No barriers to entry

It costs nothing to open an e-gold account.  There is no credit check.  There is no minimum balance requirement.  There is no concept of a "merchant account" in that all e-gold accounts may Spend e-gold or receive e-gold payments.

In short, you are minutes away from opening your first e-gold account at:

www.e-gold.com

e-gold is...

world wide money

The world wide web needs world wide money.  e-gold was created in response to this need.

e-gold is accounted by weight of metal, not US$ or any other national currency unit.  Weight units have a precise, invariable, internationally recognized definition.  Additionally, precious metals, gold in particular, enjoy a long history of monetary use around the world.  Thus, e-gold is ideally suited for international transactions.

Although e-gold is accounted by weight, the e-gold payment system allows Spends to be expressed in terms of eight major national currencies (as of this writing).  For example, it's possible to:

• Spend 10 troy oz worth of e-gold

• Spend 5.3 grams worth of e-gold

• Spend US $100.00 worth of e-gold

• Spend CHF 685.88 worth of e-gold

This means (for example) that a Canadian can pay a German or a Japanese can pay an Australian the correct weight of gold (e-gold) for a good or service as easily as if the price had been quoted in his own national currency.  

    The power of the e-gold Spend...

All financial value will migrate to cyberspace over the next few years.  e-gold is ready so that you can be too.

e-gold is borderless -

e-gold may be Spent to any other e-gold account anywhere in the world via the e-gold shopping cart interface (SCI), the e-gold Account Manager, or web enabled mobile phone.

e-gold is quick -

e-gold payments clear instantaneously (with no chargeback risk), no matter how large the payment, no matter how far apart the Spender and Recipient.

e-gold is cost effective  -

• Spending e-gold is free, even if your recipient is on the other side of the world.
  
  

• Recipient transaction fees range from substantially smaller to orders of magnitude smaller than those of credit cards and bank wire transfers, no matter how large (or small) the payment.
  
  

• The e-gold Agio fee, which recovers bullion storage costs, passes on economies of scale normally only enjoyed by very large holders of bullion.

benefits all users of money

An autosurf is a type of online advertising program. Autosurfs are traffic exchanges that automatically rotate advertised websites in one's Internet browser. They are capable of bringing a large amount of traffic to the advertised websites. Members earn credits for each site that they view, which can then be spent to advertise members' sites by adding them to the autosurf rotation. Sites may additionally be added by external advertisers who pay the autosurf operators.

Autosurfs differ from manual traffic exchanges in that the site rotation is automatic; an ad viewer need not respond or even view the sites. Many autosurfs also pay their viewers a percentage or hourly commission to view the advertised sites; this concept can be likened to a paid to surf site. However, a large number of autosurfs are investment autosurfs: to earn money surfing, members must pay a fee and are then promised a certain return on their fee. The "investment" is claimed to be (usually disguised as) a membership or upgraded membership fee and the "return", a per-site commission. There is a strong possibility that most investment autosurfs are Ponzi schemes, and thus breaking the law and/or deceiving their users; whereas paid to surf sites usually had a viable business model where advertisers would pay for the site to be viewed but not earn money in return.

Autosurfing is an unusual form of advertising. Normally, advertisers pay intermediaries to display advertising to their target audience, and the advertising is presented to the audience in places where they are likely to see it, such as in public places, or packaged with entertainment: no money changes hands between the audience and the advertiser.

In comparison, autosurfers are paid to view pure advertising (that is, advertisers' websites) for a certain amount of time (usually less than 30 seconds). Interested viewers can pause the surf timer or open any site in a new window, giving themselves more time to peruse an ad. If the viewer is not interested and does nothing, the surf timer will simply restart after the specified period of time and a new site will be loaded into the browser.

One flaw in the concept from an effective advertising standpoint is that the viewer need not actually watch the rotation. Most sites contain code to re-maximize the web browser window every time the page rotates, preventing the viewer from using their computer effectively, but an autosurfer can walk away from the computer, or disable the relevant script actions in the browser. The surf rotation requires no feedbacks of any kind; in contrast to manual surfs, paid to read email or paid to click site.

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