Dear Readers,

It is with a heavy heart that today I must literally drop an Atom Bomb on the internet “autosurfing” community, and I’ll be honest with you that it saddens me, because I will now finally say goodbye to the industry that gave birth to my Internet Marketing career once and for all.

The simple facts of the matter are that there is no such thing as a company, that can promise a:

30% (…excuse me 20%) Monthly Return On “Investment” To An Ever Expanding Membership Base, Without At Some Point Becoming A Ponzi.

Donald Trump can’t do it. Bill Gates can’t do it. That cell phone guy in Mexico…..he can’t do it either. So why are we continually fooling ourselves to believe in a “miracle company” that can make all of us rich while we do nothing? Is it because the American Dream has become so far fetched, that now we are grasping at straws? Are we thirsty in the desert, continually shambling on towards that glimmering Oasis?

For those of you who have been reading this blog of mine for the last 3 years,  you know full well that I began my online endeavors by seeking the truth and trying to help the average “surfer” navigate their way through an “industry” riddled with scam artists and land mines.

I too lost thousands of dollars in companies such as Fast Profits Club (c’mon why did I even join something with a name like that?)

At first I was a huge supporter of Robert Krimm and the Tri-Star Media fiasco, but when the “red flags” started popping up I was the first of his supporters to stand my ground….plant my feet……and start spreading the truth.

Unfortunately, today marks an epic moment in my journey on the internet. For today is a day that I turn my back with complete certainty on the entire autosurfing industry, and begin walking running…..far……far away.

Today, I again, must plant my feet, and for the last time in my Auto Surfing career, I will call it “Like I See It”. (Knowing full aware this will NOT be a popular decision, and I pre-forgive everyone for their initial anger and outrage….and I will spare you the “I told you so speach” when the truth becomes “self-evident”.)

“All truth goes through three steps: First it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident.” — Arthur Schoepenhouer

After the Bob Krimm-inal fiasco, I actually took a full year off of “autosurfing” and it was only when I heard about a new opportunity from a former friend known as Vee, that I decided it might be worth taking one last shot in the “industry”. They had what looked to be a fairly sound structure with a matrix up front, (so I knew they had at least 1 income stream), and because I had known Vee for going on 3 years, when she claimed that they had outside investments and that membership would eventually go private and not allow new members in, I figured “wow…….just maybe…….maybe this will be the one silver lining, in an industry full of dark clouds.”

For the first several months of my membership there everything went well, and they did in fact close the membership, and they continued to pay us for what must of been two months with a completely closed membership.

My thoughts were comprised of: “WOW…..they aren’t bringing in new members money to pay old members…..they have been closed and are staying closed and they keep paying us. Holy Cow! We’ve finally found an opportunity in this industry that we can earn on for decades to come”

And then the subtle red flags began coming in.

RED FLAG #1

They “opened membership” (They told us it was temporary, in order to “boost the Alexa rankings” of some of their clients that they wanted to purchase advertising), and it soon became apparent that membership was going to be open PERMANENTLY.

Now let’s do the math.

Currently there are 10,000 members at Vlane. Let’s assume they don’t grow anymore (even though they are growing new members), and that everyone maxes out their accounts here in the next year.

10,000 people x $12,000 dollars paid out to them each month.

That’s $120,000,000 in cashouts per month. WOW! You may officially call me a monkeys uncle if their 1 investor named Dr. Mara Greenway is capable of pulling $120,000,000 per month that she can pay out to the members, and we KNOW that the membership isn’t going to remain at 10,000.

The mathematics of paying out 20% per month for an ever growing memberbase is just about impossible to sustain. As soon as one takes off the rose colored glasses and stops drinking the kool-aid for a moment they will quickly realize that these kinds of numbers are not sustainable.

If they were….Donald Trump himself would be doing it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He’s gone on record many many times supporting Network Marketing and Direct Sales, so why wouldn’t he just combine Network Marketing with a “surfing type” program like Vlane? ANSWER = Because Mr. Trump knows full well that it’s not possible.

Let’s also examine the whole “Alexa story to get big online newspaper/magazine/blog clients”. Let’s be optimistic here and assume that some of these online newspapers actually do end up purchasing the “Alexa service” (Which makes no sense to me why they would purchase an Alexa service, but not also participate in the program and therefore earn their money back?)

But let’s say the Chicago Tribune decided to purchase the “Alexa service” offered at Vlane. How much do you think they are going to pay per month? Well I can tell you right now that they aren’t going to pay $12,000 per month for it. So what this means, is that even if Vlane DID get the Chicago Tribune to subscribe to the “Alexa service” it wouldn’t even pay for 1 maxxed out member.

In other words, it’s just smoke and mirrors in my opinion. It’s just an excuse for why they have to keep their membership now “permanently open.”

It’s possible that when they closed the membership the first time, they really did have income streams in place to pay for the membership, in fact I’m fairly sure of it. But what is also obvious is the REAL reasons why they needed to “open their doors” again, and it certainly wasn’t one or two “newspaper clients” looking for their Alexa rankings. I mean with a limited number of surfers, all only surfing 20 or so pages per day, there’s only so much Alexa boosting they could do, and in reality it’s just false advertising, because these aren’t Unique hits…..I mean when I was surfing the pages, I’d see the Chicago Tribune on 10 of my 20 pages.

So the Alexa ranking boosts are actually of a fraudulent nature if they are then going to be used to seduce people to purchase advertising at the Chicago Tribune. Something that I’m pretty sure the legal team of the Chicago Tribune is well aware of…….

This is just like hosting a “Google Adsense” account on your website and then telling all of your friends and family to click on it everyday. It’s fraud. Pure and simple.

RED FLAG #2:

So they held a “convention” in a hotel in Michigan, and on the second day they announced their HUGE PLANS, that everyone was going to LOVE. Mrs. Vee was on stage holding her hands in a motion as if she was feeding little baby birds with “tidbits”. (For those of you who have not seen the video, it was pretty funny.)

They hyped up their announcement, because they needed people to be all excited and ga-ga eyed about what they were going to announce, because without the hype….without the rose colored glasses…..what they were about to say would send a shockwave of doubt and turmoil throughout the members.

They RAISED THE MAXIMUMS. (This is the single largest Red Flag in the “autosurfing industry” period. It does not get more blatant than this one.) The whole idea of having a Maximum anyhow…..just reeks of ponzi. I mean…..if a company had legitimate investments why would they need a Maximum? The answer is pure and simple: One single investor could come in, invest a ridiculously large sum, and drain the funds in months. Why? Because having a Maximum generally means that there are no legitimate investments, OR that those investments can only grow so fast……..but with a permanently growing memberbase which will reach geometric progression…….then a set-speed investment “strategy” will ultimately fall behind the growth of the membership base.

Again: Combining a “Set Return of 20% per month” with an unregulated evergrowing membership base = Disaster 100% of the time.

So they raised the maximum in the program from 10,000 to 60,000 (keeping in mind that these figures are in US dollar and now I understand Vlane is using the Euro)

That is a 600% increase in the maximum.

That means more people are CHASING that maximum and putting even MORE funds into the “pool”, and less people are maxxed out and just cashing out each month.

But they didn’t stop with just “raising the maximum”

NO…..

Red Flag #3

They Lowered the ROI.

So let’s get this straight. They launched the company with a 30% ROI…..then they use the “well we were closed for two months so that means we’re legitimate” argument. Well OBVIOUSLY…….if they could of REMAINED closed (based on their own words in their latest global call), then why would they need to lower the 30% ROI to only 20% ROI?

Because they did not have the investments to cover a 30% ROI would be the logical deduction right? Right.

So what this looks like to someone studying the changes, is that they are actually “juggling the ROI” or what I would consider at this point “juggling a ponzi”.

Legitimate companies do not make any promise of a set return per month.

Legitimate companies with real investments would not have to juggle their ROI and Maximums, and toy with their members of having a “Closed Company” and then an “Open Company” and then a “Permanently Open Company”.

Think about it. Does it really make sense to you that the following are legitimate:

1.Alexa to get these major clients, and the clients wouldn’t just invest like everyone else? Therefore mitigating their “advertising costs”?

2. That raising the maximum by 600% and THEN LOWERING the ROI by 33% is NOT an indication that they are “juggling a ponzi”?

RED FLAG(S) #4

In June there was a mysterious 15 or so days of downtime, while they “propogated their servers to a new host”. So I consulted with some Computer Networking professionals and they all laughed their you-know-what’s-off at the idea of taking 15 days to change servers and hosting companies.

So what really happened in June? The ROI was lowered…a LOT. Because remember when you don’t “surf” you don’t earn. lol.

Then last month there were more “mysterious downtimes” by their “mysterious hosting company”. Never in 3 years have I seen a legitimate business website have this much mysterious downtime. In fact unless a site was being hacked, I’ve never even seen downtime of more than 24 hours at a time. Yet it’s “conveniently” happening at Vlane…..and it’s happening a lot. My suggestion: Use Godaddy.com affordable, reliable, and NON-Anonymous.

I would wager that there are more “mysterious downtimes” to come, and what are “mysterious downtimes”? Another way to lower that ROI as needed. Just take a % here and a % there, and “ride the ponzi” baby. (Of course…..this is all simply my observations……./cough)

RED FLAG #5

Now Vlane is paying out in 5 BUSINESS days. It used to be 48 hours. Now it’s as much as 7 calendar days.

Are you cringing yet?

RED FLAG #6

When they converted from US dollars in members account to the EURO, they used an average conversion rate which ended up costing most members 5% off the top. Why would they use an AVERAGE conversion rate for a 1 time conversion? Again….it just looks like another case of Lowering That ROI to me.

RED FLAG #7

No Product. The Vee Reports were supposed to be the product in the beginning, but those stopped happening long ago. They can CLAIM that Alexa/Traffic is their product but we KNOW how that did for ……ASD…….don’t we?

RED FLAG #8

No proof of their investments. I’m sorry but no one has been given any sort of proof of their investments. The shiny documents that were produced at the convention? That’s not proof of anything. I can go get shiny documents of large sales and tell you they are mine!!!!

Where is their independant 3rd party verification?

RED FLAG #9

I was approached by over 20 former Vlane members and personnel with extremely disturbing information. I approached Vee with it, and her replies were emotional rants filled with cuss words. (I’ll save her the face and not post them publicly.)

She claimed that I was “satisfied” with her answers…….Which is not the truth. Had I been satisfied with the answers I would not have asked Jake from ASA what his thoughts were, or James Miranda what his thoughts were.

She claimed that I have “motives” because I’m working in other companies. NEWSFLASH: I have ALWAYS remained diversified in my income streams, and have at times had as much as 7 income streams going at a time. I have ZERO motive to favor one over the other. Why on God’s Green Earth, would I turn down a potential $12,000 per month income? Answer: I wouldn’t.

My motives are very very simple and they have been that way for the last 3 years.

I’m an Internet Marketer to make money and help others to do the same. And part of that is helping people to avoid losing their money to what I feel might be “ponzis”. I personally knew of people mortgaging their homes and maxing out credit cards to “chase the new maximum”.

I will leave what was said to me by the former Members/Personnel in their own hands to divulge. All I can tell you is that over the course of 2 months, I was given many many pieces to a puzzle that when I started putting it all together by conducting “blind interviews”, it began to show an EXTREMELY ugly picture.

When you combine my own observations, with what was said to me in private by multiple individuals (over 20), the result was for me, the end of my tenure in the “Autosurfing Industry”

CONCLUSION:

As I look back on the 3 years that I’ve spent in the “autosurfing world” it has not all been bad. I’ve made many great friends, some decent money here and there, and I’ve built a few large downlines in various organizations.

I’ve learned to do my homework before joining an opportunity, and I’ve learned the traits in leadership that I will not follow.

The future is bright, my income is diversified, and I am enjoying the company of multiple growing teams of like minded marketers and investors.

I am an Internet Marketer, and I am here to make money, and help others do the same.

Kind Regards,

Broker Jones

www.teambrokerjones.com