Ever since Zeek Rewards hired a bunch of lawyers to pursuit ensuring compliance within the company, much blame has been directed by the company at its members.

Troy Dooly over at MLM Helpdesk and credited at the last Zeek Rewards “Red Carpet” event last week as a”training consultant” even went so far as to state a few weeks back that  it wasn’t Zeek Rewards or their business model that would make or break the company, but rather its members.

This was in response to Zeek Rewards members running around singing the praises of the daily returns they were earning on their investments with the company.

Aside from an investment scheme being the simplest way to explain how affiliates earn money with Zeek Rewards, today we go one step further and analyse where this initial concept came from.

It’s well-known that Zeek Rewards initially launched guaranteeing a 125% ROI on all money invested into the company by members (or customers they convinced to purchase bids), with members having to do nothing more than submit a daily classified ad.

Following changes to this model in mid-2011, Zeek Rewards systematically began eliminating all evidence of this initial business model and these days not much is left showcasing the origins of the Zeek Rewards business opportunity or how it was marketed.

I’ve touched on this topic briefly in the past but never before have I had anything that portrays in such detail how Zeek Rewards initially marketed themselves prior to their 2011 launch. [Continue reading…]

With various courts being on holidays and what not it’s been pretty quiet on the ongoing legal battles surrounding Speak Asia.

As it stands now

• the Supreme Court had set a date of August 8th to settle the issue of payment to the 115 petitioners of writ 383
• the defamation case against Multiscreen Media is back in court on the 18th June (Speak Asia added SMS Satellite (Singapore) Pte Ltd. as defendant #6 on the 7th May)
• the defamation case against Star News seems to have been quietly dropped (unless I’m missing something?)
• Speak Asia trying to stop police investigations in the districts of Raigad and Thane are set for a decision on the 26th June
• The Andhra Pradesh court continues to give Tarak Bajpai’s case to quash a FIR against Speak Asia a low priority, with the latest hearing having been continuously pushed back for around two weeks now
• Speak Asia trying to stop the CID from investigating them in the Supreme Court is next due back in court on the 5th of July

and of course finally there’s the All India SpeakAsia Panelist Association’s (AISPA) writ 3611, which seeks to ultimately prohibit Mumbai’s EOW from investigating Speak Asia and its defacto management over at AISPA. [Continue reading…]

One of the more dubious aspects of Zeek Rewards is the ability of affiliates to purchase Zeekler auction customers to dump VIP bids onto in order to increase their VIP point balance. This in turn increases their effective VIP point ROI over 90 days.

Prior to March 2012 Zeek Rewards directly sold customers to its members via a company ‘5cc co-op’. Abruptly citing  FTC regulations coming into effect on the 1st March 2012, the company then ceased this practice. Well, sort of.

After March 2012 affiliates were still able to purchase the same customers they’d been buying prior to March 2012, they just had to do so from the lead generation company Zeek Rewards had been using directly, Peak USA LLC.

Operating through ‘zcustomers.com’ Peak USA LLC continue to sell Zeekler auction customers to Zeek Rewards affiliates in the same manner they did before Zeek Rewards stopped selling the customers directly.

Yesterday, BehindMLM reader (and Zeek Rewards affiliate) ‘MB’ published his customer buying experience through ZCustomers:

As an experiment, I bought 200 customer leads from Z Customers at $2 each for $400. I theorized it would be a waste of money. I was correct.

Over a month later not one of these potential customers ever bought a single bid. Zero. In addition I have another 20 plus “retail customers” in the sponsorship report that have not purchased a single bid on Zeekler.

When I contacted ZCustomers and questioned the suspicious usernames, a representative explained that Zeekler creates the usernames and sends the customer an email with information on how to sign in and use the free bids they have requested.

That last paragraph in particular caught my eye and is confirmed in the ZCustomers FAQ:

How do these Customers find out about Zeekler and use their bids?

They will receive an email message directly from Zeekler.com (with you as their sponsor) with information about how to use their free bids.

On their website, ZCustomers claim that they are ‘not affiliated with ZeekRewards or Zeekler‘:

If true, then how are Peak USA LLC through ZCustomers getting Zeek Rewards to create affiliate accounts for them and send out emails to leads they’ve supposedly generated?

If I called up Zeekler as a third-party company who had no affiliation with Zeekler, Zeek Rewards or Rex Ventures do you think they’d generate some customers for me too? (provided I gave them some email addresses of course).

Don’t think so.

Furthermore, when you consider that ZCustomers also advertise that they ‘are the same company that provided customer prospects (affiliates) received in (the) ZR 5cc company co-op’, the lack of some sort of arrangement and/or relationship between the two companies is even more unlikely.

Prompted by MB’s account of his or her experience, I decided to do some further poking around and well, turns out there is in fact a link between ZCustomers (Peak USA LLC) and Zeek Rewards. [Continue reading…]

There is no information on the 6 Daily Pay website indicating who owns or runs the business.

The domain ‘6dailypay.com’ was registered on the 12th March 2012 however and lists a ‘Linda Fred’ as the registrant operating out of Montreal, Quebec in Canada.

I tried googling the address provided in the whois information but didn’t have much luck, it either seems to be incorrectly formatted or doesn’t exist.

Read on for a full review of the 6 Daily Pay business opportunity. [Continue reading…]

MXI Corp was founded in 2005 by mother and son team Jeanette and Andrew Brooks and is based out of the state of Nevada in US.

Prior to launching the MLM opportunity MXI Corp, Jeanette Brooks founded Pure De-Lite which marketed a low-carb chocolate bar via a non-MLM wholesale model (they marketed to retail companies who then sold to consumers).

As far as a track record and research into the background of MXI Corps’ two founders go, there’s an article published by the Brisbane Times that lays out a pretty detailed history of Jeanette and Andrew Brooks (photo right) as well as their past ventures that’s worth reading in full.

Here’s the cliffnotes:

Just three years ago, as they were launching their Xocai chocolate range through their network marketing company MXI Corp, Jeanette and Martin Brooks were facing more than $US36 million in claims from 25 individuals, companies and government agencies as part of bankruptcy proceedings in their home town of Reno.

The couple, who quote celebrities such as Larry King, Oprah Winfrey and Marie Osmond as supporters of their latest product, fled creditors for Canada 15 years ago, but they are back in lavish new Nevada headquarters.

MXI Corp and websites it has spawned worldwide through its distributors claims heady success for the Brooks family’s past businesses. But their four previous companies distributing diet and health foods have been involved in litigation and bankruptcy in Nevada, Utah, Alabama, two Canadian provinces and the Cayman Islands, the Herald has found after examining hundreds of pages of US court documents.

The Brookses’ creditors included the US and Canadian tax offices, business partners and angry distributors of a previous product, the Phoenix Fiber Cookie, which was withdrawn after the US Food and Drug Administration found that false health claims were being made for it.

The Brookses have had several brushes with the law. Mr Brooks, the chief executive of MXI Corp, was arrested in Montana and pleaded guilty to unlawfully transferring funds from Nevada to the Cayman Islands 15 years ago.

The following year, he and his wife consented to a civil judgement for fraud for about $US600,000.

Mrs Brooks promotes herself as a millionaire at 29 and as the driving force behind the $300 million in retail sales achieved by MXI’s predecessor, Pure De-Lite.

She does not advertise that that company was placed in receivership, nor that its “low carb” Pure De-Lite Chocolate Bar was found in violation of the law because it was not sugar-free as claimed, while its carbohydrate content was understated.

Not exactly confidence inspiring, however MXI Corp along with the Brookses are still in business today in 2012 so that’s something to consider.

Read on for a full review of the MXI Corp MLM business opportunity. [Continue reading…]

Once upon a time you could market Zeek Rewards to prospective new affiliates on the trust that here was a company owned and operated in the US, with US banking services and backed by a company that had 14 years of history of conducting business out of Lexington in the US state of North Carolina.

If you had a problem, sorting it out was as simple as calling support up and getting your problem fixed at the latest, within a few hours. Oh, and let’s not forget “neither Zeek Rewards nor Rex Ventures have ever missed a payment”.

Sure Zeek Rewards business model didn’t really stand up to scrutiny (how could it when it was launched guaranteeing a 125% ROI) and the whole thing reads like a dodgy investment scheme, but at least members could proclaim with confidence that should something go wrong – the money was easily recoverable because it hadn’t been fluttered away to some distant undisclosed location.

Well, not anymore. [Continue reading…]

When Wazzub entered pre-launch in late 2011 the company initially promised to pay members $1 a month per member recruited and made a big deal about their ‘profit sharing phenomenon’.

Within a few short months this $1 commission was quietly scrapped and the company rephrased its commissions structure around what they now call a ‘success sharing phenomenon’. This meant that the company was willing to pay members 50% of profits generated by Wazzub.

After seven or so months of prelaunch and the fixed launch date of August 1st 2012 just around the corner, today we take a look at where Wazzub and its ‘Perfect Internet’ is at.

Commission wise Wazzub were supposed to start paying their members on May 15th 2012. This was then pushed back to June 15th 2012 however a webinar on May 25 confirmed that members would not be getting paid on June 15th either. [Continue reading…]

When Troy Dooly from MLM Helpdesk mentioned that Zeek Rewards COO Dawn Wright-Olivares was going to appear on yesterday’s edition of radio show Aces Radio Live, I took note because to date any public appearance Olivares (or anyone from Zeek Rewards corporate) has amounted to little more than a thinly veiled PR excercise with little actual substance.

Such was the case the last time Dooly sat down with Wright-Olivares at the first Zeek Rewards red carpet event. Despite the interview running in at just under thirty-two minutes, nothing much was really covered other than a bunch of softball positive publicity talking points.

In what initially looked to be another PR exercise, yesterday’s Aces Radio Live broadcast started to delve into some interesting territory with co-host Jim Gillhouse fielding questions from listeners.

Twenty three minutes into the broadcast I then heard possibly the most important question to date that has been put forth to a Zeek Rewards corporate staff member has been asked publicly…

…but no sooner had the question been asked, Troy Dooly immediately moved to shut it down. [Continue reading…]

There is no information on the Jollybuzz website indicating who runs or owns the company.

The domain ‘jollybuzz.com’ was registered on the 10th May 2011, however the domain registration information is set to private.

Curiously enough the ‘About Us’ page on the Jollybuzz website appears to be the default template for the free software the creators of Jollybuzz are using to power the website.

The About Us page references ‘Dolphin Smart Community Builder’ software which is owned by the company ‘BoonEx’:

BoonEx describe Dolphin as being ‘the world’s most advanced free community software‘ and offer it to the general public open-source and free of charge.

A look at the source-code indicates that Jollybuzz is indeed being powered by BoonEx’s Dolphin software:

In summary, it appears that whoever owns Jollybuzz has just downloaded BoonEx’s free Dolphin backend and launched a templated social network. [Continue reading…]

I wouldn’t call myself a serious outdoors enthusiast but between cycling and hiking, I know that if you want to get the most out of the two you need to have the right gear.

There’s a world of difference when cycling with regular shoes and clothes just the same as hiking in slippers with jeans is vastly different to doing both activities with even the barest of essential equipment and gear.

Extend that concept to the greater outdoors in general and you have the concept behind GlobalNet Outdoors. Read on for a full review of the GNO MLM business opportunity. [Continue reading…]