Date Boycotted: 09-11-2007 URL: http://www.paidemail.com

PaidEmail is, obviously enough, a paid e-mail site offering paid e-mails worth between five cents and five dollars, a one dollar referral bonus and cash prizes of up to $50,000. The site also proudly boasts that payments are made within 45 days, though the complaints which follow show this not to be the case.

The reason that PaidEmail 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. Some of those members have had their accounts deleted. 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, PaidEmail has been boycotted!

Discuss this boycott at: http://gptboycott.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=131.

Name: Lana Mason
Date: January 27, 2010
Comments: What surprises me is that the site is still running so they must be sending emails, etc to those signups that have not reached payout yet. I reached payout years ago and never got a cent.

Name: Anna Shelton-Agar
Date: April 24, 2009
Comments: PaidEmail owes me $39.67 and has never paid despite repeated requests.. Emails meet with no response and their telephone number has been disconnected.

Name: ALina
Date: May 18, 2008
Comments: I request my Pay Out 08/02/2006 and never receive, I send more than 100 emais and never respond, inclusive about a year never send more ads., I login always 1 time for month and send complaint email and never respond

Name: DARLENE ANDERSON
Date: March 2, 2008
Comments: paidemail owes me $51.00 since 2006. i.ve e-mailed them about 30 times no damn response. scam scam scam and something should be done about this type of scam. any info?

Name: Gary W
Date: February 24, 2008
Comments: I have been paid by them twice a few years ago. They have owed me around $25.00 for atleast 2 years now and don't reply to many emails. I had lots of referrals too.

Name: Renee L. Grandon
Date: December 10, 2007
Comments: I requested payout of $46.74 on November 15, 2006 and by November 11, 2007 still had not received it. I hear nothing from them when I try to contact them about it. It is now December 10, 2007 and still no payment.

Name: Patti
Date: November 28, 2007
Comments: This was a site where the paid email links were about 3 cents. I had accumulated about $19, and then they died out. The last news update is from June 2006.

Name: Kat Lopez
Date: September 8, 2007
Comments: I reached payout over a year ago. My many emails from the contact button go unanswered.

Name: D. Grafft
Date: February 25, 2007
Comments: They wont ad my past referals to my account. They wont pay me. Ive requested several times, over last 9 months. They dont answer any of my emails or even send me my site stats. I recently wrote them again asking them to at least acknowledge that they are trying to pay people and got no response again. I wish to put them on boycott list.

Name: Steven Brandlein
Date: January 24, 2007
Comments: I have tried over and over to request payment, which is over $40. I am ignored over and over with no replies, no payment. Now, I receive no more PTR emails from them either. Perhaps they have deleted me.

Name: Suzanne
Date: January 15, 2007
Comments: I have been requesting pay out since before Ded and all I keep getting from them is emials like these: Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:06:01 -0600 Greetings, You will receive emails daily which reflect your up-to-date statistics and information. We value the security of your personal information so we keep that data offline. If you do not receive an email with your updated stats within 48 hours, please email us at help@paidemail.com and we will email your stats to you. Thank you for being a member. --PaidEmail.com No answers ever..just an emial any ideas?

Name: Tanya Batista
Date: November 13, 2006
Comments: I have requested Pay out 4 times and emailed them 3 times to find out what was going on. I have received no response and no payment

Name: Hatch K
Date: October 7, 2006
Comments: They keep promising to pay and whenever I submit the 'request payment' form they come back with some excuse or other.. I have read hundreds of their emails and my account shows $40 + earned, but no payment in two years. Yet they are continuing to aggressively recruit.

Name: Per O. Ringstroem
Date: August 11, 2006
Comments: Hello,

I hope you are having a pleasant day.

The WM of one of the sites where I am a member asked us to submit info about sites that we consider scam. I did it and I was actually paid a reward by them. I also received a reply from them where they suggested that I inform you so here it is. The site which paid me the reward is Spare-Dollars and the WM of course is Kimberly Cochran. She is GREAT!

So here we go: A little more than two years ago when I got started in PTR I signed up for a mini-course that seemed interesting. Through the course I signed up with about 30 sites. Most of them have now vanished into cyberspace and they were apparently scam most of them.

One of the sites was http://www.paidemail.com

I have not yet cancelled my membership with them although I know that I will never get paid.

LAST YEAR in February I had a communication with them. At that time they owed me approximately $28 and since pay out was minimum $20 I requested them to pay me. They were going to do that after they had checked my downline. To this I responded that my earnings were more than $20 without taking the referral bonuses into consideration.

After that I believe I have requested pay out once more.

Note that this was more than one year ago!

As I said I have not cancelled my account with them so I still receive their ads which are not very frequent. Yesterday, however, I received one and since they always detail how much I have earned I know that my present balance is approximately $51.

Another interesting thing I have noticed is that my balance is increasing. This after all is Paid to Read BUT I stopped clicking on their ads a long time ago.

When I receive their mail, which are sent from contact@paidemail.com I just hit reply and send it back asking for my money. To this I have of course never received any reply.

So what we have here is apparently a double scam. Advertisers are paying for ads which are not read and clicked by some members. Members get credited for reading them anyway (clicking or not clicking) but members are not paid.

If there ever were a scam I believe this is one and the whole PTR community ought to be informed about it.

Thanks and have a pleasant weekend,
Per

Name: Julia Gunnells
Date: June 29, 2006
Comments: I requested payout in Jan. 2006. Suppose to be 45 days net.Payout is $20. with 5 referrals on any level. First Level Referrals: 4 Second Level Referrals: 2 Third Level Referals: 0 Referral Bonus: $5 Signup Bonus: $2 Email Bonus: $38.11 TOTAL EARNED: $45.11 They have not responded to a single email.

Name: Brian Ogg
Date: March 31, 2006
Comments: I finally reached payout in December,which is $20 in personal earnings and one also has to have 4 referrals in order to be paid...i have 6,all confirmed.I requested payout in December,they said i waited too long since they sent out payment on the 15th of every month.I requested again on Jan 1,Feb 1, Mar 1;and will do so every month until they pay me.I have contacted their customer service several times about this issue and they keep tellling me they pay their members that have met the requirements monthly,and I have;and yet have to have been paid a dime yet.They owe me over $32 but refuse to pay.They even have the nerve to email all their members saying that all checks have been sent out,every month.Please help any way you can.

Name: Tiit Eenma
Date: March 20, 2006
Comments: When you reach minimum payout level and request payment does not react on it anyway. Does simply not pay. Does not answer on my multiple reminders. When I started to complain them more seriously - my account was deleted. I lost about $25.

Name: Pam Triick
Date: October 19, 2005
Comments: I have written to this company several times trying to get a listing of what I've been paid for and what is still outstanding. They won't even reply. I have over 15 (since I started saving them)of email ads that I haven't been paid for. They claim they list our current earnings on each email they send. The past 5 email has not had my earnings. There's one in my inbox now. I don't know where else to go to get any information.

Name: Fiona Craddock
Date: May 17, 2005
Comments: Their FAQ says that they payout upon reaching $20. So when I reached $20, I requested payment. After ignoring my emails for almost 2 months, they told me that their terms required that I have 5 referrals in order to be paid out. I have no idea whether these terms existed when I signed up - they could have beeen added recently. However, there is nothing in the FAQ about needing referrals so I think that at best it is misleading and at worst unethical.

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