iJango Scam Part 2 – Why Ijango is a scam
by David Kyle / July 21st, 2009
Sorry for the delay on this. I decided to do a video because it’s a lot easier to explain this way. The video below shows how iJango is not unique, and that it uses technology that has been around of years. I also show a serious contradiction in what is being advertised about iJango, and what is actually in it’s terms of service.
You cannot make money by giving iJango away!
Also if you read the original article, please take note of the update I made. I address some of the comments made about Cameron’s “side of the story”, and posted a link to it if you are interested in reading it.
Stay tuned for Part 3!
July 21st, 2009 at 4:35 am
Sir, After reading about Cameron’s shady personal past and low down business practices, I must admit I was expecting part 2 of your report to have more teeth. There can be no denying that the semantics of the ijango sales pitch is bogus, but that does not mean that you will be scammed by participating in the ijango plan. Overall though sir, it looks like Cameron might need to do a little bit more explaining because of you. I will keep an eye out for the 3rd post in this story
July 21st, 2009 at 9:28 am
It does not matter how much effort David and other people put into exposing iJango for what it truly is, a classic pyramid scheme and a scam – the ignorant, the uneducated, the greedy will bite into Cameron’s bait and happily go to the the slaughter.
There are a lot of sheep out there ready to be fleeced and that is exactly what Cameron will do.
Caveat Emptor!
Toledo
July 21st, 2009 at 9:33 am
congrats on getting your post on page 1 of google for the ‘ijango’ and ‘ijango scam’
July 21st, 2009 at 10:12 am
It is not just ignorant, uneducated and greedy people, Cameron is a con man who just conned my college educated son and his friends in to this…they were looking for a business opportunity, not a ponzie or pyramid scheme. You under estimate Cameron’s ability to deceit and defraud people. I am so glad you are Cameron Barrett Sharpe for what and who he is. Thanks!
July 21st, 2009 at 11:33 am
@karla
What happened to your son will happen to dozens more unless people will get the facts instead of letting greed cloud their decisions.
ijango needs to be exposed for what it is, a pyramid scheme classic scam.
Voice your opinion on all available forums and spread the word around to as many people as you can.
Toledo
July 21st, 2009 at 1:44 pm
I find alot of this information to be a repeat of the same old bad mouthing that characterizes the internet. I do not know this Cameron Sharpe guy, but it seems you have spent alot of time investigating him. How about a rebuttal by Mr. Sharpe. There is a ton of biased information attempting to blacklist certain people or businesses out there. Why do some of your commentors hide their names? I am hoping that no one judges me by all the stupid mistakes I have made in my previous business attempts. i appreciate your efforts if they are being done for the right resaons, however you cannot believe everything you read on the internet. Looks like you know the SEO business though. Good luck and God Bless us all. Troy Tanga
July 21st, 2009 at 3:21 pm
You haven’t shown how it won’t work. Spread the network and get paid to do it. If you can create usage then you get paid a commission. This seems to be the same thing Google, Yahoo and MSN do. They sell advertising on sites that are free for users but keep the advertising revenue for themselves. If it does take off and there are a lot of users then won’t Ijango be able to create a lot of advertising revenue and pay their reps commissions? The terms and conditions may need polishing but why doesn’t the premise make sense? I guess we’ll find out on August 1st if this is a scam. I don’t think these people would take a chance at going to jail if it is nothing but a scam. It seems too public and transparent. No one is hiding. They are out in public selling this business.
July 21st, 2009 at 5:17 pm
David you’re something else! You have no solid proof of ANY of your false accusations and nothing you posted in your video confirms it to be a scam. I think you are bitter about something that happened in the past that led you to attack Cameron. However, you are interfering with many lives for a personal vendetta and CANNOT back up your claims!
Folks, I know Cameron personally and he makes no qualms about his past. Many of the things in David’s first post are true and MANY are exaggerated. BUT Cameron has taken responsibility for his early twenties and has completely turned his life around. He has accepted Christ into his life and is regretful of that time in his life. Read http://www.cameronbsharpe.com He’s a different man and I can attest to that.
David, I also know you! Yeah surprise surprise! You my friend are no saint, not by a long shot.
Just remember when you point your finger at someone your thumb is pointing back at you.
He who is without sin…
July 22nd, 2009 at 9:25 am
I have been observing from both sides of the fence and am not biased one way or another, you make a good point that the Ijango web portal will not the first of it’s kind but I can’t see where it is a scam. I have numerous friends promoting the network marketing plan and their claim to this being revolutionary to the internet is that Ijango will payback commissions and traffic revinue they recieve to their registered customers. And that unregistered customers (Those who want to use the portal free can do so, with their commissions going to the Ijango rep. that reffered them) This is similar to rebates, rewards, points systems etc used by today’s credit card companies and airlines. Are they running a scam also by offering their rewards/rebate system?
David you made some good points putting the spotlight on Cameron’s past and holding him accountable, you also show that page flakes is a very similar format to Ijango’s portal, but I dont see how using network marketing to grow a company or how iJango claiming to be the first to offer these commissioon/traffic rebates is a scam? TOLEDO YOU ARE JUST BAND WAGON RIDING FREAKING IDIOT WITH NO FACTS OTHER THAN THE ONES YOU HAVE SEEN ON THIS SITE!!!
July 22nd, 2009 at 3:47 pm
First off, you’re correct, this is not new technology. Its an aggregation of technologies, and by the way AJAX and Social networking are at least 10+ years old. The world just started to catch a clue. This is due to computer prices, and smartphones technologies dropping to levels where the masses can afford them. Not to mention compute power.
Most of your Social Networks and new stuff is in fact using old stuff and calling it their own.. Every web company I know has proprietary video and 90% of them are using adobe. But calling them out is a waste of time and energy.
You really are not enlightening anyone here. And as a result IJango is not claiming these technologies as their patent.
What they are claiming is patents around the idea of grabbing a social network and their population is attached to /ad space/mail/cpm/cpc/search and finally product purchase and putting it into an MLM model. This is back loaded with a group f merchants and Advertisers, there is no scam here. Maybe a bad business model, maybe an extension of banner ads, which is a BAD business model and never really worked in ‘95, not today and not going to work in 2015.
Ive seen 1000s a patents and write them myself over the years. This plays, Ive seen better Ive seen worse. But the effort you are undergoing may be directed to your SEO company so you can make money. I tried to look for you to help me and some of my clients with SEO but I cant find how to contact you. So, my advise is to put more energy in to your SEO business instead of guarding us poor little people from the heinous monsters you perceive.
Im not sure why you are so enamored with crucifying these guys, but I am thinking if your SEO business was taking off you would be working to hard at that to bother with them. Again, I think you’re wasting energy.
All this add stuff boils down to Google usurped Yahoo quite a while ago and everyone is trying to do that to Google, including Yahoo. Google owns all the data, you cant catch up so you have to figure how to get ahead and start on their edge. Than you can win and maybe get bought.
Not sure why you judge these guys.. If they did wrong in the past, maybe they learned from it. They are excited about this company, it is legitimate and cant see your point of view that is not. Now if they come out and do not have a portal and do not have companies buying CPM/CPC and a purchase agreement I would have to agree with you.
Further, there are known negotiations going on with IJango and real companies trying to attempt this model. If it wins its successful if it fails it walks in the world with +50% of the restaurants in this country.
If you are going to bring value to your readers gives us more information on all the MLM’s out there with problems, bad business models but calling anything a scam leaves you with little creditability if they succeed in any manner.
Walk in fact and remove the hyperbole, and calling people douche bags does nothing for the face value of your own maturity.
Good luck, thank you for you blog and your thoughts.
Cheers,
Earl
July 22nd, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Hey David, I’m enjoying this, when can we expect part 3?
thanks for doing this research and sharing it out-loud!
July 22nd, 2009 at 6:28 pm
David Kyle, I really have to say after meeting with you, Last Thursday I believe at the Charlotte kick off thing I was skeptical of everyone. I honestly still do believe that Ijango might be on to something, Granted there a big principals that aren’t new, Bigggggg principals. I honestly think it just has never been mlmkted before with the proper programs softwares or companies. I am interested in seeing what will come about August 1st. I truly do like your video and sense of humor, very refreshing in the tech geek world. Part one was definitely harsh but i’m sure you’re not doing this to defame someones character. It’s good to know the truth about someone. It sucks to hear it that way, but good.
Do you think his story on his blog is a con too??? I thing I found interesting speaking with nixz is that we went directly to the retailers and services so we can all be the middle man instead of click guys, lead generaters,search engine marketers, we can make the money, money i speak of is .02 a day to .20 .25 a day well damn. if i can gety 20000 people to do this with that kind of money ill make something right??
You seem like the professional on this subject. enlighten us on something that you know that the rest of the world knows and just isn’t sharing????
Advice
July 23rd, 2009 at 12:43 am
So somebody has too much money and puts it up his nose. Should we call him a scam for the rest of his life? He admits to his wrong doing and how he has turned a corner. I wonder why David Kyle is so concerned about Cameron, and his comments carry little value. What he points out in his video doesn’t make Ijango a scam. There are bigger and better people behind Ijango than Cameron Sharpe. Cameron Sharpe isn’t even an officer in the Ijango corporation. He is the brain child behind Ijango and their lead spokesman. I think you need to investigate a little deeper into Ijango before you rip their credibility.
July 23rd, 2009 at 9:53 am
Also….I am curious Mr. Click Snipper…..are you saying that Steve Smith is A con man? He is the man behind all of this. It’s his money and team. He has hired the BEST MLM attorney in the world. Are you REALLY calling Mr. Smith a con man? This is Steve Smith’s pyramid Scheme?? He is promoting this KNOWING this is a scam????
July 24th, 2009 at 9:58 am
@Troy Tanga, @Boomer @all
You’re missing the point here: Cameron Sharpe did not make any business mistakes, he knowingly and willfully deceived and scammed innocent people out of their hard earned money.
He will do the same with this new iJango pyramid scheme because he’s a repeat offender.
Is it so hard to understand and accept that?
Toledo
July 24th, 2009 at 10:48 am
The “con” in this iJango thing is that people are being told that they will get paid for every online activity that their “customers” do on the internet. This is the mantra that the company and their promoters are all spreading and this is simply not true. As a very experienced affiliate marketer, I would predict very confidently that the only money people will make from iJango is from the signups of others. The dollars generated even from 1,000-5,000 habitual users of an iJango portal will be minimal at best.
I would assume that they do have an agreement with Google, but it is not for “every time someone does a search on Google.” They likely have an agreement with the Google Affiliate Network just like thousands of websites do. The Google Affiliate Network is a network of retailers that will pay web sites for referring people to their sites and then buy something online. The key is someone needs to buy something in order for the referring website to get paid.
iJango also likely has agreements with Commission Junction and LinkShare, the other two largest Affiliate Marketing companies. This is nothing new and nothing proprietary. Literally anyone with a website can get an agreement with all of these sites. The percentages that are paid to referring websites are relatively small, particularly when cut up by the main company (iJango) and then a horde of salespeople all trying to split a very small percentage of every sale. It is also only commissioned ONLY if you click a sponsored link within the portal. If an iJango user simply does a search for “Expedia” through Google, Yahoo, Bing etc. and then purchases a trip on the Expedia website, neither iJango nor all the people in the “downline” will get paid. If they click on the sponsored ad in the iJango portal and then buy a trip, then the referring website (iJango) will get paid. (Who knows how much they get paid as the iJango terms and conditions do not specify even a percent of commission rate.)
Google, Facebook, Bing and other popular sites DO NOT have agreements with iJango to simply direct traffic to their websites. Not with iJango or anyone else. They do not need it. Neither iJango or the salespeople will “get paid for everything you do on the internet.” Google doesn’t get paid when someone clicks on “Expedia” or another website after they have done a search. Google only gets paid when you click on the sponsored advertising links on the top or side of your search results. The main search results are not revenue producing to Google, iJango or any other referring website.
The iJango people at the top are simply running an Affiliate Marketing website and getting a bunch of motivated salespeople to pay for the privilege of using a fairly pedestrian home page. They are likely very excited right right now as thousands pay their $169 entry fee.
iJango will also likely try to sell advertising on their home page and on the tag lines of emails just like AOL or others do, but the amounts will be extremely low in terms of dollars to individual reps. Let’s say, for example, that iJango gets 1/10th of a penny for each email that is sent out by an advertiser and a salesperson’s entire “downline” all switches to an iJango email address (unlikely) and then the entire downline sends out a total of 1 million emails next year. That 1 million emails may generate $1,000 for iJango and the rep will receive X% of that iJango revenue, cut up by everyone above them and in their downline that is eligible for commissions. (Who knows as iJango will not detail that to their reps?)
Let’s use another example. Let’s say that someone in your iJango downline buys a $100 dress from Macys.com and that they actually clicked on the sponsored Macy’s link from the iJango portal rather than doing a search on Google and clicking on the non-sponsored search results. Macy’s pays a 4% commission to affiliate referral websites like iJango for this purchase. iJango will make $4.00 and then everyone above or below you in your network will split the rest of the commission. So if you have 1,000 people in your downline and they spend $100 every month on sponsored links (unlikely, isn’t it?), iJango gets $4,000 and then decides how to pay everyone in the network for this. How much does iJango get? How much do the people above you get? How much do the people below you get? No one knows because iJango will not say.
As far as selling advertising on the iJango portal to advertisers, it will be minimal at best. Advertisers will pay for impressions on the web, generally in the range from 15 cents per thousand impressions up to maybe $1.50 per thousand impressions. How many hundreds of thousands of impressions will your downline have to do each year to generate real money? Let’s say you downline does 5 million impressions next year! Wow, that should really generate some cash! Well, at a whopping $1.00 per thousand impressions, that generates iJango $5,000. iJango takes their money and then all those above and below you split up the rest.
There is a chance that the iJango website will be a moderately successfull Affiliate website and that the company may make some money on the internet portion of their business model, but the overwhelming evidence is that they will generate almost all of their revenues from people paying the $390 a year for the privilege of being a distributor. If they can get a couple hundred thousand people to use iJango as their home page and then get a portion of them to purchase from sposnored links, they may make a little money on this activity, but it will pale in comparison to the money iJango receives from people signing up for $150 and then paying $20 per month.
For those of you signing up to be a distributor, just know that the money you will be making will be from convincing others to pay $169 to sign up, not from future commissions on internet usage. If you are comfortable with that, then you can probably earn some money with iJango by convincing others to part with with $390 per year.
July 24th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
David,
I thought your readers might be interested in an email I recieved yesterday:
July 23, 2009
To our Growing Family of Representatives,
My how a great idea can spread like wildfire when combined with an executive team that can execute upon a vision and a field of Representatives that are dedicated to spreading the word. Congratulations to us all on the initial success we have found, and thank you all for your efforts up to this point. We are already a family numbering in the thousands and growing in a viral, compounded form.
The month of July, as you may be aware, is a soft launch for iJango. This was done so that you as Independent Representatives could begin to put your team in place for the release of our new iJango portal on August 1st. I am comfortable in saying that you will be quite pleased with the technology that we have developed and am fully confident that it will surpass your expectations.
There sure is a buzz across the country right now with many questions arising, and understandably so. The information on the company and the portal itself has been limited during this soft launch period and accordingly there are many questions and even concerns. Questions about how the portal works, who the executive team is behind the scenes, and so on.
Rest assured that the executive team behind iJango is one that you can be proud of. We are a transparent company committed to the highest standards and principles in everything we do. Know that we cannot wait to launch our site that shows the world what we have created. I am completely confident in and proud of our strategic business model, our management team, and our opportunity to become a dominant player in the online search and ecommerce industries.
I’d like to take this time to share with you some more information about who makes up this great company of ours. This corporate overview will be available on the website on August 1, 2009.
Corporate Overview
iJango is not only one of the most exciting success stories in the business world today, it is a story that is rooted in innovation, experience and strength. iJango is but a reflection of the image cast by the people that created its vision, its technology, its principles, and most importantly, its culture. iJango is a story that starts with its two very different yet amazingly similar founders: Cameron Barrett Sharpe and Stephen Rayner Smith.
Stephen R. Smith is a hugely successful entrepreneur known to many as one of the true Texas mavericks. In the mid-1980’s, Mr. Smith developed an interest in the network marketing business model. He recognized the marketing and compensation strategy was ideally suited for the marketing and distribution of services, rather than physical products. Relying on his intuition, he designed and deployed his network-marketing strategy at a telecommunication startup company. This concept quickly grew to become Excel Communications — a billion dollar publicly traded long-distance company that, in total paid out hundreds of millions of dollars in commissions to its Representatives for building their billion-dollar customer base.
It was during this explosive business success story that Steve came to know a young and driven man who was building his own Excel business named Cameron B. Sharpe. The two immediately developed a lasting relationship. In June 2009, Cameron called Steve to share an idea that he had started to develop called iJango.
About a year before that Steve and his son Rayner Smith had joined forces in a startup Network Marketing Company that was focusing on building a social network of travel customers. In that year they had already made a considerable investment in the management, IT and corporate governance infrastructure to handle its anticipated growth, but unforeseen economic conditions created an environment where travel was not a growing industry.
The timing could have not been better. With the management team and operational infrastructure in place, Steve’s peerless experience and Cameron’s contagious vision for iJango, one of the most compelling business models of our time, had been born and it was time to get to work.
Rayner Smith was named CEO and went to work on turning the vision into reality. Old enough to recall the experiences and financial hardships his family endured through their struggles while his father worked to find success in network marketing, he learned at an early age that nothing good comes easy. “While all the other kids had heroes that were sports figures or movie stars, I was looking up to top earners like Chuck Hoover and Barbara & Mike Lammons,” said Rayner. Raised in Austin, Texas and educated at Texas Christian University, he graduated from the Neeley School of Business with a degree in Business Management. Rayner Smith has since been involved in managing his families’ interests and building a variety of companies, most of which were web based. Bringing a unique perspective of a formal business education and a firsthand understanding of how network marketing works and the affect it has on families positioned him perfectly to lead the operations at iJango.
iJango’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Brown brought a vast amount of experience and knowledge to our team. Educated at the University of Southern California, Mr. Brown earned a Bachelor of Science, Finance and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) with memberships in multiple institutions including CFA Institute and Associate of Corporate Growth. He began his career as Research Analyst training under the President of Paine Webber Group Inc. and went on to become CFO, co-founder, and President of several highly successful companies. His experiences range from the founding of private investment banking firms that focused on evaluating, structuring, negotiating and fundraising major acquisitions to acting as a board member for many of his clients to coordinating the sale of countless companies that total an amount of completed transactions exceeding $700 million. Tom is also an SEC registered investment advisor and currently serves on the boards of numerous public and private companies.
Danny Jacobs, who was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee and educated at Texas Christian University, is the Director of Representative Success. Danny’s career has been spent in various corporations managing client relationships and sales departments with annual business revenues often exceeding $50 million. His remarkable skills and knowledge as an executive working with and catering to large numbers of independent contractors without compromising the level of quality is evident when interacting with the Representative Success Department. “The one trait I find common with all business owners…passion. The relationship between the entrepreneur and the iJango corporate office is vital to our mutual success,” says Danny.
Our Director of Marketing and Communications, Tanya Smith, was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico and raised in Dallas, Texas. Mrs. Smith graduated Cum Laude from the Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University with a Business Marketing major and Spanish minor, where she met her husband, Rayner Smith. She began her marketing career at one of the nation’s leading advertising agencies, GSD&M in Austin, Texas, and from there she quickly developed her skills in branding, positioning and marketing, particularly in the online marketplace.
Colin Murray, the Director of Marketing Technologies, was and born and raised in Austin, Texas with a family of entrepreneurs. Technology and the birth of the Internet quickly caught the attention of Colin as a young man and he found an insatiable desire to learn more. Educated at Southwest Texas State University, and an early member of the Dell team, Colin has developed proficient skills in software programming and Internet technology. Following trends in technology, Mr. Murray quickly became an expert in both. His expertise shows to Representatives when interacting with their business websites and back office system, both of which are under his direction. He continues to strategically orchestrate these as he monitors the technologies that this industry is evolving towards and ensuring that these tools and business interface are always on the leading edge of upcoming trends.
Creating a culture that is not only young and progressive but matched with seasoned executives makes for a vibrant and exciting group dedicated to the success of iJango and its Independent Representatives.
[End of Corporate Overview]
We will continually update this company profile on the website with our anticipated addition of seasoned executives and board members along with their impressive credentials as our Corporate family grows. I look forward to your continued success with iJango and hope to see you in Las Vegas on August 1, 2009 for the much anticipated launch event!
Sincerely,
Steve Smith
Chairman of the Board
iJango Network, LLC
iJango | 9433 Bee Caves | Building 1 Suite 250 | Austin | TX | 78733
If your interested in iJango go to ijango
Read the Comp Plan/Terms & click on JOIN NOW to start your business.
July 24th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
If people are stupid enough to think that Cameron sharpe has had this miraculous recovery and all is illegitmate and unethical behavior has been erased, then just look how he is trying to hide his past by putting up fake websites for Cameron sharpe the Plastic Surgeon or Cameron Sharpe the dancer. this guy is bad news and if you think that he is there to help you, think again, he is ther to help himself just as Steve Smith, the supposed wonder man of Excel. Read this link and you will know what happened to excel, it was not sold, it failed when the long distance market fell out. Dont be stupid, Cameron is a crook, Jason Brealy is a crook, Jason Delaney is a crook and since they all stand to make a lot of money off stupid MLM stooges, they all will climb over their sister to screw their mother. Excel was not sold as people tell you, it went into chapter 11 and cancelled all the agreement with its independent reps
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excel_Communications
If you sign up for iJango, knowing that this lowlife Cameron Sharpe and the rest of his posse are going to profit, you are stupid and deserve the screwing you are about to get.
July 24th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
funny how Cameron created like 10 websites to cover up his past
Heck…they even created dozens of websites with IJANGOSCAM so they can hide!!!
WOW that’s really legit.
Google Ijango Scam
Look at the description for this link
http://www.ikarma.com/user/Ijangoscam
look at what it says
We didn’t find any post for “ijango scam”. There is no result for “ijango scam” or any related link to “scam ijango”. Scam Ijango Ijango Scam Scam Ijango …
when you actually click on the link you will see this message in the body….SCROLL DOWN
You will see at least 10 links that are interlinking to each other
now go to page 2 and 3 of the Google search result for Ijango Scam..you will see that they did this with many websites.
July 24th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
Dave, your an asshole and have no idea what you are talking about!!!
Regards,
Ann
July 24th, 2009 at 10:31 pm
Ann – I’m not David….but I see him as #2 for the keyword Ijango
He must be doing something right
July 24th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
Can it be that Dave’s friends are doing free SEO for his first Ijango post? Mua ha ha ha
Time to get this 2nd post on Page 1 for a double listing!
July 25th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
Josh Delaney aka “MLM groupie” jumping from one MLM to another…always looking for the next get rich quick business, (hey, he admitted to this himself on You Tube). ijango was smart in jump starting their MLM revival by sending in the infantry (old excel MLM groupies) first. Steve Smith & Cameron Sharpe are thinking just keep the wheels on this baby until August 1st. Spreading their gospel one $150.00 signee at a time. What are you reading this for “groupies” get to selling THE DREAM !!!
July 25th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
ijango scam masters, desperate to sign-up suckers (i.e.: down-liners), have resorted to link farming and web spamming (there are over 650 domain names registered in China with “iJango” [I-Jan-Go] in the website name); makes one wonder, if that is an honest business why use such dirty tactics-could it be they realized their scam is not quite working according to the plan?
Toledo
July 26th, 2009 at 8:09 am
‘After all, it’s not how you start, but how you finish. ‘
For those of you kneeling before this guy’s false throne let me share with you another gem of wisdom that came out of his mouth:
‘If we do this business badly, long enough, we will be successful.’
Seriously. Don’t give this guy any money. You’d be doing a better dead for yourself and the world by simply flushing it down the toilet.
July 26th, 2009 at 8:16 am
‘To predict the future, all you need to do is look at the past’ -Cameron Sharpe
Hey.. he said it.
July 26th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Well it looks like there’s a warrant out for Cameron Sharpe’s arrest
http://www.dallascityhall.com/courts/current_warrants_SZ.pdf
July 26th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
My brother, who put himself through college, earned an MBA has fallen for this ijango thing.
I asked him how do you join and replied, ” go to ijango.biz, it’s so cool!”
He had dinner with Steve Smith the other night and I am just scratching my head
wondering wtf?
July 27th, 2009 at 4:39 am
Oh– For all you cheerleaders who think Cameron has ‘turned his life around’
He has been ripping people off right up until today.
How come in his fabricated story of redemption he doesn’t mention that less than a year ago he allegedly stole the credit card of one of his new employees at The Relationship Company to buy plane tickets?
I tried posting this comment on his blog and he didn’t approve it. Why? Because he still has plenty to hide.
The thing that people falling for this don’t understand– is Cameron is USING his claims of drug addiction and recovery as a facade to continue fleecing people. It’s the only skill he has.
July 27th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
I love how people believe that because someone finds Christianity they are not a scammer…………….. Ever look at our Prison system? Many many many religious people there….. Some will buy into this some won’t. MANY will make little to nothing, a few will make some money. To each his own I suppose…. GL to those that try this.
July 27th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
if iJango is not a scam why do they need to register over 650 domain names in China alone, all with ijango (I-Jan-Go) as part of the website name?
A: so they can do link farming and web search engines spamming.
The sad side of the story is that the greedy, ignorant, uneducated are falling for the scam.
Good for them, I, for one, will donate $410/year to a charity.
July 28th, 2009 at 8:19 am
well because they are a scam
here’s a youtube video on it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjKs2pBi9hQ
July 29th, 2009 at 11:08 am
Agreed Klayton,
There seems to be a lot of effort going into “exposing iJango” to us “poor uneducated and misinformed”. In my opinion (which is all anyone on this blog really has to offer), it’s a poor use of ones time. Especially since we all know that if it really is a scam, we’ll soon find out! There’s just no way to hide and it doesn’t appear that Cameron and Steve are trying to hide. It almost seems like you have a personal vendetta or something. Especially when you use this blog as a platform to belittle others. I guess that really makes you feel like a genius.
July 29th, 2009 at 11:28 am
Let me also say this.
if they are running google adsense and are paying out adsense.
they will get banned within weeks if not days.
It is one of Google’s biggest no no’s in the Terms and conditions.
NO INCENTIVIZED CLICKS.
July 29th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Question:
What happened to Steve Smith’s Ultimate Choice Travel and the people who worked for him? Did it go out of business?
July 29th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Sure Google can do all of this, but iJango is going to be more free than Google. So people will get rich with volume- it’s Web 3.0 101, friend. Free plus no marketing minus revenue model equals BIG.
July 29th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
Great work on exposing iJango! I got a call from my sister last night asking me about it, after she was approached to invest by another family member. As soon as she started describing it, I knew exactly what it was: a scam. I hit the Internet in research mode to be sure, and came across your page. Thanks for the information!
I’ve written up a short explanation of iJango and why it isn’t feasible, even if it works exactly how they want you to think it does. It’s a short and easy read, for anyone who just wants to get a quick understanding of how e-commerce works, and why iJango won’t.
Here’s the URL:
http://coqdiddles.blogspot.com/2009/07/ijango-scam.html
Anyway, keep up the good work. I’m looking forward to Part Three!
Take care,
Kristian Bland
Coquetting Tarradiddles
http://coqdiddles.blogspot.com
July 29th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
If you believe it then you join it. If you don’t then go away, it’s that simple. I for once, join the “Ijango” circle but never recruit no one because I want to see if I really make money first. But I can tell you that, now I got close to 250 so called register cumstomers(the one that don’t have to pay). I just tell them, join me and lets see if it work; if not then I’m a fool “like David guy said” and loose $170.00 of my own but if it hit then you guys can join me later on…
July 29th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
I think “Google Guy” did an excellent job of highlighting where the real money will be coming from in this “business” – recruiting. I mean it’s like, I pick up a rock on the side of the road and say , “hey, what if you could network market a rock?”. We’d give the rocks away for free, and users could put the rock in THEIR driveway, but we’ll charge users $149 for the privilege of giving away these rocks, etc etc. Why it would “even eclipse EXCEL”! Has anyone noticed how many times Steve Smith uses that line when describing whatever the MLM du jour he’s promoting ?
July 29th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
If you don’t recruit you aren’t going to make any money. Certainly nothing significant.
That makes this a SCAM.
If you don’t want to see otherwise it’s because you already PAID
July 29th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
Out of all the garbage that has been said about Mr. Sharpe and all the hate spewing from Mr. Kyle the most helpful thing I have read is what Google Guy posted. It was well thought out, concise, not demeaning, seemingly much more credible than anything I have heard. The person that told me about this described it just as Google Guy said he had heard people promoting it, that everytime someone clicks you get paid, that my friend is crazy, and anyway unless you yourself get out there and peddle this constantly day and night and get millions on your “stream or downline” you won’t make much money at all and the people you coaxed out of the $150 is what I was told won’t either. The guys that will be making all the money are at the top already starting the ultimate line. I will keep my $150. Thank you….
July 29th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
First of all I feel so sorry for you and if you are the guy who worked with cameron sharpe we all know the story, revenge, do you believe in forgiveness? The economy is down and people are desperatly trying to find work, you are doing the devils work how would you feel if you had a bad rep and wanted to start a new venture in you life and people posted smut on the internet about you stop, please stop so many people LOVE THIS OPPORTUNITY and do you realize cameron was only the idea behind this, JUST THE IDEA not one of the guys who run the staff and the company, SO ALL OF YOU PEOPLE DOING IJANGO KEEP DOING IT! SUCCESS WILL PROVE HIM WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GOD FORGIVE YOU
July 29th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
Can you spell B I T T E R !!! Don’t let your hatred for this guy consume you dude. You should keep your personal wars at home.
July 29th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
@Robert
I wonder what kind of bones you’re sucking on at night, is it Cameron Sharpe’s, better be careful ’cause he’s HIV+!
Show us the agreement between the Ijango pyramid scheme scam and Google, the legit and supreme internet giant!
There isn’t any.
That is just a big-O blatant lie!
Also, no patent has been filed with US Patents and Trademarks Office, see this link:
http://is.gd/1TF0Q
Something else, Wikipedia has removed the only reference they had about iJango (a one line, insignificant paragraph), do you wonder why?
It’s because it knows that iJango is a scam and wants nothing on its reputable site that smacks of iJango false advertising: quote from their site: “was blatant advertising, used only to promote someone or something”, see link:
http://is.gd/1RQq3
The thing that is suppose to revolutionize the internet like the mouse has revolutionized the computing?
iJango?
There is absolutely no news in the mass media about iJango!
Over 650 domain names registered in China alone (for the purpose of spamming all of web search engines), link farming, this is the iJango scam Modus Operandi!
You must think people are stupid, don’t you?
Well, we ain’t, the stupid ones are those falling for the scam, like you, for example.
And the sad thing it’s not the fact that a lot of desperate, yet greedy people are losing $410/year, oh no, the sad thing is that they are making scumbag con artists like Cameron Sharpe et Co rich by doing so.
I got a feeling that this kitchen is too hot for you.
Get out or get burned!
“Noscamdamus”
July 30th, 2009 at 12:03 am
Joy, don’t worry Cameron will gladly take your money
July 30th, 2009 at 12:18 am
Oh yeah, Cameron Sharpe will take ALL the money, there are plenty of suckers willingly giving it up!
But what else is new?
July 30th, 2009 at 5:01 am
My photo is totally featured in your video – from my Twit feed to your iGoogle page. I’m famous!!!!!
Oh yeah and iJango sucks or whatever… Buy my magic bullets instead. No hype, just 100% guaranteed instant success with absolutely no effort required. $95. Do it now.
July 30th, 2009 at 7:31 am
http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/474/RipOff0474789.htm
July 30th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
After I read ” his side of the story ” all I could think was WOW! Just remember there are 2 sides to every story – I would know! Eileen
July 30th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Jack Blair, you should go into comedy… and so should u Ijango scam hahahha….. i wanted good information when i came here which i successful. Other sites have the same information…. but you guys made it that much more interesting hahaha nice…. bend over Ijango members… Cameron is coming for ya’s… lol
July 30th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
2 sides to every con artist
The broke ass joke side
And
The successful slickster side
iJankedyou the center of the online MLMverse
July 30th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
Boy! Some of these people on the blog are a tough crowd. I would hate to air some of my own dirty laundry. I just may get hung, shot and quartered. This business is very much being done out in public. If it works, then good for those who made it happen. I won’t fault them for that. The input sure helped me.
July 30th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
ijango, blah blah blah, the Center of the Online Universe, blah blah blah; with minutes before the launch of their official fraud there’s still one piece missing from the puzzle: not one iota of news in the mass media! WOW, and their Mickey Mouse portal is supposed to be the greatest thing of the internet since the ARPANET!
July 30th, 2009 at 11:23 pm
Question.
How many of you scam-siracy theorists are network marketing failures? I’m going to go out on a limb and say…all of you. Just because your a failure, do you have the right to discourage others. Do you tell your kids they will never amount to anything because you didn’t, LOL.
Another question.
Is the MLM you failed at still around and still successful for those who stuck with it? The answer is probably yes. Amway, WFG, ACN, Mary Kay, Ignite…just to name a few. Those names probably struck a nerve. Does it really pain you so much that people do change their lives and become successful with these companies and you didn’t, LMAO.
No more questions.
The real scam and pyramid is the one you go to every day, if your lucky to have one in this economy. Yeah, that’s right its called a J-O-B. The wealthy call it “The Journey of the Broke”. You work real hard to never get ahead. You are taxed more than anyone else. You support your lifestyle with credit to pass on debt to your children. If that’s not a scam than I don’t know what is. Nothing is easy and there are no get rich quick schemes. Network marketing is a viable and and more efficient model to reach the masses for any business. Its nothing new, businesses have been using it for years without compensating anyone, it’s called “word of mouth”. It’s a powerful tool for any business.
iJango.
I joined. Will it be successful? Will it make me a millionaire? Don’t know. To me it’s a simple formula. $149 start up cost. $20 monthly maintenance fee, which equals $240 a year. I have no doubt that I’ll recoup the $149 from signing up new directors and probably cover at least a year of maintenance fees. As long as the residual per month is greater than the monthly fee ($20), then it is a success to me. That’s positive cash flow. Will it be enough to buy a candy bar every month or pay my car payment? I’ll know and you won’t come late September when residuals start being paid.
In closing.
95% work for for the other 5%. So to get out of the rat race you have to be a business owner. Opportunities like iJango are great for those who seek minimal risk and large gains. $400 is minute compared to starting a traditional business but it still takes just as much effort to be successful. If you fail, learn from your failure and don’t make the same mistakes again. The otherside to that is to become bitter and lash out like the poor souls on this blog. Are they learning anything? Are they increasing their cash flow? Oh, I did say no more questions didn’t I. Must be a scam. LMAO again.
Just sayin’
July 31st, 2009 at 8:17 am
I was pound foolish for antying up $169. But no more, I just cancellled the credit card so sorry iJango, no residuals to the people in Vegas. Never seen an agreement which didn’t have a consumser “right of recession” — wonder why. Well…they can buy a few soft drinks in LV on my 169…but not a penny more.
July 31st, 2009 at 3:12 pm
iJango tells me only one thing: In the pass US was the number one in innovation and US was the center of the universe when it comes to any technology in all fields except SCAMS. Now this iJango proves that US lost its edge in innovation and becoming Number One CON country. Look at the people who are falling for this quickly get rich scam “iJango”. They are all educated but alas, they all have turned out to be crooks.
A con can con a con only.
Please do not fall for this scam or any MLM scams . Lets go back to OLD US days where hardworking was the basic motto, innovation, sacrifice to realize that innovation as product, and become really rich but in a honest way.
AK
July 31st, 2009 at 3:23 pm
I can say that I am one with “Just Sayin,” where everyone here who has a point, need to really look at what is important. What is a scam? Is it where Sharpe and Smith have devoted time and money in creating a plan that may or may not work. I think that because those of you cannot see how it works, doesn’t mean that it won’t.
All business start ups must be a scam too, because I have seen many make enormous amounts of money when their plan was entirely set on scamming the public, with an edge or trick. Where is your Blog on NETZERO? Huh? A persons past cannot be a conduit for projecting the success of any idea. I think your negative views need something creative in your own life other than thwarting ours with BS.
I hope that everyone “negative” here, is prepared to personally apoligize to Sharpe and Smith if and when this is successful. Time and efforts can only discount my view.
I am a successful and professional gambler. How many of you have been to Vegas and tried your luck on that scam? Huh? This is not rocket science, however you are making it such. It’s $400, in a year, give me a break, I can loose that in a hour in a day in Vegas.
Know this, all negative people have negative results because they refuse to be positive about anything, that’s why you cannot win at anything you try!!! Sorry for your luck, while a simple method that is being defeated before knowing all the facts.
I will be there at the Launch of this event here in Vegas, too bad for your luck again.
July 31st, 2009 at 3:28 pm
Think about this please,
Does everyone know how many crooked politicians we have running this country, their past and what they have done, gotten in trouble with the law, been in jail ? And they are people running our country. Do you know the background of all the people that teach our children or run our cities?
NO you don’t. This is not a scam Cameron does not even have anything to do with the company. He was paid for his idea which is brilliant and the Multi_millionaire who has a clean background, made millions and is savvy businessman is running ijango.
I understand that he was a scumbag, scam artist at one time. Did you also read he paid everyone back he cheated, accepted Christ as his savior 2 yrs ago and now has custody of his kids. He admits to his faults and reconciled with everyone. Remember he is not backing the company, is not involved in any way except getting compensated for his brilliant idea. Steve Smith is the owner the company. He brought Excell from a 0 company to a multi billion dollar company. I can send you the structure of ijango company, the fabulous compensation plan and the opportunity right now to become a millionaire if you work hard . It is the First to Market “Internet Commerce – Network Marketing”
It is a genius idea and it launches tomorrow and turns from a biz to a .com global sensation. Your making money entirely from surfing on the internet and those using your site to surf and click. It’s all been checked out by a team of lawyers and solid as a rock. OH and I have spent $170.00 in one night going to dinner. I look at this as an unbelievable opportunity to be at ground level of the greatest idea yet.
I want you if you want to sign up. Go to *SPAM LINK REMOVED* Again it turns into a .com tomorrow. This isn’t for everyone but know this almost 99% of the world surfs the internet and you get paid while they do it.
See you at the top I hope…….. Questions email me
July 31st, 2009 at 5:40 pm
Good luck in whatever is you do. Think of what you can do to help others make money is this era, other than criticizing those who are at least trying to make a difference.
Vegas Fact
August 1st, 2009 at 10:20 am
Ok, really…Do you really have nothing else better to do than bash iJango? I think you just don’t like Cameron and are looking for your own self glorification. A pyramid scheme is an underground network marketing gimmick. iJango is not underground and it is network marketing at it’s best. Now if iJango is going to pay me to browse the web…why get paid. AOL does not pay me, IE does not pay me, Juno does not pay me, Google does pay me…
And you can give the browser away for free…you just don’t get paid to use it…but I wil if I am in the “Sales” part…I think you need to stop while your a head
I have to give Cameron some credit…it sells his idea better than you do!!
August 1st, 2009 at 10:32 am
You know what find most fascinating about many of you who claim that Ijango is a scam is that you have not idea what a scam is. A scam is when someone takes your money or something from you and promises to deliver goods or services of some kind but does not deliver those things that they promised to you. Now, Ijango does not promise to deliver any goods or services to you other then what you will make for commissions. Now last time I checked telling someone that they will make money for providing a service for you to give to your friends was not illegal or a scam. How do you think google and all those other search engines make their money. Advertising!!! People pay them, Google, etc.., money to have there information put first or on the web so people are driven to the ther site to buy or sell items. That is exactly what Ijango is doing. Google and other search engines companies are partnered with Ijango to help drive traffic through the internet. Yes, I do believe that the claim that this is revolutionary and one of a kind is a bit of a stretch, but I find it very hard to call this a scam. Again, a scam is promising something and not delivering. Ijango doesn’t promise you anything but a chance to be financially free. The fact that the video says that it is ridiculous to think that your friends or family would go to your site to help you make money is just so far from the truth. Let me ask you a question. If you owned a Krispy kreme or a McDonalds and you were about to open up for a grand opening, who are the first people you are going to invite???? YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY!!! DUH!!! You want them to come and support you and give you their blessing. Man, listening to this guy talk about this company makes me really believe he has a personal vendetta. Don’t fall for his issues and make up your own mind.
Just sayin… say’s it best. Read his or her’s blog and you will learn more about yourself for sure.
Oh, and just for the record, i am not part of Ijango, I am in ACN but I am a MLMer and I have made a wonderful leaving. I have replaced my normal JOB income and only work 30 hours a week. I am free to have lunch with my five year old everyday and free to play golf everyday without punching a clock and lying to my boss. How many of you losers can replace a $60,000 income and only work 30hours a week or less and enjoy the tax benefits in Americas economy the way it was meant to be??? Not many.
Before you begin to write things and talk about things please, please do your re-search because you sound worse when you open your mouth with lies..
JK
August 1st, 2009 at 1:46 pm
I have concerns about the Ijango business opportunity, but I would like to mention that there are legitamate home business opportunities, where real people, make real money. Not everything is a scam. Anyone looking to start a home based business should evaluate the compensation plan and follow up and see if they are part of the direct selling association and/or on the Better Business Bureau at http://www.bbb.org. If they are not part of either the direct selling association or the Better Business Bureau- Don’t Join or you are doing business on your own risk!
August 1st, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Just hours before it premieres and NOTHING hyping it at all… no media, no ads on facebook, myspace, google, etc….
whatever! It’s bull and it gives us online promoters and marketers a bad name. I’m hoping it disolves like all the other pyramid buy in products eventually do. You will cap out on ppl to enlist and you will be lucky to recoup your buy in and monthly costs. You are better off selling Avon or Xango or other such get rich by recruiting businesses.
August 1st, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Amen to AK comments.
Most negative comments against ijango are directed toward Cameron Sharpe as they should – based on his pass record. It’s been kinda like having a credit check before the bank will give a loan – in this case he proves to be “high risk” for nonpayment or failure. (NOTE): Base on pass performance.
I feel that most naysayers to ijango are like me in thinking (why enrich Cameron Sharpe) even if it is only $149.95. Actually Cameron Sharpe is counting on folks thinking that it is only $149.95 no big deal if it fails.
It’s a big deal to Cameron Sharpe though, he can become VERY WEALTHY in a matter of months on your puny $149.95.
August 1st, 2009 at 4:10 pm
Everyone who does believe that this is a scam and that Cameron Sharpe is a con man?! i Laugh. You have no idea what you are talking about. I have met him and talked to him in person and I have invested myself in this Ijango Business. this is NOT a scam and he is NOT a con man. You will be swallowing your words once this proves to be a huge success. Check out the website and see for yourself before you start bashing this.
August 1st, 2009 at 5:05 pm
cameron is just the idea man, hes not the one running the company. The founder of Excel is the one putting the company together.
August 1st, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Here are a couple concerns with iJango.
Since iGoogle does the exact same thing as iJango why use iJango?
With iGoogle I can add CNN, Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, etc… same as iJango.
How many people are willing to make money for “you” knowing that their are other services that do the same thing? Knowing that they can sign people up for iJango and make money why use your link? So if most people using iJango are trying to sign up others who sooner or later are trying to get others to use Ijango; what really happens? No one makes any money except for iJango. IJango makes money off the membership fees. Ignorance will be your friend in this case. Don’t take that as a personal attack, just a friendly analysis.
Remember there is no incentive for people to use your iJango link. You don’t offer a product or service only a link to a service of another company (iJango). Your paying $19.99 a month and or membership fees, where iGoogle is free.
August 1st, 2009 at 5:17 pm
and with ijango you have multiple search engines not just one. yes, many sites are all the same and they always will but its the fact that this one is just that much better, and still free. just like myspace and facebook are pretty much the same but facebook is so much better; same idea. The “sales ” part is just depending on how high up the pay scale you wanna start….i dunno, its your hard working dollars that you will be putting into it ONLY if you wanna buy into the company, NOT if you just wanna use it for free bc its a better site. like I said, its up to you.
August 1st, 2009 at 5:22 pm
Steve Smith, co founder of EXCEL communications is in charge of this network marketing opportunity. He is famous for bringing excel to a 1.5 billion dollar business. While other company’s decide to hire a lot of sales people and pay for expensive advertising to get their revenues Steve decide that networking was the way to go. And was he ever right. Excel became the youngest company to join the New York Stock Exchange. Excel also was the fastest company to billion in sales in American business history. Steve Smith had 1.5 million associates in his downline. That is an amazing number.
*SPAM LINK REMOVED*
August 1st, 2009 at 5:23 pm
and I found that on google
August 1st, 2009 at 5:56 pm
It’s up and running…take a look for yourself.
August 1st, 2009 at 7:08 pm
Well, so far so good. I’m still making money and we’re not shut down yet. Ya’ll keep me posted now ya hear!
August 1st, 2009 at 7:38 pm
WOW…… Are you all in for an awakening. I certainly hope you have those public apologies ready because I was just at the Launch event here in Las Vegas. You are way off and out of line, but to err is human.
Just in case you haven’t seen what is now happening, Let me be the first to WELCOME ALL of YOU to IJANGO.
*SPAM LINK REMOVED*
The nice thing about this is you need not worry about others who are going to make a tremendous amount of money in this, you need to worry about yourself missing out on the opportunity of getting involved with a wonderful plan. To know what’s happening is better than missing out. Join Now and stop worrying.
Vegas Fact
August 1st, 2009 at 9:11 pm
I know somebody who got roped into this . . .
Looks like the site isn’t even working today.
I was really hoping I’d be wrong on this one, but I don’t think I am. Wish they would have listened.
August 2nd, 2009 at 8:07 am
I think it is quite amusing seeing all of the back and forth debating on this. In fact, ijango is not new. It is merely a new venture that encompasses multiple ideas and technologies. Will it work? Yes and No. People have tried to multi-level market almost everything in the past. Yet while a majority of people do in fact lose money, there are many who make money as well. Ijango will be no different. Some people who are great at selling, will make money. Others will not. I hate MLM groups, but I have to admit that I do know a large group of friends who have been successful. The concept behind MML companies is that word of mouth advertising can provide a client base far faster and far cheaper than normal advertising.
People all over the world use products from Mary Kay, Mannatech, Amway, Herbalife, and Ameri-plan. All of these companies have billion dollar profits annually. Billions of people use their products. I would assume someone, somewhere has called them all a scam because people make money on the work of other people. Yet what people fail to realize is that if you have a product to sell, people will buy it.
I think the term MLM scam is a very bitter term to use, since it denotes that any company using this business model is corrupt and deceptive. When in fact they are just businesses that have decided to approach their marketing campaigns from a different directive.
Some people will always be skeptical and some people will give them a shot. Who will come out ahead? I guess that depends on who ends up having more money at the end of the day.
August 2nd, 2009 at 10:57 am
Here is some excerpts of an article regarding Jason Breakey. This is the Jason Breakey that Cameron Sharpe indicates he originally started his singles business career with and then went back to work with after he got clean and made his amends. According to Cameron, Jason forgave Cameron for his past and then got him started again with new clothes, car and a spot in his business.
Cameron also indicates in his “tell-all confession” that Jason asked Cameron to assume the name “Barrett Stone” because it was a nickname Jason had used with him in the past. (It is funny how Jason sees this differently below)
Just as an FYI, Jason Breakey has even more legal problems than Cameron Sharpe (aka Barrett Stone). Mr. Breakey has multiple civil judgments against him and his companies and also multiple criminal charges filed against him including a couple resisting arrest charges, some weapons charges and multiple drug charges including intent to distribute over 4/5 lbs. of marijuana.
This is the Jason Breakey who Cameron Sharpe, in his own words, has associated himself with recently both personally and in business.
Excerpts below – full article available at:
http://press.xtvworld.com/article23852.html
March 19, 2008 (XTVWorld.Com) — The year was 2002 and business had been booming for the upstart dating service he created with partner Cameron Sharpe. In the past twelve months their entity, Ultimate Singles, had grossed over a million dollars in sales from its network of Christian singles offices in Houston, Dallas and Arlington. The world was at their fingertips, and there was no reason why they couldn’t modify their dating concept and introduce it on a national scale. It would take some deep pockets to fund the dream. Sharpe had the perfect investor in mind – Steve Smith, his former boss and co-founder of Excel Communications.
In his youth, Sharpe had been a part of the culture that helped fuel Excel’s rise to the top. Sharpe still had strong ties to his mentor, and now was the perfect time to approach him about an investment.
Though the retired executive was spending a lot of time and money trying to create a world-class, five-star golf resort in the desert town of Lajitas, Texas, he was intrigued by the business proposal his former protégé presented to him. Breakey and Sharpe had the idea of melding their dating service database with Smith’s network marketing principles and duplicate the formula on a nationwide basis.
“Steve spent six months doing his due diligence on our business,” recalled Breakey of those heady times. “He was impressed with our business model and thought we’d be a good fit in his growing empire. He even advanced us $100,000 as part of a million dollar investment he wanted to make for just a five percent equity position.”
Breakey and Sharpe were about to realize a dream, only there was one slight problem. Three outside investors who originally staked the duo’s enterprise to the tune of $200,000 owned 30 percent of Ultimate Singles. Their shares had to be bought back or the deal was dead. With Smith’s million dollar carrot dangling in front of them, some hard decisions had to be made.
“I was intoxicated,” marveled Breakey, “by all the wealth and power Steve Smith had accumulated. He even told Cameron and myself we’d be ringing the bell on the New York Stock Exchange one day when we went public. That’s when I decided to buy out the equity position of our original investors. But to do that, we had to trade away the lifeblood of the company.
“I went to our billing company and they told us we had receivables totaling about one million dollars. That money was bringing us a monthly payment of $55,000 which in turn stabilized the business. I offered our investors the guaranteed income in exchange for their equity position in Ultimate Singles. They were more than happy to take me up on the deal, especially since they hadn’t seen any return on their investment.”
Within a month of gaining total control of the company, Smith blindsided Breakey and Sharpe by announcing he was pulling out of his handshake agreement to provide funding to Ultimate Singles. Stunned, the duo began to scramble for ways to shore up the company’s finances. The first order of business was to preserve cash flow. They went from being a strictly ‘pay as you go’ customer with their radio and television advertisers, to borrowers on a billing cycle.
“One moment,” said Breakey shaking his head, “we’re on a path to the big time. The next, I’m doing whatever I can to save the business. It was nearly impossible to operate Ultimate Singles properly without the guaranteed cash flow coming in. I certainly couldn’t go back to our original investors and say, “I made a mistake, can we go back to the way things were?’ At the time, Cameron and I obviously weren’t mature enough to handle real success. We let fanciful dreams get in the way of prudent business decisions, and in the end, it cost us dearly.”
With storm clouds gathering over Ultimate Singles, another thunderous bolt of lightning was to rattle the company. Sharpe fell in love and informed his partner he was moving to Austin with his fiancé. Breakey would later find out that Steve Smith had a job waiting for Sharpe as soon as he relocated. It was with his online multi-level marketing company he had recently formed called, ironically, UltimateMatch.
In a business overview of his new venture, Smith offered individuals the choice of several business opportunities to earn extra money on the Internet using his network marketing guidelines. One interesting endeavor under the UltimateMatch umbrella was an introduction service called SoulMate. Smith claimed his online dating service would soon be the market leader in the fast growing billion dollar industry. He was offering individuals the opportunity to help singles meet their “ultimate match” online and get paid for their efforts.
“I don’t think,” declared Breakey firmly, “I have ever felt more betrayed than the moment I found out Steve Smith was launching his own online dating service. This guy had all the money in the world, yet he stabbed us in the back to start his own, once he studied our business model of the dating industry. The fact Cameron moved to Austin, got married, and ended up working for multi-millionaire Steve, only added salt to the already gaping wound his broken promise had left in what was now my business.”
“In a strange way,” he admitted, “both Lee Hamblin and Steve Smith were responsible for my success. Their subsequent actions involving Ultimate Singles forced a complete shift in my business practice regarding the dating industry. By going out and securing leads for dating services, I now own over 5,000 domain names covering every major metropolitan area in the country. The lead business was the best thing that ever fell into my lap.”
Not only did he discover a prudent way to generate leads, Breakey’s company created a program capable of tracking the geographic locations of the inquiries over the Internet. With advanced technology, extensive knowledge of the dating industry, and monies to finance it, Breakey decided in the SPRING OF 2007 it was time to diversify and enter the matchmaking industry once again.
“Although we had a lot of positive cash flow,” confessed Breakey, “I knew we had to widen our business cope. The company had become too dependent upon a small group of people for its income. If anything was to change with Great Expectations, the game was over for me. So, I decided to get back into dating by opening an office in Oklahoma City.
“I drove up from Dallas to sell memberships, but for some reason, I just hated it. I called my wife and said, ‘I’m coming home. I don’t want to do this anymore.’ I was sitting at home shortly after that conversation when one day, of all people, in walked Cameron. He wanted to tell me how sorry he was for everything he had put me through.”
Breakey hadn’t spoken to his former partner in years. The now-divorced Sharpe had bottomed out through alcohol and drugs, and was a recovering alcoholic. One of the 12 suggested steps in his AA program was to make a list of all persons he had harmed, and willingly try and make amends to them. His timing to reenter his former friend’s life to apologize couldn’t have been better.
“When Cameron walked through my door,” smiled Breakey, “sober and clean from alcohol and drugs, I was both shocked and relieved. He was sincerely apologetic for all the harm he had caused from his out-of-control addictions. Though he didn’t know it at the time, I had forgiven him a long time ago. Before Cameron could finish his apology, I literally offered him a job helping me jumpstart a dating service again.”
Sharpe agreed to rejoin his friend, but made an unusual request to go with it. He wanted to be known by the name Barrett Stone, not to escape the past, but to embrace the future.
“Cameron, Barrett,” countered Breakey, “it didn’t matter to me what name he wanted to use. He was arguably one of the greatest salesmen I had ever met, and I was happy to be working with him once again. He really proved his worth when we opened our Salt Lake City office on 24-hour notice.”
- END STORY EXCERPT -
For those people that are not iJango cult members or MLM groupies who know and understand that recruiting people to shell out cash is the only way they will get paid, consider yourself forewarned by this board and others. If you are a normal person that is being approached about this “opportunity”, know that the type of people that you are being asked to get in business with have a long and verifiable history of scams, cons and charges against them. (as with anything like this, the stuff published is only the stuff they got caught doing. Think about how much they got away with that is not published anywhere!)
Yes, Steve Smith did well with one MLM scheme and that is what the cult members and MLM groupies will hang their hat on, but EVERYTHING he has done since then has been a complete failure. Yes, Cameron Sharpe can give a nice presentation and iJango can claim that he is only an “idea man” and has nothing to do with the company other than the idea, but EVERYTHING he has ever done in life points towards fleecing others of money, both before and AFTER his “fall” and “redemption”. Cameron Sharpe is intimately involved with iJango at many levels and the company’s (and iJango’s cult members) recent insistence that he is only an idea man is just another con job being perpetrated on a gullible segment of the population.
In addition to Steve Smith’s failed MLM’s of the past several years like Ultimate Match, Everyday Wealth and Ultimate Travel, here is an excerpt in the Dallas Morning News in reference to Steve Smith’s “world class golf resort” referred to in the article above:
10/18/2007
By ALICIA A. CALDWELL / Associated Press
A high-class, high-priced bankrupt resort did not sell at auction Thursday, a lawyer for the company said.
Mark Petrocchi, a lawyer for Lajitas Resort Ltd., said one bidder walked out of the sale in San Antonio Thursday.
“We did not get an acceptable offer today,” Petrocchi. “One of our bidders walked out. We’re trying to get some of them to remain interested.”
Petrocchi did not identify the potential buyer who left the sale, which had been closed to the public and media, nor would he say how many bidders attended Thursday’s auction.
Developer Stephen R. Smith’s Lajitas, The Ultimate Hideout resort filed bankruptcy early this year and was set to be sold at auction Thursday. It is unclear what the next step will be for the bankrupt resort.
“We are still trying to get a return for creditors,” Petrocchi said.
You iJango Cult members should have fun with these guys!
August 2nd, 2009 at 12:53 pm
fyi he has no corporate position. He had the idea, and sold it.
August 2nd, 2009 at 1:33 pm
Certainly, now that you see that you have been wrong about what is happening with IJANGO, there is a search for more dirty laundry on things having nothing to do with the brilliant plan of IJANGO.
You’re wasting time when you should be apologizing and getting involved before IJANGO gets really big. What has been accomplished in 1 month, is making MLM history. Get a clue.
Start using your energy WISELY.
I will be bawking for your apologies to Sharpe and Smith. You should really take THIS site down because this is going to get very embarrassing for you, when you finally see what I had the priviledge of seeing, being a director, and attended the event here in Las Vegas.
Sorry for your luck, AGAIN!!!
Vegas Fact
August 2nd, 2009 at 10:50 pm
I am now logged on to iJango home page. I am amazed at all the hype leading up to a web site that is so amateurish. Literally amazed at how bad it is.
It is a complete ripoff of many other web pages including iGoogle with far less functionality, far worse performance and is so cumbersome I cannot believe anyone would use it regularly. Even if it is working out some launch bugs right now, it will be unbelievably unimpressive even if it ends up eventually working perfectly. Of course, the “iJangoites” all trying to make money off each other will use it, but will anyone else? Not a chance in my book.
Do people promoting this honestly believe you can get people that do not have a vested interested in iJango to use this web site regularly? You are going to get them to switch from their current home page to use this home page regularly? How soon do you think they will return to the home page they have used in the past even if they try this as a favor to you? Do you honestly think you will make untold thousands off of their “clicks”?
Base don the hype and all the hoopla on this website, I thought at least the web site would be a little cool and have something new and fresh. It is anything but new and fresh from my observation.
I am absolutely blown away on how bad the website is. If there was any doubt that this was a scam to get people to invest $390 per year, the launch of the website absolutely confirmed that it is a scam in every sense of the word.
Do you iJangoites seriously believe you will get thousands of people in your “downline” or “network” using this website regularly as their home page? WHY? Why would someone that does not have a vested interest in this actually switch to this home page and use it regularly? If you are involved with iJango and are trying to promote this, ask yourself – Is it better than the home page you have been using yourself? What is better about it? Would you use it if you did not have a financial incentive to do so?
Even if it was a really cool website with something fresh and new, the amount of money generated from affiliate shopping, site advertising and click volume would be minimal at best even if you had a huge network of people all clicking away. Unfortunately for those that have sunk money into this and have made plans for all the money they would be pulling in, this site doesn’t even approach acceptable, much less fresh and new and exciting.
WOW.
August 3rd, 2009 at 4:05 am
The so called ‘Center of the Online Universe’ has an invalid security cert:
‘www.ijango.biz uses an invalid security certificate.
The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate is unknown.’
Their find a meeting function doesn’t work
August 3rd, 2009 at 3:16 pm
A friend of a fiend got involved with this scam 2 weeks ago….she hasn’t been able to recruit 1 single solitary person……she is backng out, if she can.
August 3rd, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Great couple of articles!
Here’s a video for a product that has been out since December of last year — it provides way more functionality and flexibility than iJango — and is completely free!!! (no MLM involved!)
http://www.scrapplet.com/content/tour/index.htm
August 3rd, 2009 at 8:52 pm
I was introduced to ijango and had my brother-in-law, who is a 30 year experienced federal investigator with ATF, investigate Mr. Sharpe. Everything on this website was verified and he even found more about the con man. My brother-in-law told me to RUN from this guy and tell anyone else to do the same. He even found some IRS troubles with Steve Smith. Go figure.
P.S.
The website for ijango is currently down and has the folowing lame excuse on the page.
“Welcome to iJango, the Center of the Online Universe! We are temporarily experiencing issues with our hosting solution’s ability to expand their bandwidth to accommodate our growth. Thank you for your patience as we transfer to our new hosting solution.”
Go figure – AGAIN!
August 3rd, 2009 at 9:45 pm
I think everyone needs something to believe in. If it only cost $169.00 for a chance what is it going to hurt. I see people spending more money in one night at the casinos, that certainly has great odds. I joined and I will give it a chance. I am sure everyone has spent a little money on something with more risk than this. Everyone needs a dream…….
August 3rd, 2009 at 11:51 pm
Their signup links on ijankedyou.biz don’t work either
August 4th, 2009 at 12:02 am
Is Cameron Sharpe is up to his old tricks still….
Go to:
http://www.realestate.countyclerk.dallascounty.org/search.aspx
Just type in Sharpe Cameron
All Grantees are Cameron Sharpe
291 W 5400 SOUTH STE 201
SALT LAKE CITY, UT 84107
Here is an example of a few things he is up to:
200900003172 SalesMaverick.com Date 1-6-09
200900003171 DFW SINGLES Date 1-6-09
200900003173 Friscosingles.com Date 1-6-09
200900003174 Planosingles.com Date 1-6-09
200900003176 Dallas Singles Date 1-6-09
200900003176 DallasSingles.com Date 1-6-09
Funny that a couple of these single sites have success from 2005???
I thought a couple pictures looked like something I saw recently on Ijango
It can only get worse………………..
August 4th, 2009 at 8:42 am
To CL,
Cameron’s troubles were not in his early twenties. Back then he got married to his highschool sweetheart and had 2 babies. He was barely drinking….More like late twenties and early 30’s after he repeatedly cheated on his wife and left her with nothing. In the last 6 years he has had 3 babies with 3 different mothers and pulled off more scams than most could in 3 lifetimes. He supposedly got sober in Jan 2007( that would be 29 yrs old)……reaserch from that point! He is only 31 now. He will never change. If I had a pennie for everytime i have personally witnessed him “finding god” to get money out of people I’d be rich!!!!!!! As far as making ammends HA! That’s a joke, I can promise you that none of your scammed money, that you were foolish enough to pay, will go to paying anyone he has scammed back. He uses religion, sobriety (which is bullshit because he takes anphetemines everyday), and his self-made sob story which he created to con more fools like you. SOCIOPATHS don’t change! It is untreatable condition. He has no conscience. Good luck to all the patsies out there….hope you have the money to spare. I’d rather have more fun flushing it down the toilet than making an evil man rich!
August 4th, 2009 at 10:10 am
This guy is making money from all of the people who sign up and pay $149.99 for “back office” access and then pay $19.95 a month. This dude is making some bucks and he has your credit card number on file to bill you every month. Typical Ponzi! No tangible product is changing hands! Come on people. Why do you keep falling for this crap?
Can you say Burney Madoff, just a different product (or non-product)!
August 4th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Check out the new blog post! Google advertisers, learn how you can defeat iJango!
http://www.clicksniper.com/ijango-is-bad/
August 5th, 2009 at 1:16 am
IJango, or IJackoff will be the funniest thing on the face of this earth to watch implode. You are better off poking your eyeball with a sharpe stick than joining one of the most obivous scams, during one of the most vulnerable times for American’s in the history of our great Country…
August 5th, 2009 at 2:24 am
Thanks for such great information on IJango and keep up the great work, the word needs to get out quickly before many more fall victim to this outrage.
I love my IGoogle just the way it is, why would I pay someone $150 to buy a duplicate of IGoogle designed by a code writer in another country possibly living in India for $150 on Guru.com or Getafreelancer.com, who cares.
It just makes no sense at all to join IJango!
August 6th, 2009 at 10:58 am
“Check out the new blog post! Google advertisers, learn how you can defeat iJango!
http://www.clicksniper.com/ijango-is-bad/”
If this is all an incredible scam, why would it directly threaten your ROI? Wouldn’t iJango just fall flat on its face and you carry on about your merry business as if nothing was going to happen? How is iJango bad for Google content network advisers if it can’t hold its own weight? Wouldn’t it be no threat? I still haven’t gotten an answer as to how all of the SEO companies are dealing with this. Why would you need to blacklist iJango if it serves no legitimate threat?
Nobody has answered my questions so far, so I feel the need to ask them again.
August 6th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Hello Ijango when I you coming to the British Virgin Islands?
I would like to join cause live is all abou chances.
August 6th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
Let us all make our own decisions. WILLY T ROCKS!
August 8th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
Many of the same people that promoted Ultimate Choice Travel to alot of us just a short time ago are now doing the “iJango tango”. Just change a few words in the script and you have your new iJango presentation!
The same leader and much of the team that brings you Ijango has started all of these failed ventures in the last few years.
EVERYDAY WEALTH (Closed for business)
“The same network marketing system that Steve invented and implemented at Excel Communications has been applied to EverydayWealth. He believes EverydayWealth will be the greatest network marketing opportunity ever, bringing personal wealth to Americans, one family at a time.”
http://www.thewealthstop.com/aboutus.htm#story
ULTIMATE MATCH online dating (closed for business)
From http://www.UltimateMatch.com – “UltimateMatch is a world-class network marketing company that offers entrepreneurs and people like you who are serious about earning money “the ultimatematch of opportunity and income!” We offer you the most exciting and advanced compensation plan in the network marketing industry. Our simple and repeatable business model makes it easy for you to join and start to make money today! Best of all, you decide how much you work and how much you earn. The choice is truly yours and there is no limit on the amount of money you can earn!”
“OnlineDating is now the fastest growing industry on the Internet today, offering a $1.8 billion market opportunity!”
http://web.archive.org/web/20051024050922/www.ultimatematch.com/overview.aspx
ULTIMATE MATCH TRAVEL (closed for business)
During 2006, Ultimate Match was floundering, so they added Travel to their offerings.
“There has never been a better time to join the UltimateMatch team nor a more lucrative compensation plan to forge your path to financial freedom.” “UltimateMatch offers you the opportunity to capitalize on the trillion-dollar travel industry as an Independent Travel Referral Agent for our premier online travel company.” “Don’t wait! Join us today, as we build the world’s largest online travel agency and create the next generation of affluent network-marketing professionals!”
http://web.archive.org/web/20071104034318/www.ultimatematch.com/ultimate_product.aspx
ULTIMATE CHOICE TRAVEL (closed for business)
From the http://www..ultimatechoicetravel.com website
“What I’m most excited about with Ultimate Choice Travel is that the travel industry holds more opportunity for representatives than the long distance industry did for several reasons. The first is that travel is fun. Everyone wants to do it, and it is a natural for any conversation. Talking about ones long distance bill and changing carriers isn’t. Secondly, certain industries can often change drastically and rapidly within seconds (i.e. in the telephone industry, VOIP and cellular changed the way the world communicated), which is scary when you think about how many were involved in a business that disappeared almost overnight. In the travel business we may one of these days be traveling by flying saucer, but that trip will still have to be booked and paid for; so while the way we are transported may change and the way we book travel may change, huge transformations are not on the horizon. You can build a business in the travel industry, which will safely be around for a long time. And finally, the travel business is many thousands of times the size of the long distance business, so the opportunity is virtually endless!”
By 2009, travel must not have been going so well for their sales folks…..
From a Press Release from Ultimate Choice Travel in March of 2009:
“He has the same vision for his current venture, Ultimate Choice Travel, a full service nationwide travel agency. The primary goal for Mr. Smith’s tour is twofold: to motivate the current field of Representatives with how the company can continue to succeed with the new additions to its products and services and to promote his return to the telecommunications industry. Specifically, these new unique additions include: a Honeymoon Registry (couples register and receive wedding gifts in the form of contributions towards their honeymoon), iJourni (an online community for travelers), and Ultimate VOIP (digital phone service). The idea of adding a social network (iJourni) takes on a particularly fresh twist in the network marketing industry”
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ALL of these money making schemes had one thing in common. They all required people to make low up front investments and then then a monthly “backoffice” maintenance fee.
Once the MLM professionals that bounce from program to program run out of people to convince to pay their fees after the normal people that are not MLM pros start realizing that they will never get rich, the MLM pros go on to the NEXT BIG THING…..now the next big thing is “multi-leveling Google”.
August 10th, 2009 at 3:50 am
Hello,
I have to say.. I never read blogs but I cant get my eyes off this one. Ive been reading it for like 2 hours now, clicking your links, reading your comments, doing research! I have to agree. Part one I was ready to get out.. part 2 im staying in. What a great bunch of …. well bitchers I guess..lol… But what a great bunch of positive people to complement and build up ijango. There are a couple of things.. Entrepreneurs are a different breed. We dont think like all you guys who say “get a job”, “work hard”. Ive owned a successful landscape company and I worked my butt off, but I was the owner and made a nice little fortune. My workers (sound familiar “get a job” “work hard”) were taken care of because they did make me a nice little fortune. They did alright also if you consider $13/hr a good paying job. While I sat at the casino, did nothing, and made $1000 for the day…
Just words for thought… Ijango – Im in! Im not worried about the initial investment or the $20 a month who cares I pay more for that for lunch. Oh yeah plus I just made Regional Director in 24 hours..lol..
Have a great day guys!
Scam or No Scam – I will be laughing all the way to the bank when it succeeds!
And you guys will be at your JOB – Just over Broke.
No hard feelings of course im just sick of all the people screaming “scams!” Its getting really really old..
You do realize we have a war going on.. do you think our guys over there are really worried about scams?
Regards,
Probuilder
August 10th, 2009 at 7:41 am
I’m not an IJango Representative myself. But from what I can see in your videos..it seems you’re just ‘trying’ to find the negative aspects in the company..so he comments that the Ijango Portal is supposed to be all hip with the bells and the whistles despite the fact that there is clearly already IGoogle, and “PageFlakes” that are capable of doing the same thing and providing the same convenience. I suppose you succeeded in understanding that there are choices among us(Congratulations).
However you don’t seem to realize that the way network marketing works is that the people who get involved in these opportunities are getting involved in them because they obviously see it as a genuine way to create something for themselves to create a better future for themselves, their families, and the people close to them in their lives. Obviously some people are ‘convinced’ into some things in which case that arouses the negative stigma towards the industry..but the people who genuinely get involved will tell you, and you should realize that if they have a website that their friends and family can go to to SUPPORT them, that is capable of all the same things they would normally use; and more even.. then WHY NOT? I’d hate to think you’re one of those anti-social introverts that have nothing better to do with their lives then bring others down, and cower in your selfishness. But hey..you did have a point in the compensation plan..I mean after all he did say “something we can just give away” and as you clearly pointed out..a sale MUST occur to in order for the Representatives to receive compensation..well, I think you misunderstood again..you see, what he was refering to is they can “Give” the Ijango website to their market.. and the “sales” that occur, are that which are mentioned in the video Cameron was showing..(Shopping,blogging,facebook…etc..) maybe you should of watched it more closely instead of trying to find where you could catch them in their words…any way..just my two cents..you should maybe do a little more research before preaching your ignorance..or not..I’m always up for a good laugh..and with out people like you..who would there be to laugh at? :]
August 10th, 2009 at 11:48 am
It sounds to me like IJango is going to threaten the Big Boys in the SEO field and they are scrambling to discredit it. Imaging if the search engines of the world all of a sudden had to pay consumers to use their sites? Why not, we are the ones doing the referring, and we’re not getting paid for it. That’s how viral marketing works, so now we have an opportunity to get paid for what we do. Sounds good to me.
August 11th, 2009 at 11:58 am
First of all to answer the person that asked “How is iJango bad for Google content network advertisers if it can’t hold its own weight?”
You’re complaining that no one has answered your question so please allow me. However, do you really have to ask that question?
I went to an Ijango meeting last week and heard a guy behind me saying that he was trying to figure out who was paying the most for click ads so he could click them to make money for himself. He said he wasn’t in the market for a Mercedes however if they are paying a lot for a click he would search Mercedes and click all the ads.
As a Google advertiser myself I CRINGED at this. I asked what they were planning on doing to prevent click fraud and didn’t get a straight answer. The guy just sorta of laughed and gave me a “don’t worry about it because you will make money off of that too” type of answer. That made me want to pull all of my Google ads.
Who ever started this thing is making a mint off of all of the suckers that are giving them the $149 start up fee. A good friend of mine got roped into this and kept telling me that it’s only $149 risk for a potential huge upside. Sure, I own an internet marketing business and $149 isn’t a big investment however I just don’t throw away money. The issue is they are getting everyone to think that way. Do the math, they have already roped in thousands of people even before they launched. This thing could collapse tomorrow and they have already made their money.
At the meeting I told these guys that I wouldn’t sign up for anything unless I saw the actual product. At that point the launched had failed and I couldn’t see the portal yet. I was in shock at how many people had already paid the start up fee without even seeing the actual product. They accomplished that by creating urgency. “If you wait until the product is already out you will be behind everyone else!” they were saying. How in the world can you invest to sell something if you haven’t even seen what you are going to sell??
Once it came out and I could actually see it I had the same reaction as Google Guy (he posted Aug 2). If you haven’t read his post please do. I couldn’t have said it better myself. I was shocked how amature and cumbersome the thing is. It even has broken images. Once I saw it I had to laugh. There is no way in God’s green earth I would use this thing much more recommend someone else to you use it. I would be embarrassed to recommend this thing. I think my credibility as an internet marketer would be shot if I started promoting this thing.
Maybe once all of their money starts rolling in they can at least hire a decent design company to at least make it LOOK professional. That will at least help their scam get by a few more people because once I saw how the thing looked I knew it was a bad joke.
August 11th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
Cameron Sharpe has apparently been making people wealthy for years. Although he took this “www.growrich.com” website down in 2006 when he went into the singles business under the name “Barrett Stone”, he maintained the “GrowRich.com” website for years before that when he used to help others attain wealth.
Nothing wrong with the past as Cameron himself has stated, “he has turned over a new leaf”, but in looking at the past, the words and the encouragements to join him look amazingly like the present. (although it looks like he traded the Corporate Jet for a Maserati in his promos)
In February 2003
http://web.archive.org/web/20030216082957/http://www.growrich.com/
In September 2003
http://web.archive.org/web/20031001183337/www.growrich.com/aff_team.html
In December 2003
http://web.archive.org/web/20031231194802/http://www.growrich.com/
In April 2004
http://web.archive.org/web/20040404025036/http://growrich.com/
In September 2004 (Read the testimonials at the bottom!)
http://web.archive.org/web/20040924085442/http://growrich.com/
In May 2005
http://web.archive.org/web/20050512031458/http://www.growrich.com/
In August 2005 (Read testimonials – Susan Baker is the lady who sued Cameron for owing $150K after he declared bankruptcy.)
http://web.archive.org/web/20050811235236/http://www.growrich.com/
In September 2005 (More great testimonials from current IJango leaders)
http://web.archive.org/web/20050923222518/www.growrich.com/
August 11th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
In response to I Believe … “I think everyone needs something to believe in. If it only cost $169.00 for a chance what is it going to hurt. I see people spending more money in one night at the casinos, that certainly has great odds. I joined and I will give it a chance. I am sure everyone has spent a little money on something with more risk than this. Everyone needs a dream…….”
That mentality is what these con guys are banking on. Sure, $169.00 may not be a ton of money to you however if they can sucker in 20,000 more people that think just like you they will bank over 3 million dollars.
I will give them credit where credit is due. What they are doing is unethical but not illegal to my knowledge so kudos to them for banking. I hope they enjoy the money.
August 11th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
“I think everyone needs something to believe in. If it only cost $169.00 for a chance what is it going to hurt. I see people spending more money in one night at the casinos, that certainly has great odds.”
Actually, it has been factually proven that you have better odds at a casino of winning than you do at playing the MLM game. And you don’t need to rip anyone off or ruin your relationships with all your friends by looking like a skeezeball while doing it.
August 11th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
@Jess “It sounds to me like IJango is going to threaten the Big Boys in the SEO field and they are scrambling to discredit it. Imaging if the search engines of the world all of a sudden had to pay consumers to use their sites? Why not, we are the ones doing the referring, and we’re not getting paid for it. That’s how viral marketing works, so now we have an opportunity to get paid for what we do. Sounds good to me.”
Huh? You clearly have no idea how the internet works. Most SEO guys work on organic rankings (those are search results that no one is paying for). How is Ijango a threat to SEO? The only threat Ijango poses is to advertisers paying to have their ads clicked. If anything, SEO companies benefit from scams like this because more people are going to want organic rankings instead of running pay per click campaigns where they can be victims of click fraud.
The guy that put this article together is trying to do all of you all a big favor. If you haven’t fallen for this yet then save your money. If you already have, write it off as a loss and at least save some face with whomever you were going to try to push this on.
August 11th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
UPDATE:
You know guys. I have to say… one thing. I spent hours the other night reading this crap. I almost seriously got out of ijango because of all you idiots talking outta your butts. Im already making 6 figures + on the internet so it doesnt really matter to me either way. But doing my reasearch I was like (o crap).. but you know what.. Part 2 made me think again.. I should know better… but I DID GET PAID TODAY BY IJANGO JUST AS PROMISED.. on time.. and the money is in my account.. so …my conclusion… you guys need to shut up, stop blasting people on stuff you have no idea about…
Cameron is just a pretty face promoting the site.. steve is straight as an arrow.. and im full force on this..
Just because you joined an mlm before bought stuff and sat on your asses and then claimed you failed.. Well you will always fail. You have to act. Its a viable site, ive already made money on it.. and its only been a week. I got my payment on time just like they said I would..
Whats the scam..?
Friggen idiots…
Ive chatted with my team and sent them to this blogg!
Most of them could care less what you guys say.. my self I do my due diligence on anything…
So far they have done exactly what they have stated..
As far as the people who are positive on this “Thank you!”
You kept me in…
Some of the guys above are like “$149 is a huge investment”
Bull! – I spent over $2000 on adwords one week as a test for one of my new sites.. didnt make a cent.. are you going to call google a scam also because I didnt get a ROI?
I think not…
You can say or do what ever you want. Im a dreamer, im already making decent money if you consider 6 figures good. (some people wouldn’t). BUT….
For all you guys to just blast this guy. Ok, maybe he has a shady past.. maybe he actually has something here. Ive been a programmer for over 20 years and can actually see what he is doing probably better than most of you.
The site is going to work.. Take it for whats its worth.. Hell if you just want to take the risk out of it signup here free:
http://probuilder.ijango.com
Do a social page.. invite me as a friend. No investment. Ive already got multimillioaires on my team just for the fun of it, because I said. “Hey there might be something here”.
I was invited to google…I missed it
I was invied to twitter… I missed it…
Im not missing this one!
You guys do what ever you want. Scream scam, scream not legit… find domain names that are registered in china… who cares.. Ever think that maybe the guy is thinking ahead when he goes global and is snatching up every domain name for future growth..
bet you didnt think about that…
Yes there is like 6 billion chinese people…. what kind of growth are you going to get with that? LOL and they are very active as ive got well over 600K chinese members on my sites now just messing around!
Ok so to conclude, We will see what happens… If the dude rips me off…well he hasnt because my 2 payments today pretty much make me even…
Ok… any payment is more than I had yesterday right!
Now, for all you guys to rip anybody, I dont care if its your neighbor, your mom, your dad, some scum bag ….
Remember Kharma is a 2 way street and it comes full circle and there is some little guy upstairs looking down on you.
If you have been scammed before.. sorry to hear that… maybe you should have done your homework a little better….
If I get scammed this time… well you know what at least I had the balls to jump in and not sit behind my computer at home and just put people down.
People are saying “bad dad” “bad business person” “Doesnt speak well”
Hell I jumped in just watching the first video..
Ok I have to go process orders so everybody have a great night..
Just wanted to let everybody know that the site said “Paid on Monday”
I got paid on “Monday”
Not tuesday, not friday “Monday”
So far they are 100% legit on my end…
TAKE IT FOR WHATS ITS WORTH…
Thanks,
Probuilder
TeamProbuilder
August 12th, 2009 at 12:58 am
Now your doing paid ads via google for this blog..
unreal..
obviously your really good at seo…
contact me I could use a good seo guy..
Thanks
August 12th, 2009 at 1:52 am
Hi, I’m Jennifer Martin (fka: Jennifer Kurschner). I am 33 yrs old, mother of 3 in Ft Myers, Florida. I consider myself well-educated, not just by books , schooling/colleges alone, but through life experience in general and the common sense that I was born with (Excuse me for a sec… “Thank you Lord for the common sense you gave me… AMEN).
Look – I know that Ijango is an MLM and there is RISK…ALL CORPORATIONS ARE a RISK and shaped in the form of a “pyramid” – those who are higher up on the corporate ladder make more money than the people below – period! If you work hard for something that you want (i.e. promotions)… you ride to financial success. If you negatively whine about how the bossman (i.e. Cameron Sharpe or Steve Smith) makes more money than you – you will always have a bossman to pay you lesser than you are worth – period!
Sincerely,
Jennifer Martin (Kurschner)
August 12th, 2009 at 1:53 am
Exactly Probuilder!
August 12th, 2009 at 2:04 am
Here is the BBB report on iJANGO……Rating is an “F”
http://www.bbb.org/central-texas/business-reviews/multi-level-selling/ijango-in-austin-tx-90066721#ratingdetails
August 12th, 2009 at 9:40 am
I was invited to google…I missed it
I was invied to twitter… I missed it…
huh?
“So far they are 100% legit on my end…”
so how do you define legit?
August 12th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Probuilder, I am glad you are getting paid recruiting people into this thing. That normally happens when an MLM starts up no matter what it is. However it doesn’t change the fact that the product is crap and no one outside of people trying to make money off of it will use it. As you know the guy in front of Ijango started Excel. Excel made some people money however the problem with Excel was that it was a crap product too. I got roped into Excel and discontinued after I started actually using the service. It was probably the worst phone service I ever dealt with so in good conscience I couldn’t continue to promote the thing.
I know I probably could make some money of Ijango too by convincing others that they will make money. However I would be too embarrassed to promote the end product and I just can’t lie to people. It isn’t better than anything else on the internet and it isn’t going to revolutionize anything. Ijango is a poorly designed, loosely programmed open source portal that doesn’t compare to some other free ones mentioned here like IGoogle. IGoogle is 100 times better without any strings attached.
I will say that I never used IGoogle until I was told about Ijango. Once I installed Ijango someone told me that they already were using something like it called IGoogle. Once I saw IGoogle I actually started laughing because it became clear to me that Ijango is just a third rate rip off attempt of IGoogle. Do these guys actually think they are going to have something better than Google?
Also, I don’t know what city you are in however at the meeting in Austin, Texas they are lying their asses off. That was the first red flag to me. The guy was telling people that they had contracts with Google, ITunes, etc. As you can see in the BBB report that was a lie and Google is now investigating them. All they have is a Google Adsense account and they are clearly violating the terms. Terms that were established to protect advertisers like myself. They were also telling people a bunch of other things that I knew weren’t true. However at the time I gave the guy the benefit of the doubt until I could make sure my understanding of how some things worked were correct. So I confirmed the next day that they either were clueless about how some things or were just lying. Maybe it is a little of both.
August 12th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Hello,
Consider this….
Everybody says “no” product…..
Well there is a “shop” section that has hundreds of stores. I see lots of products. I think people are thinking about a product that ijango would sell. Im simply looking at it as a portal. Ive actually had a blast building a social page and chatting with friends who ive met. Open another tab… and I have music playing… all while processing orders…
I get a kick out of it.
Why would somebody use ijango or come back?
Well why do people come back to myspace and login? To check there social page maybe… to see what updates there are or maybe to chat with a friend… ok so we now have repeat visits..
Now them saying they have contracts with google and other companies..
Well to be honest I really didnt know they were claiming that but I guess if they have
an affiliate account where they had to signup as an affiliate or sign a contract with google or the others to get a commission.. Guess you could say you had a contract with them right?
I find it very simple. People use the site, ijango gets a commission, they pay a portion to there members…
I really dont see it as rocket science.
Anyway everybody is entitled to there say…. if Ijango is a scam well then it will show its ugly face, but if its not well then alot of people are ripping into the company and they will all look pretty stupid I guess.
I will agree there needs to be upgrades and tweaks.. but the site is in beta, so they are working on it.
I think that google, yahoo, and bing or any of the other companies that have there logo on ijango would have an immediate lawsuit for copywrite infrindgements just for using there logo’s. Infact I dont think ijango would even be up right now.. These are huge companies that dwarf most. Im sure they probably have a ton of people inquiring about this already.
Has google or any of the other mega sites filed suit yet? I havent heard anything..
Anyway only time will tell..
And Yes, the BBB is a complete joke. I once got a complaint filed against my old
company and I had no idea who the guy was and we had never done business with him.
A few days later I get a letter from the BBB asking if I wanted to pay x’ amount of dollars to join them..
Uh…. Nope, no thanks… I know im honest, I know we had a heck of a company, I didnt need some 3rd party to tell us that. If a customer had a problem we just refunded them and we were on our way. No biggie.. No hassels..
If a customer did inquire to the BBB and wouldn’t use us because we were not a member. Well, again no biggie they can go elsewhere. We had plenty of work, we didn’t need a customer that was going to be a pain in the butt before we even built a working relationship.
Ok Im done… You guys all have a great day, week, month what ever. Im done with this blogg thing. There are way more important things in life than hanging around a blogg bitching and screaming.
Heck maybe its a release for you guys.. The ones with the nice comments “Thanks”
The other ones that are screaming scam – Well thank you also because you just reminded me that there are people in the world still that I want nothing to do with.
Everybody have a great day.. I think im done with this blogg.
Thanks,
Probuilder
August 12th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Ok, one last thing then Im done..lol..
I dont use igoogle, never have..
Everybody is so focused on the money part of the site.
Im actually inviting people over (not selling them on becoming a millionaire overnight).
If they join the business end.. well great.
If not no big deal. I tell them to signup free and check out the ijango portal.
If they use it, well great.. if not.. well no biggie. No sweat off my back.
Thats it, no empty promises, no lies, no Bull, Just a simple invite. Nothing more, nothing less.
Im the son of a “Cop” so I was not raised to try to cheat and steal from people. I know there is scumbags out there. Its a fact of life, everybody tries to get something for nothing.
If for some reason this does become the almighty scam. Well then… the dude goes to jail, obviously its extremely easy to get information on any of these guys.
Thanks,
Probuilder
August 13th, 2009 at 1:23 am
Dear moderater – (David) let’s not pick and choose which blog comments you allow to post…mmm-Kay? I believe I posted 3 last night and only 2 are there…The one about receiving my first check for soing nothing magically disappeared why is that? Obviously you wont allow this one to go through either….but I will post another in a second, a quite intelligent I think, that I hope you let go to the page regardless of the possible discrediting of your blob…I mean blog. hahah – Just kidding….I know you can take a joke so…Thanks, Jennifer Martin
August 13th, 2009 at 1:25 am
Let me make a few things clear here for those of you wanting to research the iJango business opportunity now, in the past, or in the future…
Regarding David Kyle’s debunking video in part2…
#1 – IJANGO NEVER SAID THE WEB PORTAL HAS NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE…THEY CLAIM THE CONCEPT OF GETTING PAID TO USE ONE (MULTI-LEVELING GOOGLE) HAS NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE! Yahoo, iGoogle, Myspace, Twitter, Facebook – None of them pay me to use their free sites – I like them so I use them…however THEY MAKE THE ROYALTIES OFF THE ADVERTISEMENTS NOT ME! This is how they (Myspace, Twitter, iGoogle, MyYahoo) are able to offer the service FREE to all you millions of Twits and Space Cadets out there! Oh yes – You are a valued customer/commodity to them so they are definitely going to increase the firing power of thi8er website to keep you as “traffic” which is paid by advertisers; this is the concept Mr. Sharpe STATED HAS NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE AND IT HASN’T.
#2 – WHY WOULDN’T YOU USE IJANGO VS. iGOOGLE????? GOOGLE DOES NOT PAY YOU TO USE iGOOGLE OR REFER OTHERS TO USE iGOOGLE. BOTH ARE FREE – I CHOOSE THE ONE THAT WILL PAY ME TO USE IT.
#3 – IJANGO IS IN BETA TESTING PHASE ONE (1.0). Of course iGoogle homepage looks better, that’s because iJango release a BETA version on August 1, 2009 – A test version being utilized prior to the Web 2.0 version being launched in or around October 2009. Every new software from major companies including Microsoft, Apple, Google, Yahoo etc…All released their Beta version first – GET A GRIP people! Stay with the times (we entered the 21st century about a decade ago)….OR stop discussing the technology which you know nothing about.
#4 – THE LAUNCH IN LAS VEGAS DEMONSTRATED THE WEB2.0 VERSION FOR THOSE WHO WERE THERE…It is PHENOMENAL WHAT IJANGO IS GOING TO BE ABLE TO DO – AND WILL BLOW THE OTHERS OUT OF THE WATER…If you think iGoogle is cool – you haven’t seen anything yet. This is the hook line and sinker as well faith of every person involved currently in the iJango business. Get in now so the profits are yours prior to major launch. It hasn’t happened but holy crap it will – and you will be thanking who??? CAMERON SHARPE – THE SCAM ARTIST YOU BASH!
#5 – IF YOU READ THE NEWS IN TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY (and if you are on this site oohing and awing over Kyle’s video above… I take it you don’t and neither does he), then you would know that Google recently released its own Web Browser called “GOOGLE CHROME” (which by the way was released in Beta version first) and Google did this to compete with who else? MICROSOFT (INTERNET EXPLORER) and MOZILLA (FIREFOX). Well guess who else is going to release their own Browser? Anyone? Show of hands? – Yes, your very own iJango Corp. – Now – I personally hate Google Chrome; Mozilla Firefox is far better than their new browser, and always better than Microsoft’s Internet Explorer – However – to utilize a browser that does what all the others do…and pays me instead of just themselves to use it and then royalties if I convince my friends family and other internet users to switch and use it (all for free!) – IS F***ING GENIUS!
My hats off to the “scam artist extraordinaire” Mr. Cameron Sharpe for reaching the pint in his life of redemption and enlightenment. I am grateful to him and those who listened to his idea regardless of his past mistakes. They all saw the future as positive and something to go for. All great men with great ideas, all failed miserably at least once – most of them several times over… I too have had experiences in my life that are less than savory, and failed ideas. But I too am an entrepreneur at heart. One who knows the value of human life and material gains as well. It is when we put life before the material things that we are rewarded with more of what we need or want. Are we not here to live, laugh, stumble and fall…get back up and dust off the debris? Cameron did just that (multiple times ) and now enlightened to the greater love of this world (his family and friends vs. cocaine and alcohol), he is rewarded with success in iJango! I will ride to top with him because I know and feel his passion for making things right. Thank YOU all for considering the opposite end of the spectrum.
Sincerely,
Jennifer Martin (Kurschner)
August 13th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
LOL, reading these replies are quite humorous to be honest.
Let’s say you earn $0.05 for every Google ad that is clicked in your downline. That’s a stretch, I don’t think it will be $0.05, it will probably be more like $0.01 or less. I know I run Google Adsense on some high traffic sites and earn pennies per click and I don’t have anyone above me taking a cut. Let’s say you average 200 clicks a day in your downline (that’s quite a lot since most people tend not to click the sponsored ads). I really hope you guys know that you are ONLY getting paid on sponsored ads that are clicked not impressions (everytime an ad shows up). In the scenario I am showing you will earn an average of $300 a month. I doubt many will even reach that however if it’s worth all the meetings and embarrassment promoting a pyramid scheme to your friends and family to earn around $300 a month then knock yourselves out.
Of course this is going to lead to some of you yahoos sitting there all day fraudulently clicking Google ads thinking you are getting rich.
Of course I know the better money comes in when you sucker someone else into paying the $150 and monthly fee. What do you make for that, $20? Again, as someone else mentioned, if these guys knew you were really going to make a ton of money off of usage they wouldn’t be charging the $150 and $20 a month. They would just sign everyone up as a rep and get them all out there clicking away with all of their friends and family members.
August 13th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
In response to Jennifer
1. there is a reason it has not been done. Google does not allow it. they do not allow sites to incentivise clicking (whether taught or not…it is still the same effect). So as far as adsense goes, it does not happen (and please don’t get into…then why does ijango have adsense? this has been covered a number of times before)
now, on the other hand…incenctivized PURCHASING, is ok in some network and in some cases. Commission Junction allows it in general, but Advertisers in their network can disallow it. I’m not sure, for example, if rhapsody is ok with it, but if they are not, then ijango is violating policy. There is a way around this, but I’m not telling
2. Because it’s slow, clunky, badly designed, widgets are not open to importing, ( you cannot import igoogle widgets from their directory, nor can you import UWA widgets from netvibes), the search engines going into tabs is also annoying..(at least to me). But most of all…
I WOULD NEVER EVER EVER GIVE MY PHONE NUMBER AND BE FORCED TO TALK TO A REP IN ORDER TO BECOME A “FREE” CUSTOMER OF ANYTHING THAT IS FREE ELSEWHERE. PERIOD.
3. I do understand the beta thing. What I don’t understand is why they would shove up an open source rippoff from dropthings.com instead of waiting until october to launch their real version. to me it’s piss poor (excuse the language) execution to launch something that is then down for an entire week because they couldn’t anticipate demand.
4. I’ll believe it when I see it…however…see number 2 above.
5. i hate chrome too. Love firefox myself (in fact I made a mint giving firefox away when google had an affiliate program to do so…we’re talking over 6 figures here : )
However, I would bet you a million dollars (if I had it) That the ijango browser will actually be firefox under the hood (only rebranded) How do I know this?
Because I have done the same thing already with it…and mozilla allows this…because it’s open source.
However, if they tell you that it will be the same experience, it will not…they probably will do some sort of advertisng control that will replace ads everywhere you go on the internet. Then ever single major company out there will be suing their buttocks off.
August 13th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
David Kyle you are a joke and waste to much time on nothing. If you like to waste time more power to you.
August 14th, 2009 at 12:24 am
dunno what it means. but i was trying to actually watch the biz presentation, but ijango biz site informs me that the…
“Video has been removed by user”
was their copyright stuff in it?
August 14th, 2009 at 9:04 pm
David,
Why did you not finish reading section 6.1 of iJango’s Representative Terms and Conditions? That tells what the actual requirements are. Of course you knew that. Are you a scam?
August 14th, 2009 at 11:30 pm
Better Business Bureau Warns about Possible Pyramid Scheme
Hundreds of Consumers Reach Out to BBB for Help
Austin, TX – August 13, 2009 – Better Business Bureau serving Central, Coastal and Southwest Texas warns consumers about a local company making big promises. BBB investigations indicate the company may be an illegal pyramid scheme.
Austin-based iJango has received hundreds of inquiries from consumers nationwide over the past two weeks. Because of this increase in traffic, on August 3, 2009, BBB met with iJango’s CEO, Rayner Smith, to clarify the nature of their business practices. Mr. Smith and his staff indicated they offer a business opportunity. However, he indicated that potential clients are paid for the recruitment of registered customers and the recruitment of others to do the same, a clear sign of a pyramid scheme. This information earned the company a BBB rating of F. Click here to view the company’s current BBB Reliability Report™.
http://austin.bbb.org/article/better-business-bureau-warns-about-possible-pyramid-scheme-12008
August 15th, 2009 at 3:31 am
I agree… even if IJango proves not to be a scam, the payouts on adsense are so small, it will take 10’s of thousands of people clicking on adds just to make a few hundred bucks for several distributors.
Brian
August 15th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
Looks like Ijango is closing up shop before even being in business for a full month
http://www.meetup.com/ijango closed!
August 15th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
the video probably got shut down because they probably used the Maserati as part of the video presentation without permission
August 16th, 2009 at 12:15 am
Bill,
Kudos on the “SIMPLE FACTS.” This historical account of http://www.growrich.com is very telling. Well worth a repeat for those who may have missed it earlier, although it appears they will most certainly be able to catch it on the next “plug-n-pay” MLM this boy genius crafts after iJackedU.
In February 2003
http://web.archive.org/web/20030216082957/http://www.growrich.com/
In September 2003
http://web.archive.org/web/20031001183337/www.growrich.com/aff_team.html
In December 2003
http://web.archive.org/web/20031231194802/http://www.growrich.com/
In April 2004
http://web.archive.org/web/20040404025036/http://growrich.com/
In September 2004 (Read the testimonials at the bottom!)
http://web.archive.org/web/20040924085442/http://growrich.com/
In May 2005
http://web.archive.org/web/20050512031458/http://www.growrich.com/
In August 2005 (Read testimonials – Susan Baker is the lady who sued Cameron for owing $150K after he declared bankruptcy.)
http://web.archive.org/web/20050811235236/http://www.growrich.com/
In September 2005 (More great testimonials from current IJango leaders)
http://web.archive.org/web/20050923222518/www.growrich.com/
August 16th, 2009 at 12:39 am
In response to Brian’s comments of “I agree… even if IJango proves not to be a scam, the payouts on adsense are so small, it will take 10’s of thousands of people clicking on adds just to make a few hundred bucks for several distributors.”
I agree with this however to me that is what makes it a scam. The money being made is from the people signing up and paying the upfront fees. These guys are not conveying to the people they are trying to sign up just how little earning potential there is via the click throughs and usage.
The only ones I can see making a killing off of this is whomever is getting the sign up fees and a cut of ALL the clicks and usage in the network. They will be set up quite nicely, that is until it becomes common knowledge that the reps aren’t making much off of this thing. However once that happens they still will walk away smiling I am sure. Again, kudos to them. It’s a brilliant scheme and from what I can tell it is legal (not ethical but legal).
August 16th, 2009 at 10:30 am
SIMPLE FACT is that is is NOT LEGAL, if the product/service income does not represent a substantial amount of the income paid to the representative. The recruiting fees cannot exceed that amount, which is why you will soon see them add training.
Training is yet another way to continue to add money to the pockets of the owners and retain the reps whose wells are running dry all of whom immediately become world renown experts and are paid to train. Still no product/service income.
It’s the same old same old with these clowns. This is the 5th iteration and the same “leadership team” and owners are involved. These “leaders” are spot on about one thing … it is a repeatable business and as Mr. Sharpe says, “it is done continuously and habitually without thinking.” They are selling a dream and just changing the wrapper. It’s a plug-n-play model. They “plug” you for cash and then “play” on your hopes and dreams.
Assertions like, “this could be the next big thing that turns around the economy,” make you want to hand them the healthcare system in this country so they can fix that too! I can see it now … Ultimate Healthcare — join the bleeding edge of our hemmoraging economy and make money everytime someone gets hurt, sick or dies! Become an Executive International Healthcare Professional today and you can be the CEO of your own virtual hospital! Bet they could grant stimulous money for that one.
OMG … I am starting to think like an MLM expert … better abort now!
August 17th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
Few Thoughts:
1) How many of these posts are from the owner of this blog with different names to fuel the fire? (go check)
2) cameron is no longer the “big guy” in ijango they pulled him He is sitting on the sidelines getting paid for his idea.. thats all.. Always has been that way. Just a pretty face promoting a site
3) Does anybody realize that the average google click is $1.63-$4.00 a click – some companies pay upwards of $22 a click. You cant advertise on google and get any real visitors for pennies like your saying. (go check yourself since all you guys like to pull facts)
4) Everybody says “the payscale” they dont talk about it. Its right there in back and white. 25% front line 1% downward..ect. $20/$30/$60/$100 bonus depending on level. Check for yourself 4%-40% on shopping. (that wasnt hard to find).
5) People are still screaming amway and avon are scams and they have been around for 50 years. Again facts – go check for youselves.
6) Im done here!
Regards,
Probuilder
August 17th, 2009 at 11:05 pm
Probuilder
A few responses to your few thoughts (no pun intended).
1) Even if there were multiple aliases for the same people, the sheer number of court cases, judgements and BBB ratings spell out a long history of bad business decsions and overall lack of scruples
2) Cameron has never been a “big guy”. He owns no car, no residence and has filed bankruptcy multiple times. He has no education and has weasled through life at the expense of others. If you call him the “pretty face”, then you need glasses. The guy is a skinny, ugly weazel. Anyone that has slept with him or finds him attractive needs to enter a 24-step rehab program, soak in a 55 gallon tub of bleach and go through serious detox.
3) Your rates on Google clicks are way offbase. If rates were in the range you mention, the internet would implocde – no one would be able to afford to advertise.
4) The commissions are based on a “proprietary algorithm”. That means it’s 007 top-secret. While they give percentages you do not know the basis by which those rates apply – they are based on the 007 algorithm.
5) It’s a SCAM – pure and simple. As Scameron himself once said, the past is a good predictor of the future.
If Scameron gets paid $5 for this ideal, it is too much. Regardless, it will all be gone soon enough in a whiff of cocaine, alcohol and legal bills. The best place Scameron can add value to society is behind bars in a cell block run by the Cripts. Now that would be a reality TV show I would actually take time to watch!
August 17th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
I am not the owner of this blog. I was brought to an Ijango meeting by a friend that is convinced this is going to make him a lot of money. Because I do internet marketing for a living a lot of what I was hearing did not sound right. I pretty knew right away at the meeting that these people were either lying or had no clue what they were talking about.
Once I could actually see the portal I was shocked at just how bad it was. I was curious if anyone else had the same opinion that I had of Ijango after the launch, so I googled “ijango sucks” to see how many others had expressed that on the net. This site was the top one so I decided to share my thoughts here. Now I just keep coming back here for entertainment value. The more I see about these guys and the response of the people that have been roped in the funnier this whole thing gets.
Seeing posts like “A rep from Google’s home office said that, “they predict iJango to become bigger then they ever were, and thats ok because iJango is a part of us.”
If iJango was not 100% on the level do you think Google would want to get involved with us?” is priceless.
So iJango is going to be bigger than Google and Google doesn’t care because iJango is part of Google? Huh? This is the type of garbage that is being spewed at those meetings and people are actually believing it. Of course most of these people are people that don’t run internet businesses and have no clue how internet marketing really works.
August 18th, 2009 at 9:57 am
The common denominator with people that have joined iJango is that they have little education, have not been successful in their lives, and believe the majority of what people will tell them.
It doesn’t matter about the background of the founder – Scameron Barrett Stone Sharpe. All they see is a way to get past their $40k salary and “make it big”.
Anyone that hands over their credit card number and SSN to an online site that doesn’t even publish a phone number is a fool, at best.
Anyone that thinks you can make money by “surfing the net, checking emails, and watching videos” is an imbicle.
Anyone that thinks it would take 75 programmers working tirelessly to build the POS ijango application likely can’t even operate a computer and probably has a Commodore home computer or has upgraded to a Windows 95 O/S.
Anyone that has given money to a company that claims alliances with Google, Yahoo, etc. and yet has not seen any press announcements is a fool.
Anyone that gives money to a company with a BBB rating of “F” is a idiot.
iJangoers of the world – go back to your call center jobs and be sure to ask your customers if they want to “Supersize” their lunch order.
August 19th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
iJango, the Center of the Online Universe, continues to get great press across the country.
See the latest news that further spells out what a scam iJango is. What happened to all the iJango scamster minions that used to be on this board?
http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2009/08/keep_your_wallet_far_from_spazios_westport_tonight_ijango.php
September 8th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
Welcome back David Kyle! I am amazed at what you have accomplished in a few short months. You are intelligent, articulate, well-written and clearly an SEO/SEM expert with the integrity to keep the “craft” above board. Kudos. You are a rock star in my book.
September 14th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
i don’t think they’re doing anything (too) illegal, but i think it is a giant waste of time fueled by greed and ignorance about the “product”. everyone will probably quit caring in a few months. that seems to be what happens.. to be successful in these MLM schemes you need to get on early and get as many people under you as possible, and even then it’s practically a full-time job. a few people will make some money, the rest will break even or quit before they lose too much, if they’re smart. that said, some of these MLM schemes like pre-paid legal are still alive (i think)… you just don’t hear about them much anymore. don’t look at it, maybe it will go away…
“center of the online universe”… lol
September 19th, 2009 at 12:17 am
I worked for Cameron at The Relationship Companies primary office in Dallas Texas at 635 and Coit in a white multi-story office building. I was one of the telemarketers and worked my up to the top seller and assistant marketing manager. I can assure you that everything reported in this report is true. I called people day and night promising them I would personally help them find there soul mate. My market was Pittsburgh I would call them and assure them that if they joined the service they would be matched with hundreds of singles in there area. When the person picked up if they sounded black or various other ethnicity I was to tell them we would email them which was a all out lie. They where then put in a file for “unmatchable people” because”our clients do NOT wanna be bothered by a bunch of lesser people”. If they weren’t rich and white we where not to waste company time bringing them through the door. One of my other duties was to place hundreds of small plastic signs saying “SINGLE? dallaschristiansingles.com”around the city of Dallas illegally. I was informed that if i was stopped by the police to tell them I got the job on craigslist and never met the guy who paid me the money was just deposited through paypal. Another one of my adventures working for Cameron was to drive his wife’s red Porsche Boxster back from Monroe LA where it was sitting at a shop after being worked on upon arriving the shop told me that Cameron still had not paid them after a month. Upon finally getting the car it was packed to the rouff with his wifes designer cloths and accessories not to mention the various over due notices to the both of them from collection agencies including a $1600 due to Petland of all things. It wasn’t until the ride back that I found out the reason it was in Monroe was his wife was driving it back from Charlotte when one of the companies was sued out of business. She had to get the car out of Charlotte because the bank was trying to find it to have it repoed I finally had got the car back to Dallas where Cameron attempted to not pay me. I had to literally hold his car hostage to collect my money. I wish I could say this was the only time this happened but it was neither the first not the last. Why did I do these things? For money I am a recovering heroin addict and was desperately trying to save money to move out of the rundown recovery house I was living in located in the middle of the ghetto. Cameron told me about his drug use and promised he was trying to help other recovering addicts. He would claim he was in AA and quote the 12 steps. He would also come out of his office shakey with a nose bleed, and on more than one occasion I noticed the cut up straws in his desk drawer. Once I gathered enough money to move I left the company I found out days later it went bankrupt. A few months later Cameron had one of his employees contacted me about iJango he emailed me a early draft of the video Cameron now uses to pitch the company. After watching it and knowing the kind of person Cameron is it was more than evident that this was a scam. I am not proud of what I did working for Cameron I thought I was going to be part of some grand fortine 500 company it wasn’t until much later in the end days that I learned that I had helped to rip off hundreds of people. I only wish I could find the people that lost the hard earned cash to Cameron and help them get it back.
October 5th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
Hi Garrett,
While I like to quote 12 step programs, they only apply to lesser human beings than I. Being of superior intellect, such programs do not apply to the likes of me. Drugs and alcohol only sharpen my mind and my body. I can bench press 500 pounds after a few lines of coke. After a few lines of coke, the ladies come running to be near me – I’ve slept with 112 Miss USA, Miss Universe and Mrs. USA pagaent prospects.
I also only do business with those of the highest ethical standards. Jason Breakey and I were able to build one of the best dating service companies in the US in a span of a few short years. It doesn’t matter that we had no members – we built a marketplace for those that were to be lucky enough to be part of something bigger. If there weren’t enough members, then they weren’t worthy and we saved our other members the heartache of meeting someone of lesser quality than they were entitled to.
Forget about the lawsuits, forget that we were found guilty, forget that Jason Breakey is guilty for possession of guns and drugs, forget about all the charges of sexual harassment, forget about the charges for using employees personal credit cards, forget about the charges for not paying employees. I could go on and on . . . .
WE DESERVE THE MONEY!!!! IT DOESN’T MATTER IF PEOPLE DIDN’T GET ANYTHING IN RETURN – WE WERE SIMPLY EXERCISING OUR GOD GIVEN RIGHT TO TAKE MONEY OUT OF THE UNIVERSE FOR USE AS WE PLEASE. ANYONE THAT DOESN’T LIKE IT IS STUPID AND A MINION.
IT DOESN’T MATTER IF IJANGO FLOPS. IT DOESN’T MATTER IF OUR NEXT BUSINESS VENTURE FLOPS. IN THE END GOD WILL CONTINUE TO GIVE ME WHAT I DESERVE.
GOD BLESS
October 8th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
? What, ? Who in the hell would publish a story like that ? Im not proud but let me tell you what I did..lol.. sounds like somebody is trying to set something up with the above story. Sorry guys read between the lines on this stuff… dont believe everything you read!
October 18th, 2009 at 1:14 am
They are moving into 816 Congress Avenue Suite 600 Austin, TX 78701 at this time. I’ve met Rayner and he is a fraudster from the get go. Don’t do business with them. The BBB has given them an F rating!!!!
October 24th, 2009 at 10:30 am
ok now that is the stupidest story change ive seen so far… dave now I know you are altering these blog posts because that is not the story I posted about and that is not the person who posted it..lol..
I can appreciate your seo skills, way cool, ive read your digital point threads..ect.. but c’mon have a little self respect, I dont know cameron or any of those guys over at ijango but at least have a little common sense…
you must have one hell of a beef with those guys over there to falsify your own blogs..
I can bench 500lbs, I do lines of coke…I sleep with miss usa contestants..lol… now thats the funniest thing ive read on your blog yet..lol…
What is your beef anyway, why dont you let all of us know that.. were you and cameron best buddies and he wouldnt give you a piece of tail? LOL..
So now your mad, are you jelous of the guy? Do you wish you were him? I just dont get it..
anyway have a great day.. I just thought I would let everybody know that the post 3 above this was altered by you. Only the admin could have done that…
Boy I will tell you one thing, im glad im not in this mlm crap like all of you guys are, your all like a bunch of used car sales men…. Blowing smoke up everybodies butts.. lieing through your teeth, and at the end of the day…. you guys can live with it? I just dont get it..
November 1st, 2009 at 7:44 pm
It sounds like some of you are upset you have not thought of this first. I have been a member of the Ijango community since august. its been good to me so far. Maybe you should try it, it might work for you too. If not, thats okay, just don’t slander a company until you have solid proof of wrong doing. If your accusations can not hold up in a court of law, you should just keep to yourself.
November 14th, 2009 at 8:59 pm
got kind of quiet around here huh? Bet its driving you crazy…lol…
November 24th, 2009 at 9:58 am
Brian and Dave are both low-income, low-educated people that will do anything to make a buck.
If after reviewing the background of Cameron Sharpe, I don’t know many people that would want anything to do with this company.
A further reason for not doing business with iJango are false claims of alliances.
Glad both of your recuperated your $149 investment from sucking oter people into the iJango scam. Good luck getting $20/month in click commissions.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:14 pm
This is hilarious stuff… scam or real deal? Obviously there’s millions upon millions of people who have never marketed on the internet and ijango is taking advantage of this….
Here’s what’s real. It cost $150 to get into ijango and $20/month….
Nearly $400/yr to tell someone to head to where? my ijango page, lmao… really? you have a portal? a Page? really, well, funny, i head to your portal, i just get a search bar….
This is real funny…. Nobody will be going to your own personal page to do searches and nobody can log into your portal to start clicking away….
More reality: you ijango people really think you will make enough pennies to seriously call this a business….
Farce! Well, if I have my numbers right, August 1st was some sort of launch…. It’s now the end of November….I to was hoodwinked into attending an ijango meeting, of course they told me it was business related to what I am presently doing. I have dealt with affiliate, links, commissions on the internet for years. What’s this? I can make 20%… on what? lmao.. please, stop me from laughing… You are trying to tell me you will be clicking on links and getting paid…. Sure, thats how google, yahoo, msn make their money… omg, these guys are a business and charge for ads, plus other nuances that generates revenue…. ijango is scamming people who are desperately looking for a legitimate way to earn additional income….
Who really makes the money? In order to make money, you must signup up, err, sucker someone else into paying $150 and 20/month. You and a few others get a chunk of that, cause those pennies do take awhile to add up to a meaningful income from clicking on links/ads, or whatever else they are saying you will get paid on. Do the math people. 20,000 uneducated, follow the leader mentality people sign up, each paying $150=$3 Million revenue to the ijango company. The 20,000 x $20 is $400,000 a month for a back office. Dam, I’m happy that when I get paid from a legitimate company, they aren’t charging me a monthly fee to check my statistics and money I earned…ROFLMAO…
NOW! Can a few of you ijango representatives, link us to a video, picture, webpage showing hundreds(yes hundreds) of dollars you have received in commission from people clicking on your non existent PORTAL(clarification, if you have to login to use something, thats not really a portal is it? I believe you can head to google, yahoo, msn.com, myspace, you see ads, you see news, you see sports, you see information…hmmm, ijango.com i see a group of people, roflmao).We know its not thousands.. Here’s the disclaimer… I don’t wanna see the amount you earned from signing up other unsuspecting individuals who have paid $150 and $20 month… Oh, don’t wanna hear about pending money either… lets get to the payout people, verified funds. That usually shuts up all the naysayers… August, September, October, November.. Testing is over… Got Checks! ROFLMAO..Still got friends to talk to about business?
Just to be clear, anybody who receives commission from clicks on the internet, DO NOT HAVE TO PAY for the priviledge. For a person to review, how many new signups, the income earned and promotional material and more, DOES NOT HAVE TO PAY A MONTHLY FEE…. When I receive my commission checks, there IS NOT A FEE TO CUT OR RECEIVE THE CHECK/FUNDS…..
Lastly, as with most mlm companies, the sheer volume to make money down the line dries up. Do your numbers people… 1 x 3 = 3, 3×3=9, 9×3=27, 27×3= 81, 81 x 3= 243, 243×3=729, 729×3=2187, 2187×3=6561, 6561×3 is nearly 20k, 20k x3 = 60,000, 60,000 x 3=130,000….Thats why ijango heads to the international pool to ripoff more unsuspecting people who are looking to actually earn their way out of a bad situation…
Bottom Line! I don’t wish anyone to lose their money. I would hope that ijango does somehow prove me wrong. Unfortunately, if you have ever looked into business, investments, and the way sites, affiliates, people make money on the internet, its not as simple as ijango makes it sound. The old adage, if it sounds to good to be true, it probably is! Since it took me awhile to write this, i took time out to search for any ijango rep showing off more than $250 in pending commission? Hmm, can’t find any… good luck… but please come back when you have given up on the ijango dream and say you did give up and you tried and admit defeat. It’s good for the soul to admit you are wrong, when you are wrong, instead of using excuses like you were on drugs, to young, etc… We all fail, in fact most millionaires fail on average 17, 18 times before they become millionaires.. So no shame in admitting failure, but hopefully you can learn from it….AND NOT RIP PEOPLE OFF IN THE PROCESS… BTW, remember those Excel reps, they were dropped in the end people, the company wasn’t viable, which nobody seems to realize after the telecom industry changed. Thanks for making the folks running ijango multi millionaires. I guess not all of them high earning excel guys kept their money….
November 26th, 2009 at 12:48 am
Gets better and better!
http://www.ultimatechoicetravel.com/UltimateOpportunity.aspx
Click on Transitions, at the bottom of the transitions page. Click on Transitions FAQ
ROFLMAO… more peple getting fuked….
November 26th, 2009 at 12:58 am
On and on and on…. ROFLMAO
http://www.bbb.org/central-texas/bus…in-tx-90066721
http://www.squidoo.com/ijangoscam
December 3rd, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Just babbeling and obviously your a fricken retard… low income.. low educated..lol..
Um… well over 6 figures last year, and college educated..
“Um after reviewing C>S> background I came to the conclusion”
Who in the hell cares what your conclusion is…,
“Um well I had no balls so I didnt want to take a chance… Um… good luck getting your $20 bucks back because thats more than I make in a week”…. Umm babble balbble…lol..
This forum, this subject, and this company are all old news…..
December 8th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
I am a wife of someone that joined ijango. The rep said we will do everything for you, you wont have to do nothing just pay the money hahahahahah! Mr G. Clark was the rep he tried to use our church members in doing it sayin it would help the church. Now that is pretty bad. I didn’t want my husband to do this I didn’t feel good about it. But i supported my husband because he trusted someone that he thought he knew for 8 years. To me a con artist. I have tried to stop my payment of the $19.95 and you can’t get return answer from anyone not even Mr. G Clark from Nashville,Tn. That is suppose to be my husbands friend, and a so called Christian. SHAME ON YOU G. CLARK!!!!!!! Jesus isn’t proud of you.
If you can help me to get my payment stopped without paying $40.00 to stop a payment at the bank please do. God Bless all of you that has got caught up in this hypocritical mess. Thank You and may God Bless
December 10th, 2009 at 2:38 am
Is there any ijango rep who is willing to scan a paycheck that they have made and post it as proof that people are making money?
December 19th, 2009 at 1:45 am
Hi Dave,
You are an avid supporter of iJango and doubtless have a multitude of commissions to show for your work and all the minions that work for you. Do you have any of your monthly commission statements you would like to share?
While it is true that those who risk nothing in life risk everything, iJango is not something I would risk one penny on.
Congratulations on signing up so many people Dave. In addition to posting your commission statements, please share some of the success stories of those in your downline.
iJango is unstoppable – listen to all the buzz and the success stories . . . The world is not big enough for the new 800 ton gorrilla in town – iJango!
With so much success, you must now be an Interstellar Sr. VP of Marketing.
December 21st, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Actually…I just sent in my ijango cancellation form, sent emails to my whole team to get out if you want the truth.. too many promises, not enough delivered, and way too sloppy. It was a good learning lesson..
Thanks
My suggestions to everybody – stay away – dont waste your money or time!
January 4th, 2010 at 2:53 pm
I guess Cameron didn’t give you the nookie nookie you wanted.
Oh well, there is always a second chance with his next much anticipated venture. Word is that Cameron is working on a new MLM that provides business and personal mentoring to up and coming companies.
Perhaps you can use your substantial educational and business credentials to help add value. Entry into this new venture will only cost you $10k plus a back office fee of $5k per month.
Just think of all the possibilities to add value to people and up and coming businesses!
January 10th, 2010 at 12:18 am
You know what the best part of my day is.. Not having to deal with pieces of shit like yourself. Yes, its true… im sure you are ghetto scum.. heck Id bet on it. I bet your some old bald fat POS who has probably never made a dollar online, and you probably bought into some mlm’s before or some online businesses but you were just to fricken stupid and uneducated to even make a penny online so now your mad at the world because of your lazy failures because you probably first off didnt make an effort and secondly im sure you bought into the hype, did nothing, and now you blame the world because you failed and now you call every opportunity out there a scam. Your probably one of those people who spent like $49 bucks and it seems like a million to you because you have no balls to take any risk. If you do, you do nothing, and its everybodies fault, so now you sit on blogs like this and spit all your bullshit to everybody else, and hope you can get a few followers. Its too bad people like you exsist, hopefully your infertile so you cant bread another stupid generation of “Just Babbelers”. 800lb gorilla, back office fee’s., maybe you should take some english reading classes and go take a look at ijangos terms, conditions, join for all I care, because your beef is with cameron.. who cares, maybe you were bed buddies, prision butt partners? Who knows.. One thing I do know is you will sit at your “just over broke” for twenty years, get a pat on the back, a gold watch., and in six months you will croak.. either way, hopefully you already have that gold watch and you’ve been retired 5 months and 29 days.. Unstoppable success machine? What fricken planet are you from…
January 22nd, 2010 at 10:04 am
Top of the day to you Dave,
I am glad you never had to deal with any disreputable people at iJango – they all have backgrounds that doubtless speak volumes for personal and professional success.
Keep up with the story you’ve created in your mind – it’s very amusing.
If I ever get a gold watch, give me your address and I’ll be glad to mail it to you.
Perhaps you can go get an education and learn how to articulate better and find a job making real money. The fact that you bought into iJango speaks volumes about your business sense and the fact that you don’t have a pot to piss in.
I’ll let you get back to figuring out where meal money will some from next month – it won’t be coming from your commissions from iJango. As for me, no waiting for a gold watch or waiting for “the big break”.
Read up on how internet marketing works before you join your “next big opportunity”.