AGLOCO Joins The Dead Pool
written by John Chow
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. 
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Perhaps you should try and buy it for cheap off them… then use its network to do something more productive and execute it with some street smarts… you must have a way to make it feasible. Perhaps CPA? Well, I’m sure if you thought about it, you could use that network to do some big things.
Nah, don’t buy them out John. You already got one toolbar done, make another one and promote it yourself. I am sure the cost in promoting it will be less than trying to buy out a product that many feel is less than competent
See if you can score a deal John. I betcha they will put it on SitePoint for sale in a week.
I just caught the John / Shoey digg post chatter from yesterday and couldn’t resist posting this writeup on it:
http://www.aimsgraz.org/2007/12/8-breeds-of-digger-when-nerds-attack-on.html
Enjoy,
quite frankly things like this has never worked out.. so i didn’t expect it to.
Lol, man that is a funny post! I’ve always thought Digg was cliquish. Love it.
Yay I remember when paul barlow reported their expired SSL on his post (http://www.themakemoneyonline.net/agloco-its-all-gone-quite-over-there/)
It was obvious they were going out of business.
It’s all gone quite what?
I wonder how much they are actually worth? They had a member base of over a million and I don’t remember reading anywhere that they wouldn’t sell our email addresses. Someone is about to make a big chunk of change.
nope,i don,t see a point in buying it when John already own TTZ media….he could make more money by focussing on it…Agloco has nothing special or unique asset, to buy it…
Totally agree, but the huge address list is worth thousands and if used properly it can do miracles hehe
How much would it cost to acquire the site and the underlying business anyway?
So, all those dopes you persuaded to use Agloco are going to get nothing?
db
29,668 people will be pissed at him when they read this post!
I only have 229 to worry about and I told them not to sign up half the time 
I think the only thing that people will be getting is SPAM…lots of it
Well, it is still disappointing but I won’t have people chasing me around, cos I only had 1 referral
Shocking huh? It’s just so sad that no one warned them… oh wait, there were several people around the web talking about how it was nothing more than a poorly built pyramid scheme. In fact I commented regularly on this blog to that effect. If they signed up, it’s their own fault for putting their pie in the sky hopes and John’s recommendation before common sense.
This guy nailed it months and months ahead of everyone. As you’d expect, no one really paid any attention but instead dumped on him — including John Chow.
What Everyone Ought to Know About Agloco
This was on DIGG. The guy nailed it months ahead of everyone else.
John, let me just say: AAHahah — HAHAH hhaa haha!! [wipes eyes]
A haha HAHAHA — HAHAHahaha !!
Emh..nice laugh
I think everyone would’ve given up making any money from it quite some time ago.
~ Dave
I just noticed that it’s a “Dear John” letter!
Hahaha, great pick up!
“I guess those MBA grads should have got some street smarts to go with their book smarts.”
Reminds me of “The Office”
What? All my friends will be disappointed with this news. I was the one who invited them and they are always asking if I ever made money with Agloco. It turns out, I will never be and so thousands more…
You see - free money is not that easy
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I knew from the beginning that agloco wouldn’t make it, I didn’t even bother signing up.
MarketTreasure.com
I have about 7,500 referrals.
Congrats, I have 0 and I’d rather be in my shoes than yours!
Ouch…
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Disappointing but I’m just glad WidgetBucks didn’t turn into Agloco 2!
It wasn’t a good idea executed poorly, it was a poor idea executed poorly. AllAdvantage didn’t work, Agloco didn’t work, and whoever else tried to get people to VIEW MORE ADS on their computer in exchange for NOTHING will not work either.
At least AllAdvantage paid us before they went belly up. They did something right!
To make cash you need to invest CASH!
That’s why it smelled to me badly when they advertised they would offer you “company” “stocks” in return of having to stand obnoxious ad widget.
Hahaha yea. Good point.
I suspected this site at the beginning and removed it after two days of participation, it is a real scam, you should have a good plan before buying it off, good luck and hope to see you plan with AGLOCO
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It was a big scam all the while..
From start to finish…
Not really a scam since it wasll free. More like a sham.
Don’t think it was a scam…but a lofty dream….All Advantage and it’s progeny are over…
i leave it since along time.
agloco is scammer…
I find it hard to believe they didn’t expect this to happen. AllAdvantage and all the other paid to surfs failed because the ad dollars coming in were not enough to cover costs. Agloco made all the same mistakes as before… except paying members before the company covered costs, so at least this time around they hedged their loss somewhat.
I’m just happy I didn’t invest too much of my time into this. Maybe because they never released a date at which they would turn the hours into money or an exact exchange rate. At least from what I know of. And on top of that, being payed in hours doesn’t really encourage me to continue
They did release information. It would take them 120 months (10 years) to pay you
So the founder of AGLOCO is from ALL ADVANTAGE ?
and the management is “Stanford MBA’s ” ??
i think they’re just graduate from Standford High School….
“BIGGEST SCAM RELIEF”…………….
AGLOCO IS THE ONE…
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oh i wish ms. Kumiko was here,
i wish she could write about this once more
LOL, or “he.”
nice john, that’s what happens when you’re stupid enough to believe in a network such as them…
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yeah, kumiko were right about agloco
Isn’t it hard to believe that Agloco didn’t just create an awesome website with their popularity?
One site, a ship load of marketers(we and us), some crazy making money niche, a killer referral scheme, …… Just keep going damn it!!!
Been waiting for a post on these guys from you!