Scotto was offered $20 a month for two text ads-links on his homepage.

[scottobear]

Interesting email... Actually decent pay for links, and they knew that my name is Scotto.

Hi Scotto,

I run an online casino web site (online pharmacy), and I was wondering if you are interested in linking to my site for some cash. I can pay you $12.00 per month for 1 keyword text link at the bottom of your first page, or $20.00 per month for two links.

Let me know if you are interested so that I can send you the payment and info right away.

I replied that I might be interested, depending on the content of the link text, and if I could see the site before deciding to link to it. I certainly wouldn't mind an extra $20 a month, if it doesn't do popups.

The reply to that was -

We would like to put a 2-3 keyword text links for each site. This is how I would like the links to appear on your site. The titles on the top would link to the URLs listed below.

Order Viagra Online
(hyperlinks to: http://www.cybermedicalgroup.com)

Online Black Jack
(hyperlinks to: http://www.1-black-jack.com)

Please check the sites out and see if this opportunity is of any interest to you.

We can send your payment via Paypal or check, whichever you prefer. If you are still interested please place the links at the bottom of your first page & send us your information according to your choice of payment. Our purpose in doing this is just to do some small advertisements.

If you have any other questions, please don't hesitate to ask.

I looked at the sites, and they're reasonable... the links aren't porno, won't cause popups on my page, and I can put a disclaimer that they're advertisements above the links.

I'm guessing that the sudden surge of hits on my site (due to heroclix and Chevy Tahoe commercial info, mostly) caused someone's flag to go up. I wonder how long the "free money" will come in?

Sweet!

[ Update - ]


You've Got Cash!

Cyber Spectrum Marketing just sent you money with PayPal.

Payment Details

Amount: $20.00

Subject: links

Note: Order Viagra Online
http://www.cybermedicalgroup.com)
Online Black Jack
http://www.1-black-jack.com)

To view the details of this transaction, go to your History. Then, click the link in the Status column for this transaction.

Thank you for using PayPal!

Hi Scotto,

Perfect..everything looks great. It has been a pleasure doing business with
you. The $20.00 payment has been sent to your paypal account
(scott_vonberg@yahoo.com)

The links should be active from 12/27/2002-12/28/2002. We will be keeping
in touch to see how next month looks for both of us.

Comments

while not a pop-up

[wickenden.livejournal.com]

I noticed that closing the viagra link, launches a second browser window. I guess that is in keeping with 'keeping it up'.

d.

Re: while not a pop-up

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Oho! Thanks for the notice.. my popup-blocker must've shut that down outright.

[juliabee.livejournal.com]

very cool! It seems like a much nicer thing to have links to click on rather than 6 obnoxious popups, that I won't even look at because of that they're popups. ...and getting paid to boot!

Re:

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I agree... if it put popups on my page, or had a link to pornography, I'd have said no. I could certainly cope with a few more companies like that offering to pay me. :)