Does anyone think there’s something fishy about earning money on a site with a complete block on all staff-user communication?
Let me tell you a personal story.
PrizeRebel filed a DMCA complaint against this site earlier this year (for those of you wondering – it was for unknown reasons. My host contacted me but couldn’t tell me exactly what was infringing). I attempted to contact them, and let me tell you, it’s impossible.
The staff ignores everything, even when it’s a legal matter.
Their contact form? No answer. Their contact email? No answer. The email and phone number listed in the domain whois? No answer.
This got me thinking, why do people trust the site in the first place? You have no way to contact a staff member about a personal issue (the most personal I ever got was getting an extra 5 points for being a good referrer), you’re given generic responses to support emails, and you don’t even know who works there.
Does anyone even know how many staff the site has? Is it a little Palestinian kid running the site? Is it an old guy in his basement who might die any day now and leave the orders unfulfilled? Why can’t we know?
What’s the big secret with PrizeRebel? Why can’t the members know who controls the site? Why is there the huge barrier between the administrators and the users?
Why do we trust a site like this? You have no idea on the background of the management, yet you’re earning money there?
I’d like some comments on this post just so I can understand this, because it makes no sense to me. Does anyone know something I don’t?
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More likely than not, PrizeRebel is just run by a small group (if not one guy) who don’t even log in to the email they put up for contact.
Probably because they just don’t want to listen to queries of help when something goes wrong for the guys who click the links.
People trust PrizeRebel because of the Testimonies most likely. Also, when you become desperate (even if its a false desperate, like say, you wanted a game REALLY bad that was popular but couldn’t scrounge up the dollars) you end up trusting the first thing that has even only a scrap of evidence to its name.
It’s also pretty simple how the whole scheme works, PrizeRebel gets deals with whoever is put on the offer, they probably pocket 60-75% of the “transaction” done for every click, and the user gets a small cut.