End of free surfer (for new members)

It seems the cash cow option for smaller investors will be closed, although current members already inside this plan can still enjoy it:

Free Surfer Plan expire

The Free surfer plan will end today. It has served its purpose, giving us the number of viewers we wanted. The amount of new users to the Private plans and Investor plans is sufficient enough to give a good balance between advertising and viewers. Users who already purchased the Free Surfer Plan can continue using this one. However, the site numbers to view will be increased from 40 to 60 pages.

For those who already have 10 accounts on Vaults, this will mean that total time surfing will increase from ~20min to ~30-35 min if you do the trick I shown in my Vaults article (having 10 FireFox browsers opened at same time).

Honestly I am happy with this decision, because, frankly, I don’t know where the money come from to pay this plan. Imagine 1000 members, each one with 10 accounts…this means 10000 free surfer plans, translating into 4000$ given each day for these accounts, and at after ~30 days it will be 120.000$.
Once again, don’t ask me how they make money, but maybe there wasn’t that amount of accounts, mainly after switching from auto to manual surf, that surely lowered the popularity of this plan, and now with 60 pages to surf it can further lower the “active” accounts because people doing the 10 accounts in serial (instead of parallel like we do) probably will give up.

But if the admin decided to close this plan, it probably means there was already a considerable number of accounts with this plan, and this measure was to avoid further increase of this plan above from the level they can sustain.

That’s what I liked in Vaults so far, not only it is a success in my book (considering its online time and its high-ROI plans) but also has a very pro-active administration that take measures to help the longevity of the program.

Despite all of this, I strongly recommend to treat it like a game when playing with the other high-ROI plans, as all risks are still there like high-ROI hyips.

Here is a small Alexa analysis for those willing to invest on other plans:

Taking the 5.000 mark has the “really dangerous level” we can take two approaches:
-more negative, taking the overall growth since early August (red line); with this approach, Vaults should have no problems until early October.
-less negative, taking only the current growth in consideration, because the August explosive growth could also be due to growth of free surfer plans and people coming back from holidays.
With this approach, the dangerous level should only be hit in mid October.

But we also need to keep in mind that this growth was mainly due to free surfer plan, and things can slow down, or even decline with the end of this plan.
On other hand, the administration keep bringing more features and higher “investor plans” that can help a gradual growth on cashflow, like happened with original “surf” plans. But currently these investor plans are already at 1.000$, so I don’t know how much more it can be stretched.
Maybe later the admin will decrease the profits of these investor plans, making original surf plans more attractive again (that force people to start from low amounts).

Time will tell, if you decide to play with high-ROI plans keep looking at Alexa graph trend.