Cybergold is deadcyber
 

NOTICE OF DISCONTINUATION OF SERVICE

With the greatest regret we must inform you that, as of August
31, 2001, the Cybergold Service will be shutting down
permanently. After this date, we will cease operations and
discontinue our Service and your account will no longer be
available on Cybergold.com.

You will continue to be able to earn and spend cash with a
reduced set of offers through August 31, 2001. Please unload,
spend, or donate your account balance by August 31, 2001.
After that date, the Cybergold Service will no longer be
operational and you will lose any account balance you might
have had prior to that time.


(see Membership Agreement Section II.4)

We understand how important online incentive offers are to
you, and are pleased to announce that we have arranged for
MyPoints, our parent and the leading internet incentives
company, to be the ongoing resource for all your future online
incentives needs.

Cybergold is going away, but now you can start earning free
rewards like CDs, electronics, movies, vacations and more.
With MyPoints, its easy to earn great rewards by reading
email, shopping online, touring web sites and more. And with
this special invitation, we'll give you a chance to WIN a
Corvette Convertible. Just activate your account today!.

Click here to signup at MyPoints.

Although the Cybergold cash incentive program is ceasing
operations your ability to make cash payments over the
internet will continue. MagnaCash, the "powered by" service
for your cash account at Cybergold, will continue to provide
you the most flexible and powerful way to buy and sell goods
online. You will receive an email in the near future with
information on how to access and use your MagnaCash account.
We are confident you will continue to be pleased with the
level of service and professionalism you will receive.

Again, the whole Cybergold team and I want to thank you for
your participation in the Cybergold program. We at Cybergold
will miss the wonderful interaction with you, our members.
Thank you for all your support, and may you continue to enjoy
great incentive offers online at MyPoints.

Sincerely,

Pieter Hartsook
VP Marketing, Cybergold

Please do not reply to this email. This is an important
administrative notice and is being sent to all Cybergold
members regardless of subscription status.

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They are dropping like flies. I may have used them a couple of times, but it seemed like a lot of fumbling around to save a buck or two. There are enough links here.

What did Cybergold have to lose? I don't think they had warehouses of inventory, but could be wrong.

edit, argh, really bad looking choppy paste, hope this will fix it.

I got the same email from them and immediately went and had my account balance transferred to my credit card. That was more than two weeks ago (8/3) and the transfer still hasn't been made. I'm not going to make a big stink about it - since my account balance was only around $12.00, trying to get them to pay up will probably be more trouble than it's worth. However, If they owed me a considerable amount of money I'd be pretty pissed.

Just out of curiosity, did anyone get a credit card transfer to work after receiving the "we are shutting down" email?

You must have clout. I'm a nobody.
 

They told you two weeks ago? Maybe they are staggering the announcement and people like myself, who probably don't have a dime in it, are being contacted at a later date.

These dotcoms must have expenses that dolts like myself just don't appreciate. Like TALK, it has a server or two, an occasional jam with a technician and an electric bill. How can it lose?

Re: You must have clout. I'm a nobody.
 

Yeah, I got the email on 8/2, which I assumed everyone else did also. However, I did get the exact same email again a few days ago (8/19).

Also, I made a mistake earlier when I said that they hadn't transferred my account balance to my credit card. The transfer was made on the same day I requested it (8/2) - I just didn't notice it because the company wasn't listed as "Cybergold" but as "Magnacash, Inc".

Magnacrash sounds about right.
 

I've been all over 08/02 and found nothing. It's possible that I summarily deleted it to keep what looks like junk, to me, out of the files.