Tri-Star Goes Private

January 19, 2007

Some weird news came several hours ago from Robert Krimm from Tri-Star Media. After all the debates and quarrels about the legislation of his payment processor, and after last week’s problem with ASA monitor, Robert has announced that they are “going private”, at least in some way. Here is the update:

Dear Tri-Star members-
Today, as mentioned earlier, we will take our organization private.
I would also like to take this time to announce an addition to the Tri-Star family.  There has been a lot of misinformation floating around out there, so I have decided to take action to avoid this in the future.
Effective immediately, Todd Heaps will be the Tri-Star Media Public Relations Officer.  All information will flow through him and his SurfSiteMonitor portal.  Information through any other source is not sanctioned by Tri-Star Media.  I trust Todd and the staff at SSM implicitly.  They have proven their worth in both actions and words, and I consider Todd to be a true friend.
This change means that the following rules will apply for membership in 15HitsDaily, TreoSurf, and 24SurfPro:
1-No monitors may have Tri-Star programs listed on their monitor sites.
2-Members may not advertise referral links in any way, including in their forum signatures or in the blogs.
3-The only way to join will be through a referral link from someone who is already a member.
4-Forums will still be allowed to discuss the programs, but no links may be advertised.  If you want a link to join, you can PM the person you would like to join under or PM one of the staff at SSM.
5-Violation of any of these rules will result in one warning.  The second violation will result in the suspension of your account.
You can join SurfSiteMonitor by clicking on this link:

http://www.surfsitemonitor.com/forum/

As we move forward to a succesful 2007, I would like to thank each and every member for their loyalty and support.
Kind Regards,
Bob
Admin

This is weird because it raises several questions about the timing and the real reasons behind this decision. Why do they need to use another forum or monitor to communicate with the users at a time they have their own forum that has been doing well. Why is this descision to go private? Did they decide to move out of the spotlight to focus more on their sites? Or did they decide to move out of the spotlight because they are afraid something might be revealed? Then, we have to remember the following paragraph taken from Robert’s update on the 12th of January:

I guess I should tell you all that I have called Jake at ASA and apologized to him and told him if he still wanted to monitor my sites I would be grateful. As you can see, he has excepted my apology and added us back to his monitor. I have some other stuff I need to work on. I have been given some information that if it works out to be true will completely piss me off and I am going to expose a lot of people for who they really are.

This sudden change within one week is weird by itself. Probably, what is going on behind the scenes is much bigger than what appears to the public. One last note is that Robert is not mentioning XLO in anyway and not even communicating with the users of XLO. 

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