Friday, May 29, 2009
Microtel Cavite - My Bad Experience with Microtel Cavite
I and my wife celebrated our 19th anniversary and we decided to go out of town to celebrate that occasion. We are residing in Paranaque so we searched the Internet for potential places to stay. Microtel caught my attention because of their reasonable price and beautiful facade. I called up the Microtel Manila office to inquire about their Cavite branch. I spoke to a female voice with the name Vicky. To be fair with Vicky, she was very accomodating, she even explained to me how to get there. So on we went to Cavite.
We had no difficulty going there. From Paranaque, we traversed South Superhighway and exited Carmona. My wife was so excited to get to Microtel Cavite. Looking at their website, http://www.microtel-cavite.com/, Microtel appears to be an international hotel chain with several branches around the Philippines. To make this clear, I am only sharing my experience in Microtel Cavite. Other branches may offer better services. In fact, I and my family are planning to go to Microtel Mactan whenever my time permits.
So we arrived in Microtel Cavite at around 2:30pm and told the receptionist (who turned out to be Mam Vivian), that we are checking in. Advised by Vicky (from the Manila office) regarding extending their promo rate of Php 2129, I promptly told Vivian that we are getting a single room for two. Vivian then informed me that they also have a promo of Php 3400 with extras like free entrance to Eagle Ridge, free swimming pool, free massage, and UNLIMITED internet access.
Being an internet entrepreneur, I agreed to get the Php 3400 just because of the internet access. So we were given our room in the 3rd floor of the hotel. When we checked in, I immediately set up my laptop to test if I can access the internet. It turned out that the internet access is not yet activated so I called up reception to report this. Mam Vivian said she will call me back to check. I waited for around 20 - 30 minutes without any feedback from Mam Vivian. So I decided to call again the reception. Vivian then told me that I need to buy internet access for P100 per hour. I understand that P100 per hour is standard in Microtel.
P100 per hour is ok with me for P2129 as adviced by Vicky of the Manila office. But Vivian offered me a better deal (I thought) because of other freebies (unlimited internet access, free massage, access to Eagle Ridge pool, etc.). That's why I agreed to go for Php 3400.
When I asked Vivian that this is not what we agreed, she insisted that she did not commit to me to give me unlimited internet access. Instead, to appease me, she offered me to give me one hour free. I said to Vivian that we will just check out if she will continue to deny what we agreed. Then she offered again that she will give me 2 hours free. So I countered that I want unlimited access as previously agreed. She even proposed that she can only give me access the next morning. WTF, do you understand what you are saying? Why the next morning when we are checking out in the next few hours? If she only knew that I am online 50-60 hours a week, she would probably understand.
This went on for a few minutes so I and my wife decided to leave the hotel. But before doing that, my wife scolded Vivian for what she is doing. She should not be in the front desk especially for an international hotel chain like Microtel. She does not know how to appease her clients. In fact, we proceeded to Island Cove and got ourselves our room for Php 3000 with all the amenities like unlimited access, excellent customer service, nice bath tub. Microtel Cavite was offering us Php 3400 for one room with one bed and one comfort room without internet access.
People like Vivian is a disgrace to the Microtel organization. People, especially those front desk personnel, should be trained to handle customers properly and not promise things they can't give. We felt offended by her attitude. We don't mind paying Php 3400 for a simple room as long as she keeps on her promise about the unlimited internet access. But she kept her position even it meant losing us as a customer, when in fact she promised everything to us in the first place.
Microtel Cavite I hope you retrain your people. You are losing customers because of Mam Vivian.
Friday, August 22, 2008
Certified oDesk Provider
Earning online is no joke. You've got to discipline yourself to avoid procrastination or else you won't meet your deadlines. Working beside the bed is no easy task. The temptation to take a short sleep is just great and if you don't put some structure in your daily life, you will be hard pressed to honor your commitments.
I usually sleep around 10pm at night and wake up early in the morning around 2-3am to start working. I find that I am more productive working in the early hours of the morning. I then take a nap around 8am when my kids leave for school and my wife goes to work. At 10am I then start working again until 12noon when I take my lunch. I rest until 2pm while watching noontime shows. Yes that is one of the perks of working from home. I get to watch eb babes or sexbomb or the wowowee girls daily. It never fails to amaze me how can these girls gyrate and pump with their supple bodies.
From 2pm to 6pm, I work again and watch the news at 6:30pm while having dinner with my family. When I need to do some catching up, I work after dinner until 10pm or if I have spare time, I make it a point to watch a pirated DVD of the latest movies.
If you add it all up, I only sleep 6 hours a day at most and I work around 12 hours daily, sometimes even longer. But I enjoy my life and I earn tax-free income safe from the government leeches. I am so happy to have discovered oDesk 9 months ago. I will never go back to working offline for some corporations again.
Here is the oDesk t-shirt that came with USPS packaging. I was filled with excitement by just looking at it.
Folded oDesk t-shirt. It really looks good.
oDesk t-shirt in its full glory. It is all worth it guys. I am now a full-blooded oDesk Provider.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
US$3800 in one month
the earning screenshot is authentic not the usual fake photoshop images by most internet marketers. i just hope to inspire people, especially filipinos, that anyone can earn a good living online. that there is an alternative in corporate life. in my case, there is life after my corporate career was shutdown unexpectedly due to the usual corporate politics.
good luck to all odeskers. with hardwork, prayers and persistence, you will be able to attain the income levels you never imagine getting online. take care of your clients once you secure a project. nurture them as if your life and your family's future depend on them and you will never go wrong.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Fed up with making money online? Do it in real life! ANY COUNTRY AVAILABLE $$$ by SinUser of DP
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=868976
It promises of a unique way to earn money thru affiliate marketing promoting them offline. Here is the short sales letter extracted from the DP thread:
I bet you all are a bit tired of sitting in front of the computer, trying to find what you really need. Well, same happened to me a couple of month ago - Internet was just making me mad as I wanted to run away for a bit. So I did.
I found this great trick, which is absolutely new between you guys.
Once I started it, the first income came after a week. I received a check worth 520 dollars. I'm cutting the edge this month.
Wanna now I how I did it ? :-)
Price: 20$ // Next 3 copies - 30$
File type: msword, own written (RS link will be provided)
The summary of the method is:
1. Be an affiliate of SFI Affiliate Center
2. Once you are a member of SFI, go to www.eyeearn.com. Register with this company.
3. Order EyeEarn Starter Kit for $20.
The starter kit includes EyeEarn tshirt, cards, stickers, forms and more. This is how the starter kit looks like:
4. Go around town and promote and recruit EyeEarn affiliates.
I don't know much about SFI and its network and I just don't understand about EyeEarn. You just use the advertising tools and that's it, you earn monthly commission presumably from revenue sharing scheme from all the efforts of EyeEarn affiliates. As it looks to me, EyeEarn is the offline promotional arm of SFI. I cannot call this one a scam since I've seen affiliates in the Philippines earn from it and recover the initial costs of starting up as an affiliate.
Based on my research, most EyeEarn affiliates earn around $10-20 monthly. It is unlike what SinUser claimed in the DP thread which according to him, he earned $520 in one week. Just lower your expectations when you join this network and I guess you should be fine.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
No Sales System by Ewen Chia
"Revolutionary Breakthrough System Reveals Million Dollar Loophole That Will Make You Hundreds Up To Thousands Of Dollars A Day Quickly And Easily...Without Selling A Single Thing...100% Guaranteed!"
If you’re ready to finally achieve the kind of online success you have been searching for, allow me to let you in on a dark secret that’s been kept hidden for years now…
Come closer…
…and listen carefully:
There’s a secret loophole that allows you to make hundreds or even thousands of dollars every single day, without selling a single thing!
And it’s been hidden in plain sight all this time, right under your nose...
I thought Ewen Chia has the secret loophole or dark secret that's been kept hidden for years now? To me ZangoCash or Vombacash is not that hidden after all. These are just ordinary pay-per-install programs wherein you let other people install a spyware programs on your PC. Some of these programs may even damage your system. Will Ewen install this small program into his PC? And PPI is not revolutionary at all as Ewen wants to make it appear. It is a big no-no for affiliates of these PPI networks to install these small programs.What is so revlutionary about youtube, revver, voxant newsroom and metacafe?
Now brace yourself as I introduce you to my revolutionary system for making easy money, faster than you ever imagined possible, ALL without selling a single thing…
Introducing: The ‘No Sales SystemTM’!
| | I’ve created a cash generation system that’s designed to send floods of cash straight into your bank account, quickly and easily, without selling anything. That’s why I called it the ‘No Sales System’. The ‘No Sales System’ works by tapping into alternative money making resources that you won’t hear about from anyone else. The real beauty of all this is:
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You don’t even need to maintain the system. Seriously, once it’s set up, it’ll make you money without requiring your attention.
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You don’t need big e-mail lists. That’s right, you don’t need to send out e-mails to make money. That would be selling stuff. This is a ‘no sales system’.
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It’s quick and easy. In fact, it’s almost like instant cash flow.
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All in all, if you can read and write, then you’re qualified to make money with this revolutionary system.
I thought this is a set and forget system. Taking surveys is not set and forget. You have to actively participate in it.
Discover How To Make More Than $100,000 A Year Using The #1 Easiest Cash-Flow System Known To Mankind!
‘No Sales System’ is not about putting banners on your website.
It doesn’t have anything to do whatsoever with putting a bunch of content on your website, and then putting some banners up there, hoping people will click on those and eventually buy from the offer they’ll see so you’ll make money.
Again, that would be a form of selling. And this is a ‘non sales system’. There’s no selling involved of anything whatsoever!
Yes this is not about putting banners on your website but Ewen recommended putting in paid pop-ups for advertisers. Isn't these two the same, the only difference is the mode of delivery. And I don't think you will be approved if you don't have a bunch of content on your website. If you don't have contents, no advertiser (regardless thru banners or pop-ups) would like to do business with you. Besides, if I will just be earning $1.80 CPM (1000 visitors), I rather use Adsense.
Ewen advised to use paid for downloads programs like Easy-Share.com. How the hell can I reach the goal to make it to $100,000 if the rate that I am being paid is $1 for every 1000 downloads? It will definitely require a lot of work and promotion.
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‘No Sales System’ is not about any other “fad” you can possibly think about…
This system is probably unlike anything you’ve ever seen online before. I’ve never seen anyone talk or write about these resources anywhere. And I’ve been around…
One word - this system is truly revolutionary.
Download "No Sales System" Now For Just A Measly Investment Of Only $197.00, $97.00, $77.00 $47!
(Price Will Go Up To At Least $77.00 At Anytime - Without Warning)
This ebook is just a compilation of various online income opportunities but there is nothing revolutionary about it. It is a rehash of many ebooks readily available on the Net. It has to be maintained, definitely requires more than read and write skills, it is not something unique as I've seen it many times before.Zangocash, vombacash, paid pop-ups, youtube and other video sites, taking surveys: are these al revolutionary? Ewen Chia, you are a certified copycat and scam artist.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Unique Method = Get Free MobilePhones& Earn $1000+ month by selling them
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=881956&highlight=Free+MobilePhones
It sells for $25 apiece but I've seen the author gave $5 discounts for some buyers. The author, CASXLV, promises a unique method to get almost free mobile phones. It added you only have to setup your website, hosting and probably shipping costs of these mobile phones. Once you have the mobile phones delivered to you, you can sell and profit from them. The author even showed some screenshots of the mobile phones he was able to get from his sources.


As an added bonus, the author of this ebook provides free online coaching. To be honest, I was quite intrigued to have this ebook. Not that I am interested to profit from it, but curious on how is the method like.
So the $25 ebook is a text file consisting of one page. So the method is like this:
1. Setup your domain, hosting and website.
2. Register in Alibaba.com and pose as a buyer of 300 mobile phones and require suppliers free samples to signify their interest.
3. According to the author, this will work 25% of the time.
4. Wait for the mobile phones to be delivered and once you receive the mobile phones, tell the suppliers the phones were junk.
5. Sell the mobile phones to ebay or to your friends.
According to the author, CASXLV, this method is not going to be saturated. I must admit this method may work but as more people apply this method, it will come to a point where suppliers will stop shipping free samples.
I also doubt that this can be considered a long-term business strategy as it is based upon scamming suppliers and making a profit out of it. For all we know, suppliers are already aware of this method and yet this is still currently being sold in DP.
Within the thread, a member of the forum referenced some threads by CASXLV, all of them related to scams:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=571279
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=500556
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=571242
Will you ever do business with this scammer? Better think twice.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
365jobs4u.com - work from home site
365jobs4u is a work from home site offering opportunities for home-based workers: job opportunities like data entry, typing, and surveying jobs. A quick look on the whois information revealed that the domain owner had applied for whois privacy protection. Not that I am against whois privacy protection but it gives added credence if you can see who owns the domain of a business site you are dealing with, especially if you are to be paid by them in the future. So this is red flag #1 for me.
The home page of this site reveals one glaring fact:

This site is spamming the search engine thru keyword stuffing. An old trick used by webmasters to convince the search engines to rank them well for the stuffed keywords. Look how the site repeated the words data entry, processing, conversion, all highly-searched keywords. No wonder they spammed the forum I was in last night with several threads all pointing to this site.
From the home page, I selected International Customers because I am not an Indian and I am from the Philippines.
The page that followed presented me with several menu options I clicked on Top Vacancies (actually the word "vacancies" was mispelled) and I got a blank page with keyword stuffing of the words data entry, processing, etc. at the top.
I clicked next on Content Writer. I was brought to a sales page. I saw some magic words on this page.

"A single line typed by you ... can pay you $5000. "
How can anyone beat that. There is more. Look at how they defined what is a content writer :

The last line caught my attention.
"It's a pure data entry job."
I never thought that a content writer is the same as data entry. No matter how I scratch my head, I still can't see the connection. Data entry is filling in forms, filling in blanks. Content writing may fill in forms and blanks but the similarity ends there. I don't need to define content writing as I am sure everyone knows what it is.
I also noticed that there are a lot of grammatical errors in this page. I don't claim to have perfect grammar but for a site promoting a content writing service, I will not transact with you if your sales copy cannot even come up with simple elementary English.
Now on the top of this page, there is a "Payment and Plan Options", I clicked on it and I got this screenshot.

"Just spend some time & make any-time life-time income"
This is not American English. I am not American but I haven't heard this English usage. I cannot comprehend what this paragraph is, it talks about so many things and this is a sales copy.
Btw, you need to register for $45 for the Basic Plan and $85 for the Premium Plan. I don't know what is the registration for. I guess it has something to do with the maximum number of articles you can submit per month.
I've taken another screenshot of the payment plan to show the complete information.
Take note of the last line in the above image."Time required to complete each article is around 5 minutes"
Are you nuts? Why give me time limit to write my article. And it was written in red and in italics so that it will be difficult to read. How can I get paid if they require me to write within 5 minutes. Let me see, for a 400-word article, I need to write 80 words per minute. But I can type only 60 words per minute and that is typing not writing.
I reviewed the other pages like the one for online typing job. Again, they have two payment plans. $55 for Beginner Typist and $95 for Professional Typist. You can get 50-100 assignments daily and you are allowed only to commit 2 mistakes per assignment. Similar to content writing, they set the bar high so that you won't get paid.
I believe I've seen much of this site and there is no need for me to go farther. I won't outsource my content writing to a site which can't even come up with grammatically-correct basic English copy. I won't also pay for membership for any work of this type.
I will not brand this site as a scam. But the way I see it from their website, even if you get some work from them, you will never get paid because it is just difficult to meet their requirements. There are a lot more opportunities out there which require no upfront payment and guarantee you receiving your payment regardless of your typing or writing speed.
I've been with oDesk for several months now and I haven't paid oDesk a single cent. If you are interested for this type of opportunities you can click on my oDesk banner link. Absolutely, no membership or registration fees will be charged to you.






