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Epidemic.com

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Overall Rating:Store Rating: 1.0
 

Epidemically annoying.

by ltrain, May 10, 2000 Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Pros: A good idea.
Cons: How do I count them all? Let me start with the software doesn't work right.
Have you guys taken a look at this yet? This company offers to pay you to send your email. The catch? You download a program that hooks ads to your outgoing email. It claims to work with pop3 mail or web-based such as hotmail.

I thought to...
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Overall Rating:Store Rating: 1.0
 

not spreading like wild fire

by babsrocks, Apr 14, 2000 Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Pros: you might make money
Cons: hard, tacky
All right, I love free stuff and free money, but this is not the way to get it.
First you must bug your friends and family with ads in your e-mails then you need to rely on them to visit the web sites to get your money. And in some cases they must...
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Overall Rating:Store Rating: 2.0
 

Not worth it

by bjsmom, Apr 10, 2000 Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Pros: The idea is there
Cons: Annoying
I thought this was a great idea originally, but I tried it & only got complaints from email recipients.

Epidemic is a program where you (supposedly) get paid by having advertisements on all of your emails that you write. You only get...
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Overall Rating:Store Rating: 2.0
 

Your friends vs. $...

by hepdood, Apr 8, 2000 Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Pros: Looks like legitimate earning potential, choose which ads to place, and when.
Cons: Makes enemies of friends, shady advertising, does not work with AOL
Epidemic.com is a new site with an interesting concept. It allows you to add graphical or text based AdBar-type links to your outgoing emails. When the mail is viewed by the recipient, so is the ad. Then, if your friend clicks on the ad and is sent to...
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Overall Rating:Store Rating: 1.0
 

Epi-delete-it!

by crazypupe, Apr 3, 2000 Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Pros: Good idea.
Cons: Downloaded program doesn't even work!
I joined Epidemic.com and downloaded their little add-ads-to-e-mail program! What a joke!

I have had this thing running for almost a week now and it hasn't attached a single ad! I checked everything and it seems to be ok. But it isn't doing...
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Overall Rating:Store Rating: 1.0
 

Good way to lose friends

by pcomsec, Mar 23, 2000 Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Pros: nothing
Cons: Sounds suspiciously like spam
Another pyramid-scheme type of website that gets you money by you getting your friends to join. Or should I say former friends after you’ve emailed them umpteen programs to join. The colors and graphics are good - they should be. That seems to be the...
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Overall Rating:Store Rating: 2.0
 

good theory..bad practice

by gulag49, Mar 7, 2000 Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Pros: promising future
Cons: cheesy practice
I heard about epidemic.com through a superbowl commercial 2 months ago. At first glance of their site, I saw some promising futures; so I signed without hesistance. But I knew I made a wrong move as soon as I downloaded their program which put ads on...
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Overall Rating:Store Rating: 1.0
 

Stay Healthy, Avoid this Epidemic!

by caconti, Mar 3, 2000 Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Pros: None
Cons: A quick way to lose a lot of friends...
The concept behind the Epidemic program is extremely simple. The program links itself to your e-mails, placing a small banner advertisement at the bottom of every message you send. You become your own profit machine, choosing when to send the ads and...
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Overall Rating:Store Rating: 3.0
 

Couldn't turn it off!

by Becky70, Feb 21, 2000 Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Pros: Great Concept
Cons: Couldn't disable the ads
I signed up with Epidemic over two weeks ago. It seems like a very easy way to make a little cash with little to no effort at all. This program sends adds in your emails without adding attachments to them. Great concept, but the program does have a...
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Overall Rating:Store Rating: 5.0
 

"Viral" Marketing is here to stay!

by editor3, Feb 16, 2000 Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Pros: Unobtrusive, easy to use, 100% user control
Cons: Web newbies who leave quoted originals on some email clients send you back a bunch of html code--big mess. . . but who cares?
With this new age, advertisers are simply finding more effective ways of getting into the "cocoon" that people build themselves into. It works!

Unobtrusive, easy to use, 100% user control, and a tiny "e" in my system tray...
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Overall Rating:Store Rating: 2.0
 

I Tried The Program

by svnowak1, Feb 8, 2000 Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Pros: Easy to use
Cons: It kept sending ads when i choose not too.
Epidemic

It is a program that you can use with your e-mail that lets you send adds in your email.

You get earnings credited about 45 days after a confirmation. The earnings are about 5-10% commission on what anyone buys with the...
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Overall Rating:Store Rating: 2.0
 

Feels Like the Flu

by movielover68, Feb 5, 2000 Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Pros: Good Earning Potential
Cons: Very Hard to Make Money with
The payoff for this program could be great but, it just doesn't work. In order to make any money from this you have to send e-mails to people with an advertisement for something to buy in the e-mail. The person receiving the e-mail has to purchase...
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Overall Rating:Store Rating: 1.0
 

Get Paid To Send Emails- The Payoff Could Be Huge, but....

by hwz1, Feb 2, 2000 Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Pros: Nice ads, not bothersome
Cons: Not in the line of site, no one ever clicks on them, absolutely NO ONE buys anything from the ads
Epidemic.com has a neat new idea on how to pay people for doing s things on the internet. Actually, the idea is pretty simple and I am surprised it has not been thought of before. The idea- anytime you send an email an advertisement is included along...
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Overall Rating:Store Rating: 3.0
 

Did you see the Superbowl ad?

by prattguy, Jan 30, 2000 Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Pros: It IS free money
Cons: Annoying your friends, those w/o html e-mail
If you saw it on the superbowl, as I did, you're probably thinking that this is big time, if they can afford their two-million dollar slot for advertising.

However, I wouldn't recommend this site for you. First off, you'll annoy your friends....
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Overall Rating:Store Rating: 1.0
 

What Good Good Possible come out of a site called Epidermic.com

by fortran, Jan 24, 2000 Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Pros: TOTALLY NONE
Cons: get a real job u probably would make more
There are many get paid to surf companies out there and some are really good and very easy to use Epidermic.com is not one of them. In Epidermic.com you send out solictated emails to your "Friends" basically spam your own friends and if they...
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Overall Rating:Store Rating: 5.0
 

A Great Way To Make A Few Extra Bucks!

by amy_brogan, Jan 23, 2000 Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Pros: everything
Cons: none
I first heard about this program in a referral ad through one of my groups. As I'm sure that you have or will hear about it. I read all the information on it and decided to join and install it in my email. I love this program because that's basically all...
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Overall Rating:Store Rating: 1.0
 

You'll be as popular as Typhoid Mary!

by Chuck_Hansen, Jan 19, 2000 Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Pros: Too poor an idea to survive (I hope.)
Cons: Become a spammer to those near and dear.
Without a doubt, there is a lot of money to be made in the areas of direct marketing and targeted advertising. Every web freebie program out there is making money using one or both of these methods. Here's a site with a difference. Instead of them...
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