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This weekend I decided that my little space that I do all my work from was getting cramped - most of my space is taken up by mailing supplies of one kind or another, or my boxes of prizes. So I went out and got myself a new desk!

Here is what it looked like before:



The thing in the lower right corner is a bookcase full of envelopes, log books, and a box of ducks. One thing not featured in either photo is the linen closet, of which an entire shelf is taken up with spare duck boxes, referral cards (I just ordered 5000) and index cards (which are put inside gift card envelopes to prevent others from being able to tell there is a card inside.)

Here is what it looks like now:




The shelf on the right is now covered in mailing supplies, and I feel all organized not having to strategically stack things. :) You can now see my box of ducks at the bend of the desk next to the black letter tray stack. There are also about 20 more ducks in a box in my living room, as well as a box of about 30 water bottles plus a stack of cut pieces of packing material.

I am tired of the crap

Some of you may have seen some derogatory posts about the new GPT Owners Alliance that has been formed. Apparently Christina of DealBarbiePays believes we are sharing member information, although she also says we won't let her in so I am not sure how logically she can claim to know what we are doing.

Here is what we are doing.

We are trying to come up with some kind of standards to which GPT sites can be held, to help weed out people who are going to cause you grief in the future. (If you were a member of MadCash4u.com when it suddenly disappeared with your money, you know what I am talking about.) Member site admins will be required to register with us (and give us their home address and phone number) and be held to a standard of conduct in order to keep their standing. We have a forum on the site, and can be contacted, so if you have a serious problem with a site, you can let us know and we can see if there is anything we can do - or revoke their membership, if it is serious.

Another thing we are doing is putting our heads together. This does not mean that we are going looking for people to kick off because one thing was accidentally repeated. CashDuck has processed close to sixty THOUSAND offer completions since its inception, and has over 3500 members - who even has time to go through all that and match it up?

Yesterday was a good example of why I am glad for this program. Another admin was talking to me about a user she has who had a number of trials reverse for no understandable reason. It turned out that her husband has a membership on CashDuck and had done some of the same trials. Since they are on the same IP, the advertiser regarded the wife's as duplicates. Neither of us thought that this was done on purpose. So we just each sent a note to our member saying please be careful in the future. Now, if the husband had been the one to have several trials reverse, and I didn't know this was going on, he probably would have been asked to cashout and then inactivated so he couldn't do any more offers here. But since we were able to get together and figure out what was happening, things were OK.

Contrary to statements made by others, the only information we are sharing is your username, and occasionally your first and last name. Most sites collect mailing addresses and everybody collects email addresses, so it would be pointless to share those, and would also not actually get us anywhere. The majority of fraudulent users that I see are using fake or stolen credit cards, or are using proxy servers to complete offers with a US IP but are actually from outside the United States. Frequently these fraudulent users are using a name and address from the phonebook, which may result in problems for the person whose address they have taken. So we feel it is really in everyone's best interest to remove these people as soon as possible, for that reason, and for the secondary goal of not pissing off the advertisers so that they don't pull the offers and then no one can do them.

I also learned today that Christina of DealBarbiePays has decided to remove all other site admins from membership on her site, citing a conflict of interest. I would just like to point out for the record that she evidently saw no conflict of interest when she held memberships on most other GPT sites you have ever heard of, and so did her husband.

If you would like to know more about the GPT Owners Alliance from someone who is actually part of it, please contact me.

New withdrawal option

Starting this month you can now get your payout as a Walmart gift card! The minimum is $10 and will be ordered from Walmart directly.

If there are any other places for which you would like to see a withdrawal option as a gift card (preferentially if they have a free online gift card option like Amazon does), please let me know!