AGLOCO Simplified…
Posted by Stephen on
November 23, 2006
So earlier today, I told everyone that AGLOCO was paying you to surf. But I started getting questions about it. Let me break it down a bit more.
How Does It Work?
AGLOCO pays you to surf, up to 5 hrs a day. They do this by asking you to install a toolbar, much like AllAdvantage did, and not much different than Google Toolbar or Alexa Toolbar.
The toolbar can be minimized, but of course, you won’t get paid when it’s down. Once up, it shows you an indicator of how many credits you’re getting etc.
Is This Toolbar SpyWare?
Yeah, probably. Anything that tracks your movements like that likely is. However, there are apparently “DIFFERENT CLASSES”. I’m not going to jerk you around and tell you it isn’t on a technicality. What I used to do with AllAdvantage was I installed it on a seperate account on my PC. When I was up to my surfing limit, I would just log in to my other account, and no more Spyware. It’s even easier on XP because you can keep both sessions live and switch users. When you get to your 5 hrs, you can shut’er down.
How Much Do I Get Paid?
It depends. Like AllAdvantage, AGLOCO is referral based. I know you’re thinking MLM, and you’re right. However, here’s hoping AGLOCO stays true to their community philosophy and bites slimeballs in the ass before they get started. You can have up to 5 levels so you can go wide, but you can’t go deep. The picture below shows your referrals below you. So including you at the top, you have 5 levels.
Also, AGLOCO does a revenue sharing platform that is based on shares and cash. Any extra cash, after expenses get distributed to the members in dividends. AGLOCO plans to go public. If that happens, your shares that you earned surfing WILL BE WORTH MONEY. However, as far as I can see, even if they don’t, you will still get a bit of cash while you surf. At least this way, unlike AllAdvantage that just paid out everything, the company will be sustainable, and at some point, if this surfing hours investment pays off, some of us will have some cashable shares.
How Does AGLOCO make money?
AGLOCO makes money by selling advertising on the toolbar based on the surfing behaviour it collects from you. Because this is excellent market research, totally targeted, advertisers find this very valuable, and they will pay dearly for your direct surfing habits. So yes, they spy on you, but you get paid for it in cash and shares.
Where is this company based?
Well, according to their terms of use, it looks like HONG KONG…
14. Applicable Law.
You agree that these Terms of Use and any dispute arising out of your use of this website or our products or services shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Hong Kong, S.A.R. P.R.C., without regard to its conflict of law provisions. By registering or using this website and service you consent and submit to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of Hong Kong, S.A.R. P.R.C.
Wow, that’s a new one! Apparently, the former British Colony will also be doing their IPO in the UK. However, they have offices in Stanford, CA. The two other offices are in Hong Kong and London.
Can you Cheat?
Sure! But if you do, and they go public with the shares you earned, expect something bad to happen to all of those shares. Keep your nose clean, and you should be OK. Things that people used to do in the past was use automatic surfing bots to rack up their hours on the old AllAdvantage, but now that there’s new technology available, it definitely won’t be easy to defraud the company. But would you want to? I mean, if they IPO at 20 bucks a share, and you accumulated 1000 shares, do you really want them to investigate you and cut you off? We’re talking 5 frickin’ hours a month people!
How Do I Get Started?
Getting started is easy. Just sign up and you’ll be ready to go. Yes, my referral ID is in there. I’m not stupid 
The toolbar hasn’t been released for Canada yet, as far as I can see. However, because the program doesn’t pay if you have a bunch of inactive members, I would have to think that if you’re not using the bar too, you don’t get credit either.
So far, it sounds like a sustainable model. It’s more like a long term investment than a short term get money every month thing like AllAdvantage was. Good luck! Let me know it works out for you.
Another version of this blog post has been posted over at Futurelooks with some refinements.
That’s some great info Stephen! I have been wondering about this program and you broke it down very nicely!
It looks like they are waffling again on their March viewbar launch date. My confidence is starting to wane. It’s like getting promised something by someone that never materializes. Eventually, you just stop caring. They may have a viewbar someday and people may start making money, but at this rate, it might not happen for quite some time.
Yeah, I’ve started to lose interest myself and it gets to a point where people will not even be interested once they do release the Viewbar. Maybe I would be more interested if I had thousands of referrals like some people but my single digit referrals isn’t all that encouraging.
It’s definiftly peaked my interest a little, but I can’t see signing any of my friends and family up…
The friends and family I sent a link to all expressed doubt/concern without being able to see the ViewBar. Somewhere along the line I picked up 4 referrals but they weren’t from family or friends.