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A Letter from Debbie Gum (Sean Gum’s Wife)

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I just received an E-Mail from Debbie Gum, Sean Gum’s wife. In it she tries to explain that Sean has lost everything from the MagMoney, Leads and Affiliates Online Businesses. Read it if you were affected or participated in any of Sean Gum’s Programs.

Here is a copy in it’s entirety:

I am Sean’s wife. Sean works hard at trying to build an on-line business. We are very sorry that he lost almost all of his customers, as well as a lot of money, from the group leads business. He never meant to take anyone’s money. We are sorry about that. The business took a fast nose dive that began right after Christmas, 2005. Sean tried to recover from that by offering promotions for leads, as well as finding internet traffic through the affiliate program. It all sank for him. He has refunded several customers through pay-pal and several customers have received refunds through charge backs from their credit card companies. He even paid out one law suit.

 My husband did give fair notice of 30 days in January to try and fill as many customer leads orders as he possibly could. Filling customer lead orders is not as easy as people may think. It is not something you just pull out of your hat and you have a lead for a customer. He spent many hours during the day, working into the night, to try and find ways to recover leads, money and ways to pay out affiliates.

 Maybe if more people had taken the time to do charge backs or refunds, instead of wating their time smearing Sean’s name all over the Internet, they might have had better results in obtaining their money. He did notify both lead ordering customers, as well as affiliates, of the problems he was experiencing. It’s not like he took all of their money and ran. I can vouch for that. Sean has been working hard not only to bring in income for his family so we can keep food on the table and a roof over our heads, but also at trying to pay out refunds. But- people needed to go through the proper channels to be refunded. He is still paying out refunds to people. We did not take the money and run- trust me. We lost the group leads business, lost a lot of money, lost our health insurance and had to go on Medicaid, plus had a car repossessed. Before you go judging my husband and accusing him of being a scam artist, ask yourself: What did it take Sean to run the leads business and be able to keep it going financially? Do any of you out there have any idea what it takes to start a leads business and the stress of keeping up with a leads business? Have any of you even taken a glimpse into his life to see how hard he has been working since January to try and make things right for his customers and affiliates?

 Before you judge him and blog his reputation all over the internet, ask yourself- if you had a business going down faster than you anticipated, would you have the money up front to refund every single person or place you owed money to? Chances are, if you have a mortgage to pay and kids to feed, you would not have the necessary funds to refund everybody right away.

Thank You,Debbie Gum 

I am sure some of you got the same letter. I don’t have an opinion as to the losses he (or you) incurred. I am just passing this on to anyone who is interested in Sean Gum, MagMoney or any of his affiliate programs.

Joe

July 31st, 2006 at 05:49pm | Posted by Joe | General, Scams and Legitimate, Work at Home | reader remarks | Print This Post

Chris Cree Wins Links for a Week

 

Ok, I know it wasn’t much of a contest.  Chris Cree is the only one who answered at all, and he looked at the answers first.  But, I will Honor my Word and give Chris at least one Link per Day for the next 7 Days. (Yesterday’s link doesn’t count).

The answers and explainations of why I made the changes are:

~~ I added Recent Comments to the sidebar.  I think showing a preview of the conversation that is occuring could stimulate others to join in.  I have seen this on other Blogs I visited and could see what was happening without having to actually click “comments” first.

~~ I added a Chat Room to the Contact Form.  Not too much has happened there yet, but I haven’t promoted the Chat Option at all.  I have yet to make a final decision on making it more prominant or deleting it.

~~ I have started using lower case lettering on all titles in the sidebar.  This is more a personal preference than anything else, but I think it seems to work fairly well.

~~ I shortened the Main Page to 3 Posts Presented.  When I was using Blogger I ran into the problem of not being able to use a Next Page Feature.  Now that the option is available with WordPress, I think it helps in keeping the Presentation less cluttered.

Since I made those changes I also added the:

~~ Subscribe by E-mail link at the top of the sidebar and got one subscription on the First Day. There are some people that feel more comfortable getting updates by E-mail rather than RSS.

~~ Follow Comments on a Post link after each post.  When I comment on other Blogs, sometimes I like to follow-up on the conversation. Not everyone offers this service and I think this Plug-in provides an easy way to offer my commenters follow-up on their conversations.

~~ A Favicon to the Address Bar.  This is purly for my Ego, but I like it.

 

If you would like links to any of the Plug-ins mentioned, please visit Joe’s Freeware Finds (one of my other Blogs).  There are links to a lot of different Downloads, all by the Original Author.

July 31st, 2006 at 01:11pm | Posted by Joe | Community, Fun, Linking, Plug-ins | 4 reader remarks | Print This Post

This Weeks Helpful Reads… Week 16

This is an ongoing series of interesting and helpful reads that I have come across on the Internet.

I try to include the most helpful articles and links each week to provide the widest range of information for the home business entrepreneur.

Got a Legal Question about Blogging? by Mike Sigers… Mike is presenting a way to get answers to legal questions about blogging from Bob Silber, reknown internet attorney.

Why Some People Almost Always Write Great Post Titles by Brian Clark… Brian explains the Why of writing great post titles.

Why Your Blog’s Readers Should be Able to Contact You by Darren Rowse… Darren gives reasons for having contact information through a personal experience.

3 Free Web Tools That You’ll Fall in Love With by Chris Cree… Chris goes a little of his normal topic and presents 3 Web tools that he really likes.

Ad clicks add up to real money by Yuki Noguchi (Washington Post)… Some examples of how a few can make money with AdSense, Yahoo and others. (look at the # of hits needed for that much money)

I hope you find some of these articles informational and helpful. I think they will be enjoyable reading nonetheless.

~~~ All the above can be considered infected with the Link-Leak Virus ~~~

Access Links to Previous Helpful Reads

July 30th, 2006 at 07:56am | Posted by Joe | Weekly Helpful Reads | 2 reader remarks | Print This Post