Ok, so now a day has passed and they should have had time to get the kinks out.

Aha, now I can get to the login page! Great!

Well, not so great. When I create a username and password, I get a message that all accounts must be verified. Stand by for an email when my account is set up.

Later….(4 pm)
It’s been about 2 hours and I have not gotten an email. Decided to go to the login page again and see if my account is active and they just didn’t send me an email.

I saw this:

"Scheduled maintenance, please check back in 2 to 3 hours."

Clock’s ticking, fellas.

9:18 pm, still ‘scheduled maintenance’ on the login page, but now they added ‘please check out our training videos while you wait.’

The Contact Us link now works, but it makes me a little nervous that it isn’t a true contact form. It’s a blog comment form. The page says ‘comments are closed.’

I filled it out anyway asking why my credit card was charged 547 when it should have been 499.25. When I hit Submit, I saw this:

Thank you for your comments.
Comments are closed.

So did they get my comments or not?

I’m also a little worried about the 30-day guarantee. In the video, Chris said to ‘just send me an email’ if you want your money back, but didn’t give an email. So on day 29, how exactly do I get in touch to request a refund (if it comes to that)?

It’s clear to me the spent a lot of effort on they hype and the prelaunch sale, but the site really wasn’t ready to go live.

Also there’s still no email saying my account is ready.

10:38 pm It’s up! Yippee! (Still no email though).

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To my husband’s horror, I just bought an internet marketing tool for an enormous amount of money! (I got his reluctant agreement with him first, so it wasn’t a surprise).

I bought the Google Cash Detective.

This is a membership site that lets you spy on other affiliates and easily pick out which products others are successfully promoting. At least it looked easy in the demo video.

So I’m going to carefully post my findings here.

First the price. I gulp to admit this, but here’s what it cost:

Option 1: One-time charge of $997 and then $97 per month.
Option 2: Pay entire year for $1997.

Option 2 came with a lifetime membership to another tool, the Google Cash Automator (option 1 gave you 2 free months) so I decided to go with option 2.

It comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee. I’ll pay just about anything if it comes with a money-back guarantee.

My plan is that if I take what I paid for it ($1997) divided by 12 months in a year, it means that if I can make more than 166.42/month because of this tool, it was worth the price. I swore to my husband I would keep carefuly track of the date and would evaluate this before the 30 days.

This product had a 12:00 noon launch on March 10, 2009. I would supposedly get an email right before the time with a link to the sign-up page.

I’m a professional dog walker (at least until I can make enough money online) and right around that time I would be been dropping off my dogs (I really take outdoor off-leash playgroups. Lots of fun, but doesn’t really pay the bills).

So my plan was as close to noon as possible, I would visit the public library in the town I was in and get online to buy it.

It started to work according to plan. I was sitting at the public computer at 12:17. I never did get an email with the link, but instead I clicked on the link on the Affilorama website because if you were one of the first 50 people to go to the Cash Detective site through their site, you got extra bonuses.

My first roadblock occurred because the Affilorama site flashed the page, then gave me a different error message page that said I was using too old a version of Internet Explorer (not surprising for a public library).

But by hitting Back, I was able to click on the Cash Detective link before the page disappeared.

Second roadblock: the Cash Detective sign-up page was….not there. Turns out there was such a demand that it crashed their servers.

Well, that was actually good for me. I finished dropping off my dogs and got home at 1:17. The Cash Detective servers were back and I ordered it. I was also one of the first 50 people through Affilorama.

Whew!

I already got one red flag. I signed up for option 2—$1997 divided into 4 payments. That should be $499.25/payment. But it charged me $547.00. Once I’m able to get through the Contact Us link, I’ll find out why.

When I was all done ordering I looked at my emails. I had gotten two more emails from Cash Detective. One said that due to server problems and in order to make it fair for everyone (they were going to limit the number of sign-ups), they were delaying the launch until tomorrow.

The second said, “servers are fixed; it is live now.”

I thought this was a little unfair. If I had read the first email, I wouldn’t have checked until tomorrow. Then it is possible it would have sold out today and I would have missed it.

Good thing I didn’t check my email.

So, did I log right in and start using the tool?

Nope. Couldn’t log in. The login button on the thank you page didn’t do anything. And the login link from the email brought me to a page with an error. Tried to click on Contact Us; again brought me to an error page.

The links obviously weren’t tested. Hmm.

I have to say that I ignored the promotions about the first version of Google Cash Detecive (this is release 2) because the other product I had bought from this same person (Google Cash ebook) had so many typos in it, it totally turned me off. It had a lot of good information, but really, you couldn’t take 10 seconds to run spell-check?

Now granted, I had bought it off eBay for $10 instead of paying $40 on his website, so maybe I got an early draft.

But I’ll let the broken links slide for now. My only criteria for this tool is, will I be able to make each month at least the amount I paid for it divided by 12?

For that answer, stay tuned…

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