If you are using 7 Dollar Script and PayPal as your payment processor, please read this!

Recently, there was a stir in the internet marketing world over PayPal shutting down Jonathan Leger’s 7 Dollar Secrets site and several other $7 sites as well for ‘apparently" violating PayPal’s Acceptable Use Policy (AUP).

And since I know that many of you are either promoting them as well or are running your own $7 promotions and sites, I wanted to make sure that you were at least aware of the issues. I want to make sure that you knew what you can do to prevent your PayPal account from being shut down.

It’s NOT the 7 dollar script that PayPal is shutting down. It is the salespage copy that they find it’s against PayPal’s AUP. PayPal has been shutting these accounts down has NOTHING to do with the 100% instant commissions being paid to affiliates immediately (Although, it IS also a violation of their AUP to pay split commissions instantly to different affiliates or to split a payment between you and an affiliate but this is NOT THE CASE).

The “so called reason” why PayPal is shutting down these sites:
Basically, PayPal is saying that when you advertise the fact that you will pay 100% instant commissions within the sales letter, or as a bonus, that this is the equivalent of selling a business opportunity that is not tied to the sale of a product. According to PayPal, that violates their AUP. They have therefore shut down these various accounts and despite protests, are not willing to reopen them.

PayPal mail to Jon Leger
“Your website, 7dollarsecrets, is considered to be Multi-Level Marketing because for $7.00 you are selling the script for the website and instructions. In return, the buyer can then create their own exact copy of your website. No other products are being sold and the only way for a person to succeed is to turn and resell the program to as many people as possible. This is considered Multi-Level Marketing”.

Advice: When you are making a sale, that sale must be tied to some product , whether physical or digital or it is often prohibited by law (In the US at least and in many other countries as well). Did you know that you can’t charge someone a fee to get the right to sell your products and earn a commission? I did not know either as I just found that out. It’s for that reason that PayPal prohibits it as well. PayPal is suggesting that when the price of a product is so nominal, that listing the 100% instant commissions as a bonus is essentially amounting to selling the business opportunity itself.

In most of the 7 dollar templates below the salespage, you will find this:

“P.P.P.S. If you purchase Your Product Name",  you can join our Affiliate program that pays 100% commission! That’s right, 100% Instant Commission! Paid directly to your Paypal Account. Whatever the price is at the time your referral purchases, you’ll get the whole amount deposited to your Paypal account. Remember, after buying you can turn around and resell this ”Your Product Name”(or with a link on your website). You can make that $7 back times 10, 100, or even 1000! You get the FULL $7 directly to your PayPal account for every sale, the instant it’s made. Instructions will be given after you purchase.”

Please remove it and reword it in such a way that PayPal don’t see it as an MLM product(even if it is not). You can word it this way as an example from Sidhale of 7 dollar forum:

“P.P.S. We also have an affiliate program that pays 100% commissions directly to your Paypal account for every one of our reports you sell. And payment is immediate.  No waiting till the end of the month for commission payments. All it takes is a mailing to your list or a link on your website. We take care of the rest! How many times you make your $7 back is totally up to you.”

Other reasons from other PayPal users that got ban:

In some other forum, some have suggested that the reason for PayPal’s decision was tied to sites that were requiring customers to opt-in to a list after their purchase transaction. Although that DOES violate PayPal’s AUP as well, that was NOT the reason why Jon’s sites have been affected.

Advice: You can have an opt-in after a sale if it is optional, but you cannot require someone to opt in after a sale in order to claim their purchase.  That is simply not allowed in PayPal’s AUP. If you are using the 7 dollar templates and using the same copy, please take it down and reword your sales copy before PayPal shuts you down too. Better be safe than sorry.

For more info and tips, please visit:

http://7dollarforum.com//YaBB.pl?num=1180640219/0

Hope that you are not effected by this. Thank the stars that I wasn’t one of them. I’m now rewording all my sales letters that gives out 100% commissions.

Good Luck!

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Good News for PayPal users and shoppers! PayPal has announced that they’re offering a rebate of $15 on purchases of $30 or more. If you buy products between now till March 31st, you will enjoy this benefit.

When I read it, I was overjoyed as I can buy as many products online and get a $15 rebate. But sadly my happiness was short lived after I read their Terms & Conditions. This offer is applicable ONLY to purchases made on a US and Canada websites.. If I had not read it, I would not be able to claim the rebate if I’m buying items outside US and Canada website. And the rebate can only be used once, and here I am  thinking that I will save $15 for EVERY purchase above $30. Thank god I did not start buying  yet. This is quite a "tricky marketing" by PayPal.

Below are "PayPal Rebate" terms & conditions. Please read CAREFULLY before you start purchasing.

Receive a $15.00 USD rebate by registering for this offer on http://paypal.promotionexpert.com/greatshopping/signup/index.html and using PayPal to make a purchase of at least $30.00 USD or $34.50 CAD. To qualify for this offer, purchases must meet the following requirements:

1. Registration. You must first register for this offer on http://paypal.promotionexpert.com/greatshopping/signup/index.html using your PayPal account’s primary email address.
2. Single Purchase. Once registered for this offer, you must use your PayPal account to spend at least $30.00 USD or $34.50 CAD on a single purchase on an eligible website.
3. Eligible Website. You must make a purchase on www.eBay.com, www.eBay.ca or any United States or Canadian website that accepts PayPal. Purchases on www.eBay.com and www.eBay.ca must be made through the eBay checkout flow via the eBay website and must not be made through the PayPal Send Money tab.
4. Promotion Period. Purchases must be made between February 8, 2007 12:01 AM PST and March 31, 2007 11:59 PM PST.
5. Excluded Transactions. The following transactions are excluded from this offer: Send Money transactions, payments to Personal Accounts, eBay payments made to Personal Accounts, donations, PayPal Mobile transactions, payments for services, Virtual Debit Card payments, PayPal ATM/ Debit Card payments, payments made when you are not logged into your PayPal account, and PayPal Plus Credit Card payments not made through your PayPal account.
6. Rebate Payment. The $15.00 USD rebate will be deposited into your PayPal account by May 28, 2007. If you made your purchase in Canadian Dollars you will receive the Canadian Dollar equivalent of $15.00 USD at the day of the rebate payment.
7. Limitations. Limit one registration and one $15.00 USD rebate per PayPal Account. Offer available for a limited time. Offer is limited to PayPal users in the United States and Canada. PayPal account must be in good standing prior to and throughout the offer period to qualify.

I have recently bought "7 dollar secrets" or "$7 Secrets" which includes not only an ebook on how to generate multiple of 7 dollars, it also includes a priceless script for you to implement it on your OWN site and "copy" what he does.

Lately, Jon has been doing some serious coding, writing, tweaking and improving the scripts over the last few days. Finally, that hard work has resulted in the new script update for $7 Secrets.

These new scripts offer a host of improvements, including:

1) PayPal Instant Payment Notification (IPN) Support

Now your customers are emailed download links after purchasing, and a record of purchases is kept on file on your web site. This helps prevent fraud and helps the customer have a record of his or her download.

2) One-Time-Offer support.

Full support for having your own One-Time-Offer is now built into the scripts.  The OTO is optional, and can be disabled, but OTO’s are a great way to really launch your profits, so I suggest you take advantage of it.

3) Fixed the redirect issues.

The redirection issues have been fixed, and I have not received any download complaints since implementing the new scripts.

4) A simple admin back-end.

I’ve added a simple administrator back-end where you can run reports of who’s purchased, and download your purchase data into a CSV (Excel) spreadsheet format.

You can also extend the life of a download link from the admin back-end in case a customer failed to get to his or her download in time.

There are a bunch of other, smaller, improvements, but those are the big ones.  Download the scripts now, and read the PDF installation manual in the ZIP file for instructions on installing and using the scripts.

Another point why I love "7 dollar secrets" script is that you get script updates for free for a lifetime, great support from Jon and has a forum too. All these for $7 dollars! It’s a no brainer!

UPDATES on the 1st March 2007

Jon has released v2.3 of the $7  secrets scripts.  This is certainly one you will want to upgrade to, since it adds a majority security improvement to the system.  Here are the new additions/changes:

-> Added code for parsing PHP in templates.

-> Updated code that decides who gets OTO sale.

-> Major Security update tracks purchases by IP and only allows completed payments to be redirected to the download page.

-> Added ability to only allow OTO customers to get commissions on the OTO.

-> Added ability to disable download emails from automatically being sent.

-> Added support for all PayPal currencies.

-> BUG FIX: Corrected 48 hour extension of download link to add 48 hours to THIS moment.

-> Added script configure util (config.php)
 
If you have already bought the "7 dollar secrets" earlier, you will be notified via email from Jon and will be given a link to download the new and improved scripts for free. For complete details on how to configure the updates, see his post at the forum.

If you are using accent debit card to withdraw funds from PayPal, you might want to read this. I’ve recently discovered that Accent Debit Card is facing some problems and if you are using it now, you might not be able to access your funds.

From what I’ve gathered, this is only temporary…but for how long, I would not know. The old Accent Debit Cards will not be valid now and will be replaced with a new one.

If you still have funds in your card, do not worry, as once they replace it with a new one, you will be able to withdraw your money. Your money is still safe.

Below is a reply letter from Accent Debit Card to a card user, Shah of moneyblogger.net when he mailed them and inquired about it:

Thank you for your email and interest in accurate reporting. In most cases, blog entries are opinions or rumors that get exaggerated with each post – occasionally you read the facts. It is always desirable that interested parties have the correct information.

The Accent card issued by North York Community Credit Union in Canada can not be used any more because a vital link in the operation chain failed, namely CU-Connect, the transaction processor. Without a processor, as the name implies, transactions can not be made. The processor moves data – from an ATM through the networks, to the banks – it verifies balances, approves or denies a transaction and settles the appropriate amount. The money does not pass through the processor – the data does. Money is settled between banks and institutions only.

Unfortunately, the functions and processes of a debit card are not known to most, so assumptions are generally wrong.

Although the loss of the processor had rather surprise and devastating consequences, it is by no means the end of the world. NYCCU is a Canadian institution, properly regulated and although not the quickest to react, follows protocol and procedure to unwind the entire system. Calling NYCCU programs ‘scams’ on various sites merely shows how uninformed and hysterical some people may be. None of the programs had any hand in the events that took place and all were taken quite by surprise. None of the programs ever held anyone’s money – money on card accounts is in trust with NYCCU.

AccentCard took as bad a beating as anyone else; however we are fortunate enough to already be replacing old cards with a new Visa program that was not intended to be introduced till later this year. The new AccentCardVisa can be seen on www.accentcardvisa.com.

Best regards and thank you for our interest,
Victor Felice
AccentCardVisa

More Info…

UPDATE 29th September 2007

This ebook will no longer be needed for Malaysians as PayPal has lifted the Ban and allow Malaysians to withdraw money into their Malaysian Credit and/or Debit Card. Please find out more by CLICKING HERE.

Matt Ng

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I’ve just finish my FREE Step by Step Guide "How to Withdraw PayPal Money Into Malaysia".  It also have some information on "How to open a US Bank Account in Malaysia". I’ve spent 5 days working on it cause I was really busy with event launches. So many things to do, so little time……..

"How to Withdraw PayPal Money into Malaysia" is for those who want to get started making money online in Malaysia who are faced with this problem of having to register and withdraw money from PayPal.
There are some "PayPal Malaysia Solutions" or "How to open a US Bank Account" eBooks all over the internet but you have to buy it to get the answers,right?

But now I’m providing you with the solutions for FREE!! Not only that,  you’ll have the distribution rights and resale rights with 100% profit to you as long as you register my FREE eBook. More infomation will be provided in my FREE eBook. I hope you will like it. You can download it by clicking HERE.

If time permits, I will explain how I wrote the ebook, how I did it all with some tools and such so that you can do it too.

Enjoy Reading and to Your Success.