ChaCha Pay Lies and Scams: Pay Me Now Fees Scam
Table of Contents:
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I. Introduction
II. Press Releases and Articles
III. New ChaCha Front Page “Enhancements” Scam
IV. Pay Me Now Fees Scam
V. Working for Free and Deactivations
VI. ChaCha Archives
This is one of the biggest ChaCha scams there is. This little scam charges each live guide a $2 fee EVERY time they want to have their money transferred to their online bank account. Now I know what you are going to say. “Companies do this all the time.” Sure some do, but not many. Most times something that has no human interaction necessary to make a transaction is free. The only time someone PAYS to GET PAID in most circumstances is when they actually want a check sent to them directly.
To get your money transferred and paying $2 is enough to anger most people, but the bank that they have to transfer the money to? First Internet Bank of Indiana. Why is that important? Well for one thing the man who is responsible for bringing you the live guide, social search engine, known as ChaCha, Scott Jones is also on the board of the First Internet Bank of Indiana. Has anyone ever heard of conflict of interest? I hope so because this one is slapping you in the face right about now.
But wait. There’s more. This is simply the best part and one of the biggest lies of the whole thing. This makes the scam brilliant. Who gets that $2?
This is a quote from Justin Keller on the WAHM.com forums under the name of ChaCha Insider. Justin is basically a ChaCha public relations/guide care employee of ChaCha and before ChaCha actually made an internal forum he used to post regularly on the board at WAHM. Thank you to the good people at Bored Reader for preserving this quote for posterity before it was purged:
It only costs $2 to transfer the money from your
page on the ChaCha underground to the card.That $2 isn’t for our profit, that’s just a
transaction fee, like using the ATM.
From the Live Guide Agreement:
ChaCha anticipates that the payment processing fee will be $2.00 (half of which shall be paid to the financial institution and the other half shall be paid to ChaCha), and this amount is subject to change at any time, in ChaCha’s sole discretion.
As you can see a bit of misinformation seems to make everything alright as usual by ChaCha and its employees. If you were to contact the First Bank of Indiana they would tell you flat out that they do NOT charge ChaCha to make this transaction. So the brilliant people at ChaCha have found just another way to purge their live guides out of some of their hard earned money.
Why it is so lethal to the live guide’s pay is that most of the people doing ChaCha really need this money. ChaCha was advertised to work at home mothers and college students for the most part. Mothers use this money to pay some bills and take the money out often because they need it. Maybe as much as every few days. It isn’t uncommon to see that many of these guides take their money out every $20 or so because of the fear that if they get fired they won’t get any of it back. You see when a guide gets deactivated it is standard that the money they have in that account before transferring it to the bank will never be paid to them. This is a completely different story altogether and I don’t have time for it here, but I promise I will write more about it in the coming weeks.
Is this illegal? Certainly not. Is it another slap in the face for guides? Yes it is. Just another in a long line of ChaCha scams that is designed to make the guides less money and add to the profits of Chacha. Do you believe that ChaCha wants to take care of those that are the face of the company? What are your thoughts on this fee?
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Have you been kicked out of Cha Cha yet for not following their policy of only saying nice things about Cha Cha?
lol…nope.
I have asked 4 times to be deactivated to no success. They don’t care what kind of publicity they get so I guess my network is paying my fee for getting pranksters to use their site. Pranksters make them money still and help them lie about their traffic to advertisers. Not deactivating people also helps with their inflated guide numbers to sell to advertisers. Everything about this place is shady as hell. They are a terrible company and are liars.
Hope these guys don’t know where you live. Actually, that would make for an interesting post regarding private information that you have to give these companies when you sign up.
Any worries on that mate?
PS-I see you have a Squidoo lens under the survey ad. Is that a link to someone you know, or a paid link…just curious.