Another one bites the dust ...

AdsDailyPro and AdRebatesPro are dead.

The admin, Diane Maasland, confirms this in an e-mail update.

I do not pretend to know exactly what led to this unexpected closure of the sites, and what the admin did, did not do or should have done.

I do have a general theory though:
It seems that more and more people are starting to learn how to play. Taking out your seed money with some profit early on is the only way to stay ahead in this business. Once the majority of members start doing this, programs that depend on member support (= member $$$) will die faster and faster.

I did not see this coming and am at a loss in both programs. By more than usual even - I went against my own advice and spent more in stead of less at ADP! At ARP, I did not even have time to get my seed money out, I only got 40% back.

I don't know if Diane plans on doing something for the members who lost. She sounds pretty 'broken' in her update and she will probably leave the business for good.

Too bad - and another lesson learned (again - because I already knew this!) : no matter how promising a program looks, play it as safely as you can!

As the more obvious games die out and are removed from my list, I will once again try to stick with programs that depend (or at least seem to depend!) on more than member support alone.
(I should not have let myself get tempted to join the big games again.)