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  Anonymous on December 19th, 2004 9:43 pm

  Bighitters is a bunch of thieves. They charge you for a website that’s free to them. Then they con you into a guaranteed clicks campaign costing about 10 times what it should and the results suck. You’ll spend a ton of money and your payback will be very little.
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  Jasper Noone on April 15th, 2007 1:54 pm

  I’m trying their adult prepaid cards. Content looks good from what I’ve seen on the complimentary demo. We’ll see…….
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  chad on May 16th, 2007 6:18 pm

  Jasper – how is the prepaid cards doing? I am seriously thinking about signing up with it
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  Chris on March 6th, 2008 8:08 pm

  I have made money with my website and selling the card to ratail location in my area. Big Hitters is a great company and I think they have been in business for over 10yrs or somthing like that. I delt with Mike or Mark over there and he was great!
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  Stef on March 18th, 2008 6:31 am

  Has anyone had a bad experience with the prepaid cards?? Want to do some investigating before I take the plunge.
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  John on December 9th, 2008 7:25 pm

  Simon gronow owner of atlas media services pty ltd cant even pay his workers they owe me money they do the marketing for adultprepaid in uk and australia they are very unethical people and brake most of the telemarketing laws the product must be crap cause of the amount people are trying to sell it for online its just another goldcoast scam from another goldcoast con man the least they could do is pay me what i am owed for working for them they are nothing but throw offs if they treat there staff like this imagine being a customer
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  whistle.blower on January 25th, 2009 3:03 pm

  For more information on Simon Gronow and his gang of unscrupulous mates check this website.
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  Steven on January 29th, 2009 6:58 pm

  Has anyone tried the pre-paid cards yet? I would love to get some feedback on how their doing. I’m about to start myself. but to be honest, I’ve seen some negative stuff about the comany on ripoffreport.com. If anyone has any information regarding the pre-paid cards and how they are doing I would LOVE to hear about it ASAP… please email AthensNYC26@gmail.com… thanks!
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  Steven on January 29th, 2009 7:00 pm

  I would love to know how you are doing with your prepaid cards and if you are making any money and also how reputable is the company… I’m about to jump aboard but would love to talk to someone who has gone down the road already… please email me ASAP so we can chat… thanks!
  Steve AthensNYC26@gmail.com
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  Nikki on April 15th, 2009 8:55 pm

  Hi Atilla or ‘John’

  Considering you are of a mature age I am sure you understand the concept of being employed. The company needs an invoice to pay you upon and cannot do so until this is done.

  This may seem very simple, yet John you still seem extremely confused by the whole thing. I’d hate for you to be blamed or charged with deffermation of character.

  As for everyone else, if you want to know more information why not simply ask the company? Or the many distributors world wide making money. Alternatively, you could sit at home on your computer and insult a product you know nothing about.
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  AllXClub on July 1st, 2009 3:02 am

  it’s awesome when companies make things as turnkey as possible ! I absolutely love that… it means we as distributors may focus on marketing and reap the rewards of producing targeted traffic !
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  tony on December 11th, 2009 2:37 am

  Hi simon and all at Atlas Media Services pty. i was just pondering you post as above
  Quote: “As for everyone else, if you want to know more information why not simply ask the company? Or the many distributors world wide making money. Alternatively, you could sit at home on your computer and insult a product you know nothing about.”

  as one of the “Informed” distributors worldwide i wonder how many other “informed” distributors worldwide would now like to share their experiences?

  pray tell what news have you of the company’s UK operations?
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  DJ on December 13th, 2009 11:25 pm

  Well also being one of those distributors world wide making millions i would like to offer my experiences.!

  BEING TAKEN TO THE CLEANERS. nothing in the way of support or advertising to help sell the cards.

  beware as the old saying gose if i looks too good to be true its not .
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  jroc on March 2nd, 2010 7:28 pm

  Has anyone tryed the phone lines ? Thinking about buy into this just looking for some feed back.
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  alejandro olmos on April 18th, 2010 10:44 pm

  Vivo en gdl y tengo dudas,me esta atendiendo via email Miguel Chavez
  Director de ventas Internacional

  Big Hitters, Inc.solo quiero confirmar que esta persona es empleado de uds para seguir con la negociacion,y poder traer sus tarjetas prepagadas a Mexico
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  David Durr on February 8th, 2012 6:48 am

  I just want to share my absolutely atrocious experience with Big Hitters so that others might avoid making the same huge mistake of simply throwing away hard-earned money on these swindlers.

  I saw an ad on page 48 of the September 2008 edition of Barely Legal magazine. Among a host of enticing claims, the ad reports, “Start making incredible money from home with your very own turnkey adult web site.” At that time, I believed that these advertisers were experts in this field. So I fully expected that, if I followed their advice, I, too, would indeed start earning that “incredible money” from home through running my own turnkey adult Web site.

  Thus, taking the bait, I contacted Big Hitters, Inc. and eventually spoke with VP Mike Templeton. On July 29, 2008, I emailed a signed authorization for Big Hitters to place a total charge of $5415 on my MasterCard account. That charge consisted of $4995.00 for the programming of a turnkey adult Web site, the Silver Package, on my behalf and $420.00 for three months of banner advertising.

  Then, on August 5, 2008, before my Web site had even gone online, Mike called and told me about this supposedly remarkable deal that his company was offering. He could advertise my upcoming Web site in a 1″ x 1″ block ad on backpage.com for six months for a total charge of $1399.00. Although I expressed some apprehension over purchasing this costly additional advertising before my site had even become operational, Mike strongly recommended that I go ahead and take advantage of the offer, claiming that his clients had been reaping “some big numbers” from such advertising.

  Again, since at that time I understood Mike and his crew at Big Hitters to be experts at generating income from turnkey adult Web sites, I felt obligated to go ahead and purchase the additional advertising that Mike recommended. Consequently, I emailed a signed authorization for Big Hitters to place an additional charge of $1399.00 on my MasterCard account for six months of block advertising on backpage.com.
  My turnkey Web site went online on August 13, 2008.

  After spending such costly sums of money to program and advertise the site, I became somewhat concerned when the tracking data had not reported any income-producing transactions on my behalf whatsoever after a few days. Desperate to light a spark under this very costly investment, I purchased two weeks of advertising in a local alternative newspaper on August 20, 2008. At a rate of $348.00 per week, this additional advertising cost me a total of $696.00 and proved to be equally ineffective at bringing any income-producing transactions to my Web site.

  The first month of my site’s existence passed without my earning so much as one cent of income from it. Now fully alarmed, I raised this issue with Big Hitters for the first time in an email that I sent to CEO Leon Segal on September 15, 2008. When Leon finally emailed a response two days later, he seemed to blame the utter failure of my Web site on the sagging economy. However, neither he nor Mike Templeton ever told me before I purchased the Web site and the advertising that the recession, which had been ongoing since late 2007, was having such a devastating effect on the profitability of these turnkey Web sites. Indeed, given that the tracking data showed that my site had received hundreds of visitors during its first month, a reasonable person would expect at least a few of those visitors to have rendered a purchase of goods or services. That would seem to be a minimal expectation from a reportedly “incredible” moneymaking opportunity even in the worst of economic times.

  I happen to know firsthand that consumers have indeed continued to spend billions of dollars in the adult entertainment industry throughout this recession. Consequently, the failure of my site to generate any income-producing transactions whatsoever must indicate that it possesses one or more serious flaws.

  I would send several more emails to Segal over the next few months to try to get him to explain why his “incredible” moneymaking opportunity had failed to generate so much as one cent of income on my behalf. When Segal would finally respond to an inquiry, he would insist that the poor economy was the only reason for this astounding failure. Then, in April 2009, he and everyone else at Big Hitters simply ceased to respond to my messages. They also did not bother to respond to my certified letter that the postal service confirmed was delivered on March 5, 2010.

  I have since filed formal complaints against Big Hitters with the Better Business Bureau of San Diego (Consumer Complaint #7863506), the Federal Trade Commission (Reference Number 25066044), the California Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA General Online Complaint Number CU-10-0510102802), and the Office of the (California) Attorney General. In addition, I have posted scathing reports against Big Hitters on RipoffReport.com (report #578273) and TrustedHomeBusinessReviews.com.
  Unfortunately, these efforts have been to no avail whatsoever.

  When I initially purchased this turnkey Web site, Big Hitters sent me an email that contains a statement to the effect that I would receive $50.00 for each time that someone joins Sex Search Dating through my site. In December 2010, I visited my turnkey Web site as a consumer and joined Sex Search Dating. I also purchased a trial membership and a one-month membership. However, the tracking data for my site failed to recognize these transactions, thus essentially cheating me out of a $50.00 commission that I had actually earned. I sent Leon Segal a letter in January 2011 to inform him of this obvious breach of his agreement. He did not bother to respond. In May 2011, I sent an email to Big Hitters to follow up on this matter. In his usual evasive manner, Segal responded by email as follows:

  David,

  I would be happy to help you, but why? You only turn all communications into Drama and letters to attorney general, etc.

  In 14 years of business, you are the single person to complain about me and my company, out of thousands of clients, so maybe the problem is within yourself.

  I am a real business man. Talk real business, not inducements of threats and games.

  Leon

  Thus, Segal did not even bother to respond to the very legitimate issue that I had put before him for resolution.

  I sent him another email as a final request for his assistance before I would regard this as his refusal to assist me. Not surprisingly, Segal did not bother to respond. As a result of this obvious breach of their agreement, I filed another complaint with the FTC against Big Hitters on August 19, 2011 (Reference Number 32072782).

  This latest incident demonstrates that Big Hitters has intentionally or unintentionally programmed my turnkey Web site so that at least some of the income-producing transactions that have taken place through my Web site have not been picked up by the tracking system. That might explain why I have not earned so much as one cent of income from my very costly investment in Big Hitters’ adult turnkey Web site after what is now approaching four long, astronomically disappointing years.

  Needless to say, the thousands of dollars that I have lost through my initial investment in Big Hitters have been compounded by the additional amount of valuable time and money that I have wasted in trying to upright this completely worthless investment. I certainly could have devoted my precious time and money to an infinite number of other more worthwhile endeavors in these extremely difficult economic times.

  So, save yourself one massive, never-ending headache. Do not invest your hard-earned money with Big Hitters.

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