If you want to work from home and are developing a home-based business around a website don’t waste your time or money trying to buy traffic.

Even we, experts that we claim to be, considered using a company called iWeb Marketing (www.i-web-marketing.com). At least we did until we started checking them out. Here are a couple of posts from their unhappy customers:

Here is a letter that I sent to them.

READ IT!! It will save you from making the same mistake I did…

Buying traffic from you has been very disappointing.
I don’t believe that you even delivered that traffic because my personal stats don’t show it.
I would like proof.
It says the Number of visitors delivered as of Apr 2nd 2007 01:25:22 AM: 95,216
Bull.
If (big If) they were delivered, the people did not even see the site. It is not quality traffic, it was not “thousands of visitors per hour”, I had zero response out of 95,216 people to a high converting site. Worthless Junk Traffic. You are running a scam and I will put the word out in my blog, marketing forums, Marketing Tip E-Books, Ezine and to my opt-in list. I will never waste my money here again. It’s because of companies like yours that the internet traffic companies get a bad name.
I want to see a list of ip addresses proving that you delivered. because My stats don’t show the same numbers you claim.
If not, expect a listing on all the scam watchdog sites and BBB too.

I am posting copy’s of this email everywhere and expect to see some proof you delivered. there is no indication to me besides your hit counter and I don’t trust it.

In response to a query from a leery potential customer another unhappy user responded:

We signed up for their service in July for 1 millions hits per month for three sites. Their records showed more hits coming to our site then we were getting. When I called them they said they had a glitch and their system was counting blocked ads. They turned off our account until the problem was fixed and promised it would be fixed the next week, one week went by and it was not fixed, another week went by and it still was not working. We asked for a refund on our American Express and was told that they would deduct what hits we actually received. How would they know this? I was told they would not issue a credit back to our card but would mail us a money order which we never received. I called them two weeks later and they were going to mail it again. Still haven’t received it. We are disputing the charges. I hope this helps your decision

Like other schemes that appear to too good to be true, you can’t buy happiness, or traffic. Google has publicly warned webmasters that if they are discovered to be selling links for the purpose of conferring PageRank and reputation, their links will be ignored.