Thread: First Come First Surf - FirstComeFirstSurf.com

My 10th payment:



So far, I've been paid more from FirstComeFirstSurf alone than all other HYIPs and Surfs I have done in 2007 put together.

Payment #11 right on time:

From Admin:

Update about earnings corrections /06 July 2007/

Dear Members,

We have now completed the removal of accidental overpayment for members who purchased ad packs on June 15th. Each ad pack expires once it reaches 115% in rebate earnings. With the current daily earnings trend, this equals 20 days worth of surfing. During this last audit, we found that members who purchased ad packs on June 15th were credited an extra day of surfing. It was necessary to remove this extra day to make sure all earnings remain accurate.

Members who have been holding off on requesting cash out in order to get their accounts corrected may go ahead and request cash out now.

Different circumstances for members who purchased on June 15th:

1. If you surfed the full 20 days, the system gave you 21 days of credit (20 days at 6% and one final day credit) so the Ad Pack rebate for July 6th was removed to complete exactly 115%

2. If you surfed only 19 days, the system gave you 20 days of credit (20 at 6%) so the Ad Pack rebate for July 6th was removed, and after midnight, you will receive your credit for the final day to reach exactly 115%

3. If you surfed only 18 days, the system gave you 19 days of credit so the Ad Pack rebate for July 6th was removed and after tomorrow, your account will be adjusted to reflect correct earnings per day. Once you surf all remaining days, will receive exactly 115% earnings

4. If you surfed only 17 days or less days, the system gave you and extra day of credit so the Ad Pack rebate for July 6th was removed and after tomorrow, your account will be adjusted to reflect correct earnings per day. Once you surf all remaining days, will receive exactly 115% earnings

We also noticed a strange anomaly where members who purchased new ad packs directly from earnings balance early this morning, before the earnings corrections were made, have been credited for two days worth of earnings already. These only affected a few accounts and have already been corrected.

Please feel free to contact me or post to the MoneyMakerGroup or Money Talk Pro forums if you need any further clarification.

Mike
FirstComeFirstSurf Administrator
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Received payment number #12 for $3787.53:

Received payment number #13 for $2382.93:

Payment number 14 for $905.55:

Update from site:

More payouts, and answered questions /09 September 2007/

Hello,

First in line, I would like to thank all of you for your continued support. Even though it is currently small, it is support nevertheless. I would also like to take this time to answer a few questions I have been getting multiples of in the ticket system. I figured if multiple people were asking, there were many more that were not asking.

#1 Are we closing? No, of course not! We have no reason to close with the revenue share model. Revenue sharing can work, and has been proven to work in other businesses outside of this industry. The Admin must not fear putting up the real numbers and daily payout percentages. Falsifying these numbers just leads to a nasty failure and lost trust. It is better to earn a lower percentage than no percentage at all. We will not continue to pay a percentage we can not maintain just to make the program appear better than it is, like other programs have done in the past. We are not going to tell you we need to evaluate anything, or turn off the cash out button to prevent you from getting money you have already earned. This is a revenue sharing model and you earn based on all combined revenue for the previous day. This includes not only ad pack sales, but also vip subscription sales, site advertising sales, revenue from ad publisher networks, affiliate revenue, revenue from our principle business, and any other revenue we can include to help the program. If sales are up, your percentage rebate earned will be up. If sales are down, your percentage will be down as well. There will not be any adjustments or hidden manipulation of money to make the program appear as anything else other than what it actually is. This is how a revenue sharing model is SUPPOSED to work. Remember in a true revenue sharing program, it is not possible to earn money if it hasn't been made yet. If you have a cash balance, that money is in the system and can be paid.

This being said, you should respect the fact I am honest with you with the percentages, and support the program that is going to be here long term.

#2 When will the percentages get higher again? Honestly, I don't know when, but they will. It depends a lot on the performance of the company and behavior of the members. Like I said in last week's announcement, if all members purchased $2.00 in site advertising, we would be at 6%, but only a handful of people actually did that. We do have some higher volume advertisers in the program that have slacked off and when there ad packs expire, the daily rebate percentages should make a dramatic jump. Remember in order for me to make revenue, I must have operating capital to use in order to make it happen. Understanding that the percentage has been low lately, I did reduce the surfing requirements approximately 50% for everyone. This brings me to the third most asked question I have been getting.

#3 Why don't I just make it no surf while the percentage is low? That is actually a very easy question to answer. We sell advertising to make money as well. If no one is surfing, then who will spend money on advertisement if there isn't a person to view it? Pretty simple. We have got to keep surfing, so we can sell the ads. In case anyone was wondering, we now have nearly 2000 members in our database . If you want to purchase a premium page ad, or email to all members you are getting a great deal. We are still serving tens of thousands of hits daily to the front page if you need some banner advertising. We are still a very viable advertising source.

Now there are another couple options if you don't feel like surfing while the percent is low. One option is you can take a break from surfing since your ad-packs do not expire until they reach 115%. So if you take a few days off in these low percentage days, you aren't going to miss much, and can make it up later when percents are a bit higher.

The other option is get in our sister program, 123SurfEasy : Welcome to 123SurfEasy!, that is a fixed 4.1% per day for each of 30 days that you AUTO-SURF (after premium pages). It offers a 123% possible rebate plus referral commissions. That program is completely separate from this one and that money is sent to an investment firm used to generate profits. Profits are then paid back to members when their ad-packs expire. We haven't started marketing heavy for this one yet, so it is still very early to start building your referrals since it is almost unknown at this time. This is a no-brainer to get in to. 123SurfEasy : Welcome to 123SurfEasy!

Another factor on lower percentage lately is my main business is slow in the summer. Arcades, bars, laundry mats ect, buy their new arcade machines before summer to make money off the kids out of school. The end of summer people don't buy new machines because there are not flocks of bored kids hanging around to make money off of. Now as it gets closer to other events that create sales (Halloween, school carnivals, Thanksgiving, Christmas), machine and part sales pick up again. More business = more profits.

Now that I have gone over those common questions, let me take a moment to bring to attention that we are still paying, and early as always. Please take a few moments to let the world know by posting in a forum, and placing a few votes on your favorite monitors. Another round of payments is going out in a few minutes after I finish writing this letter. To date we have made over 2,000 payments early and only have about 100 votes on our monitors. Please support your program.

As always I would like to remind everyone we provide Hosting: Any aspiring people that want to be an Admin of your own program, we can provide RackSpace hosting for you at a minimum 50% discount off their normal prices. Submit us a ticket with your contact info, and we will speak with you to guide and help you get set up.

I know this has been a lengthy letter, but anyone interested in knowing about their advertising program would take the time to read it.

Mike
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