MLM空中楼阁
American people seems very fond of Multi-level Marketing (MLM), all kinds of MLM swam the internet, all of them are mirage, or another phrase -- a castle in the air.
我曾经听过几次传销，在车站码头被人拦住，被邀请到安利培训中心，又唱又跳，听各方演讲。看到互联网上很多人为Agloco.com的“拥有互联网”的许诺激动，下载ViewBar或者视吧我觉得又一个海市蜃楼在空中闪现。
"Let's use VievBar and ask.com
If every AGLOCO Member did 4 to 5 Ask searches a day and they clicked on average just one ad, the revenue generated for the AGLOCO community would be US$6.00 per month per Member. This would be a great start to building revenue for Member distributions.
有几个中文站点专门针对Agloco，比如在http://www.aglocotm.com/中，有人发帖问是否有人拿到支票了？都说没有，有人回帖说“郁闷”。确实，在官方博客中说：Ａｇｌｏｃｏ目前还是亏本经营，我们的网站在获得利润以前不会有分红。付给六月、七月、八月这三个月的上网时间为0，因为到目前为止还没有获利。这个当然，如果AGloco破产了，那么你手下呈几何级数增长的下线团体也只是一个墙上的画饼，不能充饥。
"Is the payment plan posted last month a permanent plan? No – as noted in a comment we made this is a plan we wanted to implement now to show Members that even though AGLOCO is currently losing money the hours they are putting in now would be compensated. Our website states that we will make no distributions until profitable.We could have considered a plan that the June, July, and August hours would be paid zero since no profits were forthcoming. We felt that would be an unfair plan to those Members who were supporting AGLOCO in its startup period. That is the purpose of this initial plan.
Can the payments be sped up? Of course they could – although the idea we were considering was making additional ‘bonus’ payments to the early hours (June, July, August, etc 2007 hours) when and if additional funds became available. "
可能是加入的人太多，很多中国用户都是在等好几个小时才能下载到视吧，有一些人不清楚是否需要点击视吧里面的广告，或者作搜索，其实你可以不管视吧，照样使用你的机器上网，因为计算上网时间确实从那个绿点开始，但是每月每人限制5个小时上网时间，无论如何都绰绰有余，只要你经常登陆。
Agloco is gone
Several weeks after I joined Agloco, I received an email, claiming Agloco has gone bankrupt:
"We would like to update you on the status of AGLOCO's operations. We continue to believe in the AGLOCO concept, but our revenue is currently not sufficient to give Members a meaningful distribution. And though there are increases in membership, the resulting revenue is not enough to support operating costs. As a development team we are unable to continue to use our savings to fund the operations. If any Member would like to pursue continuing the operations of AGLOCO, you may contact us at agloco1@live.com .
We would like to thank every Member for supporting our effort to bring a piece of the Internet directly to the user. We hope that we can find a way to keep the operations going.
AGLOCO Development Team"
What a shame! As you may have noticed that, all those links have been redirected to another website, although you still can see the Agloco logo on the top of the page, but everything has gone, enthusiastic people from all countries in the world, all those naive people who might have never heard of MLM before, joined the network, working hard to take referrals, and celebrated what he/she had achieved, but at last, all those are meaningless. The only thing they achieved was that so simple an update notice!