Wow. Just wow. Honestly, thank you for ruining my Saturday morning.
People were asking for the company name, so I gave it. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t I guess.
They don’t need this for SEO, they’ve got plenty of business coming from elsewhere. This is such a minor part of their business that they really do only need a limited number of people doing this.
I’m seriously just floored by the response here. Some of it is seriously helpful to get me to start asking tough questions, but others like this, just really sours me.
I guess I should have just known better, but the TL thread really made me think you guys would be up for it. Oh well, C’est la vie.
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OP, @arebelspy had published thousands of posts before bringing up Tradelines. He'd built up trust within the community for years, is a moderator, etc. Your first post was several days ago, and all but two of your posts have to do with these cards.
It takes time, is all.
OP, so sorry if you're feelings are hurt, but really digest what expatartist said. You have no standing here, you came in as a perfect stranger, promoting in detail a scheme that really, really REALLY is a terrible idea for anyone to get involved with. Gray area activities, the least of which likely could get your Paypal account suspended for falsely using the free "friends & family" option to transfer money for a company that is neither a friend or family... you do understand that right? It's lying, it's abusing Paypal's very generous offer to allow folks to transfer money for free and you're robbing them of their commission by lying and falsifying your transfers.
The fact that this company Zinc is okay with this? Also terrible business practices, and I personally would never do business with a company that thinks this shit is okay even if I could make a bit of cash by doing so.
You then talk of abusing the Amazon rewards like this is a good thing and once again, the Zinc people are giving you a walk through on how to do so. Those bonuses are there for regular folks to toddle along and get a bonus for their regular spending. Again, if Amazon/Visa discover you're abusing their points/bonus system? They'll likely shut down the account at the very least. At worst? They'll suspend the whole damned deal for everyone because folks can't stop abusing the shit out of this stuff.
And I won't even get into the trouble you could be seeing from the U.S. Treasury department if they decide to investigate this company for money laundering. Or the tax fraud implications.
If you aren't really a company guy promoting this crap... I apologize. But honestly, how else are we supposed to view this? It's a terrible idea, and your sole interactions are defending it and then once it gets to the point of being indefensible, you're offended that your relationship with said company is questioned? And suddenly they inform you they don't want any more promotion from you? That's too much of a coincidence for me, and that's why I called it out.
SEO black hatters do this stuff all the time. Astroturfing - paid shilling, etc., have been a (terrible) marketing technique for as long as the internet has existed. What you've done here is classic astroturfing - look it up if you're not familiar with the term.
I might be wrong. I'm perfectly willing to think you're just a very naive person that saw this as a great idea and somehow missed all the terrible signs until they were pointed out to you here. But again, looking at it from my side... it is classic company shill stuff.
So sorry if that ruined your day, but I guess I'm just a suspicious person that's seen way too many "great ideas" promoted by strangers on forums such as this one, and this sort of thing pisses me off when good people get suckered in by it, or decent promotional deals get taken away because someone figures out a way to abuse and exploit it. If you are one of the innocents that got taken in, that is terrible, but the company itself needs to be recognized and remembered as a bad one to do any business with, and that's why I made sure to quote your post - not specifically to hurt you, but to ensure that a record stays here of how terrible they are and the sort of business practices they condone.