Work From Home: Magic Doubler Madness

Thursday, December 02, 2004

Magic Doubler Madness

Today is my wedding anniversary - 11years. Woke up early and keen to get started on publishing my article. My plan is to spend the whole day sending out the article and, if there is time left over, I will send out some announcements for my new monthly newsletter/ezine, "Networkers' Calendar". Also plan to sneak a little time to work on a couple of new articles which are tapping at the front of my brain, desperate to get out.

It has rained again. Lucky that it was a dry, sunny day 11 years ago. It was cold but the important thing was that it was not rainy. The last few weeks it has seemd as if the world is drowning. I am currently reading "The Taking" by Dean Koontz. This starts with a torrential downpour of very unusual rain. I am starting to feel a little paranoid every time I look out of the window and see more precipitation.

Slept like a tiny tot last night after spending the afternoon digging over my vegetable plot. Very hard work and very muddy. It was colder than I was expecting so I had to work very hard in order to get warm. Really appreciated the warmth when I can back into the house.

It was starting to get dark when I had a visit from a fox. He (or she, I always think of them as "he") was resplendent in his winter coat, looking very dark for one of his breed and with a startling white tip to his brush. As a Londoner (born and bred) I still find it exciting to meet foxes and deer in the wild. Must admit that the London/Hertfordshire border is not all that wild but it's as wild as I care to get.

This is today's article which I am about to start publishing (as soon as I have had breakfast, that is).


Money Doubler Madness

After being around in the background for a while, money doublers suddenly became a huge craze on the internet. Forum message boards sported hysterical testimonials like “I Cycled!” and “I Got Paid!”
I wonder if they call it a craze because it only crazy people fall for it. Well, I’m certainly not crazy, on the dull side of sensible I’d say if I was pressed on the subject. I am not given to trusting people and you won’t find me accepting a free lunch.

So why did I get involved? I put it down to an unattractive little green mean streak of greed. Once that little green fellah gave me a nudge, there was no stopping me; I went from weakness to weakness.
I thought that it would be safe to join one of the established programmes, so I joined the Easy Chair Club’s My Magic Doubler. I invested $100. Their server crashed and they closed to new members with bewildering suddenness. I wondered if I was their last ever member to sign up.

My natural mistrust of human beings became even deeper and I resolved not to make a similar mistake in future; I would not be tempted to join another money doubler.

Some days later, I received $120 back from Easy Chair Club. I had not doubled my money, but I was in profit. I began to like the human race a little better and to think maybe money doublers were not such a bad idea.
Double Bot caught my attention. People were getting paid out and, best of all, they had what they called a “spam” section on their forum where members could discuss money making opportunities (ie other doublers). I invested $50. After my success (I did not see it as a lucky escape) with My Magic Doubler, I was feeling confident.

At this time Matrix Twisted was about to launch. This was my chance to get in at the very start of a doubler and make some big money, so I funded my account with $50. The difference in time zone meant that I would have to buy shares in the middle of the night. Regrettably, I slept through the excitement of the launch. I also missed the trauma of the instant crash and the first howls of “Scam!” I began to feel less confident and more like a Jinx.

Cycle It Fast had already been re-launched and people were getting their money doubled within hours. Strangely, once I had taken the plunge and invested, things changed and I reckon it would have been better named Cycle It Extremely Slowly. Instead of cycling times being expressed in hours, they rose to days and then weeks. Cycle times are no longer mentioned. I think the wheels fell off the day I joined.

I decided Cycle It Fast would have to be a long term investment. I still had Double Bot for quick profit. I was surprised to note, when I visited the forum, one day that the popular “spam” section had been removed and posts along the lines of “10 days and I haven’t cycled” and “Where is my money?” were appearing. I started to feel a little uneasy. I was disappointed but not surprised when the Bot hit the rocks. How strange, it had been doing so well before I joined. I asked for a refund but I think admin were too busy baling out.

Anxious to recover my losses, I invested $50 with Profit Sharing Hits. Money doubling with advertising hits on top. What could go wrong? I was stunned when the members’ forum disappeared overnight and Admin announced that a re-launch was necessary. I again got that eerie feeling of being the last one in before the doors closed.

After several emails from me, a reply arrived from Double Bot. As admin had not got round to refunding my money before they re-launched, they were offering me a choice of paying them a 35% fee to process the refund or reinvesting in the Bot even though doubling had stopped.

That is the absolute end! Pass me that albatross and call me Jonah. It seems that any doubler that takes me on board will immediately sink. I might as well go and throw my money straight into the sea, at least I’ll get some fresh air at the same time. I have learned my lesson. I’ll concentrate on my Plug In Profit Site and will not waste any more time or money on these stupid doublers.

Wait up! I just got mail and there’s a money tripler about to launch. Now that’s different…

This is one of a series of articles published by
the author, Elaine Currie, BA(Hons) at
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Shame about the money doublers. I was hoping to make a bit of money that way but it looks as if I'll just have to go back to trying to earn a fortune. I am glad I found out about Empowerism http://www.empowerism.com/e/91316/join.cfm

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