Saturday, January 30, 2010

$5000 deductible before you earn at 434u?

Apparently the first $5000 you earn for 434u is theirs before you make a cent. How long does it take a typical member to earn 434u that money? Are we talking through banner advertisements? Don't those typically earn maybe a quarter of a cent each? Some banner campaigns only pay for click throughs. Is that how 434u is earning it's money? If all 50,000+ members earn $5000 for 434u through banner ad revenue, the company will earn 250 million dollars. How many individuals will actually earn enough revenue to actually beat the deductible amount of $5000 and actually make money back? How many will continue the pyramid scam because they want to be one of those few? How many will realize readily it's a scam - just another Ponsi scheme?

The site 434u.com claims it is not a pyramid scheme because it does not take your money. Money is compensation for labor. If they enlist tens of thousands to sit on computers and view advertisements and convert others to also view advertisements and pull in more converts, they don't need money. They have free labor supplied by all these people who have to put in a lot of time before they'll see any return.

And that's just if it's actually possible to meet the $5000 deductible and actually earn money from 434u.

And that's if they give you actual money, rather than some funny internet money... some sort of 434u store credit for products and/or services not yet revealed.

This is in response to a reply a 434u member received when he asked the level above him how and when he'd start seeing his money... the selling point 434u uses to recruit new members.


"the first 5000$ has to be used on the site to generate the internal engine.you'll be able to buy stuff for the site and it will make it that much better.after that they mail you a visa debit card and money goes directly into that card account every month.in terms of how everyone gets paid.well the admin obviously gets paid the most.after that the executives and founders are paid at the same bracket.then the cofounders are paid a little less but still a lot.there are about 7 tiers at which people make money,the lowest being a gold member makes about 500$/month based upon a 2% membership of fb.all the original members are paid 70% of the revenue generated by advertising,music uploads,etc.everyone is paid to keep the site safe and secure.if you have any questions bud go to joanna allens blog on sam powers 434u schooling.talk to you later!"

There's that other requirement. 2% membership of Facebook. One of the reasons 434u members try so damn hard to recruit more members is to meet a membership target of 2% total membership of Facebook.

Is that 2% of Facebook's total membership NOW, or in an ongoing basis? If Facebook is growing at an exponentially faster rate than 434u, it will be hard to meet that 2%. The actual number needed to meet 2% of Facebook would presumably be increasing as time goes on - far faster than 434u can convince people to join and promote a social network based on hustling and lies.

The original members make their cash off of all these people visiting page after page after page on 434u with banner ads displayed.

... the pay structure outlined above - classic pyramid.

The reference to the site being kept "safe and secure" is obviously satirical, as there are times you can sign onto 434u and the database will be so scrambled it will log you into a completely different user's account. (More on that next post.)

censorship on 434u

Here's a fun game. If you are a member of 434u, try posting something critical of the site. Go ahead. See how long it takes before someone deletes it. All criticism and complaints about the site are quickly removed. Not only this, higher ups (such as exec, founders) will attempt to add you to keep an eye on you if they see you as some sort of "troublemaker" there to pick apart the site. The groupthink on this social network is thick. The participants are bound together by a common desire to finally get their weekly $434 payments. (Another fun game - try getting someone to explain precisely how so many people will be able to expect that they will eventually get such sizeable checks just for using a website. Members dance around the question. They either are going along with the scam or they really genuinely don't know because they aren't very high on the pyramid..

If you recruit your friends they will hate you

I created this so that people would understand why 434u is a scam that will waste your time and make you annoy your friends.

If you tell all your friends to join this site just so you can make the minimum six recruits you need to "prove" you're really into this 434u scam. When you finally figure out it's a scam, you may find out that some of your friends you recruited are now so brainwashed by the site. Some of them might be so caught by the illusion that they'll get free money for surfing the internet (when has that ever worked before??) that they won't listen to you. Let them go, man. They'll come back when they figure out it's a hustle. They'll look you up when they finally realize they were had, and their hours and hours of time on 434u.com merely contributed to banner advertising revenue for one or a few people.

434u is a SCAM!!

434u.com is a scam. It's a ponsi scheme. A pyramid scheme. It's "founders" and executives claim it is not a pyramid scheme because they do not collect money from users, but they do take up a fair chunk of your time. They'll fill your head with notions that you will somehow miraculously make 434 dollars a week just for sitting on a site clicking things. (I don't know of any social networks that get rich by handing out checks just for being there.... doesn't that sound fishy to you?)