Comments on: GoodTree Founder Responds to “Pointed Scrutiny” and Scam Allegations

By: lee

lee — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:14:04 +0000

hey everyone,

i have been using goodtree for about a couple months now and never had an issue with them where they spammed my friends. The only way for them to get a hold of your friends’ emails is if YOU give it to them. I also received an invite ‘I give your name’. for 3 guys, who noone knows how much they make, who just started up apparently giving 50% is really kool. I know that there are issues going on with the site cause i’m a booster for them and i sometimes have issues gaining access. B patient when u email them cause it takes a while to answer.

Later y’all

By: lysapham

lysapham — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:41:49 +0000

Dear Sir

I am MsDieppham so glad when I make friend with you therefore I decide to writte this letter for you My purpose used website for Business and international friendship

rgd
Mslysapham

By: Lightning

Lightning — Sat, 10 May 2008 15:03:19 +0000

One thing they do not do is, explain how giving up your info is going to produce charity money! It’s not worth the privacy risk for revealing your info that will likely produce lost more SPAM for every body!
Lightning

By: rick

rick — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:28:16 +0000

50% to charity is notvery good performance. Check Guidestar.org and you’ll find most legit charity organizations give upwards of 85% to the causes they support.

By: John Anthony

John Anthony — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 02:11:49 +0000

I have had the same experience as Mark. I got this same “I gave your name” from a very trusted friend.
I went to take a look what it was all about, inadvertently accessing my Yahoo account. A while later I found out that the Goodtree site was sending out invitations to all my contacts. I am not used to sending emails to my whole address book, because I respect everyone of my contacts and try to send them what would really interest them or be relevant to them. If they had explained or asked some kind of permission or a clearer submit button. It was all very shady. So it’s difficult to convince me that this Goodtree is not a scam or at least fishy.

By: Jean-Marc

Jean-Marc — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:17:09 +0000

Well, I have been totally gypped and abused by GoodTree, I’m extremely angry and I would like to file a lawsuit against them for theft of my contacts and usurpation of my identity. I was attracted onto the website a few days ago by an email titled “I gave your name” and signed up only to find out what it was.

I was flabbergasted not long after that to find out that they had stolen all of my contacts from my address book (first felony) and not only that, sent to all these contacts, supposedly in my name “via Goodtree”, spam emails also titled “I gave your name”, which I had to justify myself about to a certain number of my friends, business relations and contacts that did not really appreciate this approach, and wrote back to me to complain, each time I had to explain and justify myself for something I hadn’t done…

I wrote several times (emails through the “contact us” page) and they did not answer, to ask them how to unsubscribe, since I did not find any way to unsubscribe and erase my profile page from their website. The only button to “delete” your account set off a standard so-called “error” page saying to try again later because of temporary technical difficulties… which I strongly suspect is a total lie, they’ve got you trapped because in fact it’s conceived so you can sign in but CANNOT sign out…

So be forewarned, GoodTree is just a spammer scam!

By: nyob ahole

nyob ahole — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:48:08 +0000

like google it will keep a record of every search you make forever. shades of 1984; that’s the price!

By: jack

jack — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:01:18 +0000

I got an invitation from someone and went to good tree. It wanted my yahoo mail account and password, something I’m not going to give away so easily. I wrote to the person who invited me, and it turned out that she had given her password and it had emailed everyone in her address book without her permission! In my book that’s a scam!

By: Neil

Neil — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:22:22 +0000

I was using GoodTree regularly in the UK until recently. I found it excellent and had researched as far as I could to check their validity.

I was therefore concerned to see some of the web posts questioning (albiet legitimately) whether it was a scam.

The recent response from GoodTree has allayed some of these fears and by posting this I wanted to try and provide some positve feed back on what they are trying to do.

I usually use Google and spent quite a bit of time comparing the results for different searches that I was carring out to make sure I was still getting good results. I was, at least GoodTree seemed to fit and find the kind of information I was after.

Hurry up and get the UK Tree running again please.

Hoping that I’m right,

Neil

By: Kisakookoo

Kisakookoo — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 05:16:04 +0000

Hi! Why I can’t fill my info in profile? Can somebody help me?
My login is Kisakookoo!

By: Cardin

Cardin — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 02:26:34 +0000

I really hope to see that GoodTree turns out not to be a scam. I’m currently using GoodTree as my main search engine, relying only on Google to do detailed searches. I believe it is not a scam.

By: Lloyd Budd

Lloyd Budd — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:53:10 +0000

James Currier’s response is a good start.

By: Non-Governmental Imagination

Non-Governmental Imagination — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 09:21:07 +0000

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By: Non-Governmental Imagination

Non-Governmental Imagination — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 09:20:46 +0000

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