Entries from CompareRewards.com tagged with 'Defunct Programs'
BoomerTowne.com: Case Closed
Eighteen months after the owner of defunct rewards program BoomerTowne sued the creator of their website, ad agency Laughlin/Constable, Inc., the case is now officially closed. Concierge Web, LLC of Brookfield, Wisconsin, filed suit in Milwaukee County Circuit Court on...
Jellyfish.com to Close
Update, 12:04am, 2/16: The last night of live chat was lively, with a rare appearance by Jellyfish co-founder Brian Wiegand, as well as several other employees (Heidi and Keith). It appears that the honor of Last Commenter in JF Chat...
Marriage Loyalty Program uTango Closes Down
A couple of years ago, I heard about a rewards program called uTango which was targeting newly married couples. The basic concept was, married couples sign up, shop through the site, and their earnings go toward a savings plan they...
Updated: BoomerTowne.com Sues Ad Agency, Says Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel
11/11: More related links: "Could have saved founder millions -- had they listened," "More Boomertowne.com follies," and "Digital agency gets sued for no reason whatsoever" 11/10: A source forwarded me a copy of the lawsuit and I've uploaded it for...
MyTroops Shutting Down
I got an email tonight from the MyTroops rewards-for-troops shopping site saying that they would be shutting down on July 6. The owner, an Army reservist, is being deployed stateside and isn't able to continue on with the site. Participating...
2007 Year in Review
It's been a year (and two weeks!) in the making, but here's my annual review of the big events in the rewards program biz from last year! It was a long and eventful year, and not a terribly good one...
Milesource Closing After Nearly 8 Years in Business
When I began putting together my annual shopping rebates comparison this year, I made the decision to eliminate Milesource from the chart. It had been ranked last or second-to-last in my comparisons for 2004, 2005, and 2006. Its Alexa traffic...
SearchChips Sold; Down Until 2008
This actually happened in early June, but it wasn't a site I frequented, so... better late than never. SearchChips, a site that gave members sweepstakes entries and instant-win prizes for performing searches, had been up since 2005. They say the...
BountyZoo Sending Members to Jellyfish
Visitors to BountyZoo.com this weekend were in for a surprise -- the "page not found" error was gone and instead, members were immediately forwarded to Jellyfish.com...without any kind of explanation, "we're sorry for bailing on you," "screw you, we're keeping...
SixQuestions Still Down; Owner Accused of Spamming
Like many of you, I wasn't too shocked that the SixQuestions.com rewards program disappeared some time around early March -- they hadn't been paying out members' earnings, and for a year or more the site just seemed to be on...
BountyZoo Down Amidst Flurry of Ripoff Complaints
In addition to monitoring the comments posted on this website, I also try to monitor the buzz on rewards programs on message forums to see which ones are getting high marks and which are going down the crapper. I've been...
PointPool Down...Permanently?
The PointPool rewards program, which has been around since at least 2002 (when I originally reviewed it), is not up and apparently hasn't been for a while. I have an email in to the owner and will pass along any...
Freestyle Rewards Closes; CreationsRewards Gets Their Membership
In a not-so-surprising move yesterday, Freestyle Rewards (the rewards program owned/operated by Q Interactive, who also owns CoolSavings) announced they were closing down effective immediately. I had reported back in October (scan down to Lowest Shopping Rebates, under FreestyleRewards) that...
Echopinion Shuts Down
I received an email from the founder of the Echopinion.com word of mouth marketing site today saying that the program is closing its doors today. The program was "extremely successful" but had to be closed because of "forces beyond our...
SixQuestions Still Down; Hacked
An update to my March 23 post about SixQuestions.com being down: When I checked the site on April 11th, the site error previously mentioned had been replaced by a note saying that, "We are currently upgrading our system. Please try...
Two Websites Are Down, Possibly Permanently
WinAtlanta.com and SixQuestions.com have both been down for several weeks. WinAtlanta appears to be an intentional site closure -- the site's domain name expired on March 2. Now this DID happen last year also, but by the 10th of March...
2006 Year in Review
Wow, 2006 was a busy one in the rewards program biz. Not a lot of new programs last year, but we saw a lot of old ones fail... and a couple of big ones change ownership. How well do you...
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