Calling all X-GDI members. If you were previously in GDI I want to hear from
@friend2friends (1636)
United States
March 2, 2008 9:10am CST
you. The reason you joined. What prompted you to join. The reason you dropped out.
2 responses
@rovian (1924)
• United States
2 Mar 08
When I began my search for making money online, GDI was the first place I learned about and joined. The reason I dropped out was because I didn't have any success with it and I was using a gift card to pay for it, so I was only able to stay for a few months. I tried it again through Dream Team Formula which a program that was suppose to help people build a GDI downline but when I leaned that most of the members were on vacation, I canceled my account with GDI again.
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@dodoguy (1292)
• Australia
2 Mar 08
Hi friend2friends,
I honestly have trouble believing that GDI is still in business.
I joined them a few years ago, and canceled my membership a few months later.
Here's the reasons that I dropped out of GDI -
1. Their "premium product" is nothing of the sort. I don't know what they're doing now (really not interested) but when I joined, they charged $10 a month for a toy web-hosting site with limited bandwidth, 10 email accounts, no server-side scripting support and a domain name thrown in. Like most people who get sucked into GDI, I had no clue about these things at the time. I soon discovered that I could get MUCH better products from other companies for substantially less cost - eg, web-hosting with oodles more server space, heaps of bandwidth, extensive server-side scripting support, literally 1,000's of email accounts, plus a domain name thrown in as well, for way less than $10 a month! I was consequently quite embarrassed about the idea of trying to "recruit" new members to join GDI, because I knew without any doubt that they'd be getting ripped off.
2. In my experience, the company was obnoxious. They treated all "members" like GDI owned them, not like customers (which is what they actually are). I had occasion to engage their "support" department over some issue, and the tone taken by GDI was dictatorial - as though I was their employee or something and needed to be put back in my place (!).
3. In keeping with the company's aggressive posture, they made it quite difficult to cancel your "membership" and stop them billing your credit card. I live in Australia, yet the ONLY way that they would allow me to cancel my membership was to TELEPHONE them in the USA and personally request that they remove me from their membership list. So I did.
In summary, and in my own opinion, GDI was exploiting the ignorance of people who had never had their own web-site before to rip them off blind, and basically built up their "business" with hordes of such people eager to recruit others who also didn't realize they were getting ripped off. And on and on it went.
That's why I'm surprised that they're still going. I guess there must still be heaps of people out there that just don't realize that they can get all the web services they need, of a much higher caliber than is offered by GDI, and for far less cost.
@friend2friends (1636)
• United States
2 Mar 08
Hey dodoguy,
I just checked your profile. Contact me via yahoo messenger and let me help you get on the right track.
I'll help you with getting your website up using the hosting and FTP. If you don't know how to work with html, that's not a problem either. I can show you the short cuts and put you where you can be in control.
You know, GDI is not the problem, the problem is people themselves not knowing what to do and no one to help show them what to do. People join programs and always getting left behind.
All my members are using the hosting and FTP so they can create a mass of mini pages with several catagories.
@dodoguy (1292)
• Australia
2 Mar 08
Hi friend2friends,
Kudos to you for having the initiative and drive to add value to the GDI vehicle. IMO, without that added element of value, GDI's product amounts to a monthly $5.00 pyramid payment piggy-backed onto a monthly $5.00 subscription payment for a quite low-caliber web-hosting service.
Thanks for your offer to help, but no thanks. I'm not in the market for web-site & business plan coaching ATM (and definitely not in association with GDI).
Good luck with your venture.
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@dodoguy (1292)
• Australia
1 Apr 08
Hi again friend2friends,
I agree with you that GDI is not "the problem", as you put it.
However, that in no way makes GDI "the solution" - far from it!
IMO GDI is the WORST web hosting service I've seen. And to compound the problem, in my experience the corporate management of GDI is quite obnoxious.
In a nutshell, GDI is a very low-grade web-hosting solution - a toy web-hosting solution is how I like to think of it - which comes at a greater cost than many other web-hosting providers which literally provide 1,000's of times more capability (and you know I'm not exaggerating there).
And that, together with it's "business structure, places it firmly in the pyramid category by my way of thinking.
Yes, you are correct, most people trying to make money on the Internet are just playing games and kidding themselves, hopping from "program" to "program" without ever seeming to grasp the essential fact that if they want to start a business then they have to take responsibility for it, drive it themselves, and provide something of value to a market that actually wants it, rather than sit back and hope that someone else's scheme will pilot them to financial success.
BUT that doesn't make GDI "the answer". GDI is still a pile of cr*p in my humble opinion. Always was, and probably always will be - if it doesn't totally disintegrate first.
The thing that intrigues me about someone like you is that you clearly have the drive and initiative to offer something of real value - my question is, why constrain yourself to something like GDI when you could be doing so much better? Sure, GDI has the recruiting and commission-payment mechanisms entrenched into its "business plan", but any such recruitment scheme is little more than a pyramid when the product has so little value compared to other offerings which are freely available on the market.
Why aren't you giving your attention to a REAL web-hosting service in your drive to provide internet business coaching value? You could easily partner with any of many excellent vendors, and do so for less than the overpriced cost of GDI's flimsy service.
As I previously mentioned, you deserve credit for having the initiative to offer something of value - your EXPERTISE - to all those Internet business wannabe's out there. I just can't help thinking that you could do SO MUCH BETTER than linking yourself to a bottom-shelf, overpriced, sub-standard, web-hosting solution like GDI.
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