XpertHits Surf - Regrouping

The autosurf industry continues to be extremely volatile right now... more than usual. The major players have all seemed to collapse and now even supposed "less risky" autosurfs are following their demise.

The latest to run into problems is XpertHits Surf. It just goes to show you that even though an admin may be honest, these programs can go under at any time. Here is the latest update from Mel (the admin) on what the current status with XpertHits Surf is:

Hello Everyone,

After much discussion with one of my honored members I have decided to send out a request that I hope everyone will please answer so I can make a decision on how I want to run XHA in the future starting in July.

I need your suggestions, ideas, on how you'd like to see XHA continue. This means anything that comes to mind on type of program, amount of money to spend, how much to spend per month, if you would like to stay with XHA if it changes to a different type of program, anything that comes to mind.

I'm really eager to keep XH going so your comments and suggestions are appreciated.

I will keep this topic opened til the 29^th, then will take all suggestions and pool them together to come up with how XHA will continue in July.

Thanks,

Mel

Compact Surfing - Another Goner

As most obviously know, today's big news is the end of one of the recent giants of the autosurf industry, Compact Surfing. They say they're coming back and there were problems resulting from the declining value of gold, but the fact is that they're closing down their doors and you'll be lucky if you get a refund.

It just shows you how quickly these autosurfs can go to the wayside, even ones that seem to have a lot of momentum. It was only about a week or so ago that payments started to slow down and they changed their payout terms. I decided to get out then, but unfortunately I was due a large payment tomorrow. So close, but so far away. Live and learn. For the time being, I'm taking a break from the autosurf industry.

Here is the complete update from the folks over at Compact Surfing.

Dear Compact Surfing Members,

I hope you will read this update closely, and consider all that I say here carefully, with the understanding that the Compact Network will be implementing further changes in the coming weeks, but we are here to stay for the long term as I have promised from the beginning.

As of today, Friday, June 16, 2006, Compact Surfing upgrades will be disabled. Allow me to clarify our reasons for doing this, and our plans for the coming weeks ahead:

1. The price of gold per ounce, as all of you know, has dropped significantly in the past several weeks. Because of this, the Egold funds in reserves that I had to maintain for the operation of CS diminished in value tremendously on a daily/weekly basis. There has been a 15 to 20% drop in the value of gold in the past several weeks, from above $700 an ounce in May to around $570 as I write this. What this means is
that most upgrade values that were sent to CS and held online in order to provide the old trademark “fast payouts” dropped in $$$ value while waiting to be paid out. This has been occurring for weeks now. We
persisted, believing there would be a turn around with the gold markets, that things would average out, but to date, this has not happened.

We’ve reevaluated the situation, and have decided now to stop taking upgrades until such time as the gold markets stabilize, we hope by mid-summer. We feel this is best for both the company and our members financially. Members have faced the same situation CS has when their payments arrive to their accounts and drop in value within hours…what took several days to build in profits has sometimes been diminished within hours, sitting in members Egold accounts. In accordance with this decision, the ability to upgrade to CS accounts will be disabled today.

For those who do not understand why drastic drops in Egold might affect the reserves of a program designed like CS, here’s why. The 3 cashout requests per month combined with the processing of requests every day of the week, and 48 hour “fast payment” meant we had to keep a majority of Network funds in reserve in Egold rather than offline. 48 hours was not long enough to move funds through exchangers online for payments or offline for protection of capital, especially on weekends when banks are closed. This is why, in our last newsletter, we established the 7-business day timeframe as being more realistic and manageable for the future of CS, however, since that last update, we have considered the situation further.

2. On June 9th, we processed nearly $500,000 USD in cashout requests. I continued to use the remaining funds left to pay as many requests as I could, and you can view a screenshot of all payments sent here:
http://compactsurfing.com/first1.PNG
http://compactsurfing.com/second2.PNG
http://compactsurfing.com/third3.PNG
3660 payments were sent the last 2 days and each single sent was paid.

Moving Forward: We are going to do refunds for members with pending requests, put the program on hold and relaunch in the summer, when hopefully the gold markets have stabilized and by which time I will have had time to implement Compactpay with features available and debit cards. All funds in my possession less operation costs will be used for refunds. In the coming weeks, the support staff will assist me in this work. Members in profit will not receive refunds. Those members not in profit will be returned a percentage of their initial upgrade purchase
dependant upon the total available for distribution. Earnings and referral commissions will be deducted from your pendings in our calculations. Please be advised that I am doing this despite the fact that our terms have always stipulated that upgrade purchases are non-refundable.

3. All Compactpay members with funds in CP, please rest assured that your funds are secure. I will announce next week the procedure for how returns of whatever you funded into your Compactpay accounts will be executed. After the funds have been removed from the system, during the next few weeks, the database for Compact Pay will be inaccessible to members as my programmers and I work to implement features which I
have not had the chance to dedicate time to. Please be patient and I will update further regarding this in the coming weeks. For those members who have made recent Bank Wire Fundings, I cannot address those until next week when the bank is open so please be patient with this as well.

With that said, the following actions will be taken in the coming weeks. The Compact Network will be relaunched at the end of August/early September and I have decided for now that the following three sites will be the focus of my time and resources: Compact Surfing, Compact Lottery, and Compact Pay

A. Compact Surfing

1. Expect a new layout and design to the site. The site will offer 14% daily for 9 days on your upgrade purchases tentatively. Upgrade units will be $10 USD each and the maximum member balance with active upgrades will be $10,000 USD. Payout Timeframe:
Upgrades will become pending in your Cashout History automatically upon expiration. They will be processed within 7 business days following date of expiration. No more having to request cashout. This setup is
perfectly clear on when members will be paid. In addition, I will know exactly what is needed ready in my online payment processor accounts each week to process payouts. As such, I can store the majority of funds offline accordingly so that we are no longer at the mercy of gold price fluctuations.

2. Compact forum will still be in place; possibly changed to vbulletin format as I have received feedback requesting this from members.

3. More details to be announced when available.

B. Compact Lottery

1. Expect a new layout and design to the site

2. No more purchasing tickets from cash balance; you will be able to purchase directly from Egold and tentatively Compactpay as well. Winners will be paid within 5 business days following announcement of
weekly lucky numbers.

3. Cash prizes will be greater in amount, though the number of winners will be less than the past track record to allow for ease of management in distributing payment of prizes. The amounts for Weekly prizes will be announced on the site as well. Distribution of rewards still to
be determined by the administrator.

C. Compact Pay

1. I will work in the coming weeks to develop relationships with exchangers to bring on board to offer funding/withdrawal options for Compact Pay that they will handle individually and efficiently.

3. I welcome any member suggestions with regards to implementing debit cards. Compact Debit Cards are still planned, but due to the current situation, and recent comments made by members regarding their wishes for certain cards, I have cancelled our previous order for cards. For those of you who prefer Cardoneplus over Virtual Money, and vice versa, please contact Nvus with your reasoning and he will forward me
details and I will make a final decision in the coming weeks: cn_nvus@yahoo.com

4. The Shopping
Cart Interface will be made available and upgrades/cashouts through CS via CompactPay will be available as well to coincide with relaunch of CS.

Expect further announcements from me in the coming days. The Compact Network is here to stay and we are not going anywhere, I assure you all. After 3 months of hard work and dedication I will not give up and I ask that you do not give up on me now either. We have faced obstacles beyond our control in the past several weeks, but the above plan of action will allow us to return, stronger than ever. Thank you all for your continued support.

Sincerely Yours,

Luuk Hendriks
Altus Financial Services Inc.

Compact Surfing - Change In Terms?

As most of you who are involved in Compact Surfing know, they have recently changed their payout terms from 7 days to 7 BUSINESS days. They gave some reasons why, but I have to say that even though this has been a great autosurf, I'm a little worried. If there is anything that I've learned, it's that whenvever an autosurf changes its terms, it's usually a bad sign.

There aren't any guarantees in the autosurf world. Wired Surf and Phoenix Surf have taught us that. With that being said, I'm probably gonna hold back on this one for a while once I get my withdrawals processed.

For those who didn't see it, here is the update.

Dear Compact Surfing Members,

This is an important update on the status of Compact Surfing. It clarifies what the future holds for the Compact Network, and how I plan to ensure that what we have built with our members in the past 3 months continues to grow and prosper.

I will be honest with all of you, recent events have given us cause for concern, and the steps we have taken this past week, and are about to take, are to ensure our security remains one of the best in the industry for both our Network, and for you our members.

For three months Compact Surfing, as all of you know, paid usually within 48 hours of cashout request. However, when payouts were processed so quickly, many members who attempted to contact support and have cashout requests stopped to egold accounts that were hacked were unable to do so in time, and as a result, their requests were paid out to hackers who ran off with their funds.

This has been a very serious issue for many members. I have had at least 10 support tickets sent every day for over a month relating to such hackings. The amount of member money lost to hackers is now in the tens of thousands of dollars, and it must be stopped. I did not create this program to feed the hackers. This business and program was created for the benefit of the members who have supported us and handed over their trust to us.

Then, several days ago, we had an even more serious issue to address. During our scheduled work on Compactpay, a situation arose that required our immediate attention. We had a hacker access the database through a vulnerability, and though he got no valuable information, and did not infiltrate anyone's money accounts, we dropped all else we were doing, and set about encrypting our database, among other things. You can view the email message that the hacker sent here: (POST IMAGE SCREENSHOT OF WHAT THE HACKER WROTE TO YOU, BLOCK OUT HIS EGOLD # SO HE DOES NOT GET ANGRY BUT YOU HAVE TO POST THE IMAGE TO SHOW YOUR PROOF ABOUT THIS)

In light of all the events above, I have now decided that CN will be implementing new additional security measures regarding hackings, and revamping our payment system accordingly to fit these measures. There will be a required step that all members must take before we continue on with our payouts. The changes we are implementing will allow members the needed to time to make their hacking reports, and will allow staff the needed time to stop payments to hackers, even during our busier times. The following are the changes that will be made, effective as of today:

1. As additional security, we ask that all members update their passwords on the Compactsurfing site at this time with a unique password you have never used anywhere on the internet before. You can do this by clicking on �Edit Account Details� after you log into your CS account. Then scroll down to where it says �Password Change.� Type in your current password in the field that says: �Your Password.� Then type in your �New Password� and �Confirm New Password� and click on �Save.� This is to ensure that if any of you have the same password with CS that you are using with other sites, or have used in sites you�ve been with in the past, that hackers do not have easy access to this information.

2. Official Payment Time Frame: Members may still hold multiple upgrades to a total of $10,000 USD. Members may still make 3 cashout requests per month. However, from here on forward, Compact Surfing will now make payments in 7 BUSINESS days following the date of your cashout request. That means you will no longer count Saturdays and Sundays as work days for the CS Payment Department, and you will be paid on the 7th business day after you make a request.

To clarify, if you make a payout request on a Monday, what day do you expect payment? Count: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday�. Monday of the next week is the day you are to expect payment. This new payment system applies to all current pending payments, and to all those in the future.

This will be the same time frame as 12dailypro established, for those of you who are familiar with that program. It will end all discussion of what day you are paid. It will allow my support staff and you, the members, ample time to contact us in the event that your payment processor account is hacked so that we can put your cashout requests on hold and prevent your funds from being paid to hackers. (To date, tens of thousands of dollars have been paid out to hackers, despite our efforts to prevent this, and we feel, changing our payment strategy will result in more profits for all involved.)

I will allow until this Friday, June 16th for members to change their account passwords and to review their account information in their back office for any other changes they may wish to make. I will then begin processing payments: all pending cashout requests made on the 6th and 7th of June will be paid next Monday. This will be in line with the new payment terms since, though I was ill last week for 2 days, I processed payments over the past weekend. Requests made on the 8th of June will be processed by the end of the day, this Monday, June 19th, and we will go from there.

Please go now and update your passwords and review your accounts. I will follow up with further updates during the week regarding the status of Compact Surfing and the rest of the Network sites.

Sincerely yours,

Luuk, Olivia, Nicholas and Staff
Altus Financial Services Inc.

Wired Surf - Dunzo?!

I'm sure this might not surprise some people, but Wired Surf has "temporarily" shut down (whatever that means). The bottom line is that it currently looks that it is no longer. Here is the latest email from the admins. Hopefully, all of you got your money (or most of it) out before this happened.

This email is sent to you with a very very heavy heart, and trembling fingers. Wired Surf has become our pride and joy, and through the obstacles and tribulations that we have endured, we believed that we could rise above it all and recover our program, a program that we believed to be one of the best in the industry.

We had many sleepless nights since our DDOS attack, wondering how we would ever recover our program after such a large-scale disaster. Putting hours and hours into the site, earning very little if anything at all for our labor, we gave everything we had to the network and to the idea that we would be able to continue to offer you the most honest program in the industry. We offered unmatched support, and always went the extra mile to show our members that we were there for them.

Despite all of our attempts, Wired Surf has encountered the biggest obstacle of all. Continuing along the path to recovery hasn't been easy, and we have always known, it was near impossible. It was easier to continue to believe that if we were honest, if we were upfront, and if we ran the program with the community in mind rather than our own pocketbooks, that it would be successful. Quite frankly, we have put off sending this letter to you because we kept hoping for some miracle, some solution to this ever-growing problem that we just can not overcome.

Wired Surf will be temporarily closing its doors, and we ask that each and every member of our program takes a second to visit our forum and read our "Personal Letter to Members", because it is the most important notice that we have ever posted, and one of the most difficult.

http://www.surfingwire.com/forum

Click on IMPORTANT NEWS .. and then LETTER TO MEMBERS

If you have trouble accessing our forum, please let us know via the help center and we will do all that we can to help you gain entry.

Sincerely yours,

Cameron, Jane & David
Wired Surf

Slow Days Indeed

I'm sure my legions of readers (or just my mom) have noticed that I haven't posted in a couple of days. Don't worry, I'm still here. It's just that it's been kinda slow lately. A lot of programs have either folded or are having problems that have dragged on for a while. As you can see in the sidebar, I'm only in a few programs currently.

Compact Surfing is still chugging along. I'm very pleased with them. They just passed their 3 month anniversary. XpertHits Surf has also been running smoothly. I'm currently waiting on a payment from them for last month's surfing. Also, I think they just went private, but I'm not too worried. Mel, the admin, has always been an honest and upfront admin.

The only other programs I'm currently in is my favorite. It's actually the type of program that I'd like to find more of because it's not an autosurf or an HYIP. It's an actual US company that you can go to and they deal with real products. Most importantly, YOU DON'T NEED TO RECRUIT ANYONE TO MAKE MONEY. That's nice for a change. I'm not trying the hard sell, but if you'd like more info, please send me an email. I can't talk about it here.

That's all for now, but I'll be back soon. If you want, please let me know what programs you like right now by leaving in the comments section of this post.

Compact Surfing - E-gold Phishing Email

Just a quick note that if you received an email that looks like it came from Compact Surfing about a change in their egold number, PLEASE DISREGARD IT.

This is a phishing email trying to get your money. In the email they (pretending to be Compact Surfing) claim that they have changed egold numbers and not to upgrade through the site, but to do it straight through e-gold using this new number. DO NOT DO IT.

If you are going to upgrade, only do it from within the member's area on the site.

Compact Surfing - CompactPay Is Launched

The day has finally come. Compact Surfing has officially launched its own payment processor, CompactPay. Now remember, you can still use e-gold. You're not required to use CompactPay.

Dear Compactsurfing Members,

The day has finally arrived! June 1st, 2006: Compactpay
officially opens for sign ups to the entire online community!

After many hours of planning, development, and testing, the
Compact Network�s official payment processor is open for
business. I want to thank all of you for your support as the staff
and myself have worked very hard to reach this great success,
and the Compact Network is truly moving into a new phase of
development and I am very excited for what awaits.

Compactpay as stated in previous updates is optional for
Compactsurfing members. Direct upgrades via egold and cashouts
to egold will still be offered.

However, you will find after visiting the Compactpay website that
the fees are set up to be very competitive and cost effective.
Compactpay is integrated with Egold and Ebullion to allow instant
funding for only $0.1 - $1 USD! With the fluctuating gold prices and
reported hackings of Ecurrency accounts, Compactpay  offers a
great way to secure your funds online with quick transferability, a
secure payment environment, and ease of use. 

For the time being, you will be able to fund your Compactpay
account via Bank Transfer, Egold, and Ebullion. Egold and Ebullion
funding is instant. Our private bank handles Bank Transfers but in
the near future, Compactpay Users will be able to use low cost
independent exchangers to fund or withdraw to/from their
accounts. Details will be provided once available.

To sign up for your FREE Compactpay account, please visit the
following page: https://compactpay.com/new/

Fees are as listed on the following page:
https://compactpay.com/contents.php?page=5

Thank you all for your support, and expect updates from me
as the week comes to a close and we approach the 3 month
anniversary of the Compact Network online: June 4th, 2006.
Nvus and I have come up with a wonderful way to celebrate
June 4th and it will involve cash prizes for members so stay
tuned.

Best of regards,
Luuk, Olivia, Nicholas and Staff