YouGetPaidFast Review: $28 classic gifting scheme
YouGetPaidFast launched in September 2013 and is headed up by admin and owner Paul Darby.
Darby operated YouGetPaidFast behind the parent company “Unimax Services”, with an address provided on the YouGetPaidFast website in the US state of Texas.
The Unimax Services website (“unimaxservices.com”) was registered in 2006 and for almost a decade has been the platform Paul Darby has used to launch numerous business opportunities.
These include The Best Traffic of Your Life”, Save Your Daughters (??), Encer Agency, The Net Millionaires Social Network and Websites on TV.
Read on for a full review of the YouGetPaidFast MLM business opportunity.
The YouGetPaidFast Product Line
YouGetPaidFast has no retailable products or services, with affiliates being only able to market affiliate membership to the company itself.
Bundled with affiliate membership is some sort of traffic exchange service, however details on this service are not provided to the general public on the YouGetPaidFast website.
The YouGetPaidFast Compensation Plan
The YouGetPaidFast compensation revolves around affiliates joining the company for $28 and splitting this payment between the affiliate who recruited them and their upline.
Payments by new affiliates are made between affiliates via money order, with one $7 payment going to the affiliate who recruited them, $7 to the recruitment who recruited them and the last $7 to the affiliate who recruited them.
After a YouGetPaidFast affiliate has bought into the scheme, they in turn receive $7 payments from affiliates they recruit, paid out down an additional three levels of recruitment.
Joining YouGetPaidFast
With affiliates required to pay $28 to the affiliate who recruited them and their upline, effectively affiliate membership to YouGetPaidFast is $28.
Conclusion
Back when the internet was in its infancy and before it existed, participants of cash gifting schemes primarily used money orders to exchange money between themselves.
Take that core and combine it with internet marketing exposure and a token product and that’s pretty much what you have with YouGetPaidFast.
Affiliates gifting each other with the payments stopping once new affiliates cease being recruited into the scheme and gifting their upline.
So how does Paul Darby explain away the blatant gifting nature of YouGetPaidFast?
Is this like a fancy gifting program?
No. Gifting programs are typically ponzi schemes with no product or service offered.
The You Get Paid Fast program not only has a product, we have multiple expensive, valuable, wonderful products that are of great value and worth to anyone wishing to make an income online. We are simply a hot business with a killer affiliate program.
The traffic exchange service is present as a cover for the scheme, however any claim that it is being bought and sold is destroyed by merit that affiliates pay each other.
Paul Darby himself has a position in the YouGetPaidFast compensation plan (at the top) so the company itself makes no money as nothing is being bought and sold within the scheme (other than the right to participate, which is “pay to play”).
Putting aside the additional red flag of a complete lack of retail within YouGetPaidFast, one could replace the traffic exchange service with anything and the compensation plan would remain intact.
This is because rather than the sale of a product or service to retail customers, YouGetPaidFast simply requires new affiliates to gift existing affiliates in order for commissions to be generated.
What’s worse is, if Darby is to be believed, the $28 gifting scheme appears to only be the start of YouGetPaidFast;
With funds from this company (we) will be creating a new company to travel in portable internet cafe’s to economically hard hit towns and will be setting up income earning accounts for these people, then we will rent/least/purchase a structure and leave a permanent internet cafe for the town/city and will move to the next town.
As for refunds?
When you complete your purchase, you, the buyer, are claiming that you have read, accepted and fully understand the terms of this agreement. Which includes a zero refund policy. That is no refunds offered.
Finally, it’s also worth noting that all participants of YouGetPaidFast are submitting themselves to Paul Darby’s personal email list:
Buyer agrees to post-sale contact from joint venture partners of the Seller or from others who have a commercial relationship with the Seller.
Buyer agrees that all personal information about the buyer or his or her buying habits and preferences, including address and phone number, may be placed in a general database and agrees that this information may be shared, rented or sold to third parties.
“Buyer” of course referring to participating affiliates and the “seller” being Paul Darby through YouGetPaidFast.
Enjoy the spam folks.
Hmmm… Creative use of stockphoto?
http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-47553238/stock-photo-handsome-young-man-in-a-black-tuxedo-at-a-round-bar-holding-whiskey-in-his-hand-shallow-depth-of.html?src=GZZWH3FZjWfu4koU98StfQ-1-13
So, he is essentially charging participants to help build his mailing/contact list.
Unwitting participants pay to be added to a database of biz opp seekers which are then sold to multiple mailing list brokers/marketers.
It’s an old scheme that many are not aware of.
Yup, pay Paul and get your own list to pay paul so he can sent you his other schemes in order for you and your list to pay paul again and again.
This Paul guy has already a bad reputation for doing such things. Ken Russo is also involved in this gifting scheme as one of Paul’s top promoters.
I also believe Paul has set up several different accounts which would be against their own rules of stacking.
Darby will also be adding higher buy in levels in the very near future, you can count on that.
I can almost smell a bait and switch approach coming up where anyone who pays the higher gifting fees will pass up to the top players in this scheme regardless of who brought them in at the beginning. Darby has done this sort of thing in the past.
It is also interesting to note that the domain is up for auction on Godaddy.
yougetpaidfast.com is available.
is at auction through GoDaddy Auctions®
Auction ends: 12/25/2013 12:01:00 PM
C$63.79 Current bid Get this domain
Wow, who’da thought? I should go grab that while it’s still cheap.
According to some FAQ’s of YGPF:
I guess this rule does not apply to Darby since he seems to have several different accounts in the system.
One is Pauldarby, another is 1000 and in account 1001 he has 3 positions in the pay system. I am sure if I dig deeper more will be found.
People should check out Paul Darby’s page on RipOffReport. He has been ripping people off for YEARS.
Here’s how he ripped ME off. A couple years ago he had that Get Your Websites on TV scheme. I thought it sounded cool, so I joined. I advertised it quite a bit, and yet nobody ever joined. Eventually I learned why.
After somebody filled out the form on MY site, she would start getting a series of followup autoresponder messages. One day I checked them, and lo and behold, all the links in the followup autoresponder letters went to PAUL’S SITE, not mine.
I confronted him about stealing his affiliates’ leads and mailing to them himself, which is truly criminal and vile, and he got SO NASTY. Even after I told him I had PROOF, he still kept doing it.
If anybody is so dumb as to join this program after reading how many people he ripped off in his RipOffReport, at least try to protect yourself.
Go to your own site, and fill out the form with an alternative email address. Then when you get the followup letters from Paul’s autoresponder, follow those links all the way through, all the way to the signup form — and see if YOUR name or PAUL’S name is listed on the sign up form as sponsor. Check this every time you get a followup letter. The first couple might be ok, and then he will steal people on the third one.
A program owner who STEALS LEADS from his affiliates’ back offices, and mails to them himself, is THE LOWEST OF THE LOW.
That’s unfortunate, Jen. Sadly, people fall for it every time.
Sure would be nice to see the big boys go after him soon.
I think I’ll send him an email suggesting he change his web site’s domain to … “GetRippedOffRightNow.com”
Or… I Get Paid Fast.com
Of all the comments above only 1 appears to have any legitimacy at all and that is Jennie in regards to her affiliate links, the fix for that is NEVER EVER promote someone else’s domain. I learned that the hard way many years ago. And not to get off topic, but 1000’s of Empower Network and Blogbeast reps are doing the same thing, losing signups to David Wood.
Back to the subject: I’m in no way defending Paul Darby, but did you know that you can find a scam report on ANY Body who has ever had success on the internet and I mean anybody.
(there is even a Ripoff report on Mother Teresa)
Give it a try, go to Google and search for “Someone’s Name ripoff report”, and you will something.
What I find in most of these bashings and complaints, is it usually comes from people who join a business and do nothing and expect to make money and when they don’t they spend all of their waking hours bashing.
FACT: I joined Yougetpaidfast.com and I took action and I’m making money.
FACT: The program has products
FACT: Cash is not a form of payment. Cash gifting is exactly that you give someone cash as a gift and get no products or service in return. Yougetpaidfast.com has products.
So I hope that anybody reading these comments will do their due diligence and make their own decision based on facts.
@Brian Davis
Irrelevant.
Sigh. Your silly marketing 101 tactics won’t work here. Just get to the point.
FACT: You paid to enter the system and now receive cash gifts from participants below you and those they recruit into the system.
FACT: That has nothing to do with the cash gifting scheme. Affiliates gift eachother with no money exchanged or paid for products or services, bundled with the scheme or otherwise.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is what you have to convince yourself to believe if you want participation in cash gifting schemes to make even the remotest of sense.
Cash is not a form of payment… find someone who believes you when you tell them that and you’ve probably found your next victim.
Nobody gifts YouGetPaidFast.com, participants gift eachother. Participants provide no product or service to eachother, other than the gifting of cash.
You and me both.
One or two ripoff report is not surprising. I found some jerk who wrote a ripoff report on me (then used some random Asian guy’s photo) even though I’ve never done any business online. Clearly it’s some hater from some scam I busted before. 😀 But several, all reporting the same thing, from widely varying times… THAT bears looking into.
As for products… What *are* the products any way? And where can one see such products? Where is it listed on their website? How does one BUY such products? From you or other reps?
Cash is NOT a form of payment? Are you living on planet earth? You probably had a temporary brain fade. I’ll forgive you. However, you still manage to get “cash gifting” wrong.
Cash gifting is a Ponzi scheme where you’re convinced that by “giving away” cash you can expect MORE cash in return as you find more people who believe in the same thing. It’s based on deliberate MIS-interpretation of IRS rules by fraudsters.
I don’t know if Darby’s scheme is cash gifting in the pure sense, but you haven’t proven that it isn’t either.
One should DEFINITELY do their due diligence and INVESTIGATE the claims… But did you do so, i.e. follow your own advice?
I don’t understand why you guys get so bent out shape over a lousy $28 to try something out, gifting scheme or not. Either way $28 is nothing compared to other money making opportunities out there where you have to keep paying some company every month for rehashed and recycled products out there that are useless.
Most network companies out there make most of their money selling their members training material and marketing material. Very seldom do you you see the average network marketer or MLM’r make any real money selling the so called products or the business because it is not duplicatable.
At least this guys has something that is a one time deal that is duplicatable, and with so many people making money as well it might have some merit.
Obviously you guys are more broke I thought because really $28 to test something that could make you money is not that much. But you guys would rather spend that money on a case of beer instead. Typical of the average joe with no aspirations.
Because it’s not “just $28”, is it. Far more than $28 makes its way to the top of a gifting scheme, effectively fleecing those below.
Cut the crap and stop making excuses for your participation in illegal cash gifting schemes.
I have not joined but aren’t these considered products? Aren’t there tons of reseller programs out there where you pay one time and then resell over and over?
So if I paid $7 each for 4 products and had the right to resell them for $7 each, wouldn’t that be legal?
FROM THEIR SITE…..
How many of these “reseller programs” get you to send off payments in the mail to four randoms who also sent off payments in the mail, to qualify themselves to receive payments in the mail?
You’re paying $7 x 4 to qualify to receive $7 payments from other people. Whatever is attached to that is irrelevant.
Welcome to the modern era product-based gifting scheme.
I don’t understand why you guys get so bent out of shape trying to get people to pay $28 for something that may or may not be legal. “Just try it”, you begged. Don’t they tell you “never be desperate” in selling school? Or is that not a part of your “training”?
So to be fair, all software reseller programs are gifting schemes right? Doesn’t matter how the money changes hands, it does.
I get what he’s doing and it certainly is borderline but you get software for your $28 and you get the right to sell it as well. A product for cash.
Seriously guys. Go find some real dirt on gifting schemes like EN.
No.
Of course it matters.
It’s not borderline anything. It’s a $28 gifting scheme with a series of products attached to membership and participation qualification (buying into the scheme for $28).
And from whom do you get this right from? Can’t be YouGetPaidFast as you don’t pay them anything (although most payments seem to wind up with Darby).
From a revenue standpoint the company makes no direct sales revenue. It’s all just money being shuffled around participants, just like any other gifting scheme out there.
Trying to deflect attention away from your gifting scheme won’t work here.
Further clarification:
The above would have to be with PLR products and I don’t see anything wrong with the model. You’d still have to sell through the company that made the product.
It’s the multiple levels (residual) that turns the model into a gifting scheme. You receive gifts residually for doing nothing, and to qualify all you have to do is buy into the scheme yourself.
Getting paid on sales you make yourself is not the same as a gifting scheme participation qualification payment.
I should have known. Because you say it’s so, it must be so. Yeesh….
Where does it say anywhere in the world how reseller rights can be paid for and in which manner?
Seriously…get over yourself. I could care less about this $28 program, but know it alls like you are boring.
Back up your statements with facts. Or better yet…send an email to the FCC and the FBI about this program. Coming from you it should be shut down by Monday.
Cash gifting schemes different to reseller rights affiliate opportunities. Naturally you’re going to have a problem defining the two as one.
Affiliates buy into a cash gifting scheme for a fee, which in the case of YouGetPaidFast is $28. This money is sent to four people who have also paid their fee previously, with one of them being required to have recruited the new affiliate being brought into the scheme.
After making their $28 payment, said new affiliate can now set about recruiting new gifters into the scheme and in turn also receive gifting payments.
The bundled products are neither here nor there – they’re merely a front.
Last warning about offtopic derail attempts. And if you want to talk facts, start by differentiating YouGetPaidFast from a gifting scheme.
And don’t waste my time with “we have a product”. Every online gifting scheme under the sun is bundled with e-products these days. Welcome to scamming in the twenty first century.
The bundled products are neither here nor there. They’re merely a front. Because you say so ….?
That says it all.
You lose credibility when you ignore what others write and just make blanket statements as if they are truths.
Ten minutes of my life I’ll never get back. Bye.
No, because they are.
They are bundled with gifting scheme participation membership. Can you buy the “products” without gifting scheme membership? Of course not.
And even if you could (another common gifting ruse is to offer bundled products standalone to appear legit), the revenue generated via such an offering is typically $0 or close to it. Participants simply ignore it, because all they’re there for is the gifting scheme.
They do however run around websites claiming to not be involved in the scheme and professing how legitimate it is because of such an offering though. Typically this also includes “we have… sorry I mean “they” have a product, how can we… I mean they be a gifting scheme?”.
It is gift scheme participation that is being paid for, with anything else (products or otherwise) simply attached to this membership. You gift your $28 to other participants and that qualifies you to recruit new participants who then gift you and the people who recruited you.
Feel free to answer the already ignored question put to you:
Is that something YGPF is now offering? I’ve seen some other sh-cams offer that… Operated by the guy who hides behind Wazzub, Michael Anthony DeBias.
But let’s face it, if you buy software or eBook through normal channels, you are not enlisted to SELL the same software or ebook for PROFIT. Thus, that situation is not comparable to this situation.
What Oz or I or anyone else say it is besides the point. It’s simply true.
Then you threw in the “why don’t YOU report it to the authorities” parting line… Phooey. That’s an admission that you don’t know and don’t care, isn’t it?
I wonder what sort of exclusive “rights” Paul Darby, YGPF and Ken Russo have to the software and e-books in the first place to be able to offer to sell resale rights to others.
Unreal, folks, get a life, what little I know about Darby’s program is that it is a one time $28 enrollment ( call it what you want ).
What in heavens name I am doing here is beyond me, but, I must say I have been totally entertained by reading the above thoughts. Come on, if you don’t have $28 bucks, what gives you the right to make comment.
If my calculations are correct, Darby has been in this thing for about 8 weeks, give this guy some running room, then take his sneakers away!
Call it what it is, a cash gifting scheme.
How much a cash gifting scheme charges for participation qualification is irrelevant.
That’s like arguing ‘well he was only murdered with a knife… least it wasn’t a bazooka’. Strawman arguments do not justify Paul Darby’s YouGetPaidFast cash gifting scheme.
Bill of Rights, US Constitution, duh.
Dislike of lowlife serial fraudsters who target people to whom 28 bucks IS a lot of money
I don’t think anyone needs to worry about YGPF being illegal, according to Darby’s email he states:
So now it’s not FBI but a lawfirm. What’s next, US Congress? Or the President? Maybe the Supreme Court?
FCC rules… quite amusing. FCC is about radio and TV broadcasts. FTC is the agency he should be worried about.
first of all its not gifting that paul is offering it is a real business for $28 (go spend that today on groceries and you wont get bread eggs milk or butter for that deal ).
Gas prices and grocery is at an all time high and is getting worse too bad for people who cant see this program you have to be brain dead we need to help ourselves and share this opportunity to all people who are working a 3rd job today to make ends meet.
We need to stop looking to the welfare system for easy handouts and learn to help ourselves HAVE A PROSPEROUS DAY !!!
Yes, it is.
All that crap you posted about welfare and groceries does not change the compensation plan, which is straight up $7 cash gifting.
what people should not join is (Ozedit: offtopic derail attempt removed)
Here’s hoping you’re not suggesting that prospects should spend their grocery money to buy into the YouGetPaidFast scheme. Beyond that, you might want to reevaluate your grocery-shopping skills.
Rough U.S. cost of store brands at Aldi and Walmart and plenty of other places:
* White bread = c. $1 to $1.25/loaf.
* Eggs = c. $1.50 to $2/dozen.
* Milk = c. $3 to $3.50/gallon.
* Butter = c. $2 to $2.50/container.
Assuming you paid the highest price, you left the store with bread, eggs, milk and butter for c. $9.25. You can do even better than that by shopping carefully. In any event, you can purchase a family-sized supply of these items for $28.
This is from September 2012, meaning there could be some price adjustments. Even so, they won’t be major:
iamthatlady.com/aldi-walmart/
Putting $28 into the YouGetPaidFast system is very likely going to cost the vast majority of participants to lose the equivalent of three loaves of bread, 36 eggs, three gallons of milk and three containers of butter.
When all of these things are lost, someone from MLM La-La Land who is fat and happy on all the food they took from other people will come along and tell the losers they didn’t work hard enough or were too lazy.
PPBlog
You could have at least picked a business with better pedigree… If this is a “business” at all.
This is great information on Paul Darby and his little cash gifting scheme. I made a video about him and cash gifting as a whole. I linked to your post for the excellent breakdown on what his scheme is all about.
http://ethanvanderbuilt.com/2013/12/19/cash-gifting-get-paid-fast-scam-yes-opinion/
I took a look at this. What caught my mind immediately was the fact in the beginning of the sales pitch he says you can be up and running in minutes and yet the four people you pay $7 to all have to receive the money and mark you paid before the system is activated.
Another red flag was the content of the money video. Any idiot can sit there and say 4 people get 4 people who send $7.00 and you will have earned X $$$. He used 50000 X $7.00 and made it sound like $350,000.00 is average online monthly income, which it clearly is not.
Another red flag is he never shows the products, just says things about the products.
Of course anyone could tell that the product is the $7.00 money orders. Since the domain is for sale, this clearly means that he has milked this scheme for all its worth and has moved on.
Not at all.
Paul Darby and YGPF are currently in the “prelaunch” phase of YouGetPaidFast Mk II to be known as “My New Internet Business” which is an identical cash gifting scheme costing $100 to join, instead of $28
Paul “The Rash” Darby is ramping up to recycle YouGetPaidFast once again. He’s storing his promotional videos on sproutvideo.com since the scambusters successfully got his YouTube account banned.
videos.sproutvideo.com/embed/709bd9bc1b14eacbf8/ee269ba50f000bc7?type=sd
Major buffering issues on that site!
Cash gifting scam goes kaput so he relaunches it? Flawless logic.