Mike Burns - Mikespaid4emails - Quantum Awards ripoff Middleton Nova Scotia

I am filing this report regarding an online individual who has operated a program that has been in operation on the internet of roughly 2 years.

I first heard about this program 2 years ago and a lot of people said it was well worth joining, and some people said they have actually been paid.

The program was called Mikespaid4emails: http://www.mikespaid4email.com where you got paid to read emails sent to you by advertiser's that would pay Mikespaid4emails to send them to you. When a person signed up with this program they were given a $30 bonus for signing up and the payout one had to reach was $150.
However, you also needed to get referral's under you in order to earn quicker.

A few month's of me being in this program with just one referral the owner decided to lower the payout to $100, which everyone thought was fantastic.

The owner of this Mikespaid4emails also had a few other similar programs as Mikespaid4emails of which I also belonged to.

This owner later decided that it would not be feasable to run more than one program with similar nature's so decided to merge all these other program's ,including it's member's and their earnings, into Mikespaid4emails. Again people thought this was a good move.

However, un-announced to this owner's member's, they turn around and decide to close up Mikespaid4emails and open another program called Quantum Awards: http://www.quantum-rewards.com , taking along all the member's from Mikespaid4emails and moving them, without their consent, into this new program Quantum rewards.

Many member's were furious of this under-handed move that they did not consent to; We were first given an option that if we had the $100 minimum payout from the old program Mikespaid4emails we could request payout or transfer it into Quantum Awards, anyone with less than $100 would have to transfer that to their new program.

Before this surprise change I had my earnings moved from one of Mr. Burns other program's, Clixmonster, that he merged with Mikespaid4emails and my $30 sign-up bonus was still in my MIkespaid4emails account, the total of both my earnings from these two progam's, including my $30 bonus, would have brought me up to the minimum $100 cashout limit with Mikespaid4emails. However, the owner then decided to retract the $30 bonus from everyone who joined, bringing my total earnings to just short of $2 below the $100 cashout limit. And this removal of the promised $30 bonus also upset many people.

Now to explain this new program, Quantum Awards, which is also questionable. It is a program where a person must make purchases to entitle them to recieve any earning's they may make through this program. This raised some eyebrows, because in most countries this is considered illegal. which brings me to the "Terms of Agreement" that member's have to agree to; In a public forum operated by the owner of mentioned program's he clearly said that his terms were not legal thus not legally binding, so basically stating he could do whatever he pleased and there wasn't anything anyone could do about it.

Many people have visited the forum including myself to voice their concerns, and I have to agree with some people that the owner's of the program were very nice to you when you asked them questions in the past, even to me as well. However they were not so nice when the tables were turned and people were rightly upset about this drastic change, that unlike they claim they did in fact inform people, they cetainly did not when it came to opening this new program Qauntum Awards. In fact the owner so much as considered his member's of his program's nothing more than "Welfare" cases and went so far as to say "The Welfare Office is Now closed" in regards to his program Mikespaid4emails, this was a low-blow to many people as the majority of people who belong to similar program's are of low-income, on pension's and disabilites who are only trying to supplement what other income they receive, and this is appaling for someone to "generalize" people in such a manner.

Now people have been waiting well over 10 month's for payout from the old program Mikespaid4emails, most of these people made their payment requests well before this new change but they seem to have taken a "Back Seat" to this new program as to who has the higher priority when it comes to who gets paid, in other words they will get paid whenever,I myself do not think it's fair that these people should have to wait any longer than they already have and should take a higher priority over those who wish to continue with this Quantum Awards program:

This Qauntum Awards program also fooled someone into making a $500 purchase through one of their Amazon affiliate storefronts, giving this person the impression he would get a percentage paid back to him from his initital $500 purchase, however someone in another very well known forum pointed out that this against Amazon.ca's User agreement,that they prohibit any affiliate from offering an incentive, rebate or awards when they make a purchase through an affiliate.
The forum I belong to has a very lengthy topic concerning this Program and it's owner.

Any way I feel this needs to be put out that this program is not one people should get involved with, and many people have been contacting different legal and fraud's agencies to see what can be done about this particular program and it's owner

The sad part about this whole matter is that the owner's of this program Quantum Awards still feel they've done nothing wrong; however I beg to differ when you consider the amount of people who are quite angry. They had a membership of well over 18,000 at Mikespaid4emails and has now dropped to 17,559 with Qauntum Awards; however I would not be surprised that even the total of these member's are inacurate and possably even bogus, as many people who belong to such progams also belong to a forum called getpaidforum.com and we certainly don't have that many member's posting complaints regarding this program, so something doesn't appear to add up when it comes down to the total member's in either of these program's, and this is a question only the owner himself can answer, which I highly doubt that he will.

Any way thank you for this site and I hope it benifits many other's in staying informed to and keeping themselves weel aware of possable scams and fraud's

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Charmeyn
Langley, British Columbia
Canada