Comments on: AlertPay CEO Blasts E-Gold

by: DG

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:40:00 +0000

Paypal are not as perfect as some of you try to make out. I live in South Africa and they happily allow us to use them to pay merchants anywhere in the world, but will not allow us as merchants to accept money. AlertPay do allow us to do both. So the comment above implying that any company the requires AlertPay is dodgy is not correct. The irony is that one of Paypals founding members is a South African. So he expects to be trusted but does not extend that trust to others

by: Tim

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 01:38:41 +0000

I am beganing to wonder if Alertpay is not just an email harvester, or at least doing that on the side. I tried to register multiple times with them and can’t even get through the form. No answer to emails.Only found the contact us area once. I’m probly lucky.

by: C4G

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:24:56 +0000

Sounds like somebody commenting here is on the payroll for Alertpay??? I beg to differ with the statement that Paypal needs to clean up their act. Excuse me? Paypal has hundreds of millions of customers worldwide. What does Alertpay have? A few thousand? Alertpay jumped into the game through the Hyip and Autosurf community using them because they have no regulations against ponzi schemes accepting funding through them.

Paypal = Legitimate
Alertpay = Fraud

by: ImGood

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:12:25 +0000

I don’t know why you guys are having problem with AlertPay). I have withdrawn about $300 via checks in mail since last year.

Unlike PayPal’s automatic *robot* answers, AlertPay answers all of my emails. I never had any problem (not even once!) that couldn’t be fixed with AlertPay.

To be honest, I like AlertPay very much than PayPal. PayPal is the worst for me and still is because of stupid chargebacks.

Until PayPal clean up their acts, I will stick with AlertPay.

by: C4G

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:36:49 +0000

Chris,
Sorry to hear about your misfortunate dealings with AlertPay. I’m suprised they haven’t been shut down already. They are primarily used as a payment processor for ponzi and pyramid schemes. I would definitely question any merchant who requires payment via Alertpay because there’s definitely something wrong is a company can’t accept Paypal or payment by credit card or debit card.

by: Chris Dermott

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:12:29 +0000

Until recently I hadn’t heard of AlertPay, until I was forced to join same (on July 17th) in order to transact a payment with an organisation (based in the US) - who used them as a payment intermediary. Having opened an account, gone through the nausea of verification and (via bank transfer) deposited a substantial amount into same - I then found that although I could see the money in the account I couldn’t get access to it??

So I sent AlertPay an E Mail asking why - no response! Another four E Mails later - the last of which threatening legal action, I finally got a return E Mail consisting of a very lame apology and no excuse as to why it took ten days to get to this point. Now bearing in mind that the cash in the account is clearly visible, the agent then asked me to send a copy of my bank statement showing that the money had been sent by my bank - duh!!!!!!

This I’ve done, along with an advisory to AlerPay indicating that the deadline for payment (with the US organisation) is August the 1st. It’s (now) the 30th of July and nothings happened, I.e. no further E Mail responses and the cash is still stuck in the account!!

In all my experience, I’ve never had the misfortune to deal with an organisation run with such ineptitude and incompetence. Their service is utterly abysmal and it’s blatantly obvious that they don’t give a damn about their customers. If this company had been based within the UK, the Financial Services Agency would have shut them down a long time ago - I’d have had more luck dealing with Al Qaeda!

What a way to run a business!

Unfortunately the US organisation I was dealing with didn’t use PayPal - if they had, then my transaction with them would have been concluded on day one - done and dusted!

Do yourself a big favour and steer well clear of this TIN POT company.

by: Zapper

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:42:57 +0000

I too got some money in AP. But now that i`m unable to set my e-gold number, i have probably found the reason behind this.. Sad that i wouldn`t be able to meet my client`s expectations owing to the hold…

by: DragonFyre

Sat, 28 Jul 2007 05:05:57 +0000

Thanks alot, I have Dugg and Stumbled it.

by: Vaas

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:49:12 +0000

I have noticed a lot of foolish froad amonst bulletin boards where poeple are requesting ecurrency exchanges. eGold in particular. I see that much laundering is going through Paypal, presume this because of the threads i have read about offers. Nonetheless, If not eGold, there will be another channel. Thats the real point. You cannot stop the money laundering. better luck trying to stop the means of income at its original point, that way they don’t have any money to launder.

by: C4G

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 05:24:58 +0000

You bring up a good point that I was unwilling to touch in my initial blog post. Alertpay’s policy of freezing accounts. Similar to Paypal, I’ve heard numerous horror stories about people who have had their accounts frozen unjustly and had no rapport from Alertpay regarding the freezing of funds..

I can’t comment on Alertpay users outside the US or Canada but if you are a US citizen getting your money back is as simple as filing a suit in your local small claims court. If Alertpay is DBA (doing business as) an online entity in your jurisdiction, Alertpay is solely responsible for sending a representative to the hearing or else your money will be awarded to you by the judge.

I know, I sued Paypal and won not only my frozen funds back but court costs and damages. Watch for my next post about Paypal.

and….

Power to the People. It’s time we all stood up for what is right and not what we’re told is right.