Website2Share Review: $1 to $50 chain-recruitment
There is no information on the Website2Share website indicating who owns or runs the business.
On the Website2Share FAQ the company claims to be a “legal certified company based in the UK”. This corresponds with a provided corporate address in the UK.
Further research reveals a number of businesses listed as operating out of the same address. This suggests it is just a rented mailbox, with Website2Share having no actual physical presence in the UK.
Registering a company in the UK costs about £20 GBP ($28 USD) and requires at a minimum a UK-based mailing address.
The Website2Share website domain (“website2share.com”) was registered on the 15th of March 2016 and lists Bystrik Stefak as the owner.
Prior to launching Website2Share, Stefak (right) was promoting the Get Paid Social recruitment scheme. Before that he was an affiliate with Wazzub (Perfect Internet), a failed search portal MLM.
Today Stefak is an affiliate with FutureNet, a matrix cycler that recently launched an ad-credit Ponzi scheme.
According to Stefak’s FutureNet profile he is based out of Slovakia, which is presumably where Website2Share is actually being operated from.
Read on for a full review of the Website2Share MLM opportunity.
The Website2Share Product Line
Website2Share has no retailable products or services, with affiliates only able to market Website2Share affiliate membership itself.
Once signed up, Website2Share affiliates can purchase advertising packages and participate in the attached MLM income opportunity.
The Website2Share Compensation Plan
The Website2Share compensation plan sees affiliates pay $1 to $50 and get paid when they recruit others who do the same.
- Bronze Package costs $1
- Silver Package costs $10
- Gold Package costs $20
- Platinum and Business Packages cost $50
Referral commissions on packages purchased by recruited affiliates are as follows:
- Bronze Package – 25 cents
- Silver Package – $4
- Gold Package – $8
- Platinum and Business Package – $20
Residual referral commissions are paid out via a unilevel compensation structure.
A unilevel compensation structure places an affiliate at the top of a unilevel team, with every personally recruited affiliate placed directly under them (level 1):
If any level 1 affiliates recruit new affiliates, they are placed on level 2 of the original affiliate’s unilevel team.
If any level 2 affiliates recruit new affiliates, they are placed on level 3 and so on and so forth down a theoretical infinite number of levels.
Commissions are paid on investments made by affiliates in the unilevel team, using a pass-up method.
The pass-up method sees an affiliate paid 50% on half the affiliates their recruited affiliates recruit (level 2), and continues down an infinite number of levels.
Note that residual referral commissions pay out the same as direct referral commissions.
Joining Website2Share
Affiliate membership with Website2Share is tied to the purchase of at least one advertising package ($1 to $50).
Conclusion
Under the guise of selling advertising, Website2Share offer participation in a recruitment-driven pyramid scheme.
You sign up and pay a fee, with commissions paid when others are recruited into the scheme.
Ultimately the advertising is neither here nor there, as Website2Share is devoid of legitimate retail advertisers. The reason for that being only participants in the scheme view the ads, which are published by other participants.
Aware of this, Website2Share reassure affiliates the are “legal” in the company FAQ:
Is Website2share legal?
Yes, we are legal certified company based in the UK.
We are paying our members commissions from actual completed purchases of advertising products within our system. So the money are coming from actual money received by the company.
First of all, registering yourself in the UK requires nothing more than payment of a small fee and a UK-based mailing address. There is absolutely no vetting or legal certification of a registered business involved.
That commissions are paid out of purchases made by affiliates is hardly news, as all pyramid schemes recycle fund from new recruits to existing participants.
Later in the FAQ Website2Share come clean about the type of business opportunity they’re running:
How much will it cost to have an opportunity to earn with Website2share?
The lowest Bronze Package in Website2share will cost $1 and it will be suitable for people who want to start, but can not afford to invest more.
Typically pyramid scheme fees aren’t referred to as investments, but there you have it folks – Website2Share has nothing to do with purchasing advertising.
As with all such schemes, once recruitment of new affiliates slow down, so too will Website2Share commission payouts.
Mathematically, in order for earlier participants to be paid, the majority of participants in Website2Share will lose money.
THIS ARTICLE IS NOT TRUE !!! I am CEO of this project. The company is based in UK. Proof is here: beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/10014509
Yes, we invest money into establishment of our company – around 1500$, but we are going to improve our business and make still more and more usable online products and services. We are not rich people, we are people who want to create something new, special and who want to create long-term and useful business for everyone.
This is not PONZI and PYRAMID SCHEME. It is absolutely LEGAL MLM and newtork marketing system where people need to promote business and online products for earnings. The product will be unique and very useful. There are no fees, this is about purchasing of online products.
Responding to information about $1 for Bronze Package – it is needed because it is for purchasing of product !!! Yes, people can earn with this Package when they will promote Website2share, make sales and will be rewarded for it!
Next thing: Once recruitment of new affiliates slow down, Website2Share will have still money for payouts !!!
Responding to this sentence: “Mathematically, in order for earlier participants to be paid, the majority of participants in Website2Share will lose money.” – not true. Nobody lose money, because they will purchase valuable and useful product for their money! And a number of online products will continue to grow.
I’m not going to comment about the compensation plan and its functioning here, It hasn’t been published and explained in detail yet because it is unique and details about it will be published the last days before full launch of project. It is described completely wrong here.
About mentioned online businesses that I’ve been doing and I am still doing.. these businesses are not my own projects and I am not responsible for them.. btw they are based on the principle of network marketing and sales. No cyclers, no ponzi schemes. Only traditional network marketing.
Please don’t defamation of of myself, of our project, before full launch of project. You don’t know all details and you provide false informations.
Thank you
Sincerely
CEO Website2share Bystrik Stefak
Who do you think you’re kidding? Paying 20 pounds and renting a mailing address doesn’t make you “based in UK”. You’re running Website2Share from Slovakia, that’s where it’s based.
There is nothing legal about chain-recruitment, in Slovakia or anywhere else in the world.
So why is there an attached income opportunity then?
What, forever? Pyramid schemes collapse when recruitment dies down. Website2Share is no different.
Sure it has, I based the review on official English Website2Share slides in a business presentation. You’re promoting the opportunity on Facebook and YouTube with this presentation.
Good enough for recruiting affiliates, good enough for me to write a review on.
GetPaid Social, Wazzub and FutureNet are all scams. They are the farthest thing from traditional MLM possible.
The review is based on information you are using to promote Website2Share. Unless you’re lying to those you’re recruiting, it’s accurate.
You’re either brand new at this or just plain not very good at it, Bystrik.
Nobody is going to fall for that old “we’re a registered business in the UK” nonsense any more.
Certainly not since the invention of Google Maps.
So, tell us how all 35 businesses registered at that address fit into that one office.
Sorry, but I have to respond. I see that the competition does not sleep on the internet and doing everything to make something good and right disrupted as possible.
I have paid for GLOBAL WEB ADVERTISING company much more you wrote and I am investing into my website and other features too! The reason why I have established company in the UK are better conditions and a better name than my country have. It is LEGAL !!!
BTW, there are many owners of projects without any company and after success they establish a company.. We did it in advance, because we’re serious.
Website2share is MLM business and it is LEGAL !!! We are network marketing based on sales. It is LEGAL !!! Pyramid scheme is based on fees for nothing and people at the top always earn more than people under them in downline.
In Website2share it will be different – LEGAL, there will not be fees, there will be purchases of valuable online products and the last member in network can earn more than his sponsor or sponsorship line. This is LEGAL business model of network marketing !!!
Income opportunity is LEGAL worldwide and Website2share will be based on purchases of valuable online products what is LEGAL !!!
Many well-known and prosperous companies ended after some time and a lot of them even ended. We will try to keep as long as possible and meet the requirements of our members as much as possible and always go with the times. This is LEGAL !!!
We published a product idea and the idea of compensation plan. Informations are sufficient to let people know if this is a business for them or not. They do not have to sign during pre-launch phase, they can wait to full launch and then decide. No one does not force them. This is LEGAL process.
I can promote my business idea, online product idea and compensation plan idea during pre-launch phase everywhere I want. It is LEGAL !!!
About GPS, Wazzub – Perfect Internet and FutureNet. It is your opinion. I know that nothing from these opportunities is not scam. GPS has problems, but will solve it. But that is not the subject of this misleading article.
This review is based on your own opinion not on facts and real information, because you do not know anything about Website2share, as it has not yet started.
You’re just a boot loader, slanderer of people who do not know personally and before they ever create a project condemns them. This is illegal !!! You should wait for full launch of projects, try it (if you want, for more informations and overview) and then evaluated.
Thank you
Sincerely
CEO Website2share
Bystrik Stefak
Perhaps, but as far as the UK registration goes, you paid about 20 pounds and hired out a mailing address. That’s it.
The registration itself is legal (anyone can pay the fee and register a company in the UK), but in now way does it reflect the legality of Website2Share’s business model.
False. A pyramid scheme is based on commissions paid on the recruitment of new affiliates – which is what Website2Share does.
You can’t have a legal MLM opportunity without significant revenue derived from the sale of products and services to retail customers.
What you’ve published was enough to establish no retail sales and recruitment commissions. That is a pyramid scheme in MLM and not legal.
Nope, as per their business models they are all recruitment-driven scams.
False, it is based on Website2Share’s publicly promoted business model. If you’re lying to those you’re currently recruiting that’s a different story.
Here’s a tissue, scammer. And I suggest you go look up the actual definition of those words.
Ad credits exchange, i.e. autosurf that involves selling ad packs affiliates who also consume such ad packs are almost guaranteed to be ponzi schemes. It’s been LONG established since 2008’s indictment of “Andy” Bowdoin’s “Ad Surf Daily”.
NOLINK://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/victim-witness-assistance/ad-surf-daily
Don’t let your ignorance of law blind you to the truth. It may not set you free, but it may keep you out of jail. Denial won’t get you anywhere.
There is nothing wrong on this, not illegal and nothing that would mean a scam or something inferior. This is a common way of entrepreneurs from the lesser known and not so lucrative countries who would like to do business in the world.
Btw, taxes are the same as in Slovakia and will be soon higher in the UK than in Slovakia. And it is more than clear that the company currently does not need office space.
We’ll need them after full launch and it will be the Slovak branch of course. Nothing illegal, nothing wrong what should be a reason for non-cooperation with us.
We are not ponzi scheme !!! We are far away from these schemes.. we are real legal network marketing.
In Website2share project it is the same as in other conventional business. No sales, no profits. If you want to know what is ponzi scheme, here it is: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme
Unfortunately, it’s also a COMMON scam tactic to register businesses in UK or US to make their scheme sound more legitimate than it is.
TVI Express, the international pyramid scheme, registered in the UK and supposedly even rented an office there for a month or two. It was really ran out of India by one guy: Tarun Trikha and possibly his family.
I don’t know if your biz is a scam or not. However, you are showing many warning signs of being a scam. I suggest you study better business cases than trying to “reinvent” the two business you had experienced… FutureNet and Wazzub. NEITHER of which are exactly shining examples of MLM, and furthermore, how gajillion scams had been advertised as “selling ad credits”.
Let’s just say “extraordinary claims requires extraordinary proof” (Carl Sagan quote). And right now, your extraordinary claim “I am not a scam (despite all the signs indicating otherwise)” requires extraordinary proof that you have yet to provide.
Do you know what and why is company needed? If yes, need I pay more money for it when I don’t need office spaces now and create my website and system by myself?
We are not pyramid scheme. We are MLM. We are not based on commissions paid on the recruitment of new affiliates, we are based on SALES – on purchases of valuable online products and services.
Pyramid scheme is where people on top earn still more than people in their downline. In Website2share you can earn more than your sponsor and sponsorship line.
Yes we are LEGAL MLM. We have opportunity where people can earn money from the sale of products and services to retail customers.
We are for free now. People can create their downline like in other MLM business. After full launch we will sale online products like other LEGAL MLM company.
Sorry, but you don’t know facts and what will be Website2share about in detail. You can see our idea only.
About other opportunities.. you don’t know about them nothing. Neither of them are scam. I know about them more like you because I am still work here. I can see your weak review as you are still mention WAZZUB, which has long been somewhere other than a few years ago.
Sorry, but you false at any point you have written.
Thank you
Sincerely
CEO Website2share
Bystrik Stefak
OK.. so everything is scam in the UK.. I have paid more money for registration and other things as it can be in Slovakia.
I wrote reasons here.. My goal is not to create a fraudulent system, but the real business model of network marketing.
Thank you
Sincerely
CEO Website2share
Bystrik Stefak
Exactly what are these valuable products?
And why would anyone want to buy more than one “pack” to get them?
I don’t think this is fully worked out as something to launch.
the fact you have to yell and try to convince everyone that knows better that this is legal, proves you know it’s a scam.
@Bystrik
Do not care. You’re claiming a UK company registration somehow translates to legal certification of your company’s business model. That is total bullshit.
In legitimate MLM you need to be generating revenue from retail sales. Website2Share has no retailable products or services, so you are paying on recruitment of new affiliates.
This is not the defining factor of a pyramid scheme. If you’re in MLM and paying affiliates to recruit new affiliates, you’re operating a pyramid scheme.
Not within the MLM side of the business, which is purely recruitment based.
I can see the compensation plan you are currently advertising to attract affiliates to sign up with, which is a pyramid scheme.
As per their business models, every MLM opportunity you’ve been an affiliate of has been a recruitment-driven pyramid scheme.
Claiming “you don’t know anything” does not negate their respective business models (any more scam 101 cliches? Please.).
That’s not what I wrote. If that’s what you read, I suggest getting your eyes checked. Maybe your mind is playing tricks on you.
What will be exactly products about will be poblished few days before launch. This is pre-launch and we are publishing idea of the product now only.
This is not about adpacks! This is not revshare, investment program..
You don’t think, because don’t know. THIS IS PRE-LAUNCH PHASE with a illustration of our thoughts. So you can think, not know.. Your negative attitudes are absolutely baseless.
Correct.
I pay $1 to $50 and get paid to recruit others who do the same. That’s a chain-recruitment pyramid scheme.
The focus of any MLM opportunity who start signing up affiliates when they haven’t even finalized their attached products should be obvious.
You are wrong, You don’t know facts. You can’t know, you can thing only. Your negative attitudes are absolutely baseless.
Our compensation plan is not pyramid scheme, because you don’t know how it will works exactly! This is not about investments. Pyramid schemes are about investments. This is about purchasing of valuable products.
About my company you are wrong and it is useless to express to your baseless informations.
YOU DON’T KNOW FACTS ABOUT PRODUCTS, YOU DON’T KNOW FACTS ABOUT COMPENSATION PLAN. YOU KNOW OUR IDEAS ONLY !!!
You have no right to evaluate my project and my business and chasing people down here because of advertising and earnings and to frighten them with lies and ubaseless informations.
I at least do not hide here, You’re the secret with others too. You hide yourself, I am not hide myself! preložiť That says it all.
I have no interest in doing with the project Website2share fraudulent activity, but the real prosperous business that will be meaningful, that will still have something new and useful, and where people will be able to earn.
I am strictly against ponzi schemes, hyips, pyramid schemes. So I would not do something like that with your business.
Thank you
Sincerely
CEO Website2share
Bystrik Stefak
Sorry man. YOU ARE WRONG AGAIN!
If you make in the real business sales, you get your commission. In any real and classic business! And it will be the same here. If you make sales, you get commission.
It’s not about buying large quantities of packages. It is not possible to buy more packages, only one !!! And next will be additional products.
Thank you
Sincerely
CEO Website2share
Bystrik Stefak
Look, the review is based on the compensation plan material you and Website2Share are currently distributing.
If you’re just going to trot out scam “you don’t know anything” cliches I’m going to have to mark your waffle as spam.
Like I said, I pay $1 to $50 and get paid to recruit others who do the same. No retail revenue = pyramid scheme.
Yet here we are. If you want to hold yourself to that start by ceasing recruitment of affiliates till you’ve worked out your products. Make sure there’s demand for those products outside of the affiliate-base and start again.
Or pyramid scheme, whatever works for you.
Calling a recruitment commission “sales” doesn’t make it any less of a recruitment commission.
If only affiliate money is entering the MLM side of the business then it’s pay to recruit.
This is not true. People can participate on a voluntary basis when they see sense in the idea of the project, its vision and do not know the full details.
Contacts will not be abused and when they want, they will be able to cancel their membership after full launch anytime and not need pay money for nothing.
Thank you
Sincerely
CEO Website2share
Bystrik Stefak
Without defined products and a retail market, all you’re attracting are affiliates excited at the prospect of getting paid to recruit new affiliates.
Bait and switch does not work in MLM, you reap the field you sow.
And what will you be selling? Let’s be blunt here, in half-dozen posts you’ve yet to divulge a single detail on what you’re supposed to be selling. All you’ve been doing is “denial, denial, denial”, much like Monty Python’s “Argument Clinic”.
You’ve been alluding to “real business sales”, but you never said what. It is as if you are intentionally AVOIDING to answer.
Are you avoiding to answer?
There will not be any recruitment commission. There will be commission from sales of online products. People will pay for online product, not for membership, not for nothing.
Thank you
Sincerely
CEO Website2share
Bystrik Stefak
If affiliates paying a fee qualifies them to earn commissions on other affiliates who do the same, it’s recruitment commissions.
What products you attach to that mechanism are irrelevant (pseudo-compliance).
Sorry, but we have defined products and a retail market as possible.
We don’t want to give more specific information this time because we know what people like you, negative people and competition are able to do and destroy business of others because it is competition or envy.
Thank you
Sincerely
CEO Website2share
Bystrik Stefak
Are you joking? There is no fee !!!
Members need to have qualification because it will be illegal without this. I was doing one of the most popular and legal MLM system years ago and for qualification I was needed to bought products. It is the same in Website2share, but not need to pay big ammount.
Thank you
Sincerely
CEO Website2share
Bystrik Stefak
Possible != reality. As it stands your only advertised MLM commissions are from recruitment of affiliates and their paying fees to qualify them to earn on the recruitment of oethers.
because there is no other information. Website2Share is a pyramid scheme and you are a scammer.
And that qualification is the fee. I sign up as a Website2Share affiliate, I pay a fee which qualifies me to earn on the recruitment of others.
That’s “pay to play”, a common theme in pyramid schemes.
Look given your recent MLM history all you’ve done is jump from one pyramid scheme to another. That you think this is legal and legitimate MLM is understandable but incorrect.
Let me understand this clearly. I can buy a $1 product one time. Now I am qualified
So I can go out and sell all the products as much as I want? Or do I need to get others to join and buy $1 product first?
Help me understand the idea of getting rich from spending a $1 one time? This may clear it up for everyone here.
Guess it must not be very exciting that you can’t even HINT at what they are, lest you spoil the surprise and the tease.
Makes one wonder how your affiliates will market your product, if it’s like Valdemort, the one that shall not be named.
So far your argument boils down to “I say we are legal (but I can’t explain why). I don’t care what you say (yet I am here defending it)”
Does your actions usually betray your own words? Or is it the other way around, your words contradict your actions?
For what it’s worth I had to mark Bystrik Stefak’s replies as spam. He’s gone the “who are you” derail route.
As I’ve mentioned, the review is based on Website@Share’s current compensation plan.
Pending any changes, it is what it is.
@Terrence
The usual deal is you have to buy in at each level (or the highest) to qualify to earn on all levels.
That wasn’t clarified in the compensation plan material so a $1 purchase might qualify you for all recruitment commission levels.
Lololol “advertising”.
Check nolink://website2share.com – business is stopped.
There is very vague promise of the future restart of the project and the change of the system to something more attractive… in the autumn:
Unfortunately, no information about the year when it will be done and the list of stupid affiliates will be recycled for something .
😉
So typical…
Apparently, restart was not planned for this year. 😉
Autumn is over and web site is parked. Exactly said – now there is a very basic web page with no links, some generic and shallow text content about SEO and a graphics resembling “web site under construction”. Referral links work no more.
Site admin Bystrik Stefak now promotes USI-Tech in Slovakia (yes, he is a “leader” – he’s running local recruitment web page and he’s admin of largest FB USI-tech group in Slovakia and Czechia).
Scammer in the past, scammer today, scammer tomorrow.