cash88.com scam

Like usual, I always check the statistic report of my websites to learn where and how the visitors reach my websites. In last month, suddently few of my websites' traffic increase about 20% - 100%

Then I found these traffics are come from one source : cash88.com . It is a pay-per-visit incentive program which encourage members to visit the sponsors' websites and get points. Then the points can be exchange for cash. It also have a MLM structure to ask the member-get-members to earn faster and more.

Normally I don't bother about this kind of website. But I was shocked when I saw few of my websites are listed on the categories "Computer & Internet" including my partner's website http://www.hongkong-webhosting.com/. on 25th September I have asked them to remove the misleading statemet because I am not their advertiser but until now, they still don't reply my email.

The purpose I write this post to everyone is because I suspect it is a SCAM program and I don't think his members can get the money. There are many posts in the forums already mentioned it like here and here . Further more, I also found the cash88.com programming script is Illegal !! ( click here ) How can you trust a company if it even cannot afford to buy a copyright programming scripts to run his website's membership program ?

For those who already sign up to be members, I advise you to remove all your personal information in the cash88.com especially the banking details. (Yes ! cash88.com ask your bank account information !!) and quit the program.

How Much You Charge For Web Design ?

Web design and web hosting are very competitive in Malaysia. You can easily find below RM 90/ year for web hosting, or 5 pages web design for only RM 399.00. The profit margin of web hosting and web design is becoming smaller.

I was asked by a potential client that how much I charge for a 5 pages web design ? I told him that our package price is RM 1,300 for 5 pages, not including web hosting and domain registration. He was shocked and said that my package is one of the most expensive web design package among several comparison he did.

Although I explain to him that the website is tailor made and not made by template, he still complained that the price is too expensive. Eventually he get any provider to do web design for him

Well, it is ok for me. It is no end for price war and eventually all providers will lose, except the consumers. Just like you cannot compare the BMW with Proton Saga, although both are "car" , but the features and quality are greatly different.

We just recently closed a web design deal amount RM 30k above for a well-known company in Malaysia. They never think our price is expensive. In fact, they said our price is moderate among the quotations he got.

So what I am trying to point out here is it depands what customer group you want to target. For an established company like us, it is silly to compete with the low-end web design company for low price package. If the customer want low-end web design, just introduce him to your web design's friend or your "friendly competitors", maybe one day your friend or your "friendly competitors" will introduce customers to you which they cannot handle. who knows ? :)