Best not to get too greedy, papaw. Though this program seems honest enough (as honest as HYIPs get, anyway), I would discourage compounding until you at least have your principle out! (Which, in the VIP program, would be after 8 weeks, if I'm calculating right.)

TH :

Best not to get too greedy, papaw. Though this program seems honest enough (as honest as HYIPs get, anyway), I would discourage compounding until you at least have your principle out! (Which, in the VIP program, would be after 8 weeks, if I'm calculating right.)

....actually, I wasn't calculating right... 60 days (25% every 15 days) to get principle back. :P

Papaw,

Did you decide what to do with this one?

Greetings all. I'll make this short and to the point.

Unfortunately, Alertpay has tremendous fees for deposits to our account. Though we will CONTINUE to accept Alertpay for deposits, we are forced to offset some of the fees by applying a 2% DEPOSIT FEE if you wish to use this processor. Current deposits with our program will not be affected by this change in policy.

This doesn't cover all the fees charged to us by Alertpay, but does make it more equitable - and therefore more feasible for us to continue to accept AP.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. All other processors (we currently accept LR, PM, GDP, SP in addition to AP), because they have low fees, will continue to be accepted without charging a deposit fee.

Have a great week!

Regards,

Terry Jameson
Intermed-Investments.com

Terry,

Just to note and unless it is your preference, you can use webmaster area to publish news and program updates through HYIP.COM news feed.
This way, such updates are more visible to more site users and visitors.

Regards and Thank you for providing support on this forum.

I was paid today again. Paying me regularly from the day 1. Excellent project.

Alex - I am unable to log into my webmaster account using the login I have always used, and you blocked my original account from posting. And there is a cryptic announcement under my program on your listing which states "HYIP.COM NOTE: THIS PROGRAM WAS DOWNGRADED ON MARCH 23rd, 2010".

I have faithfully paid you and all investors from day 1. My assumption (and I believe I am correct) is that you "downgraded" my program because of my recent review by MNO. I understand the issue you have with this blog, and I understood when I signed up with Paul that you might have an issue with it. However, I feel it is unfair that you continue to monitor us as "Paying", but have an announcement which tells your readers I was downgraded. Here the choices you have (since I have no other way to reach you):

1. If you wish to stop monitoring my program, place me on "Not Monitored" status, and I will delete your deposit from our system. This is, I believe, the only fair option for all involved.

2. If you wish to continue monitoring and being paid, remove the statement about "downgrading", unless you are going to put the reason there as well. This is only fair to your readers to explain your decision.

3. The only other option is for me to stop paying your monitor, have you list us as "Not Paying", and I will ask all our investors in any way I can to kindly ignore your monitor.

Any other option is crooked business practice, and will not be tolerated. Until I hear from you, I will continue to pay you as promised.

Regards,
Terry Jameson
P.S. I'm assuming you will delete this comment, so I will be posting it elsewhere if that is the case.

What does "downgraded" mean?

TH :

What does "downgraded" mean?

This means program had received significantly lower grade than it had prior to such event.
Simply put, new investments are not recommended.

Intermed :

Alex - I am unable to log into my webmaster account using the login I have always used, and you blocked my original account from posting. And there is a cryptic announcement under my program on your listing which states "HYIP.COM NOTE: THIS PROGRAM WAS DOWNGRADED ON MARCH 23rd, 2010".

I have faithfully paid you and all investors from day 1. My assumption (and I believe I am correct) is that you "downgraded" my program because of my recent review by MNO. I understand the issue you have with this blog, and I understood when I signed up with Paul that you might have an issue with it. However, I feel it is unfair that you continue to monitor us as "Paying", but have an announcement which tells your readers I was downgraded. Here the choices you have (since I have no other way to reach you):

1. If you wish to stop monitoring my program, place me on "Not Monitored" status, and I will delete your deposit from our system. This is, I believe, the only fair option for all involved.

2. If you wish to continue monitoring and being paid, remove the statement about "downgrading", unless you are going to put the reason there as well. This is only fair to your readers to explain your decision.

3. The only other option is for me to stop paying your monitor, have you list us as "Not Paying", and I will ask all our investors in any way I can to kindly ignore your monitor.

Any other option is crooked business practice, and will not be tolerated. Until I hear from you, I will continue to pay you as promised.

Regards,
Terry Jameson
P.S. I'm assuming you will delete this comment, so I will be posting it elsewhere if that is the case.

QFT for now

This is weird Terry,
You are extending a set of rules, conditions and directives here.

Alex (moderator) :

This is weird Terry,
You are extending a set of rules, conditions and directives here.

Not trying to be "weird", Alex. Only fair. You stated yourself in your "quality vs. quantity initiative" announcement that you would list the reasons for denial of listing, or downgrading a program. Yet you have not done that here. I am only trying to keep you to your word.

I have been nothing but honest with you and our members. Yet the only thing that DID change between the time there was no "downgrade" and now was my review by MNO. I can only assume, since you haven't given any other explanation, that this had something to do with our downgrade.

My main point in my previous comment is that if you wish to be exclusive of anybody monitored by MNO, you should, in all fairness, list our program as "Not Monitored" and stop receiving payments. To continue receiving payments from us, yet "downgrade" our program, is hypocritical. Please consider my proposal to list as "not monitored" seriously. I would prefer this not escalate to a level of badmouthing we both don't want.

Thank you for your attention. And if you wish this to be a more private conversation, feel free to e-mail me directly. You have the address.

Terry,

I have been exploring all possible ways to communicate the fact of apparent great deal of negativity associated with money-news-online.com and thus corresponding HYIP.COM's view on HYIP admins, prompting to use MNO.
YET, you seem to be well behind the mainstream information and I should point out that this is NOT to your credit, since you are claiming to be some HYIP expert.
I am pretty sure this is not a discovery for most, but for YOU, I once again repeat and CONFIRM that your use of money-news-online.com "promotion" IS considered as clear negative factor and it WAS the reason for downgrading Intermed-Investments.com on HYIP.COM.
Just in case, here is what such negative factor in plain language is:
If no, or very little users are signing up and investing, it is time to fold, but prior to that, it is time to try getting some "funds" from unsuspecting newbie MNO readers. Don't take my word on this, see the Alert List, see it "in action" yourself. I would be happy if your program becomes an exception, but so far, every single MNO related alert has shown to be fully valid (that is, most programs on alert list have folded, soon after alert).

You said: "...I will ask all our investors in any way I can to kindly ignore your monitor...".
I am pretty sure you DO need to do exactly that, especially because you supposedly just got a "load" of new users (MNO readers), who (unlike users of HYIP.COM) are apparently NOT well educated and may be making BAD investment choices in general.
I am saying this because if your program indeed just got a "blast" of new users (AND IF YOU ARE NOT LYING ABOUT THAT IN YOUR ANNOUNCEMENT), such users must be a distinct group of people, who needs to DIVERSIFY THEIR INFORMATION RESOURCES. For once, as far as I can see and in spite of your program being rated a whooping 3 STARS prior to downgrade, only 10 users of HYIP.COM have signed up to your program and only few of them made very small deposits...

Now, I have NO INTENTION to engage into too much of discussions here, but it wasn't by chance that I mentioned your "talking" about rules...
I should also point out that your attempt to dictate some conditions here is NOT appreciated. You have chosen to use HYIP.COM advertisement service, your fee is NOT refundable and if you choose to ignore yet another rule by stopping paying, that would finally grant a definitive "Problem" to your program status on HYIP.COM.

"Good luck" and try to have a good weekend.

P.S. You are not able to log into your HYIP.COM webmaster account, because you are NOT trusted to manage it.

Alex,

I was only trying to be fair to all involved. But thank you for at least stating specifically that the downgrade of our program was due to the listing with MNO. This will at least clarify the issue with readers. A couple of brief points, then I plan on dropping the issue, since we obviously are in some disagreement here:

1. I am NOT "behind the mainstream" as you put it. I'm fully aware of your stance on MNO. I was, however, under the impression that your refusal to admit for monitoring any program who also listed with MNO meant that you would list as "NOT MONITORED" any program currently on your list who does this. I should have confirmed that with you first, I suppose.

2. Although I thought it would be an option to ignore your monitor - that is no longer an option. I prefer for readers to see the commentary here, and make their own conclusions. I can only hope that you will continue to list our program as paying as long as you don't receive complaints from readers about lack of payment, or are not paid yourself.

3. Regardless of what you believe about our program, MNO, or our chances of "survival", you have NO RIGHT to make the assumption as you did in your "P.S." that I should not be trusted to manage my own account with HYIP.com. You should remember that I paid you for monitoring here, and though you are welcome to form your opinion about the program, I am still one of your customers and at least deserve the respect that comes with. I am not looking for a refund of any fee, since the fee I paid you was already reinvested in our program as per the monitoring agreement. Perhaps readers should know how monitoring fees work, by the way - as I'm sure many of them do not.

4. I just hope you won't delete what I've written here.

Regards,
Terry Jameson