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Ya gotta lovit!! How you may never be able to tell whether something is on the up-and-up or is total malarkey on the Internet.

Okay, so here we are, it's Friday the Thirteenth, the second month of a new year, and last year's "promise" of a client side opening at Big Ticket Depot having already been postponed in January is once again up for an adjustment. Yes, "Corporate", as this entity is being referred to, has this to say in today's email to we the Elite 300 ---

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Good Afternoon Team,

Has it been a busy week for us at corporate and BigTicket Depot?? YES IT HAS. We are in some of the final testing modes to launch the initial client side of both BigTicket Depot and "TopSecretDepot" applications. We cannot wait to start giving you the access as you will be the first who will activate as BigTicket Depot and "TopSecretDepot" Clients. This will be a very seamless and streamline system which will be implemented into your BigTicket Depot affiliate back office.

With a click of the button, your BigTicket Depot and"TopSecretDepot" client side back offices will be activated as well as the FREE listing codes you will be able to use for both. These free listing codes which you are going to receive are going to be the key to building a strong client list from the beginning and we will show you how.

Did we want to see this launched this week?? The answer is Yes. Will it happen?? The answer is No. We are not going to sugarcoat anything to anyone now that
we are so close to launching. The programming is extensive and we have had to do a lot of extra testing prior to pushing the button which will activate the entire system for you and your future clients. We are not looking at weeks but rather days at this point and will keep you up to speed as we close in on the the
launch.

With the expansion and addition of "TopSecretDepot" to the entire BigTicket Depot business model, we are taking this to a level we never imagined and you will
be thankful when we go live. You have no idea what this will mean for you when it comes to potential for both the client side as well as the the affiliate signup side.

**Commission Payment Update**

-Commissions Earned through January 23rd 2008:

For all that earned affiliate commissions through January 23rd of 2008. You should have received a separate communication earlier this week as we are in
the process of paying these commissions.

For all U.S. members with paid commissions posted in your back office. Your Vortex MasterCard through PayPartners has been sent out as of Monday this week.
Your current commissions will be posted to your account when you receive and activate your new Vortex MasterCard.

For All Non U.S. members with paid commissions posted in your back office. We emailed you the instructions so we can issue your commissions through PayPal. As of now we have received back the information from almost 90% of you to complete that. If you did not receive that email communication, let us know right away by emailing us at admin@bigticketdepot.com

-Commissions Earned January 24th through Today:

If you did not have commissions earned in the period posted above, we will be emailing you with the instructions so we can also issue you your commissions. If you earned commissions in the previous payment period we will be adding those to this commission payment period.

We are very excited at corporate with the amount of commissions which were earned through your affiliate signups to date. This just shows us that we have put
together a business model which will truly generate income for you and this is prior to the launch of the Client side of BigTicket Depot and "TopSecretDepot".
When the client side does go live and that is eminent, we believe the potential for affiliate signup conversions will go up by 1000%.

The coming weeks, months and years are going to be very exciting for all of us. So strap on your seat belt and get ready for the ride of your life.

Until our next communication, have an awesome day.

Sincerely,

Brad Harris
VP BigTicket Depot

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Okay, you got all that? The brunt of the sitcom here is, have an awesome day. Alright, BTD, I'll do that thanx, and no, I didn't get that email notification about paying out my commissions. But intrepid reader, I must share --- it is no longer Friday the Thirteenth, it is now Monday the Sixteenth. My, how time flies when you're having fun (on the weekend). And I can heartily recommend the new Hellboy flick, just out on DVD here in Taiwan (and more or less elsewhere I guess). And on this Monday morning before I make the hour-long commute to the office, I have come across something interestin of a related manner, perhaps . . . perhaps interesting, perhaps related. From a Web Pro News article from a month ago I discovered while deleting email from another of my accounts, this piece on Evil eBay makes Big Ticket Depot look both good as well as, well, not good:

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eBay Wants Its Sellers Back

(by Chris Crum)

Early last year, eBay inflicted some damaging policy changes that sent many sellers running for the hills. Now, they apparently are changing the rules to remove negative comments left by customers towards the sellers.

A couple months ago I talked to a number of eBay sellers, and all but one of them told me that eBay's feedback policy was their biggest frustration. It now seems that eBay has decided to hear the howls of disgust from its users that have been going on for the majority of the past year. Ecommerce Journal reports:

The move to change the Feedback policy was prompted by numerous requests made by the cross-border sellers who received negative comments from customers while there wasn’t actual fault with the merchants. Now eBay will be removing feedback if: the listing meets the Customs Requirements and/or the seller receives a negative or neutral Feedback comment, which references customs delays or customs fees. Merchants in turn are obliged to advise the buyers that import duties, taxes and charges are not included in the item price or shipping charges. These charges are the buyer’s responsibility.

There was also a lot of frustration about eBay's payment policy. Many were enraged by the favoritism showed to eBay-owned PayPal. eBay will reportedly now be adding Moneybookers and PayMate as acceptable methods of payment starting next month.

eBay users have been quite vocal in their displeasure with the famous auction site. It seems unlikely that many of them that have been so passionate will be willing to go back to eBay just because they finally acknowledged these issues. But the brand power that eBay carries does pull a lot of weight. Are you (or were you) an eBay seller? What do you think?

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Now, what's also interesting about this article by Mr. Crum are the scathing comments that follow, one of which notes as an aside within its contents the following --- "Over at Big Ticket Depot, its FREE for all pictures except company size pictures."

Hmm . . . .

Big Ticket Depot Soon To Launch Client Side Function

Now, this is what I call ---

QUITE THE UPDATE!!!

From: Joel Sauceda/Vortex CEO
Date: January 7, 2000
Time: 9:30 P.M. CST


Good evening team,

This update is very important and should be passed on to your
respective teams. We are close to launching the client side of
Big Ticket Depot and this is a communication that will put you
in the "know."

*Thank You Corporate Staff/Independent Contractors*

I will start by letting everyone know that our staff at
corporate worked through the holidays and there was very little
"vacation" time this year for us. We are all focused on the
imminent launch of the FULL Big Ticket Depot business model and
getting it "RIGHT" is important to us because it is vital to the
success of your business. I would like to take this time to
commend the staff at corporate and some of our independent
contractors who have been diligently working on the programming
and skinning of this project. It truly takes a team effort to
make something of this scale function properly. There is no way
one person or even two could do this alone. Thank you so much to
everyone who is working behind the scenes to make this a
success.

*New Hires For The 300 Elite Team*

This is an important announcement that directly impacts each of
you on the 300 Elite Team. We are in the process of hiring an
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) staff that will have the SOLE
purpose of promoting YOUR Big Ticket URLS to the various
internet search engines. They will be working out of our San
Antonio corporate headquarters and will be working for you.
Their job is to create both PAID traffic to your websites as
well as "ORGANIC" traffic to your websites. Yes, some of these
terms may sound strange or new to you but that is OK. This
announcement is a big one because you will have someone working
on building multiple web presences for you and for the team.
This is something that will enable you to let US do the work
for you. For many of you, your time is limited on what your able
to do here so we want you to rest assured that we have MANY
resources that are being put in place to do the work for you.
There will be many of you who will get clients and affiliates
through our efforts alone. That is our goal in hiring additional
corporate staff to do much of the work for you.

The ONLY way you can lose...

The ONLY way you can lose is by quitting and that is not an
option since we have made the maintenance requirements so low.
You literally have an OFFICE staff doing the TECH work for you
for less than $40 a month. Try to start an online business where
you are part of such a SMALL team and have the type of SERVICE
that we are building behind you. It does not exist. The way we
have structured this team for the future creates a win/win for
you and for us and anyone who allows their $39 maintenance to
lapse is throwing away a valuable position and opportunity. We
have people who have found out about this and are on stand by to
join. This concept has already taken off and we have 4 NEWS
stories from major news media who have run stories on how big
ticket items are up for sale around the world at an alarming
rate due to the economic conditions. We are in the RIGHT place
at the RIGHT time and you have only seen the tip of the ice berg
of what we are going to do. Do not get impatient and be a team
player as we begin our major push into the client side of this
program.


Some great news...

When the client side launches you will be pleased to see an
ADDITIONAL perk we have added to being a part of the 300 Elite
Team.

This important...


Everybody on this team is getting one ON GOING listing by virtue
of being on the 300 elite team. This alone could have a value of
up to $200 per month and as you know, your maintenance is only
$39.95. We have added something that will have everyone excited
and here it is..

Each month you are "active" you will receive (2) MONTHLY
listing CODES in your Big Ticket back office. These 2 30 day
listings will be YOURS to sell or use yourself. If you sell
these codes (30 day listings) you will make 100% of what you
charge a person to LIST their big ticket item via your codes!

It gets better!

Each month your $39.95 maintenance clears, you will ACCUMULATE
these codes and they will build at a rate of (2) codes per month
to a max of 24 codes. Each code could have a value (if you
charge the client max price or suggested retail price) of up to
as much as $200 per month to list on YOUR Big Ticket Depot web
portal. Do the math..Remember, we are GIVING you 100% of
whatever you choose to charge for the listing! Each month these
codes will accumulate and will show in your Big Ticket back
office and with what we will be giving you to attract CLIENTS,
it should be SIMPLE to pick up NEW clients each month online
and you get 100% of the LISTING fee, not to mention the
potential COMMISSION from their item actually selling! This is
something we are ONLY extending to the 300 Elite Team and to
ANYONE who enrolls through you by the end of January! Very
important, the DEADLINE for people being grandfathered into this
program is the END of January.

This adds a WHOLE new dimension to Big Ticket Depot and makes
your odds of making MONTHLY income even better. Think about
this, we are allowing you to make 100% of the listing fee from
people who activate these codes through you and we are allowing
you to charge them whatever you want to charge them! Yes, we
will suggest you use our final suggested retail prices that will
be posted the day we launch the client side of Big Ticket Depot.

The ONLY way you can lose out on this and LOSE this perk is to
miss your $39.95 maintenance fee . There are ZERO sponsoring
requirements to keep this perk! This ALONE can become a source
of revenue for you when the client side opens!

Word of advice, do NOT miss your monthly maintenance and if you
have accidentally missed it, be sure to get that fixed before
the end of January. You do NOT want to lose out on this.


***Client Side***

The programming for the CLIENT side of Big Ticket is FINISHED!
We are in the "Skinning" phase. Skinning is a process in which
the bare bones programming has some DESIGN built over it. Its
like having the engine of a car finished and now we are molding
the BODY of the car OVER the engine so it runs great and LOOKS
great! I am SO excited about the engine and it has been built in
such a way that it will easily be improved and modified as we
grow as a team/company. There is MUCH that we will ad as we go
but for the start, you will see that it is very user friendly
and your listing clients are going to LOVE the flexibility of it
all!

The other exciting feature of the Client side is this..

You will be able to VIEW every listing you have that has
enrolled through you! It will be like having your OWN Big Ticket
Depot store and when a potential buyer is looking at one of your
clients listings, it will show ALL of your other listings of
clients you have. This is a great feature and will create even
MORE exposure and potential for sales/commissions for you!


***Full Time Email Marketing/Classified Ad Posting Staff**

Next MONDAY we have 5 FULL time email marketing / classified ad
posting experts begin working for you! EVERY 300 Elite Team
member who has an account in good standing ($39.95 maintenance
fee is in good standing) will have their Big Ticket Depot
websites in a marketing rotation and will be in line to get
customers and clients via a DIRECT marketing system we are
deploying next week. Additionally, we will be adding the
TRI-Videos into the rotation for you who got your TRI-Video set
up.

For you who did NOT get your Tri-Video set up, you will STILL
have your REGULAR Big Ticket Depot URL in the rotation but if
you would like (2) MORE places in line in the rotation, you will
want to register for the TRI VIDEO system by the end of January.
The sooner the better.

Register for the Tri Video system here if you have not done so
already:


http://www.bigticketdepot.com/promo/


****END OF JANUARY DEADLINE****

We are allowing you to enroll people to be part of the launch of
Big Ticket Depot through the end of January. Yes, you will be
able to enroll people into Big Ticket Depot after that via the
affiliate side but it is IMPORTANT to note that those who enroll
BEFORE the end of January will be part of the (2) codes per
month incentive.

**Additional Incentive***

Our goal is to expand our affiliate base by an additional 500
members and here is the incentive to do such:

1. For EVERY member you enroll in January you will:

A.

Earn $75 Commission

B.

EARN an ADDITIONAL LISTING CODE PER person you enroll!
This is in ADDITION to the (2) you are ALREADY getting each
month. This is HUGE and when you see the client side open it
is going to turn a HUGE light bulb on make everyone realize
how much we are GIVING back to everyone.You will have such
an AWESOME potential of earning REAL money every month
because of WHEN you joined. We are NOT doing this for
everyone after the 300 Elite Team. Your 300 Elite Team is
even MORE valuable then you may think.

C.

Anyone who enrolls (5) or more affiliates before the end
of January will qualify for the PRESIDENT'S Marketing Club
and will be tied into an ADDITIONAL advertising campaign that
will be (2) MAJOR PRINT advertisements that will lead people
to you and the others who are in that category.

D.

Anyone who enrolls (10) people or more will be put in for
a 250,000 email campaign that will send LEADS/PROSPECTS and
even SIGN UPS to you direct. One of our full time marketers
will take YOUR account and market YOUR specific URL to over
250,000 of our opt-in lists. This is HUGE and when you think
about it, it is a big opportunity because by enrolling 10
people you are ALSO making $75 per enrollment AND an EXTRA
listing CODE that will enable you to make 100% of the LISTING
fee when someone activates that code!


I know this email has been long but there is much to go over
and with the launch of the client side on the horizon, you need
to know that where you are RIGHT NOW is a GREAT position. Do NOT
quit or get impatient. This program is destined to be big and
you are a BIG part of it. If by chance the $39.95 is a
challenge, look at ways to cut back things that are not that
important so you can keep your account in perfect standing.
There are many things that are not necessities that we can all
cut back on in order to do something that has potential (BIG
TICKET DEPOT).


I look forward to an exciting New Year and we will be
communicating FREQUENTLY as the time for client side launch
draws near. For you who have NOT enrolled in the Tri Video
system, it is 100% optional but I recommend it 100%. It is
ALREADY working for many people and one person has already
enrolled 14 affiliates by just emailing his Tri Video link to
only 200 people. That is GREAT statistics and it took very
little time for him to do it.

Register for the Tri Video System here:

http://www.bigticketdepot.com/promo/


Have a great week and I look forward to sending the next update!


Regards,

Joel Sauceda
Vortex/Big Ticket Depot
CEO

Big Ticket Depot Ready To Launch

As the year draws to a close, many are the lessons learned and not known, the notions created and left unthought, the affairs settled or neglected. (And Merry Christmas, by the way.)

There are also those scenarios which are only just begun (Sing it!), ready to roll out at the advent of the new year making 2009 a happy harvest for those in the know and on the go.

I am talking about the rollout of Big Ticket Depot this January. Big Ticket Depot is the brainchild of one Joel Sauceda, already a success in the world of online moolah-generating players. Best known for the online lead generation system Vortex, Joel has an absolute winer in Big Ticket Depot, which includes an affiliate program whereby its affiliate members serve as brokers to help those registered as sellers sell, get this, big ticket items, such as your grandmother's dust-covered diamond brooch found in the attic, Guy and Madonna's mansion, the private airplanes of frightened Big 3 CEOs, and what not, earning these brokers very decent commissions on said sales.