boomertowne.com is a scam!

Hey Everyone,

Well i been avoiding the inevitable...talking about boomertowne.com. I hate to say this but boomertowne.com in my book is a scam. The reason i am officially calling it a scam is because on gather.com i found evidence that they did indeed close down an what there reasons where. I would love to believe this site will come back any day, but for now it wont be. Maybe one day it will come back an if it does then i will go back to get my gift card! but i doubt they will be back. But for now in my book boomertowne.com is a scam. Maybe it paid others, but it didn't me an until it does it will remain as a scam in my eyes But here is the information i found

Found on comparerewards.com reposted by gather.com

Boomertowne...

Dear Mr. Peddicord,

I run CompareRewards.com, a website that provides reviews and news of points programs like BoomerTowne. I've been following the developments with your site and am getting a tremendous amount of traffic from your members, all of whom are disappointed and hoping for some answers.

Is the site down permanently? Is it possible that the site could be sold and return at some point? Are there any plans to honor the cashouts that have been made up to this point, even at half or some fraction of their value?

At what point did you decide to take BoomerTowne down? Is this a decision that has been in the works for a while now? Have you been trying to find potential investors or to develop an alternate business model that might be more profitable?

Isn't it difficult to abandon the site just months after PC Magazine named it the #1 Website for Boomers? You have a reputation for being a shrewd entrepreneur; there's no way to make the site financially feasible?

I know these are a lot of questions and at no doubt a time when you're already upset about having to make some tough decisions. Any insight you could give me that I could pass along to your faithful members would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your time, and I wish you the best.


Sincerely,
Becky Ford
CompareRewards.com


His response:


RE: Saddened by the news about BT -- a response if you could, please?

Unfortunately illness, economic downturn, and mass cheating drove the company bankrupt. Several millions were lost by investors and even though we tried to sell and raise capitol, the lousy economy made that impossible. The investors including me lost millions of dollars trying to build a real community. When the economy went south companies quit advertising and income dropped to 10 percent of what it had reached. That combined with mass point cheating made it impossible to go on. No site that offers rewards will succeed as long as people devote so much time trying to beat the system. It tells you something about our society.





Just because i am sentimental.....here is what i had original wrote on boomertowne.com

Awaiting Payment at boomertowne.com july/16/08

Well i told you all that i was working on a paid to click an that i would get paid soon an guess what. I earned enough at boomertowne.com to cash out. So what is this site?

This site is similar to gather.com, But its also very different. First off this site has TONS of ways to earn points (all list all there ways at the bottom). They also have great prizes, you can even earn a 100 visa gift card (which is what i cashed out for today).

Each day you can earn 1,500 points, which can be used to cash out for great prizes (all try to list all the prizes at the bottom to).

The site is mostly about learning about new towns around the country. it is great for if your traveling an you got an idea of what towns you are going through. If you look for that town on boomertowne you can learn everything about that town from its history to what restaurants and gas stations they have. But they have tons of other sections, like they got a section on health, games an the list can go on an on because there is so much to do at this site!

The site is not just about towns, it is also about making new friends. Now if your not the friendliest person it is ok. You don't HAVE to leave comments to others to earn points. You can simply earn points for adding the people who add you. an even if someone deletes you, you don't loose those points,ever! .

But here are some of my tips on how to earn some points at this site:
1)You earn points for every page you go to on the site, however its one point per page an its only the first time you go to that page per day so if you go to home page once, if you try to go again in the same day you wont get points. An with so many pages you can earn lots of points!
2)You earn 10 points everytime you add someone or they add you, an the best thing about adding friends is there no limit to the points. when i post below you will see that for each activity you can do you only earn a certain amount of points.
3) leaving friends comments, you can earn 5/10 points for every 29 people you leave a comment on there board to. you can simply say hope you have a great week to them an you will earn you points, no worrys everyone is really friendly an no one says anything harsh back.
4) voting on jokes and quotes, for jokes you earn 100 points and for quotes you earn 100 points. Now on these pages you can do about 7/8 pages worth of voting for jokes for you to earn your 100 points. this also applys to quotes. so between these 2 you make 200 points!
5) you earn points for voting for recipes, an you can do 7/8 pages as well an get 100 points
6) you earn points for voting for user tips, an can do 7/8 pages an get 100 points.
7) you can earn points by voting for someone to go to jail. right now a few of them are voting to put 4.00 gas prices in jail. you earn 10 points per day doing this
8) if you log in every day you get 25 points.
9) you earn 10 points for games. now you can only play every game once to earn the 10 points, you try to play the same game twice an no money.
10) also you can do the monkeymoon challenge where you go an guess the name of the song, now you can type the lyrics in the search engine an it will tell you the name of the song an you can do this once a week an earn 100 points!

But these are the ways i make points on this site. But remember 1,500 points a day, you go past that an you don't get those points. Now a good way to keep track of how many points you earn a day is after you log in go to btpoints and then go to myboomertowne points and they will tell you how many you have made today!

But i really do like this site, its a lot of fun an pretty easy an its better then clicking ads. But i really hope they pay out so i can say this site is legit, right now i don't know if they pay. But i havent heard a single story yet where they didn't pay out so i am going on that. But all write when i get paid, which should be between 6 to 8 weeks!

How to Earn BoomerTowne Points


Last Updated: May 23rd, 2008
Activity Points
First place winner for BoomerVision Pictures 10,000
First place winner for BoomerVision Videos 10,000
Monthly Referral Bonus 10,000
Second place winner for BoomerVision Pictures 5,000
Second place winner for BoomerVision Videos 5,000
Third place winner for BoomerVision Pictures 3,000
Third place winner for BoomerVision Videos 3,000
Sign Up For the Newsletter (once) 150
Answer the Lyrics correctly 100
Become a BoomerTowne Citizen 100
Create a Dating Profile (30 days of membership required) 100
Create a Boomer Profile (30 days of membership required) 100
Create a MyTowne City Profile 100
Enter Household Income Data 100
Participate in a Flash Chat Room (once per day, 2 post min.)** 100
Play and Complete the Scavenger Hunt (once per day) 50
Read the Newsletter (once per e-mail) 50
Post to a Featured Discussion Board Topic (once per day) 35
Login (once per day) 25
Add a MyTowne Recommendation 25
Play the Trivia Contest (once per day) 25
Set Weather in your City (once every 30 days) 25
Submit a Recipe (once per day) 25
Submit a fave tip to Daily Tips 25
Submit a photo to BoomerVision Pictures (once per contest) 25
Submit a video to BoomerVision Videos (once per contest) 25
Upload Image on your Profile 25
E-mail an Article (up to 5/day to unique e-mails) 15
Submit a Boomer Joke (once per day) 15
Submit a Boomer Quote (once per day) 15
Accept a Friend on Profiles 10
Play Games - Sudoku, Crossword, Jigsaw, Lucky Letters, Play Four, Pardon My Words, Fence Builder, Treasure Hunt and Mahjong (once per day each) 10
Play Mahjong (points awarded after end of game) 10
Vote for a Qwiki Quiz 10
Edit Profile (once per session) 7
Post to a Discussion Board Topic (twice per day) 7
Post to a Message Board (on someone's profile)*** 7
Post your Answer to Poll Questions (once per month) 7
Request a Friend on Profiles 7
Submit a Question to Ask Dr. Bob (twice per week) 7
Submit a Question to Ask Dr. Marion (twice per week) 7
Submit a Question to Ask Nan (twice per week) 7
Suggest A Topic 7
Add an image on a MyTowne City 5
Nominate someone new for the BoomerTowne Jail 5
Someone you referred becomes a BoomerTowne Citizen 5
Visit a City in MyTowne* 5
Watch a Celebrity Video* 5
Watch a Featured Celebrity Video* 5
Rate a Book Review* 3
Rate a Boomer Joke* 3
Rate a Boomer Quote* 3
Rate a Recipe* 3
Rate a Tip* 3
Vote for BoomerVision Pictures**** 3
Vote for BoomerVision Videos**** 3
Vote for a Jail nominee (once per day) 3
Page Views 1

*100 Point cap per day.
**Chat Room points are awarded every five minutes, so you may experience a delay before you see your points updated.
***Maximum 200 point daily limit
****Maximum of 9 points per day. Users can vote for no more than three pictures per day.
+Daily point earnings can not exceed 1,500 BoomerTowne Points. Once you have earned 1,500 BoomerTowne Points in one day you are ineligible to earn additional points in that same day.


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