STATUS: SCAM - CashFiesta hit the scene last June promising 60 cents an hour. Needless to say, they never came close. In fact, month after month, they reduced the payout rate to mere pennies per hour and delayed payments. I finally qualified for payment this January after using their bar for over half a year and accumulating many referrals through my website. My amount due came out to $85, which was a tiny fraction of what I was originally due, but after the long delays and constantly reduced payrates, I was happy to finally receive anything. After checking my account on the CashFiesta site for 3 weeks, they listed my money due as "PAID."

I was never paid, so I emailed them at support@cashfiesta.com who in turn, forwarded my query to Mr. Stewart Jones at stewart@cashfiesta.com. After one week, I received the following from Stewart Jones:

Dear User,

After a detailed investigation of your account it came up that you have been
using fraudulent methods for gathering adpoints. That means you have not
complied with the Terms and Conditions at CashFiesta.com:
http://www.cashfiesta.com/?terms. As a result we must terminate your
CashFiesta account and you will not be able to claim earnings and/or
access your account

Stewart Jones
CashFiesta Team

My friends, this is 100% pure bullshit. I never cheated CashFiesta, but after using their bar for 7 months, they sure cheated me. I was found guilty of being owed money, so they eliminated me.

I immediately fired off the following email to them:

>Mr. Jones,
>
>This morning my fiesta bar stopped working and I was emailed a notice that
>my account has been cancelled due to illegal activity. That's flat-out
>incorrect and outrageous. It's not amusing that this is happening one week
>after I wrote you about my missing check payment. I have been a cashfiesta
>member since last summer and have used your bar 100% legally since then,
>abiding by all your rules, and staying with you through your constant
>payout level decreases and delays, and all your fiesta bar technical
>problems. I've even accumulated some referrals through your banner on my
>website, though their interest in your program has apparently died off due
>to the constant pay delays and decreased payouts.
>
>You can't imagine my outrage at this moment. To have spent how many
>hundreds of hours, maybe over a thousand hours running your bar on my
>screen, waiting how many months for the promise of "60 cents an hour"
>payment, to have FINALLY reached the payout threshold, to have my payment
>listed as "PAID" on your site, but not receiving it in my mailbox, and now
>after ALL that, to be ridiculously accused of cheating by you and thrown
>out on my ass without a penny. It's an unconscionable travesty.
>
>And to top it off, your cancellation email gives me a link that sends me
>to a login page that I can't even access anymore. How many times can you
>insult and kick a guy?
>
>At this point, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that my
>cancellation was done by accident. So please review my account and rectify
>the situation. It's very suspicious and troubling that this should happen
>only because I wished to have the money due me actually paid to me.
>
>This is a matter of some $85. Hardly an earth-shattering amount. I
>could've made more money stitching sneakers for Nike Inc. in Laos for
>pennies an hour, and I'm sure a true points cheater could've racked up a
>more substantial total after using the bar 7 or 8 months. This
>cancellation is a travesty. Please review it and correct this situation
>immediately.
>
>Thank you,
>XXXXXXXX
>ID = XXXXXX

I received this reply from customer support:

We understand your concern regarding the cancellation of your account. However, it is a sad but true fact that the GPTS business is a common prey for Internet cheaters. After suffering a heavy hit by cheaters some months ago we have taken several protective measures on a larger scale. Apart from considerably improving our anti-cheat program, we have introduced a more serious investigation of our members' accounts as well as their online behavior.
The two sides in this situation are Cashfiesta and our loyal members on the one side, and dishonest users on the other. In our efforts to serve members in the best possible way we need to question and investigate any deviation from the common user behavior. In order to do so we cannot tolerate a violation of our Terms and Conditions of any kind, and our actions are also justified in cases when there is reasonable ground for suspicion that such a violation has occurred.
We truly believe that there is a better chance for our mutual cooperation in the future, and we appeal to your understanding of these circumstances.

Best regards,

Julia Delly
Customer Support Team
CashFiesta.com

More bullshit that didn't address my personal situation at all. My final letter to them stated the following:

If CashFiesta continues to claim that I am a cheater and refuses to pay me the lousy $85 I racked up since last summer, then I will file a complaint with the State BBB and see if the State's Attorney General's Office can offer any avenue of help in my consumer fraud complaint. I've been referring people to use your program, but in light of this outright non-payment and unjust termination, I can't, in good conscience, let CashFiesta continue without making an official consumer complaint. I'm sure you understand.

For some reason, they've never replied.

Beware! CashFiesta is a scam that will unilaterally cancel your account without due process, without any reason. They simply do not want to pay out.

If you are scammed by them, this is their information:

CashFiesta

41 Sutter St, PMB 1214 <--- please note they don't even have a real corporate address, they use a post office box

San Francisco, CA 94104

Tel # (425)-799-7674

Their website is registered to Ann Miller, contact sales@cashfiesta.com