After the recent outburst of rage over GoogleMoneyTree which was ultimately written up by the National Consumers League I noticed something about a new offer very similar to Google Money Tree being run through HydraNetwork.

I’m no rocket scientist – I don’t claim to even come close to understanding E = MC Squared, but I am astute enough to know that the following is quite bizarre…

The offer claims that it offers easy ways to profit and us Google to make money using their system for generating cash from Google. In fact there are implications that you could become a millionaire if you institute their system.

Hey HydraNetwork and any other network running this “unnameable offer” – doesn’t the following alarm you?

You According to the Terms and Conditions of one of your offers I’m not allowed to give my readers my opinion of the offer or disclose the actual charges of the offer (note, I’m sure there are OTHER networks running this offer, too).

Well, it’s because I’ve decided to play their game called “Terms and Conditions Gone Wild!”

Here are the rules of the game and how it’s played:

A company who doesn’t want to get reviewed puts in their Terms and Conditions that:

• “Referencing their site or linking to it without prior authorization is prohibited.
• You can’t reference the URL (website address) for any reason without express permission.
• You agree to pay $100,000 if you violate this provision this provision.”

OK. So while preventing someone from “referencing a website” would seem to be unenforceable legally, let’s go ahead and play their game.

According to the Terms and Conditions of the offer I  am not allowed to tell you which product or service I don’t recommend that I’m talking about, so instead I’ve put together a list of “hints”…

Here are your hints to help you GUESS which offer I do NOT recommend:

• The opportunity is NOT on our Top 10 Recommended Home Businesses list.
• The offer DOES include a “Trial” period.
• There is an initial $1.95 charge for shipping and handling.
• After the 7 day trial period is up, the monthly charges are $39.95 per month.
  
• The disclosure of the monthly charges are at the bottom of page 2.
  
• The offer involves a “free kit”
• One of the trademarks the company claims to have includes the term “Google” in it which seems like it wouldn’t be legally possible. That would be like me naming a business system “Microsoft Money System” and then claiming that I have a trademark on it!
  
• Currently, the address of the company is in Clearwater, Florida.
• The site has red links against a red background to the following:
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Purchase Agreement
• You MIGHT see lynxtrack as part of a URL (link) that redirects to the actual website.
• The site CLAIMS to have been seen and trusted on CNN and MSN (of course that could apply to many, many sites) and is USING the CNN and MSN logos on their site.
• The product claims to be a money system.
• The customer service center accessible via a toll-free 800 number is currently open Monday through Saturday 9 AM to 9 PM Eastern Standard Time (EST)
• The conditions and process for getting a refund appear in the Purchase Agreement
• You must return the UNUSED product within a certain period of time (at the time of this writing it was 30 days) to get a return and you can refund the product if you’re not delighted for any reason (Ummm. If you can’t USE the product, how can you decide if you’re “delighted” or not?)
  

Here are a few more clues to which product being promoted through the Hydra Affiliate Network (and probably other affiliate networks) I do NOT recommend.

Again…you might see “lynxtrack” as part of the url (link) that redirects to the actual website of the offer. Now, there are many great offers and products that use lynxtrack as part of their url since lynxtrack is is part of an thousands of HydraNetwork affiliate ids that redirect to various products and services.

Sorry I can’t be more specific, but according to the rules of the game of this offer that HydraNetwork is running I’m not allowed to, so you better just be careful of any link you see that has “LynxTrack” in it.

Let me know if you need more clues OK?

According to the Terms and Conditions of the offer I can only give you vague details that COULD apply to many offers, but there might be a remote chance that you’ll be able to figure out which of the thousands of offers using a HydraNetwork affiliate link that contains the characters lynxtrack I do NOT recommend.

Since the rules of this crazy TERMS & CONDITIONS GAME state that I can’t post which product this is I DO NOT RECOMMEND I’ll start posting which product it is NOT