check came...

I used to do that with some mainstream programs.....

picpile · 11-08-2003, 02:08 PM

XPICS was great, i owned a banner exchange at the time, sent them 20k hits a day and got paid for them all

AlienQ - BANNED FOR LIFE · 11-08-2003, 02:19 PM

HEhe True colors here..
So ya stole from XPICS basically.

Whats to stop ya from steeling from another sponsor program?

Tuga · 11-08-2003, 02:20 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by AlienQ
HEhe True colors here..
So ya stole from XPICS basically.

Whats to stop ya from steeling from another sponsor program?

They grew up?

goBigtime · 11-08-2003, 02:22 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by fsfaz
Well, considering XPICS robbed the consumer with "Free Trials" all day and never told them they were getting charged, I'd say anything you did to rob XPICS was fine.

This industry is doomed.

AlienQ - BANNED FOR LIFE · 11-08-2003, 02:26 PM

The next step for affiliate programs is by approval.

Ya think its a great idea to brag about how commiting fraud in the past will warrant any credibility to a future as a credible professional webmaster for a sponsor program?

I think not and yet people are gonna cry why they were not approved as an affiliate for XYZ sponsors...

HAhahahahhahahahahah!

Fucking idiots..

shima · 11-08-2003, 02:33 PM

Xpics... the good ol'days

I was playing honest all the way.
I spamed newsgroups and stuff like that. But wasn't getting over $10/day.
Then I found out that there are Thumbnail Gallery Posts.. That is how the game begins. PK was so nice that she'd listed my link site in her list. I've made $500 in that day with a simple banner and a few honest pics.
I was already thinking about buying a good car, but then next day XPics changed to pay per sign up..

That sucked..

Sly_RJ · 11-08-2003, 02:38 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by AlienQ
HEhe True colors here..
So ya stole from XPICS basically.

Whats to stop ya from steeling from another sponsor program?

That was years ago. He was 14. I did the same thing with Cyber Thrill when I was 15... only difference is I never got paid. Haha.

fsfaz · 11-08-2003, 02:40 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by goBigtime

This industry is doomed.

It always was.

Smokey The Bear · 11-08-2003, 02:46 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by AlienQ
The next step for affiliate programs is by approval.

Ya think its a great idea to brag about how commiting fraud in the past will warrant any credibility to a future as a credible professional webmaster for a sponsor program?

I think not and yet people are gonna cry why they were not approved as an affiliate for XYZ sponsors...

HAhahahahhahahahahah!

Fucking idiots..

Exactly

Im not saying we all havent made mistakes before , but bragging about how much of a thief you were/are is just plain ignorant.

And it reflects not only upon you, but also on your sponsors/sigs/etc.

Jimbo · 11-08-2003, 03:06 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Smokey The Bear

Exactly

Im not saying we all havent made mistakes before , but bragging about how much of a thief you were/are is just plain ignorant.

And it reflects not only upon you, but also on your sponsors/sigs/etc.

AMEN

<IMX> · 11-08-2003, 03:09 PM

http://www.12clicks.com

time for a public service announcement.

TDF · 11-08-2003, 03:16 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Sly_RJ

That was years ago. He was 14. I did the same thing with Cyber Thrill when I was 15... only difference is I never got paid. Haha.

bragging about stealing....ha ha (not sly rj..only thing I would steal is your anal virginity)

Sly_RJ · 11-08-2003, 03:18 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by toodamnfli

bragging about stealing....ha ha (not sly rj..only thing I would steal is your anal virginity)

Hey at least I don't brag about all my successful rape adventures! Oh shit...

oldtimer · 11-08-2003, 03:42 PM

XPics cheques were what made me enough money to to go into this biz full time. I never had to cheat them. Anyone who put up a little money in those days to get real hosts and buy domains got so much traffic so easily, it just wasnt worth the risk of getting caught. It was the 14 year olds who got everything free that had nothing to lose by cheating. A lesson this business still hasn't learned.

Rictor · 11-08-2003, 04:00 PM

I sent honest AVS traffic to them. It was probably worth more than 18-25 cents a click back them.

jawanda · 11-08-2003, 05:23 PM

I was 15 when I started promoting XPics.

My Mom's friend worked for a local ISP and she let us use her Internet account so we wouldn't have to pay for it (we were poor)... well, I soon started reading about telnet/shell accounts and hacking, and because I had an ADMIN password to use, I downloaded the old Unshadowed password file, used "CrackerJack" on it, and the next thing I new I had about 50 user accounts to put my porn links on.

Looking back , it would have been SO easy for them to trace me through my affiliate codes and shit.... but I didn't even think of that then. Posted some gallies to thehun and was pulling in a few hundred bucks a week from XPics clicks.

I also remember having one of these isp.com/~user pages listed number one on AltaVista for "Mexican Sex" and "Black Sex"...

Ahhhh the good old days. Glad I never got busted.

Cheers!

mrthumbs · 11-08-2003, 05:32 PM

you all are a bunch of pathetic sheep..

Stealing when youre young is one thing but bragging about it on the board says a lot about some of you..

And when some kid shows up that 'accidently' stole some content
for his gallery he's a thief for life.

Idiots.

Jamie · 11-08-2003, 05:47 PM

Throw in the easy manipulation of Infoseek at the time and it was an easy $500 day off of Xpics.

It was fun tying up the big adult keywords... "sex pictures" "pussy" "sex" etc...

Mr Pheer · 11-08-2003, 05:56 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Jamie
Throw in the easy manipulation of Infoseek at the time and it was an easy $500 day off of Xpics.

It was fun tying up the big adult keywords... "sex pictures" "pussy" "sex" etc...

the infamous superbowl template....

BlackCrayon · 11-08-2003, 07:40 PM

ahh Xpics, i never cheated them but they made me my first 25 bucks in this biz. had some shitty celeb site i put on fsn. i had no idea what i was doing then but the money was insentive to learn how to make more of it, and i did.

Platinum Lantern · 11-08-2003, 08:05 PM

I mean damn...
all I really wanted was to get some stimulating conversation going....

I'm 21 years old now, that was 7 years ago...
and I can say that 7 years ago wipes out a little more than half of this GFY board....

So what I hustled for small change at the age of 14..
It sure beat the hell out of working at Mcdonalds...

Matter of fact, I couldn't even work at Mcdonalds because I was too young, but not too young to develope a drive to get this money....

I could say I did it because I was poor...
Or to help the family keep the lights on...

But I just wanted to keep a fresh pair of Jordan's on my feet...

7 years later, and I'm a professional webmaster...
and it still beats the hell out of working at Mcdonalds

psyko514 · 11-08-2003, 08:11 PM

hahaha... my story is pretty much the same. i came across them when i was 14 or 15. i made a huge website with tons of tyra banks pictures and filled it with xpics banners. i started pulling in some cash, but not anything to write home about.

then i discovered that i could post the links in newsgroups saying they were backdoor links into paysites. i kept my spamming limited to adult newgroups.

i was rolling in the dough and bought myself a laptop at like 15. xpics even paid for my prom.

i also did the whole clicking on my own banners, disconnecting and reconnecting thing.

i also had a few pages that auto refreshed to sponsors that counted raw hits. i had no idea what an ip address was back then. i found out what it was when the sponsor termed me and sent me logs showing 4000 hits from the same ip address in less than an hour.

chronic avenger · 11-08-2003, 08:15 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Xplicit

..... now im 22 and broke as hell. Why the fuck did I ever go 'legit' ???

Gemini · 11-08-2003, 08:52 PM

Too bad you didn't work for McDonalds... you missed some lessons in life.

CAHEK · 11-08-2003, 09:05 PM

robbing xpics for 7 years so that around 100,000+ USA

where did they go ? LOL

Veiga · 11-08-2003, 09:26 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Platinum Lantern
I was 14 at the time, and owned zero domains...
I remember I was surfin the web one sunday, and I saw something that said "Webmasters, Make 18 cents per click"

Sounded like a helluva deal..
then I click it and find out it's a porn program...

I signed up and soon realized I could beat my allowance of $10 a week by clicking on my own banners (They had like 8 sites I think), logging off the internet, logging back on (to get a new IP address so the next 8 clicks would be unique/new to the system) and REPEAT....

I did this for about an hour a day....
and suprise suprise the check came...

I was making money from nothing
Had my 8 banners set up on a tripod page....

Then I got to thinking..
how can I make more...
then one night it hit me...

After seeing how the password sites were promoting XPICS...
I did some usenet spamming, I'd post a message in every group with a large audience, the video game board, the alt.gun room..
whatever....

This is the way I'd set up the hustle
"Hey Everybody, We just got a list of stolen/hacked passwords to some porn sites, now you can get in for free! The might not last long, so get them now. If they don't work right now give them about few hours and try again sometimes if a password is being overly used it will keep it from working for a few hours*)

I'd set up the links like

http://fake:password@<a href="http:/...ccountcode</a>

I was making like $60-$100 a day...
not to mention one weekend they had a 40 cent's a click promotion...
DAMN..
That was some easy money man....
I miss those days

I only wish I had got in on it sooner....
and been able to make more before the industry changed up...

With XPICS, some people got shaved by XPICS, some people robbed XPICs...

This is truly a Throwback Story

They were my first sponser too.
I was making good money and being payed weekly like clockwork.
I also start spamming like hell all the newsgroups and SE.
I think if it wasn't that easy money, I wouldn't have any sites today.
XPics and gamma were my first sponsers who put me on biz.

Matt_WildCash · 11-08-2003, 10:03 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Platinum Lantern
Funny thing about XPICS..
no live stats for them..
the stats updated every morning at like 11

Somebody mentioned Cyberthrill,
I think they were like the first Super Crooks to run an affiliate program...

There policy was promote our site..
you won't get paid..
you gotta love it..

I NEVER GOT PAID
and some of those clicks where from real customers

I got done for $2500 straight up by Cyberthrill, almost burnt me out of the business back in 1997. Worked my butt off 16 hour days for 5-6 weeks and the pricks didn't pay me. I remember Xpics, god damn they were the ones who got VISA to stand up and go "WHAT THE FUCK!". They had in the terms and conditions that you had to cancel using some god damn impossible ways, they made it impossible to cancel and just kept billing and billing and billing the customers $30-40 a pop.

Thats how they could pay 18 cents a click cause they were pure crooks rebilling 10,000's of customers without their consent.

Much like a huge number of sponsors did back from 1997-2000, i'm glad the business is cleaning itself up now days though.
We are paying for it now with the 1 % stuff cause of all the scammers doing this stuff in the past

EZRhino · 11-08-2003, 11:03 PM

Good story

TheDifference · 11-08-2003, 11:26 PM

Xpics kicked ass... to this day I havent found a sponsor who made me that much money even after they switched to per signup. Remember how they would list you in Tomkat links as long as you advertisied you're sites and send you like 5k a day? You could literally build a page with thier banners on it and submit it to them and make $50 a day from that traffic alone without really lifting a finger. Those were the days. Traffic flowed freely, joins were easy, then people got greedy. Sponsors, TGPs, webmasters... everyone thought they deserved a bigger piece of the pie and in an effort to accomodate everyone the surfer got screwed. Doubt we'll ever be able to gain back the trust people had in the biz back then, when Xpics was still paying $.18 a click, TGP's/link sites would list you just because of the quality of your content, and WM's had enough drive to get their own content, design their own galleries and sites, and submit them by hand. When the fuck did we all get so lazy anyway?

KingK7 · 11-08-2003, 11:30 PM

I was in Law School at the time, 97, and all of a sudden I was making 30k a month off of them.

"spice girls" alone made me a fucking fortune, for those who know what I am talking about. Infoseek, I thank you :-)

AlienQ - BANNED FOR LIFE · 11-09-2003, 12:01 AM

PlatinumLantern - I didnt mean to bag on ya so hard, ya been around a while ya got my respect however I can only hope that ya run legit in the business cuz talent is runnin damn rare these days.
Stay away from the darkside damn you!

Video-Post · 11-09-2003, 04:00 AM

Damn I still remember the special christmas banners...they were pretty cool

Funny no other sponsor is offering seasonal banners. I thought they worked great!

JamesK · 11-09-2003, 04:08 AM

interesting thread

FreeOnes · 11-09-2003, 09:11 AM

BradShaw · 11-09-2003, 09:13 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Platinum Lantern
I was 14 at the time, and owned zero domains...
I remember I was surfin the web one sunday, and I saw something that said "Webmasters, Make 18 cents per click"

Sounded like a helluva deal..
then I click it and find out it's a porn program...

I signed up and soon realized I could beat my allowance of $10 a week by clicking on my own banners (They had like 8 sites I think), logging off the internet, logging back on (to get a new IP address so the next 8 clicks would be unique/new to the system) and REPEAT....

I did this for about an hour a day....
and suprise suprise the check came...

I was making money from nothing
Had my 8 banners set up on a tripod page....

Then I got to thinking..
how can I make more...
then one night it hit me...

After seeing how the password sites were promoting XPICS...
I did some usenet spamming, I'd post a message in every group with a large audience, the video game board, the alt.gun room..
whatever....

This is the way I'd set up the hustle
"Hey Everybody, We just got a list of stolen/hacked passwords to some porn sites, now you can get in for free! The might not last long, so get them now. If they don't work right now give them about few hours and try again sometimes if a password is being overly used it will keep it from working for a few hours*)

I'd set up the links like

http://fake:password@<a href="http:/...ccountcode</a>

I was making like $60-$100 a day...
not to mention one weekend they had a 40 cent's a click promotion...
DAMN..
That was some easy money man....
I miss those days

I only wish I had got in on it sooner....
and been able to make more before the industry changed up...

With XPICS, some people got shaved by XPICS, some people robbed XPICs...

This is truly a Throwback Story

Not smart to brag about stealing $ from other people. Maybe when Brian Shuster decided to go after people for his patents, you will be first. I made a fortune with Xpics, was one of their largest legit affilates.

Chris E · 11-09-2003, 11:22 AM

Damn, I missed out. Wish I had been around in the good old days.

TheDifference · 11-09-2003, 12:42 PM

Can't believe how many of these are still around. Used to pull clicks like crazy. I wonder why sponsors don't offer banners like these anymore.

Gman.357 · 11-09-2003, 12:51 PM

I did very well with Xpics back in the day. And also Pure Hardcore when Dave S. owned it. Great programs for up and coming webmasters to make some loot.

Never had to cheat them to make over $100 a day. Seemed pretty easy back then even with just a small to mid-sized pic site.

psyko514 · 11-09-2003, 02:30 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Video-Post
Damn I still remember the special christmas banners...they were pretty cool

Funny no other sponsor is offering seasonal banners. I thought they worked great!

hahaha... the christmas banners rocked!

jimmyf · 11-09-2003, 03:24 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by AlienQ
The next step for affiliate programs is by approval.

Ya think its a great idea to brag about how commiting fraud in the past will warrant any credibility to a future as a credible professional webmaster for a sponsor program?

I think not and yet people are gonna cry why they were not approved as an affiliate for XYZ sponsors...

HAhahahahhahahahahah!

Fucking idiots..

correct,

11-08-2003, 01:07 PM	#1
Platinum Lantern Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Shreveport, LA Posts: 1,564	XPICS: How Did You Rob Them? (THROWBACK) I was 14 at the time, and owned zero domains... I remember I was surfin the web one sunday, and I saw something that said "Webmasters, Make 18 cents per click" Sounded like a helluva deal.. then I click it and find out it's a porn program... I signed up and soon realized I could beat my allowance of $10 a week by clicking on my own banners (They had like 8 sites I think), logging off the internet, logging back on (to get a new IP address so the next 8 clicks would be unique/new to the system) and REPEAT.... I did this for about an hour a day.... and suprise suprise the check came... I was making money from nothing Had my 8 banners set up on a tripod page.... Then I got to thinking.. how can I make more... then one night it hit me... After seeing how the password sites were promoting XPICS... I did some usenet spamming, I'd post a message in every group with a large audience, the video game board, the alt.gun room.. whatever.... This is the way I'd set up the hustle "Hey Everybody, We just got a list of stolen/hacked passwords to some porn sites, now you can get in for free! The might not last long, so get them now. If they don't work right now give them about few hours and try again sometimes if a password is being overly used it will keep it from working for a few hours*) I'd set up the links like http://fake:[email protected].../myaccountcode I was making like $60-$100 a day... not to mention one weekend they had a 40 cent's a click promotion... DAMN.. That was some easy money man.... I miss those days I only wish I had got in on it sooner.... and been able to make more before the industry changed up... With XPICS, some people got shaved by XPICS, some people robbed XPICs... This is truly a Throwback Story __________________ SIG TOO BIG! Maximum 120x60 button and no more than 3 text lines of DEFAULT SIZE and COLOR. Unless your sig is for a GFY top banner sponsor, you may use a 624x80 instead of a 120x60.

11-08-2003, 01:20 PM	#4
Jimbo Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Montreal Posts: 3,989	yeah I sure remember their first page click count for 18cents, the problem is too many people had pages with 6-8 frames 1 for each site so the cash flows by spamming on IRC, newsgroup or whatever. so many people robbed them... but they sure were my first sponsor along with cyberthrill souvenirs! __________________ free sex videos

11-08-2003, 01:28 PM	#6
Platinum Lantern Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Shreveport, LA Posts: 1,564	Funny thing about XPICS.. no live stats for them.. the stats updated every morning at like 11 Somebody mentioned Cyberthrill, I think they were like the first Super Crooks to run an affiliate program... There policy was promote our site.. you won't get paid.. you gotta love it.. I NEVER GOT PAID and some of those clicks where from real customers __________________ SIG TOO BIG! Maximum 120x60 button and no more than 3 text lines of DEFAULT SIZE and COLOR. Unless your sig is for a GFY top banner sponsor, you may use a 624x80 instead of a 120x60.

11-08-2003, 02:19 PM	#12
AlienQ - BANNED FOR LIFE best designer on GFY Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: IALIEN.COM - High Definition Video and Photographic Productions -ICQ 78943384 Posts: 30,307	HEhe True colors here.. So ya stole from XPICS basically. Whats to stop ya from steeling from another sponsor program? __________________ NAKED HOSTING FTW!11 I'm On The INSANE PLAN $9.95/mo! \| The Alien Blog Adult News Worth Reading Updated Daily \| Content For Sale! 641 PICS 216 MINUTES OF VIDEO $350.00 \|ICQ: 78943384 \|

11-08-2003, 02:26 PM	#15
AlienQ - BANNED FOR LIFE best designer on GFY Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: IALIEN.COM - High Definition Video and Photographic Productions -ICQ 78943384 Posts: 30,307	The next step for affiliate programs is by approval. Ya think its a great idea to brag about how commiting fraud in the past will warrant any credibility to a future as a credible professional webmaster for a sponsor program? I think not and yet people are gonna cry why they were not approved as an affiliate for XYZ sponsors... HAhahahahhahahahahah! Fucking idiots.. __________________ NAKED HOSTING FTW!11 I'm On The INSANE PLAN $9.95/mo! \| The Alien Blog Adult News Worth Reading Updated Daily \| Content For Sale! 641 PICS 216 MINUTES OF VIDEO $350.00 \|ICQ: 78943384 \|

11-08-2003, 01:18 PM	#3
fsfaz Confirmed User Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Hollyweird, CA Posts: 747	Well, considering XPICS robbed the consumer with "Free Trials" all day and never told them they were getting charged, I'd say anything you did to rob XPICS was fine.

11-08-2003, 01:22 PM	#5
makefuckingmoney Confirmed User Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 3,277	xpics just auto cross billed you..haha

11-08-2003, 01:53 PM	#8
Xplicit Confirmed User Join Date: May 2003 Location: █◄►█ Posts: 3,558	ahhhhhhh the good ol' days LOL I had fake warez sites, fake password sites and much more back then. Usenet spam, E-Mail Spam. I'd often spam the URL to a toplist to get my rank up, much safer than spamming direct links to your own site or sponsor. I was 16 years old pulling in $500+/day ..... now im 22 and broke as hell. Why the fuck did I ever go 'legit' ???

11-08-2003, 01:59 PM	#9
Mr Pheer Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 21,483	I never "robbed" them but I did send them alot of clicks by releasing passwords to my paysites then using pennywise to redirect those hits to a page of xpics banners, and I sent about 20k usenet clicks a day to that page of banners... and some toplist traffic (remember toplists?!) was enough to bring in $20k a month and buy my first house after a few months of thier checks and epoch checks

11-08-2003, 02:08 PM	#11
picpile Confirmed User Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Las Vegas, Nevada Posts: 734	XPICS was great, i owned a banner exchange at the time, sent them 20k hits a day and got paid for them all

11-08-2003, 02:33 PM	#16
shima Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: May 2003 Location: Office, as usual Posts: 1,753	Xpics... the good ol'days I was playing honest all the way. I spamed newsgroups and stuff like that. But wasn't getting over $10/day. Then I found out that there are Thumbnail Gallery Posts.. That is how the game begins. PK was so nice that she'd listed my link site in her list. I've made $500 in that day with a simple banner and a few honest pics. I was already thinking about buying a good car, but then next day XPics changed to pay per sign up.. That sucked..

11-08-2003, 03:09 PM	#21
<IMX> Confirmed User Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 2,728	http://www.12clicks.com time for a public service announcement. __________________ $$$ Check out NICHE PAY the leader of Micro Niche Sites! They offer $1 Trials! $$$ $$$ Check out 10 FREE TRIAL SALES equals 1 FREE LAP TOP ! $$$

11-08-2003, 03:42 PM	#24
oldtimer Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 250	XPics cheques were what made me enough money to to go into this biz full time. I never had to cheat them. Anyone who put up a little money in those days to get real hosts and buy domains got so much traffic so easily, it just wasnt worth the risk of getting caught. It was the 14 year olds who got everything free that had nothing to lose by cheating. A lesson this business still hasn't learned. __________________ Im here to help surfers find relevant content

11-08-2003, 04:00 PM	#25
Rictor Old Timer Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Indianapolis Posts: 12,208	I sent honest AVS traffic to them. It was probably worth more than 18-25 cents a click back them.

11-08-2003, 05:23 PM	#26
jawanda Confirmed User Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 6,040	I was 15 when I started promoting XPics. My Mom's friend worked for a local ISP and she let us use her Internet account so we wouldn't have to pay for it (we were poor)... well, I soon started reading about telnet/shell accounts and hacking, and because I had an ADMIN password to use, I downloaded the old Unshadowed password file, used "CrackerJack" on it, and the next thing I new I had about 50 user accounts to put my porn links on. Looking back , it would have been SO easy for them to trace me through my affiliate codes and shit.... but I didn't even think of that then. Posted some gallies to thehun and was pulling in a few hundred bucks a week from XPics clicks. I also remember having one of these isp.com/~user pages listed number one on AltaVista for "Mexican Sex" and "Black Sex"... Ahhhh the good old days. Glad I never got busted. Cheers!

11-08-2003, 05:32 PM	#27
mrthumbs salad tossing sig guy Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: mrthumbs*gmail.com Posts: 11,702	you all are a bunch of pathetic sheep.. Stealing when youre young is one thing but bragging about it on the board says a lot about some of you.. And when some kid shows up that 'accidently' stole some content for his gallery he's a thief for life. Idiots.

11-08-2003, 05:47 PM	#28
Jamie Confirmed User Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: CelebPay.com Posts: 2,517	Throw in the easy manipulation of Infoseek at the time and it was an easy $500 day off of Xpics. It was fun tying up the big adult keywords... "sex pictures" "pussy" "sex" etc... __________________ CelebPay: Promote Celebrity Reviews i/c/q - :1851935

11-08-2003, 07:40 PM	#30
BlackCrayon Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Ottawa Posts: 19,631	ahh Xpics, i never cheated them but they made me my first 25 bucks in this biz. had some shitty celeb site i put on fsn. i had no idea what i was doing then but the money was insentive to learn how to make more of it, and i did. __________________ you don't know you're wearing a leash if you sit by the peg all day..

11-08-2003, 08:05 PM	#31
Platinum Lantern Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Shreveport, LA Posts: 1,564	I mean damn... all I really wanted was to get some stimulating conversation going.... I'm 21 years old now, that was 7 years ago... and I can say that 7 years ago wipes out a little more than half of this GFY board.... So what I hustled for small change at the age of 14.. It sure beat the hell out of working at Mcdonalds... Matter of fact, I couldn't even work at Mcdonalds because I was too young, but not too young to develope a drive to get this money.... I could say I did it because I was poor... Or to help the family keep the lights on... But I just wanted to keep a fresh pair of Jordan's on my feet... 7 years later, and I'm a professional webmaster... and it still beats the hell out of working at Mcdonalds __________________ SIG TOO BIG! Maximum 120x60 button and no more than 3 text lines of DEFAULT SIZE and COLOR. Unless your sig is for a GFY top banner sponsor, you may use a 624x80 instead of a 120x60.

11-08-2003, 08:11 PM	#32
psyko514 See sig. Join Epic Cash. Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Montreal, Quebec. ICQ: 214702014 Posts: 22,366	hahaha... my story is pretty much the same. i came across them when i was 14 or 15. i made a huge website with tons of tyra banks pictures and filled it with xpics banners. i started pulling in some cash, but not anything to write home about. then i discovered that i could post the links in newsgroups saying they were backdoor links into paysites. i kept my spamming limited to adult newgroups. i was rolling in the dough and bought myself a laptop at like 15. xpics even paid for my prom. i also did the whole clicking on my own banners, disconnecting and reconnecting thing. i also had a few pages that auto refreshed to sponsors that counted raw hits. i had no idea what an ip address was back then. i found out what it was when the sponsor termed me and sent me logs showing 4000 hits from the same ip address in less than an hour. __________________ Bad Girl Bucks - 50% Revshare through CCBill. Promote BrandyDDD, Pixie's Pillows, Action Allie and more! Phoenix Forum Pics \| Webmaster Access Montreal pics email: psyko514(a)gmail.com \| icq: 214-702-014

11-08-2003, 08:52 PM	#34
Gemini Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: o-HI-o Posts: 7,183	Too bad you didn't work for McDonalds... you missed some lessons in life. __________________ <center><a target="_blank" href="http://dev.datedollars.com/index.php?s=signup&aid=535&cfg=aac"><img border="0" src="http://216.130.172.224/gfy/gsig.gif" width="490" height="100"></a><br><a href="http://dev.datedollars.com/index.php?s=signup&aid=535&cfg=aac" target="_blank"><b><font face="Arial"><font color="#FF99FF"> Buy me away from Slavedriver Smokey!<br>It's May Sig Sweeps!<font></b></center>

11-08-2003, 09:05 PM	#35
CAHEK C.C.C.P. Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Novorossiya Posts: 7,092	robbing xpics for 7 years so that around 100,000+ USA where did they go ? LOL __________________ Pharma from True-Meds. High converting shop in Europe and USA, fast payouts via BTC !!!

11-08-2003, 11:03 PM	#38
EZRhino Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: couch Posts: 6,258	Good story

11-08-2003, 11:26 PM	#39
TheDifference Registered User Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 12	Xpics kicked ass... to this day I havent found a sponsor who made me that much money even after they switched to per signup. Remember how they would list you in Tomkat links as long as you advertisied you're sites and send you like 5k a day? You could literally build a page with thier banners on it and submit it to them and make $50 a day from that traffic alone without really lifting a finger. Those were the days. Traffic flowed freely, joins were easy, then people got greedy. Sponsors, TGPs, webmasters... everyone thought they deserved a bigger piece of the pie and in an effort to accomodate everyone the surfer got screwed. Doubt we'll ever be able to gain back the trust people had in the biz back then, when Xpics was still paying $.18 a click, TGP's/link sites would list you just because of the quality of your content, and WM's had enough drive to get their own content, design their own galleries and sites, and submit them by hand. When the fuck did we all get so lazy anyway?

11-08-2003, 11:30 PM	#40
KingK7 Confirmed User Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 6,372	I was in Law School at the time, 97, and all of a sudden I was making 30k a month off of them. "spice girls" alone made me a fucking fortune, for those who know what I am talking about. Infoseek, I thank you :-)

11-09-2003, 12:01 AM	#41
AlienQ - BANNED FOR LIFE best designer on GFY Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: IALIEN.COM - High Definition Video and Photographic Productions -ICQ 78943384 Posts: 30,307	PlatinumLantern - I didnt mean to bag on ya so hard, ya been around a while ya got my respect however I can only hope that ya run legit in the business cuz talent is runnin damn rare these days. Stay away from the darkside damn you! __________________ NAKED HOSTING FTW!11 I'm On The INSANE PLAN $9.95/mo! \| The Alien Blog Adult News Worth Reading Updated Daily \| Content For Sale! 641 PICS 216 MINUTES OF VIDEO $350.00 \|ICQ: 78943384 \|

11-09-2003, 04:00 AM	#42
Video-Post Selling short ICQ numbers Industry Role: Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: NL Posts: 1,118	Damn I still remember the special christmas banners...they were pretty cool Funny no other sponsor is offering seasonal banners. I thought they worked great!

11-09-2003, 04:08 AM	#43
JamesK hi Industry Role: Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 16,731	interesting thread __________________ M3Server - NATS Hosting

11-09-2003, 09:11 AM	#44
FreeOnes Confirmed User Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 3,400	bump __________________ The new FreeOnes! - AdultFilmStarContent - BabeGalleries and much more! - 1Strike Movies and much more! All powered by Xpressa

11-09-2003, 11:22 AM	#46
Chris E Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 2,895	Damn, I missed out. Wish I had been around in the good old days.

11-09-2003, 12:42 PM	#47
TheDifference Registered User Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 12	Can't believe how many of these are still around. Used to pull clicks like crazy. I wonder why sponsors don't offer banners like these anymore.

11-09-2003, 12:51 PM	#48
Gman.357 Confirmed User Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: USA Posts: 2,796	I did very well with Xpics back in the day. And also Pure Hardcore when Dave S. owned it. Great programs for up and coming webmasters to make some loot. Never had to cheat them to make over $100 a day. Seemed pretty easy back then even with just a small to mid-sized pic site. __________________ Ouch.