The thing is that this software is aimed mainly at people who invest in Ponzi-schemes
There are e-gold users who invest in Ponzi schemes?! My goodness! Alert the media. (Oh, they already know.)
It is charming to see you refer to these programs by their correct name. You do understand that many such schemes are promoted, falsely, as though they were really making investments for those "investing" in them? Of course, what they are doing is no worse than what the USA federal government does with "Social Security" - paying out to old beneficiaries the funds provided by new participants. A growing population of workers and a compulsory process for "players" makes the Social Security scheme work - for a while. (On the other hand, a growing elderly population and an increasing clarity by young workers that they will never see a dime of Social Security spell doom for this system.)
I hesitate to suggest that the target market for this software may have been chosen by its developers to take advantage of people who are, well, credulous or even gullible.
as it shows you in a more user-friendly way which programs have paid you that day, payments you have made and even compares how much is left to go before you get your money back. Now that's quite useful.
It would be if the programs involved were likely, on average, to pay back more investors than pay in. With realistic investment opportunities, like, say The Gold Casino, http://dbourse.com/ gold itself, or shares of gold mining stocks, one expects the pay out to investors to be greater than the amount paid in.
The Ponzi schemes are much more like gambling, which I think is a fine way to use gold. But the Ponzis tend to be less than honest in their characterization of the gamble. Whereas The Gold Casino http://8715605.thegoldcasino.com/ is very honest.
The e-gold history page isn't the fastest loading or the easiest to read.
I agree that it doesn't load exquisitely fast. However, it loads securely. As for ease of reading, once the page loads, look for the link at the bottom to download a comma separated variable (.csv) file. You can do so, then open that file with Microsoft Excel, AppleWorks, Quicken, or any of a number of other spreadsheet or accounting software packages. Then increase fonts or format the data as you please.
Anyways thanks for your opinions, and I guess time will tell who was right and who was wrong. But I'm keeping my copy just in case you all were wrong [;-)
In that case, I urge you to do two things:
Thing One: Please open a second e-gold account for some of your gold. Don't access it with this software you have, and keep ten percent of your gold there. That way, if the software proves to be a means to separate you from your gold, you have some in reserve.
Thing Two: If you do lose all the e-gold in your account, please let us know this happened.
Regards,
Jim http://www.ezez.com/
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