Yuwie, Social or Pyramid Network

Yuwie, a more sophisticated Yaari? According to Yuwie, they are an online social networking service that allows their members to set up personal profiles for the purpose of linking to friends and sharing information, videos, blogs, and pictures, which it does, as it states, with a twist. Yuwie actually pays you for enticing new members into the fold.

Inside Yuwie

The home page is brilliant in its layout and Yuwie also displays a seemingly continuous flow of new member images and names for incentive. How can one dismiss all the smiling new member images enticing you to enter into their world of social enterprise where everyone is welcome? However, take a look at the ads intermingled with those images. Like any site, marketing is a big business, we all want a piece of the action, and I am no different but I have learned to read the fine print before signing.

Videos

They say one can never judge a book by its cover and so to be fair I decided to investigate the links on Yuwie starting with the Videos link with its vast array of categories. I found the smattering of GET RICH QUICK additives did nothing to distract me as I enjoyed the many video pieces I viewed, although I was disappointed with the slow response time on many.

Shopping

Like to shop, Yuwie has it all, and you get a percentage of the profits they make from your purchases at Yuwie’s, Big Crumbs. As Yuwie states, “When you purchase items from any of these merchants, Yuwie will earn a sales commission. This commission will get pooled with the rest of Yuwie’s revenue and will get paid back to the users each month.” My advice, compare the actual product in-store first before making any commitments. Someone has to pay for those sales commissions and it is not Yuwie.

Clubs

Everything from Automotive, Entertainment and Food, Drink and Wine to Places and Travel, Yuwie has a vast array of options. One that in fact caught my interest was Literature and Arts. Once more, even there I found something for everyone with some individuals explaining the process of how they achieved the effects in the visual works as they pay-it-forward.

Layouts

The vast array of options for your own personal Yuwie’s page layout is seemingly endless. With 29 pages and backgrounds, ranging from Animals, Automotive and Flowers, to Fantasy, Games and Sports, it is bound to be something that tweaks your visual taste buds to give you the feel of being distinct.

Browse Members

Do your tastes in connecting with others fall within a specific gender or age group? Prefer a smoker or non-smoker, married or not married, Yuwie provides the options to pick and choose based on age, body type, gender, race and even income to name a few. Here Yuwie gives a strong impression of being more of a dating service then a social network, something or someone for everyone.

Conclusion

Let us be honest here, despite finding some value, Yuwie is not really about friendships, rather it is about money, plain and simple, and I am not talking about money in YOUR pocket. Yuwie is a fraud cloaked in the guise of social networking just waiting for the next dupe.

As I reflect back on what I learned while delving into Yuwie I am reminded of the words by Neil Pert of Rush in the song, “Something for Nothing”,

You don't get something for nothing
You don't get freedom for free
You won't get wise
With the sleep still in your eyes
No matter what your dreams might be

As Yuwie member Cinta Sakti, so boldly put it, “You're making almost $9,000 a month on your tenth level alone having done nothing but recruited five people you taught to recruit five people and so on.” She goes on to state “You succeed on Yuwie in one easy step: Build your downline!”

Now before you start to analyze when and where you are going to go on vacation with that new founded wealth, you had better re-define that plan, as at most you may be able to afford a hot cup of java and maybe a muffin on the side. Cinta, I noted, was not the mediocre norm on Yuwie but more like the carnivorous wolf as most members were thrilled with their 45 to 50 cent profits as they congratulated each other like small children who have just obtained their first allowance. Unwittingly, it seems, they are the perfect food for the Cinta Sakti’s and Warren Conteras of Yuwie.

As Yuwie states, it is a “Social Network with a twist”. The twist is to entice members to entice others to join and in return, you are rewarded with the option of making big money if you do your homework. Pimp your friends for a dime or in the case of Yuwie, $.00005

At first glimpse, and if you are as sharp as you think you are, you will note that the Yuwie home page is infested with moneymaking opportunities. I see nothing about social networking other than in the logo so they got me on a technicality.

Now take a close look at the membership numbers and the images of the new members. After doing a little internal research, I noted that those new member images are a rotation of existing members and the membership numbers include the existing members joining each other’s network, not fresh meat, as you would think.

Throughout the complete tour of Yuwie, I noted subliminal marketing ploys intermixed with regular social programming, for lack of a better word. The Yuwie forum itself has a perfect example on subliminal entrapment, “ANNOUNCEMENT: Make 75.00 and get 1000 referrals free. This company will help you get 1,000’s of REFERRALS FREE. … talked to a few friends… they have each added 900 to 1,000 referrals within 10 days.”

They say there is a sucker born every second and Yuwie has the majority as I see it.

As Warren Conteras boldly puts it on YuwieScam.com, “I think Yuwie has reached a plateau and now that the low hanging fruit has been harvested, we need a ladder to get the good ones. Not everyone has learned how to do this yet. I noticed I'm doing less on Yuwie, but getting more so my income still went up.”

Note he used the word “harvested”. He (Warren) harvests Yuwie members, which he calls fruit, to sell for profit.

Let's take a look at Warren’s proposed earnings at http://yuwiescam.com/proof1.html. Nice earnings, a good income, but wait, let us take a closer look at the figures.

As an average member your cut is 10% and for 14,645 views you are paid $0.75 Levels one through 7 drop to 4% while levels 8 & 9 pay dividends of 10% and level 10 gives you the big dollars of 30%. If you look at the total stats for 2,561,035 page views you are paid $97.04. Now avera which makes as about much sense as rolling in mud in your best clothes. Factor in your initial time to join Yuwie, set up your personal page and then start contacting friends, family and entice them to join and then have them and other Yuwie members view YOUR page, you can make more money and faster panhandling on the street corner with less time and effort and still have time to socialize.

Yuwie, while having the potential to be something good is equal to a sleazy used car sales representatives' convention. The difference being Yuwie has found the revolving door to personal greed on a grander scale, which in turn allows them to erode the ability of its members to think rationally. When it comes to marketing swindles, Yuwie is a more aggressively refined form of Yaari with a greater ability to blind its members with monetary gain for which only the owner or owners of Yuwie are the true moneymakers. Yuwie has gone to great lengths to hide ownership of its site. Like Amway, Yuwie is fast flooding the market with delusional individuals filled with blind ambitions of making money for nothing without realizing just how much time they have to invest to make that $ .50 to $.75 per 14,645 views as an example. If anyone on Yuwie wants to make some real money, I have some prime farmland in the Kalahari Dessert for sale at a reasonable price. Email me at, yourasucker@ripoff.com for further details.