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#1 |
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Join Date: Aug 2001
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E-gold
Anyone have an opinion on this? Trustworthy? Scam? Seems like it would be the next logical step if V/MC gets more aggressive against porn... http://www.e-gold.com
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#2 |
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its really no different than any other token system.. call it gold, call it "credits", call it "flooz"...
it definitely has value though.
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Join Date: Feb 2002
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I've been following e-gold from early days (account number 100098 if you want to drop me a gram) and these guys are very serious and very reliable. It's not just a token system -- if you have e-gold in your account, there's a matching amount of REAL gold in a bonded vault somewhere guaranteeing that your online gram really is worth a gram of gold.
The egold people have a sort of love-hate relationship with the alternative economy -- they were big on user privacy, even anonymity, until they started getting burned by folks who were using e-gold to run complex online Ponzi schemes. Then for awhile they got very user-unfriendly, the same way PayPal did, freezing "suspicious" accounts and refusing to discuss the rules or reasons for doing so. I believe they have much of that sort of problem worked out now, but it's still a bit complicated and expensive to get money in and out of the system. If there's a third party adult website biller that accepts it, it would be a decent solution for this business -- but it would suck as a a sole payment method. The folks who use egold tend to be privacy fanatics, but it's hard enough to use that there aren't so many such folks. |
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bitchslapping zebras!!!!!
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Aren't they in the middle of either and FTC or a state attorney general investigation at the moment?
It sounds like a good idea, but I'd wait til they get a clean bill of health to give them a dime... |
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#5 |
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i've used e-gold before, no problems
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Some folks were telling them way back in 1996 that they ought to operate 100% offshore -- but it took the Ponzi people to show them why. ![]() |
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