rejs
18th August 2002, 17:17
After waiting over 3 months to see if they would finally pay those of us who had earned $30, or more, we finally got told last week that:
1- the new policy is now $100 minimum
2- Payments will start again in October. BUT: it will be based on using 50% of their revenue for payments and will be on a prorata basis. So, if they can only pay 10% to all members, you'll get $10 of your $100. So far they have not answered me regarding whether you now have to get to $100 again before being eligible for another payment. If that is the case, it would take another 2 months for a person who has no referrals.
Yes, that's right, a member with no referrals will have to work their program for 20 months before being eligible for payment, and then you have no guarantee you'll ever get it.
I have had a heated discussion with them over the past 4 days.
Keep in mind that until April 2002 their policy was you could get paid about 30 days after reaching $30. I had $41, my wife and stepdaughter also had over $30.............In my first email, I let them know that I was not going to sit still and stand for it, and that I was prepared to file Attorney General complaints along with complaints to any agency that wanted to field it. Their reply was that as I now did not accept their membership terms, they would cancel my account within 48 hours unless I stated otherwise.
They have tried many times to get me to concede that they have the right to change their terms whenever they want, and they even threw it in my face that I was a free member.
I also pointed out to them that their own site's front page states "Earn Cash for every quiz every time". As that infers getting paid when you have conformed to their rules, they effectively have engaged in deceptive advertising.
Now, by the third day into this, they added to their main page you get after logging in a very long paragraph related to my complaints. Here is a good portion of it:
IPTL cannot and will not tolerate members who want to continue to be an active IPTL member while at the same time deliberately seeking to undermine IPTL by spreading caustic information designed to discourage others from joining or participating in IPTL.....a blatant unwillingness to accept and abide by IPTL's terms, actions and policies, or an assertive attempt to undermine IPTL will only result in automatic membership cancellation.....we are rather referring to such things as pro-active spreading of defamatory remarks on the web which indicate that IPTL is being less than honest and upright in its dealings with its members.
The bottom line is they claim to have a staff - I am sure they are getting paid. They are also planning a massive advertising campaign. It's not very funny that they decided they could not pay any of their members.
I plan to do everything I can to fight them, but I cannot do it alone. Please be free to leave URLs for sites that will help in this cause and inform others that IPTL cannot be trusted. It is also necessary to get the word spread by as many means as possible.
Please remember, they allow any age to join. Can you imagine how many children and teens have had to come to terms with this action......not to mention the lesson about trust they have just been taught.
1- the new policy is now $100 minimum
2- Payments will start again in October. BUT: it will be based on using 50% of their revenue for payments and will be on a prorata basis. So, if they can only pay 10% to all members, you'll get $10 of your $100. So far they have not answered me regarding whether you now have to get to $100 again before being eligible for another payment. If that is the case, it would take another 2 months for a person who has no referrals.
Yes, that's right, a member with no referrals will have to work their program for 20 months before being eligible for payment, and then you have no guarantee you'll ever get it.
I have had a heated discussion with them over the past 4 days.
Keep in mind that until April 2002 their policy was you could get paid about 30 days after reaching $30. I had $41, my wife and stepdaughter also had over $30.............In my first email, I let them know that I was not going to sit still and stand for it, and that I was prepared to file Attorney General complaints along with complaints to any agency that wanted to field it. Their reply was that as I now did not accept their membership terms, they would cancel my account within 48 hours unless I stated otherwise.
They have tried many times to get me to concede that they have the right to change their terms whenever they want, and they even threw it in my face that I was a free member.
I also pointed out to them that their own site's front page states "Earn Cash for every quiz every time". As that infers getting paid when you have conformed to their rules, they effectively have engaged in deceptive advertising.
Now, by the third day into this, they added to their main page you get after logging in a very long paragraph related to my complaints. Here is a good portion of it:
IPTL cannot and will not tolerate members who want to continue to be an active IPTL member while at the same time deliberately seeking to undermine IPTL by spreading caustic information designed to discourage others from joining or participating in IPTL.....a blatant unwillingness to accept and abide by IPTL's terms, actions and policies, or an assertive attempt to undermine IPTL will only result in automatic membership cancellation.....we are rather referring to such things as pro-active spreading of defamatory remarks on the web which indicate that IPTL is being less than honest and upright in its dealings with its members.
The bottom line is they claim to have a staff - I am sure they are getting paid. They are also planning a massive advertising campaign. It's not very funny that they decided they could not pay any of their members.
I plan to do everything I can to fight them, but I cannot do it alone. Please be free to leave URLs for sites that will help in this cause and inform others that IPTL cannot be trusted. It is also necessary to get the word spread by as many means as possible.
Please remember, they allow any age to join. Can you imagine how many children and teens have had to come to terms with this action......not to mention the lesson about trust they have just been taught.