Skippy Cash Matrix: $25 matrix feeder
Skippy Cash Matrix appears to be based in Melbourne Australia and was launched mid 2012.
Heading up the company is President Greg Turcanu (also known as Grigore Turcanu) and CEO Marian Craiu.
Turcanu (photo right) claims to have built up a team of “38,000” in MLM coffee company Gano Excel, but left due to ‘a vision to build his own Company and help people who are struggling‘.
As late as July 2012 Turcanu was advertising MLM business opportunity EPXBody on Twitter, however since then he’s only been promoting Skippy Cash Matrix and his other company “Skippy Traffic” (traffic exchange).
In his Twitter marketing spiel, Turcanu claims that Skippy Cash Matrix is ‘guaranteed to work 4 anyone‘:
Read on for a full review of the Skippy Cash MLM business opportunity.
The Skippy Cash Matrix Product Line
Skippy Cash Matrix has no retailable products or services, with membership being the only thing Skippy Matrix members are able to market.
Once signed up, Skippy Cash Matrix members can then purchase matrix positions and buy into the company’s compensation plan.
The Skippy Cash Matrix Compensation Plan
The Skippy Cash Matrix compensation plan revolves around a series of matrices that are slightly different sizes.
The basic idea is that new members join the company and then buy a matrix position. Once the matrix is full, which happens via new and existing members buying matrix positions, the member at the top cycles out, earns a commission and enters into another matrix.
There are three basic matrices used in the Skippy Cash Matrix compensation plan:
- 2×1 – affiliate is placed at the top and has two positions under them
- 2×2 – affiliate is placed at the top and has two positions under them, each of these positions then has two positions under them for a total of six positions
- 2×3 – as above but with an extra level of positions (3) bringing the total number of positions to 14
Using these matrix structures, the Skippy Cash Matrix has six matrices that members are able to buy into:
- Skippy Jr (2×2) – $25 position, once full top member cycles out and earns $50 which is used to buy into the Skippy 2×2 matrix
- Skippy 2×2 (2×2) – $50 position, once full top member cycles out and earns $50 and entry into Skippy Boomerang matrix
- Skippy Boomerang (2×1) – entry only via cycling out of Skippy 2×2, upon cycling member is given one re-entry position in Skippy 2×2 and entry into Skippy Silver
- Skippy Silver (2×2) – entry only via cycling out of Skippy Boomerang, upon cycling member earns $100, re-entry back into Skippy Boomerang and entry into Skippy Gold
- Skippy Gold (2×3) – entry only via cycling out of Skippy Silver, upon cycling member earns $1000, is given a “Australian solid gold coin” (no further information is provided), re-entry into Skippy Boomerang and entry into Skippy Platinum
- Skippy Platinum (2×3) – entry only via cycling out Skippy Platinum, upon cycling member earns $5000, is given an “Australian solid platinum coin” (no further information is provided) and re-entry into Skippy Boomerang
Joining Skippy Cash Matrix
Membership to Skippy Cash Matrix is free, however members must purchase a $25 matrix position if they wish to earn from the company’s compensation plan.
Conclusion
Part money game and part pyramid scheme, Skippy Cash Matrix simply requires new members to join and purchase matrix positions in order to sustain itself.
The problem with this of course is that once the recruitment stops and existing members stop purchasing matrix positions, the scheme will collapse.
Members join Skippy Cash Matrix, pump money into the scheme and then earn money from other member’s matrix position purchases. Unfortunately matrix positions aren’t a legitimate product which further reduces Skippy Cash Matrix to a simply money game amongst its members.
Ultimately those joining and purchasing matrix positions last are not going to make any money, and with the generated matrix positions created each time a matrix cycles, this is most likely to happen sooner rather than later.
Not only that, but members of Skippy Cash Matrix also must consent to receiving spam from the company too:
By signing up for the SkippyCashMatrix.com program, Member is opting-in to receive other special offer emails from SkippyCashMatrix.com and its SkippyCashMatrix.com members.
Awesome!
Update 2nd October 2012 – Shortly after the publication of this review and sometime in the last week, Skippy Cash Matrix have changed their name to “Skippy Advertising”.
The old domain now redirects to ‘skippyadvertising.com’ and for reasons unknown, the company also now hides its compensation plan from prospective members (red flag):
Our reword (sic) program is only for active members. The access to pay plan is in members area.
To the best of my knowledge Skippy Advertising are still using the matrix position based business model analysed in this review.
Gee, Mr Turcanu certainly has the sort of impressive LinkedIn resume which would(n’t) stimulate anyone to reach for their wallet:
In fact, a more cynical observer might just say Skippy Cash Matrix is the logical next step in the evolution of a full time fraudster.
Just another conman giving us Romanians a bad name. Why couldn’t he have been a Nigerian? His LinkedIn profile is incredible.
Probably, like most ponzi’s. They skip right, in haul as much cash as they can, and hop right on out leaving the majority high and dry.
He claims to now reside in either Perth or Melbourne in Australia, depending on which lie……err….profile you believe.
You first must study about our business. Skippy Cash Matrix first is about Advertising and second business. We are not a game or pyramid scam.
Our Business is based on 3 Products: Advertising, Gold and Platinum Coins and Aboriginal Art Shop. We have 3 stream of income for our members, not only the cycle, the cycle is only a extra bonus.
To know about our Payplan you must first be a member. That is the best MLM concept ever. I hope you will be cooperative and this stupid conclusion will be removed from website.
Best to you!
Greg
@Greg
Done.
So it’s not about products, it’s about membership.
Yet none of those can be bought (aboriginal art isn’t even part of the compensation plan). All that can be bought are matrix positions, with commissions earnt when new or existing members purchase matrix positions.
Ie. Your basic recruitment driven pyramid scheme money game.
Second time you are confusing people.
1. Our Plan is based in 2 Pay Plan, Cycle Matrix and Matrix levels.
2. The membership is free!
3. $25 is for Advertasing Product
Banners add
Text Add
Login Ads
4. The Cycle program is paid from $25
5. The 2 Level pays from Advertising Packages ( We have 3 packages)
6. The 4 levels pays from Aboriginal art and this is only available only for members
7. The 7 level pays from Coins (coming soon)
8. Another 2 stream of income will coming soon.
My friend you must first study about MLM and after that to give the review.
Now I will contact on monday my Company lower about this but you still have time to decide remove this stupid conclusion or leave.
Correct, purchasing matrix positions is how people make money in Skippy Matrix.
Given that advertising cannot be bougtht without a matrix position, and it is the purchasing of a matrix position that people actually get paid on (advertising credits can be ignored), thus it is the matrix positions that are infact the product in Skippy Matrix.
So you’re currently falsely representing the compensation plan stating what is not even actually in place yet. Wonderful.
One more B.S. artist showing off some Artistry. Yech!!
I think Greg should listen to Tex Perkins and the Cruel Sea singing “Better Get A Lawyer” The last verse goes
“Better get a lawyer son
Better get a real good one
Don’t drop the soap
Don’t smoke no dope
Get yourself a lawyer son
Your gonna need a good one
To getcha outa this one”
If Mr Turcanu really is in Australia and he’s using the name and image of such a national icon as Skippy in vain, I’m sure the Australian Consumer and Competition ScamWatch complaint form will come in for a hammering today:
https://www.scamwatch.gov.au/content/index.phtml/tag/reportascam/
Yes I’m From Australia and our Business is legal registered and soon our business will be listed to Direct Sale Association.
We are not scam and thanks guys for this commenting, i get 27 signup from this website, great job. Please keep commenting and work for me. Do you think people are stupid? Every normal person can make a differences from scam and real business.
If Skippy is a scam in this case the Google, Facebook etc is a scam to. We have exactly the same concept and affiliate program.
Thanks for this stupid constructive comments.
LOL, one day “Greg” is going to sick his, umm, lower, on Oz and the next he is thanking him for signups.
@ Boris… He does write a bit like the typical Nigerian scammer.
Registered as what, a delicatessen ??
What’s your A.B.N. number and why isn’t it displayed on your site as is required by Australian law ??
If you want to run a HYIP ponzi disguised as an MLM company, fine and dandy, but, p-u-h-l-e-a-s-e don’t treat Oz and his readers as fools.
Greg. I live and work in Melbourne. How about you meet up with me over a coffee and show me EXACTLY where you generate your revenue and prove that the revenue is not generated from the $25 positions purchased by the members.
i.e. show me on your laptop where exactly the revenue is being made and show me your profits/losses from the revenue generating programs and how this is being distributed to the members.
Once I’m satisfied that your scheme is not a pyramid scheme or ponzi I can come back on to this forum and give the members the verdict.
I can be contacted via email ray.christy2@gmail.com – from there I will give you my telephone number. Regards, Ray
Update: Skippy Cash Matrix appear to have changed their name to ‘Skippy Advertising’ and now hide their compensation plan from the general public.
So they now admit they are a clone of Ad Surf Daily? 🙂
If it is such a huge business with you why only 7,758 registered members of the company after 2 months?