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AGLOCO Joins The Dead Pool

written by John Chow on December 10, 2007

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You knew the signs were not good when AGLOCO didn’t renew their SSL certificate. It’s a really bad sign because a SSL cert really isn’t that expensive. I sent an email off to the founder of AGLOCO to find out if they were packing it in. I never got a reply. However, I received this email from the development team today.

Dear John,

We would like to update you on the status of AGLOCO’s operations. We continue to believe in the AGLOCO concept, but our revenue is currently not sufficient to give Members a meaningful distribution. And though there are increases in membership, the resulting revenue is not enough to support operating costs. As a development team we are unable to continue to use our savings to fund the operations. If any Member would like to pursue continuing the operations of AGLOCO, you may contact us at agloco1@live.com.

We would like to thank every Member for supporting our effort to bring a piece of the Internet directly to the user. We hope that we can find a way to keep the operations going.

AGLOCO Development Team

AGLOCO was a good idea that was poorly executed. I guess those MBA grads should have got some street smarts to go with their book smarts. I wonder if I should buy them out? That mailing list has to be worth something. :twisted:

To celebrate this final AGLOCO post, I present to you my final AGLOCO stats.

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John
only today I noticed that you removed Agloco banner.
:sad: Now I beleive that Agloco is dead

http://agloco-top-nai.blogspot.com/2007/12/3-email...

I seriously thought agloco had died ages ago - it was out of the press for so long!
~ Dave

I kept warning people about Agloco, but they got caught up in the pyramid scheme hype.

There are some very good opportunities on the internet, but you MUST do your research. For every program I promote, I turn down 99 - and I investigate each one thoroughly. For example, before I started promoting Cognigen, I did one year of research on them. Unlike these fly by nights dot.com companies, they have been around since 1992 and really know their stuff.

I need idea for :cool: agloco lesson No 2.
If somebody would like to be on LAST Agloco-Top-NAI list (November) , can send me datas - as memory how manny referrals and hours left some members to Agloco.

Wow, I'm suprised it took the legendary John Chow so long to figure out Agloco was a loser. Let's see, i only posted this back in June....

http://www.affiliatebestprograms.com/2007/06/14/ag...

LOL, I even had over 100 people in my downline and I totally dumped the program and alerted my downline to the virus in the early release of the Agloco toolbar. Hell, the only way I got my laptop I use for "questionable" apps restored was to install Ubuntu Linux on it.

I guess some people will promote anything for a buck... :-(

as valerie said :
"It’s funny how people say ’see i was right’ "
About what virus you are talking about?

agloco - a good concept, used in a wrong manner. At a glance, their business model seems ok - just that they probably didn't apply it well enough :D

I'm still waiting for a working paid to surf site. The only way I could see it working if the ads were like hell intrusive - kinda like TV commercials, taking up the whole screen, and playing audio...but I'd much rather just not get the money.
~ Dave

Thank you very much for the information.

It's funny how people say 'see i was right' but what IF AGLOCO had made it, the coin would be flipped. Seldom does anyone ever know anything on here. That is what being an entrepreneur is...it's about taking chances and risks. Whether anyone wants to admit it or not, no one has a crystal ball. It was free, so what. Personally, I sure would not have spent more than a dime or so on it and I didn't. I advised others not to spend to promote it and I also advised them NOT to create blogs and websites with the AGLOCO name...many did and now they are stuck with a crappy name. But hey, what IF, then they would have been cool and considered smart for spending promo dollars. As for buying AGLOCO, I don't think it's worth a buck. Out of a million so called members, how many of those do you think was duplicate enrollments, junk sign ups, yahoo and hotmail addys, people that cannot read English except for the words 'Join Here'?

I very much agree with that statement. They are Entrepreneurs and took a chance and maybe there next venture will not fail as easily as AGLOCO did.

Oh and HAVE to throw in....YUWIE is next! :razz:

Will Agloco make money by reselling their database along with what's left of the business ? Yes. Will we get anything from that ? hmm
I hope i've learned my lesson.

Pixel advertising then this...

Didn't this have something to do with Alladvantage? I remember back in 2000 belonging to all those companies that went out of business owing me thousands in unpaid commissions. So when I heard about this thing this go around, I didn't even bother taking 2 minutes of my time to look into it. A pyramid scam is a pyramid scam. Stick with making money from real things.

Depending on the cost of buy-out. If it's reason price, why not? I think AGLOCO failure is mostly due to poor management. Check out my review on AGLOCO at http://wikigiz.com/2007/12/11/agloco-joins-the-dea...

You could win prizes from visiting my site.

John, in his very clever (and forthright ... he told us how he was making money via AGLOCO several times, even before the tool bar launched ...) way made money off this pig in a poke and frankly, I'll wonder at his business acumen if he _doesn't_ make a move to take AGLOCO over. More than 9 months ago John and I had a minor clash on some other blog's comment section where he insulted me big time ... accused me of having a J*O*B ... but that's ok, I forgive him, most peopkle reading here are still suckered in by the great American job scam.

But AGLOCO still represents a _huge_ value ... 100k plus double-opt-in verified propects who certainly had enough interest in earning money to go through the signup process. That is indeed a valuable property. Just a one time list rental should be worth a fortune ... and under the laws of China, where AGLOCO is incorporated, completely legal.

I'm not even maintaing this blog anymore, but a few might be interested in what I wrote back in March
http://preview.tinyurl.com/3285z9
Like any confidence scheme, MLM scam, etc., it is impossible to be taken in if you are not trying to earn money for nothing ... may serve as a useful lesson for some in the future. "Money for Nothing" only seemed to work for Dire Straights.

Meh, I figure it would've happened, that's why I didn't try to hard to recruit people. I got this same email the other day and just laughed.

Many spam Aglogo in many forum, now it's clean.
mountain of spam email, now flat down also.

I'll be damned...
Sorry for the bad language..
Just signup a few days ago and now it dead...

Anyhow, its a good thing that i keep coming here to check out the news..

And you were the IDIOT who was so confident in them and now they've flopped. And you look like a moron hahaha.

I saw it coming all the way weeks before. It was never a good concept and I have written my post on why it won't work and why did john chow got into a sinking ship.

http://www.bloggerdollar.com/2007/11/21/agloco-dea...

At least you bothered to write on it, i could not even care.

i hate to see good guys get defeated. :( they have such a great concept!

you're a moron

Best comment I've read today.
~ Dave

Proves i was right in not joining the system :smile:, seemed to be flawed and too good to be true when it first came about...and by joining the dead pool proves that it was too good to be true and flawed.

Shame...since there are so many clones launching too :twisted:

Somehow I knew that Program would fall short, I was just waiting. And John, 26,000+ emails that will not do any good, if they are not even buyers...

Did anyone buy their model oveR?

Seriously, forget Blogrush, or Agloco.

http://www.blogbucks.com is the ONLY one that really promises on what it delivers. Free flood of traffic AND tons of cash for no work. Signup today, you won't regret it.

Chow won't blog about it because he knows it works.

BlogBucks.... :mrgreen:

remeber this magic "PPP" - Pay Per Play.
Maybe I will still earn with my Agloco blog and PPP code - much better than with google adsense.

:shock: Out of business, I can feel for them, some of my business activities have gone down the drain, but not of mine took anyone with it.

I gave a shot, but when they took so long to start, I just decided not to take part.

Cheers

I guess their 10 year plan didn't work out lol. Your stats ended up being probably the best, all that money gone to waste :sad:

You should contact them about that mailing list however, as payment for all the traffic you sent them :twisted:

john, did you make as much on this business model as you said in 2006 you did with alladvantage? :?: just curious... your post is included in gigaom coverage of agloco from nov. 26, 2006... http://gigaom.com/2006/11/03/alladvantage-is-back/...

I knew it! I never really though AGLOCO's business model would survive...I am glad I did not devote too much time discussing or promoting it

I am not surprised at all. I had uninstalled the toolbar months ago after I lost all faith in it.

For last few weeks I expected that Agloco is trying to find a buyer. I thought it should be Ask.com .
I am thinking so : what is / was AGLOCO ? Was it Agloco Team or was Agloco also members of Agloco ? Did we join to Brian, Dan , Church .... or did we join to Agloco ? I suppose we all joined to Agloco. So, if somebody will buy Agloco , he can continue this job.
Of cause, that 'somebody' can not be every one. It must be somebody , whic the mopst of Agloco members know and trust him.
When I say 'him' , it can be 'her' or even 'them'.
Pesonnaly I think, if for example "Agloco Top Gun" guys continue with this job, Agloco can survive.
What do you think, John ?
Just note : everybody here is angry or disspointed with Agloco Team
(as a firm) and not with Agloco as project. Agloco Team failed , Agloco not yet. Well , Agloco can die tomorrow or in few weeks, if nobody will buy it.

t'was a milking cow for a couple of my compatriots.. i once registered for it but upon checking on the reviews.. not worth the investment (time) :neutral: now.. john did it again.. :twisted:

SHEEEEEEESH that's some crazy referrals. :D Nice job.

It's a shame it was all for nothing :P You should have all listened to me and stayed away from AGLOGO :D

I hope they don't sell their email list or else it's potential invasion of privacy.

I'm willing to bet it's not at all an invasion of privacy. In fact you probably agreed to it when you signed up with them. No one ever reads the agreements before clicking "I agree". :???:

Even though I signed up for agloco (after reading your strong recommendations to do so :D), it seemed from the beginning, for me, to be a scam. I mean, they way they put it, "we are currently in beta test and can't pay you" is already a warning sign :)..well, I haven't invested anything in this, other than 5 mins to signup et al, so no big loss here :)

Internet Bubble Burst 2.0 and snowballing...

i told you it stinks the very first time you wrote about it. you then kept promoting it again and again (and again) and that's the final result now. 28 wasted posts...

Agloco might be dead, but John, you took advantage of this program when they first launched. Now I don't know how your stats were before the program, but my opinion is Agloco gave you all the subscribers you have now :).

-Mike

And you are surprised? It was said for months that AGLOCO would not work and it was a failed business model that succeeded only as a contact database of harvested information.
Expect a "new resurrected" AGLOGO like product coming to an Internet near you.
Now the real question: "John, did you make any money off AGLOCO?".

Hey turn it into social networking site with referraal system like yuwie (check out alexa rankings so far.)

That's too bad :???: