Studio Traffic and the Death Bells:

posted at xtream forum
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"Like many of you, this internet addict surfs his favorite auto surf programs every morning like a religious duty. On top of my favorites has been StudioTraffic. I was stunned when I logged on and tried to surf. Instead of the auto-surfer greeting me, I received a message that almost stopped my heart:

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"You are not allowed to access this feature. Your surfing is blocked by admin."Oh no! What have I done? Did I break the rules? Did someone use my account to SPAM or abuse the system? Even though I made certain that I've withdrawn my original investments, there's a lot of money at stake here. I quickly sent a helpdesk ticket:

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"Hi, I just logged on to surf and I get this: 'You are not allowed to access this feature. Your surfing is blocked by admin.' Have I broken the rules or something? Brian Hawkins my phone number"

Studio Traffic Response:

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"Hi, Some members from the United States of America, are now blocked from surfing. The reason for this is quite simple: with the recent closure of our second U.S.A. based SP office, we are not able to process the high demand of payout requests in a timely manner. However, we have a solution for this problem. Currently we are implementing a new payment system and need time to get it established and tested. While this is in its early stages, we cannot continue to process this large number of requests. For those of you with withdrawal requests pending from StudioPay you will be emailed with an expected payment date of your outstanding request. We will try to schedule all payments for within a week or two. If you really need to surf now, please respond to this ticket and let us know so we can arrange it. However, please give us a week to a month to make arrangements. Best regards, name removed "

Studio Traffic. Sigh. They are handling their fall from Grace as slick as they can. People have been predicting this from about 6 months ago and no one would listen or take heed or believe the venerable oak of paid to surf was rotten to the core. Being the Behemoth they are, simply not possible to suddenly up and disappear, but what they are doing the next best possible thing. It is sad and death of what was once a great program inevitable.

Is the Death bell tolling? Most definitely.

See also:
http://www.autosurfcentral.com/
http://www.gr8sites4you.com/studiotrafficripoff.html