Date Boycotted: 03-11-2007 URL: http://www.happybizs.com
HappyBizs is a paid e-mail site offering e-mails worth between 0.75 cents and 2 cents, a series of "big money" paid signup offers, and a $2 payout minimum. The Terms of the site also proudly boast that payments are made "within 24 hours", though the complaints which follow show this not to be the case.
The reason that HappyBizs is on the boycott list is the non-payment of members. The complaints below detail how members who have reached the minimum payout amount are not being paid according to the site's own Terms of Service, and many of those members have had their accounts deleted. The site has a history of using 0x0 iframes to defraud pay-per-click search engines. The site has also faced allegations that it has used 0x0 iframes to deliberately infect its members' computers with malicious code. Support e-mails have not been responded to, members have not been paid, and so this program rightly belongs on the boycott list.
For the reasons above, and the complaints listed below, HappyBizs has been boycotted!
Name: susan bruce Date: April 16, 2007 Comments: never been paid
Name: Karen Date: November 21, 2007 Comments: Have requested 2 payouts-still waiting...followed up with 4 emails-still waiting....
Name: Victoria Date: December 24, 2007 Comments: This site owes me over $12 with no response to me e-mail, received one from them a few weeks ago stating that my funds needed to be withdrawn and I needed to download a program to do it, but when I tried to download the program, it is an empty site-- Tired of sites like this one that gets away with what they do.
Name: Sheila Hefley Date: September 25, 2007 Comments: I requested payment from them when i reached the 2.00 payout. After 3-4 emails to the webmasters i never recieved no answer and so i quit the program with telling them i was going to report to them.Still never recieved no payment or word from webmaster
Name: katrina2000 Date: December 23, 2006 Comments: These people are going to delete everyone in the program who does NOT download and install their ARSA program, despite the fact that the software will not install properly. All support answers are to delete the post or a cut and paste reply that has no bearing on the problem at hand. They own one other site that I know of and are opening another one.
Name: Trish Date: January 7, 2007 Comments: They are deleting everyone who won't download and use their software, which turns out to be a click bot, basically. They've deleted people already, starting with the people they owe the most money to.
Name: Renita Perrone Date: January 14, 2007 Comments: requested $2 payout on 1/5/07. Their home page says payouts done within 48 hours. On 1/9 I e-mailed them to ask about it. As of 1/14/07 I have not received a response or a payout.
Name: Les Burkett Date: February 3, 2007 Comments: No payments made since beginning of year.
Name: baja Date: February 5, 2007 Comments: cashed out 01/15/2007 ,but no payment and no response to emails
Name: Mack Evans Date: March 5, 2007 Comments: They have paid me five times in the past, but a redemption request I made two months ago was ignored. Also, I have sent five contact emails to them and have received zero responses.
Name: Helen Van Gassen Date: April 1, 2007 Comments: Requested payout of $2.00 in Feb 2007...placed on the paid list and was never paid.
Name: susan bruce Date: April 2, 2007 Comments: im hearing that people are not getting paid,is this site a scam
Name: nhtpscd Date: April 17, 2007 Comments: first they got their members to use a bot then ended up not paying. Been waiting months and so have a lot of others. They wont respond to emails
Name: Laura Date: April 28, 2007 Comments: I know I am not the only one awaiting payment from this fraudulent site!! Once again I am utterly disgusted at how these WM's Scam hard working people with disabilities just like so many others!! A real F--King Let DOWN!!!
Name: wagdoll Date: April 29, 2007 Comments: HappyBizs is putting 0 iframes in the timer bar of their emails. The 0 iframe loads trojan viruses so that members whose antivirus protection doesn't catch this will have their computers infected: http://www.gptboycott.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17008. Unlike some other sites that have been hit by hackers that put viruses on their sites, Happybizs is doing this on purpose to their own members. I have also read that happybizs asked members to download a program that would 'autoclick' search engine results for them. The program they had to download came from a domain called kkkse.com http://getpaidforum.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=474812 The HappyBizs owner is also on the whois of a site called go-for-search which pays people to promote a 'banner' that contains a 0 iframe that does autosearches when it loads on the user's website. For a time, this go-for-search was also spreading trojans via a file on the kkkse domain. http://www.who-is-who-in-gpt.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=5544&st=0&p=86622
Name: roberta warner Date: April 29, 2007 Comments: i had reached payout in march did not receive it wrote them several times and have not recevied any payment or replies to my e-mail. there are to many of these sites out there that do not pay and i finally got tired of them and just now started reporting this. it is not fair we make them money and they rip us off. i have stayed quiet untill now when most of my sites have not paid me.
Name: Kim Date: May 7, 2007 Comments: http://fairytaleptr.com
http://www.coolcatmails.com
All three of these programs owe me and are ignoring my inquiries about payment. Cool Cat is a huge dissappointment because they had always paid so well in the past. I don't understand why all the companies choose to ignore their members instead of trying to work it out.
thanks for your help.
Name: Andrew Date: October 20, 2007 Comments: Non payment for the last 4 payout requests, dating back over 75 days. Also has made no reply to numerous contacts regarding this non-payment.
DEFINITELY a cheating program
Name: Mary McMinn Date: July 21, 2007 Comments: They say that they pay withing 30 days or there after...but they don't.
Name: Elaine Savoy Date: August 20, 2007 Comments: This is a scam site. I clicked until I earned payout and I was never paid but they have me on their been paid page! I contacted the webmaster over a dozen times with no response.
Name: carolyn gay Date: November 5, 2007 Comments: have not recieved payments or will they ansaner my emails
Name: Joyce Date: August 26, 2007 Comments: Been waiting on payout from them since August 17, 2007 for $2.00. Have sent 3 requests and have gotten no response.
Name: Jennifer Bragg Date: August 28, 2007 Comments: They have put my name on the "Been Paid" list and I have not been paid at all. They will not respond to any emails either.
Name: Cindi Date: September 9, 2007 Comments: On paid list but NEVER RECEIVE THE PAYMENT!
Name: tammy bowen Date: September 15, 2007 Comments: not paying , requested payout the 21st of august and have written several support emails with no reply to email and no payment sent, there banners say payment within 24hrs
Name: Philip Howard Date: September 25, 2007 Comments: Hasn't paid in three weeks. Will not reply to e-mails
Name: Steve Callan Date: September 27, 2007 Comments: Never paid - reported as paid - but received nothing
Name: cleta spencer Date: October 2, 2007 Comments: Another site that pays you a few times then you keep clicking on their emails thinking, well they have been paying me, then next thing you know they owe you 3 payouts. Which I haven't gotteen paid for last 3 payout requests and no replys to contacting them as to why I haven't received my money. Another scam site.
Name: Annette Smazal Date: November 2, 2007 Comments: I have ask for a pay out two time know and have not got payed it should be $4.00.
Name: frank lockwood Date: November 6, 2007 Comments: I assumed this site had been paying me since May. To-day I checked my records. They owe me from May 2007. Total $14.00. I feeel sick,taken,naive and stupid.
Name: Helen Fillion Date: November 17, 2007 Comments: I worked this site for about 3 months to reach payout as a free member. Never got paid or answers back from my contact emeail on their site.
Name: James Semmler Date: November 27, 2007 Comments: Requested a $2 payout and never got it. Sent them an E-Mail twice and never got any replies from either. I thought it was too good to be true.
Name: julie graham Date: December 4, 2007 Comments: I have applied for 3 lots of $2.00 payouts and have not recieved antthing as yet. This has been over the last 3 weeks
Name: grayce Date: December 7, 2007 Comments: cashed out at 2.00 on 9/19 - have never been paid despite email requests
Name: Elizabeth Date: December 10, 2007 Comments: I just wanted to let you know that HappyBizs is now listing themselves as Happy Email. I'm assuming they are the same site since the url is http://happybizs.com
They also seem to have the same policy of not paying as they say they will. Their faq page states in 24 hours but doesn't seem to happen. I had checked here in the boycott list but saw Happybiz and not Happy Email so went ahead and joined. I should have checked further.
Name: frank Date: December 15, 2007 Comments: yea this sit owes me $22 dollars in payout sitl have got nothing. Sed lots of emails no pay out.
Name: Alina Date: May 18, 2008 Comments: I request my free member Pay Out 08/17/2007 ($2.00) and never receive, I send about 100 emails and never respond me.
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