Contactthem.com Spam or Scam?

If you own a website I'm guessing you have found propositions in your email box from a company called "ContactThem.com". Your proposition probably reads just like the 30 or more I get a day:

Have you received an email that goes like this:Hi, We've seen your website at http://webbizbest.com/and we love it!We see that your traffic rank is 257966 and your link popularity is 3. Also, you have been online since 07/07/2006. With that kind of traffic, we will pay you up to $4,800/month to advertise our links on your website. If you're interested, read our terms from this page: AFFILIATE LINK HERE Sincerely,so and so

I am pretty sure thousands have, if you have not. Someone wrote in their blog:

“THE TOTAL TRUTH ABOUT THIS COMPANY:This is nothing more than a cutting edge scam. It was created by Stephan Ducharme AKA The Biggest Scammer on the Web. Stephan is also the scam artist who created of the FreeAdGuru, My Affiliate Finder and the rip off ebook "how to get 1 million visitors to your site" which is totally useless. Stephan is a complete thief. There's hundreds of pages all over the net filled with endless complaints of refund refusals. DO NOT BUY THESE PRODUCTS. DO NOT DOWNLOAD THESE PRODUCTS”.

Well I decided to give contactthem a try. I wanted to know if it was a scam or spam. I followed the link on the email and joined for free as stated. I placed the text links on my sites and waited to see what was next. I went to their forum to pick up a feel for what was going with this contactthem software.

In the forum it seems to be the same people over and over again that seem to be having all the success. I few people did asked question but, I was not satisfy with the answers. I asked questions and in all fairness they did respond but not to my satisfaction. I think that Stephan Ducharme is trying to deliver the goods to repair his rep on the Internet but, is falling short.

The problem is that you are given these incredible figures about how much money you will be making and there is where they run into trouble. By their scenario you would be able to make that kind of money if all those one million affiliates in your down line would make sales. But we all know that’s not going to happen.

They charge $50 a month for the software that contacts web site owners. Some one in the forum I was asking when were they suppose to start making money. The reply was keeping trying for a least six months. I am not going to pay $50 bucks a month to tell web site owners to put the contactthem.com link on their web site and that they will make $4800 a month. I am not making a penny so I will not represent that to some one else. Good head lines contactthem but it is just not going to happen.

Back to the question is it spam or scam. I would have to say a bit of both. Don’t offer what you can not deliver and don’t send unwanted email. And if you do you better deliver. The best way to make these types of programs that you need a down line work is by giving your members another way that they can make money. That way the member is in more of control of what they make. Something like SFI has that affiliate have more control of the money they make because, they have other options.

I am not going to explain everything about contactthem.com because you can get the idea from what I have just express to you. Learn how to make a real living online so you can spot what programs will help you succeed. Contactthem links are off my site.