Zeek Rewards- Anyone tried it.
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jmdawson
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The 500 free bids is for retail bid customers only... If you are looking to work the business side that does not apply to you.... Send me an email at dawson.jeffery AT gmail.com
shelterman
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Welcome to ZR CazuaL! You won't regret it.
I PM'd you a video that should help you in getting started on the right foot.
David
shelterman
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Something that I failed to mention in yesterday's post is I'm sure there are others like me that are skeptical about the longivity and legitimacy of this company so I thought I'd give you a bit of history...
Zeek Rewards is actually the affiliate offshoot of it's parent company Zeekler. Zeekler is owned by the Rex Venture Group LLC, a company based in Lexington, NC that has been in business since 1997 when one of the first websites developed for Internet entrepreneurs was established called "The Free Store Club". Many of you are probably familiar with this site. In fact, when you become a ZR affiliate, you are automatically enrolled in The Free Store Club where you are eligible to make purchases yourself from the site wholesale or sell to public at retail.
The reason I bring this fact up is that one of the biggest hurdles that a newly formed penny auction has to leap over is aquiring and maintaining an adequate supply of merchandise...they have to have the infrastructure in place. They have to have either the warehouses in place to ship the merchandise from or have contracts in place with a multitude of dropshippers...Zeekler had both of these in place before Zeekler was even thought of because The Free Store Club had already been running smoothly for over 11 years at the time. Learning this history about the company made me very comfortable about promoting Zeekler and ZR. They were already a very experienced and well-established company before the Zeekler Auctions was even thought of.
Just thought I'd mention this to help overcome the scepticism that some may have.
Zeek Rewards is actually the affiliate offshoot of it's parent company Zeekler. Zeekler is owned by the Rex Venture Group LLC, a company based in Lexington, NC that has been in business since 1997 when one of the first websites developed for Internet entrepreneurs was established called "The Free Store Club". Many of you are probably familiar with this site. In fact, when you become a ZR affiliate, you are automatically enrolled in The Free Store Club where you are eligible to make purchases yourself from the site wholesale or sell to public at retail.
The reason I bring this fact up is that one of the biggest hurdles that a newly formed penny auction has to leap over is aquiring and maintaining an adequate supply of merchandise...they have to have the infrastructure in place. They have to have either the warehouses in place to ship the merchandise from or have contracts in place with a multitude of dropshippers...Zeekler had both of these in place before Zeekler was even thought of because The Free Store Club had already been running smoothly for over 11 years at the time. Learning this history about the company made me very comfortable about promoting Zeekler and ZR. They were already a very experienced and well-established company before the Zeekler Auctions was even thought of.
Just thought I'd mention this to help overcome the scepticism that some may have.
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padlock
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Let me begin by saying that I'm open minded. I'm not posting to bash anyone or squash any dreams here but...this struck me:
Really? What about Free Store Club, NewNetMail, Lighthouse America, Rex Venture Group? More details can be found HERE.
I'm not exactly sure that I would call Paul Burks a pillar of integrity.
But, hey...we're all marketers here. Some of us are scammers (or, at least, were in past lives). So, I'm not here to judge. I'm just saying that this statement needs a bit of clarification.
I've looked in to Zeek Rewards and it seriously appears too good to be true...and, well...you know what they say...
Sorry to be the skeptic/downer in the thread but I thought someone should, at least, play devil's advocate.
Really? What about Free Store Club, NewNetMail, Lighthouse America, Rex Venture Group? More details can be found HERE.
I'm not exactly sure that I would call Paul Burks a pillar of integrity.
But, hey...we're all marketers here. Some of us are scammers (or, at least, were in past lives). So, I'm not here to judge. I'm just saying that this statement needs a bit of clarification.
I've looked in to Zeek Rewards and it seriously appears too good to be true...and, well...you know what they say...
Sorry to be the skeptic/downer in the thread but I thought someone should, at least, play devil's advocate.
booze2lose
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I just spent the past 20 minutes reading up on this site, and I'm definitely interested. I'm not ready to sign up though, so perhaps some of the more knowledgeable people can answer the few questions I have.
1) You have to post to classifieds daily. Seems easy enough.. are there any restrictions on this? Can I find a nice place and simply repost there every morning? Does what you post matter? Meaning can I spend a few minutes and make a nice write up and then reuse it over and over, or do they want variance promoting different aspects of the site? Is this post a referral link, or simply a link to the main site? I specifically read "classified site" as a term..do forums count? I'm just wondering what their specific definition of the word means.
2) I would probably start off free and depending on how fast I grasp the concept move up from there. Is it possible to simply deduct earnings to pay for membership, or would I need to use an intermediary? On that topic, those who have been paid, are their limitations on payouts, min/max? What are their payout methods? I always prefer any option other than paypal, but that would not be a deal breaker for me.
3) These penny auction sites seem to be popping up all over. I'm slightly concerned about the longevity since their is obvious competition all over. Seems like users like us are flocking to the site, but we aren't going to be consumers so I'm wondering how they are doing sales-wise. For those of you are hitting it hard, which aspect is generating you the most revenue, or is it spread it out relatively evenly?
Appreciate any feedback. I'm unable to PM, so please respond here if you're able to answer my questions.
-Booze
1) You have to post to classifieds daily. Seems easy enough.. are there any restrictions on this? Can I find a nice place and simply repost there every morning? Does what you post matter? Meaning can I spend a few minutes and make a nice write up and then reuse it over and over, or do they want variance promoting different aspects of the site? Is this post a referral link, or simply a link to the main site? I specifically read "classified site" as a term..do forums count? I'm just wondering what their specific definition of the word means.
2) I would probably start off free and depending on how fast I grasp the concept move up from there. Is it possible to simply deduct earnings to pay for membership, or would I need to use an intermediary? On that topic, those who have been paid, are their limitations on payouts, min/max? What are their payout methods? I always prefer any option other than paypal, but that would not be a deal breaker for me.
3) These penny auction sites seem to be popping up all over. I'm slightly concerned about the longevity since their is obvious competition all over. Seems like users like us are flocking to the site, but we aren't going to be consumers so I'm wondering how they are doing sales-wise. For those of you are hitting it hard, which aspect is generating you the most revenue, or is it spread it out relatively evenly?
Appreciate any feedback. I'm unable to PM, so please respond here if you're able to answer my questions.
-Booze
CazuaL
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Only joined yesterday myself but i can help you with question number 1. The ads are already setup you just pick one from a list of about 30. You then are taken to a list of sites, some require you to have an account but signing up takes 2 minutes. Simply post the ad on there site and hope people click it and head to your shop.
You can post the ads over and over from what i can tell. Could be wrong thou.
CazuaL
You can post the ads over and over from what i can tell. Could be wrong thou.
CazuaL
shelterman
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Let me begin by saying that I'm open minded. I'm not posting to bash anyone or squash any dreams here but...this struck me:
Really? What about Free Store Club, NewNetMail, Lighthouse America, Rex Venture Group? More details can be found HERE.
I'm not exactly sure that I would call Paul Burks a pillar of integrity.
But, hey...we're all marketers here. Some of us are scammers (or, at least, were in past lives). So, I'm not here to judge. I'm just saying that this statement needs a bit of clarification.
I've looked in to Zeek Rewards and it seriously appears too good to be true...and, well...you know what they say...
Sorry to be the skeptic/downer in the thread but I thought someone should, at least, play devil's advocate.
Yes, I actually read that very thread in ripoffreport dot com before I joined and I invite everyone here to do the same if they wish. But when you do, read carefully the nature of the complaints that are posted and you will see that the driving force with all of them is sour grapes and blaming others for their own oversite or lack of due diligence. For example this statement..."To my horror, I discovered that in order for me to qualify for these GREAT CHEQUES I would have to personally sponsor people into the FAST START Matrix which meant that I had to convince people to part with $1295 also. This sickened me. This was absolutely NEVER explained to me." Really? Do you actually think that the company this person is complaining about (New Net Mail) did not disclose this or do you think it is more likely that this person didn't do their due diligence and take the time to understand what they were signing up for? I WOULD BE WILLING TO BET IT IS THE LATTER. If you carefully read the few complaints there are (and it's mostly about New Net Mail) the complaints are all very similar, people didn't take the time to understand what they were getting into, or possibly they were told misleading information by a representative...which is VERY different than saying the COMPANY lied to them.
I suppose I look at this sort of thing differently than most as I am an insurance agent for one of the larger Property and Casualty companies in the US and have been for almost 30 years and I've heard the statement "You told me that this policy covers EVERTHING" several times in my career...LOL!!! Those words have NEVER EVER been uttered by me. People often hear what they want to hear or just believe what they want to believe. We all need to do our own RESEARCH!! Don't just rely on what one person says...read the black and white direct from the company. If THAT is a lie, well, you've got a legitimate complaint.
I'm done with my rant. I'm sorry if this offends anyone, but If it does, so be it.
Just about to sign up for Zeek Rewards, I've been watching videos and reading info about it for the past 3 hours or so. I'm curious if anyone here who is a member of Zeek has ever actually cashed out and got paid yet? I see most people are encouraged to keep re-investing their share back into VIP points in order to build their account and theoretically earn more down the road.
If you've cashed out, how easy is it, and how do they pay; check, paypal, wire transfer, etc.?
If you've cashed out, how easy is it, and how do they pay; check, paypal, wire transfer, etc.?
shelterman
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I could spend a bunch of time answering your questions, but you really need to listen to the following webinars, they willl answer to most of your questions:
http://youtu.be/onVs0O3pTR4
http://youtu.be/AlmJ1SiCOPA
http://youtu.be/lkI_DNxwUww (This vid is put out by my sponsor. He does a good job of cutting to the chase on what is important to concentrate on in ZR)
http://zeekrewards.com/CC/listen.asp
BTW...none of these are self-promoting.
CazuaL answered this pretty well. You can post the ads wherever you want, on the internet, newspaper, magazines, poster board at your local grocery store...anywhere. For obvious reasons they just have to be the company approved ads and you have to tell them where you posted the ad. Personally, I usually post mine on Facebook or the free classifed site olx dot com.
I would recommend starting off free. Post ads for a few days, watch as the free VIP Points that you are given build from day to day, keep learning and watching videos (though you have to be careful here, some people over-hype the profit sharing returns and occasionally give out wrong information). When you have a question that doesn't seem to be answered on the videos, ask your sponsor. Then after you have all of the info you need to make an intelligent choice on the level you join as a "Preferred" affiliate, make your upgrade then.
Yes, membership can be deducted from earings. Most of this is answered in the webinars.
Good question Booze. This was also something that concerned me. I'm not so worried about competition now, Zeekler penny auction is by far the fastest growing penny auction on the net. Somewhere I saw a comparison of the Alexa rankings of the top penny auctions...Zeekler is growing exponentially, far surpassing (in terms of growth) all of the others. My other concern was if they had the ability to keep the flow of merchandise up with the demand. I felt much better about this when I learned that they had been in the retail merchandise business for over 13 years...the infrastructure was already in place. Regarding your concern of not having enough consumers, actually very few of the people participating in the auctions know anything about Zeek Rewards. Look at their auction site, not a bit of a mention of anything about being an affilliate. None of the ads that we post daily say anything about making money with Zeekler. When someone responds to our ads that we post we get notified of them signing up as a retail consumer, but we just get their username and receive the commission on their purchases...no contact information whatsoever. We can't even contact them to make them aware of the income opportunity! Actually, this is a bit irritating to me, but there are legal reasons for this I am told. I've heard that only a very small percentage of the participants with Zeekler are actually marketers.
padlock
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Well said, shelterman and I had the same thought when reading the complaints. Prior to Zeek Rewards, I just recall hearing a lot about Burks' former companies and the numerous complaints. To be fair, this is common with any MLM concept but he does have a habit of forming fly-by-night companies, fucking them (and the "partners") dry and then jumping ship. Still, life's about playing the game. If you can make your share of the cash, hustle, build a healthy downline and get out in time...I say go for it. That's what trading Forex is all about, for example, and plenty of people have concurrently built fortunes and lost their asses. You just have to know what you're doing and have a plan.
Penny auctions are hot right now but like most other net trends of this nature, it will fizzle out sooner than later. People will lose money and they'll be mad. Life goes on.
You're 100% right about due diligence (and that was really my only purpose in noting the above). Of course, this applies to practically anything in the IM world; for that matter, life. My only point is research and learn about what you're getting into. If you don't understand it despite a few attempts, it's not for you.
Also, no disrespect intended to anyone having success with Zeek, but potential investors should try to find an unbiased opinion (everyone in this thread is, of course, hoping that someone will join under them; they have a vested interest in making the deal seem sweet). Nothing wrong with that but on a board like BHW, in the Making Money section, it's only fair to point it out.
HERE's a good unbiased review, for example (it's not pro, it's not con).
I'm in this thread because it piqued my interest too but I'm not sure it's for me. Not because I think it's a scam but because I have other projects and interests that I'm focused on right now. Now...if you all become millionaires overnight, I'll have this post to forever haunt me on the internet the rest of my days.
Now, get out there and make some money...
Penny auctions are hot right now but like most other net trends of this nature, it will fizzle out sooner than later. People will lose money and they'll be mad. Life goes on.
You're 100% right about due diligence (and that was really my only purpose in noting the above). Of course, this applies to practically anything in the IM world; for that matter, life. My only point is research and learn about what you're getting into. If you don't understand it despite a few attempts, it's not for you.
Also, no disrespect intended to anyone having success with Zeek, but potential investors should try to find an unbiased opinion (everyone in this thread is, of course, hoping that someone will join under them; they have a vested interest in making the deal seem sweet). Nothing wrong with that but on a board like BHW, in the Making Money section, it's only fair to point it out.
HERE's a good unbiased review, for example (it's not pro, it's not con).
I'm in this thread because it piqued my interest too but I'm not sure it's for me. Not because I think it's a scam but because I have other projects and interests that I'm focused on right now. Now...if you all become millionaires overnight, I'll have this post to forever haunt me on the internet the rest of my days.
Now, get out there and make some money...
shelterman
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Yes, I have a couple of times...I had to just to prove it to myself
But other than that, since I don't need the money to live on I just let it build up. The historical DAILY profit-sharing return is about 1.47%, so it's pretty attractive to just let it stay, especially recently as the company has been making a big profit as Christmas is nearing. The daily average for month of November was about 1.75% right before Thanksgiving.Very easy to wdraw...instead of directing your daily profits back to reinvest, you tell the system to pull out in cash, then when you have the amount that you want to withdraw, just click on a link that says "request check" and it is sent to you. They also pay via Alert Pay, SolidTrustPay, and I believe a debit card is in the works.
jmdawson
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Let me begin by saying that I'm open minded. I'm not posting to bash anyone or squash any dreams here but...this struck me:
Really? What about Free Store Club, NewNetMail, Lighthouse America, Rex Venture Group? More details can be found http://www.ripoffreport.com/multi-level-marketing/newnetmail-lighthous/newnetmail-lighthouse-america-b8e4p.htm.
I'm not exactly sure that I would call Paul Burks a pillar of integrity.
But, hey...we're all marketers here. Some of us are scammers (or, at least, were in past lives). So, I'm not here to judge. I'm just saying that this statement needs a bit of clarification.
I've looked in to Zeek Rewards and it seriously appears too good to be true...and, well...you know what they say...
Sorry to be the skeptic/downer in the thread but I thought someone should, at least, play devil's advocate.
I had the exact same thoughts Padlock...
Decided to go for it. I am gaining ground on $600 per day right now. That is in less than 3 months.
Burks has been doing this for 14 years and thats all the dirt you can find? I have more dirt than that under my fingernails
The biggest problem I have with this business is people thinking that it is to good to be true... All I can say to that is come see me in 6 months
Hi--You don't have to think up any ads--they already have them done for you in your back office. You just cut and paste. They even give you the links on where to post. Takes about 1 minute a day for me. Super easy. And you can post the same ad at the same place each day, although depending on the site, you may get banned for doing that. Forums do count and you are posting your affiliate link.
I received my payout via check--they have several different ways they payout--I don't believe Paypal is one of them. You can't deduct earnings from membership--however with that said, you will get to the point where if you sign up a couple of paying affiliates that will take care of any membership fees.
I would say they are growing pretty quickly--it's one of those affiliate programs where you have to get in now, because you will get a bigger piece of the pie.
Let me know if you have any more questions or if you would like some free bids.
I received my payout via check--they have several different ways they payout--I don't believe Paypal is one of them. You can't deduct earnings from membership--however with that said, you will get to the point where if you sign up a couple of paying affiliates that will take care of any membership fees.
I would say they are growing pretty quickly--it's one of those affiliate programs where you have to get in now, because you will get a bigger piece of the pie.
Let me know if you have any more questions or if you would like some free bids.
I cashed out and got my payment via Check--but there are other ways you can get paid. Piece of cake. If you want some free bids to check it out, let me know.
shelterman
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Well, I'm not particularly happy that Burk has a string of companies to his name for sure, but I'll bet he looks at it the same way that a lot of us here on this forum have learned to look at IM...learn from our mistakes, possibly even profit from them, then try again a different way.
Regarding the complaints...kinda goes with the MLM territory. Like I said previously, after being in the insurance industry for 30 years, I look at complaints with a bit of a jaundiced eye. My industry is riddled with consumer complaints...but trust me 90%+ of the complaints have no LEGAL basis. But as we all know, it isn't illegal to complain. I sure wish it was though, I'd had my wife thrown in jail years ago
LOL...Padlock, I thought I was the only grey-haired individual on this thread! You sound like you have a few years of wisdom/experience under your belt too. Yeah, trends come and go and the owners of the penny auction companies will have to adapt to changes or fall by the wayside. I think penny auctions or variations of it will be here for a while though. If you've participated in them you'll understand why.
Yes, that is true, but I really don't put a whole lot of effort into the recruting aspect, like I've state before, with ZR the Retail Profit Pool is where the money is at and it has nothing to do with recruting. Recruting DOES profit us, but it is just the icing on the cake. I don't even look at ZR as a pure network marketing company, I really classify it, at least the Retail Profit Pool portion, as "Collective Marketing" which I believe is a relatively new marketing concept...google it.
As unlikely as that is, I'll still gladly share my experience and advice, for there are no sweeter words than I told you so
arcticfang
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Thanks to shelterman, jm, and belgirl, I've decided to sign up and give it a shot. I've posted my first ad, and this is what's at the top of my back office:
You Are Qualified For Cash Rewards for the next.
13 hours, 42 minutes, 45 seconds
I expected to see that because I've watched tons of videos, but there's one thing I'm not sure of. Does that mean in 13 hours I'll get my % for the day? Or is the % given out at a certain time each day?
Any help is appreciated, thanks!
You Are Qualified For Cash Rewards for the next.
13 hours, 42 minutes, 45 seconds
I expected to see that because I've watched tons of videos, but there's one thing I'm not sure of. Does that mean in 13 hours I'll get my % for the day? Or is the % given out at a certain time each day?
Any help is appreciated, thanks!
I had the exact same thoughts Padlock...
Decided to go for it. I am gaining ground on $600 per day right now. That is in less than 3 months.
Burks has been doing this for 14 years and thats all the dirt you can find? I have more dirt than that under my fingernails
The biggest problem I have with this business is people thinking that it is to good to be true... All I can say to that is come see me in 6 months
Hey man!
Can you PM me? I need some help and information
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