Thursday, April 10, 2008

Re: [MLM Survivors Club] Thoughts on Yuwie?

Here's something really interesting - The "contact us" page has only a couple of FAQs - and a form page - no address, phone numbers or anything.
A whois search reveals they are using a domain proxy company. They really ARE hiding. These are the people you want to give personal info to ?

----- Original Message ----
From: Vicki <v_eller@yahoo.com>
To: mlmsurvivorsclub@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 1:17:05 PM
Subject: [MLM Survivors Club] Thoughts on Yuwie?

Is anyone here using Yuwie? Any info on it as far as whether it
actually falls under the scam/MLM/Pyramid scheme family?

I just signed up for this yesterday. It's marketed as social
networking with a twist. And described as soing what you do on
Myspace, but getting paid for it.

I really can't find the problem with this, considering that it's
free and there is nothing that you are obligated to buy. Of course
I don't expect to get rich off of it or anything... but I can't find
the harm in it.

I've googled Yuwie+Scam, along with a few other variations. Still
found nothing really bad...

If you are not familiar with it, here's my link. You can check it
out there. http://r.yuwie. com/mattsmamacit a

There are a lot of ads that you have to wade through... and some
certain amount of spam... but nothing that costs you money if you
don't mind spending the time to skip those things.

I have seen some blogs refer to it as a MLM or Pyrimid Scheme... so
that makes me a little nervous.

Thoughts? Insights? Comments?

(My apologies if this sounds like a "sales pitch". It's not. This
is just one of the first places I check with if I am uncertain of
the validity of something.)


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