This shit has got to stop
 

TO: Christopher Mallick, Owner of ePassporte

I know that the Visa issue is not your doing and I'm sure you're trying your best to fix the situation. Hopefully soon, it will be sorted out. But in the meantime, all those webmasters who have money with ePassporte are hurting. Their only income is stuck in virtual space and they have no access to it. And to make things worse, all types of rumors are flying. So why don't you show everyone that ePassporte is alive and well, and help ease our minds by using your own money (which I'm sure you have pleanty of). Deposit the amount owed each person into their ePassporte wallet so they can have access to it ASAP.
When the issue with Visa clears, you will get your money back. After all, you're the one who says the money is safe. Mr. Mallick, be smart and do the right thing, you will get a lot more in return from your loyal customers.


To my fellow webmasters
It happened before, its happening now, and it definitely will happen again and again, unless we do something about it.

Some years ago the same situation happened to MyVirtualCard processor (MVC). I Lost all my money and all my members while MVC was trying to solve the issue with Visa. And by the time they did, MVC was already defunct. So they figured out why not just keep all the money. Never got a penny from them.
Before that, IBill had the same issue with Visa. By the time they settled, iBill was long gone too. Took off with millions of of dollars, including thousands of my money.
No one did shit about any of the above situations. Last I heard, the former CEO of iBill was building business centers and apartments in Florida, and MVC owner bought himself a restaurant chain somewhere in Israel.

Speaking of getting fucked, what about the sponsors who cut us off and keep our money because they say we have invalid clicks or traffic? They scam millions from us each year, yet they never show us proof of wrong doing from our side. Take Google adsense for example. If they see multiple clicks coming from the same IP, they will cancel our account and keep our money. (see full article) What control do we have on who clicks ads in our site, and how many times they click? Google can simply deduct the invalid clicks and send us the rest of the money. Instead, they keep it all. They say it will be refunded back to advertisers, what a joke.

A court can force a sponsor to show proof or pay up. But lawyers want thousands up front, and none of us can afford this. We vent our anger at forums like GFY and others, which are most likely supported by the same sponsors that fucked us in the first place.
In the end, we do nothing, we simply tuck our tails between our legs and start all over again. Sponsors know this, so they fuck us time after time.


This shit has got to stop!
IM TIRED OF THIS, AND I WANT TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. Alone I can't, but as a group we can stop those fuckers from robbing us day in and day out. We must organize ourselves, create a union with a war chest to pay lawyers to fight on our behalf. As a group, we can be stronger and fight the biggest sponsors. Our voice will be heard, and those fuckers will think twice before they try to scam us again.

Lets not wait any longer, lets start today. Join us at StopTheFuckers.com
This is a brand site that was built in the spur of the moment out of anger and a felling of helplessness. Its strictly for webmasters to speak their mind and hopefully organize a union. Site has no ads whatsoever

http://stopthefuckers.com/wp-content.../uncle-sam.jpg

man reality has to walk right up and punch you in the teeth before you see it standing there huh, you'll catch on to whats happening soon enough

I'm not reading all of that shit.

Bump for a resolution to all of this.

Read the article before you speak

nope, refuse.

Well thats a pretty cool name when you stand up in court and say " We are a bunch of webmasters who got together and formed "STOP THE FUCKERS"

This is only a website name and has nothing to do with stoping the sponsors from fucking us day in and day out

lol thats what i was thinking

i agree with you there needs to be some more organization, accountability, legitimacy, etc etc etc across the board in this biz. but i don't think "STOP THE FUCKERS" is the banner i want to fly :upsidedow

....and given the past history of this biz, who the hell would i trust with said "war chest"? :2 cents:

I'm against fuckers.

Samo, you fail.

Unions suck.

Your idea sucks.

Fail, fail, fail.

This reminds me of the Marijuana Rally news coverages I often see.

Instead of a smart, professional looking spokesman talking to the press its some hippy tool stoned out of his mind.

Nobody can take that shit serious, so nobody will take it serious.

We all need to put our minds together, and when we do, we will find a solution to form a perfect union. I think the only ones who will object to this are sponsors, as they don't want us to unite so they can continue to fuck with us.

Your suggestion of a sort of insurance policy to cover bad checks from networks is a license for the networks to steal you know. Prosecuting interstate business checks is nearly impossible due to questions from local DAs about jurisdiction.

Just sayin'

Sally.

So you prefer to continue getting scammed out of your money?

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Just tagging along with our "ignorant" reputations as adult webmasters.

i tell you what needs to stop is all these bs fucking epassporte threads. i am not even gonna read it. all same the same shit. pointless

"Perfect Union" -- Are you out of your mind? This is PORN. No such thing as a perfect union in this business.

Bottom line... if you "unionize" against the sponsors, they will just bypass you. They can hire cheap labor from all over the planet to build sites and run marketing campaigns that will put your silly ass to shame.

Unions destroy everything they touch.

You got that right!

Sally.

XSAXS, I'm getting the impression that you already tucked your tail between your legs and gave up. I refuse to accept the fact that any sponsor at anytime, can simply cancel my account and keep my hard earned money. We must unite and fight back. If a union is not the way to go, perhaps, there must be another way. What do you suggest we do? If 2heads are better than 1, then for sure thousands of heads are better than 2. We all need to put our heads together and do something about those fuckers now

a true "union" wouldn't hold together in this biz. the barrier of entry is too easy to pierce.

the sponsors aren't the issue. it's the thieves and scammers that no one does shit about. sponsors, webmasters, companies alike. big entities that hold the cards continue to allow people who have burned us in the past BACK in.

there needs to be more blackballing (bad pun) in this biz.

Actually, many sponsors have destroyed a good part of this industry.

i meant sponsors in general. they aren't ALL bad. but i get your meaning

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Samo... The ONLY answer is to work with truly reputable sponsors (there are still a few out there). I work with 3 sponsors and 3 sponsors only. I don't need or want any more than that. I have been with them for nearly a decade, and I've never missed a check. If you fall for every fly-by-night dipshit sponsor that comes along, then you're asking for trouble.

Bottom line... Find a gold-standard sponsor. Build a solid, first-name relationship with them. And work your ass off.

Others will fall, and you'll still be standing.

this is the path i have been choosing. dropping sponsors, redirecting traffic, swapping out galleries & links to the ones i trust for several months. my income has only increased.

i try a new one only if they truly fill a void. even then i got no problem dropping them quick if they don't convert or i even suspect they may be fucking me over

Unfortunately they do.

Always full of criticism of what is currently going on but with no viable ideas of their own.

Mr Mallick cannot come clean because the truth would ruin his business. He cannot tell what happened without shitting where he eats, so his only way of not telling lies is to give us empty PR. He hopes the business will get back to normal before he needs to reveal where and why the shit hit the fan, which would mean indefinite end to this business. But as history teaches us he doesn't need to reveal shit and simply wait for things to sort itself. By the time they are sorted we will all either have to adapt or die. And once we are adapted we've taken in the loss and are not counting on a positive outcome anymore. We move on. And so does he, with our money. Time heals all wounds they say and time will heal this one too, only that some will never see the funds and some will see plenty.

VISA isn't the issue either. VISA hasn't frozen any funds, because VISA doesn't have any funds in their possession to freeze. They're a gateway, not a bank. They don't hold any funds whatsoever. They don't even hold authorizations that are pending capture.

Sure, maybe VISA deactivated their cards, but VISA has absolutely nothing to do with your funds not being available to you.

Well, if he cared about ePassporte, I'm sure he would of by now. Instead, due to the deafening silence, it's quite obvious he doesn't give a flying fuck about ePassporte at the moment.

He'll probably regret it later on though, once ePass & his bank closes, his movie becomes a write-off, and he ends up eating mac & cheese.