I love how the fact that they own and sell domains that a search for 'Ashmax' and scam or pyramid scheme just throws up pages of adverts to say 'i thought this was a scam but no i'm making my millions now!'
Terry, it's not a question of the kind of welcome. That is why we have a "Say Hello" forum. In this section you are coming to present a business opportunity to other members, so it is the opportunity that is under scrutiny, not Terry Welch. In your brief opening post, you highlighted various red flag warnings for MLM businesses.
Not least of those was a claim that the represented businesses are Fortune 500 companies, which is a pretty big claim when you realise just who makes up that particular list. The bottom company on that list, at position 500, is Blockbuster with an annual revenue of $4.12bn.
I have tried finding information on "Freeway 2 Success", but they almost seem not to exist. Hence, I have looked in more depth at Global Domains International (GDI). As you have stated, GDI were on the Inc 500 list at #37, but this is a very different list from Fortune 500! Fortune's list is about identifying the absolute biggest compaies in revenue terms. If you were in position 37 on Fortune, you would be just one place beneath Microsoft! Instead, the Inc 500 list measures growth over a 4 year period and, unsurprisingly, is usually occupied by new companies still in their rapid growth phase. GDI achieved position 37 on this list in 2002. The revenue that you state of $9.3m was in that year, not last year.
Remember, when you make claims for companies or products, you take on personal responsibility for those claims.
Then, looking at products:
F2S has no products of any use to man or beast. I can't see where it fits in the Ashmax equation.
GDI sell .ws domain names. This is known as a "domain hack". Ie, using the top level domain to give an impression of something else. Specifically, GDI market "WS" as meaning "Website". As Lee put it, ne.ws would be an interesting one. The WS top level domain actually belongs to Western Samoa and you can find the cuddly story of GDI here
http://website.ws/about.dhtml In fairness to GDI, they appear to be a legitimate company, but it would seem that they may have lost their way. Considering they grew from zero to $9m in their first 4 years, why would they now be looking to MLM for their growth? Why is the world not already awash with .ws domains? The answer is that nobody wants them! How do I know? Well, they mention that Yahoo! have bought domains, yet
http://www.yahoo.ws is a GDI site to advertise the income opportunity. Then consider ne.ws. This should be hugely lucrative and should by now be owned by CNN or suchlike. No, it is another GDI advertising site!
Finally, I come to the point that Lee has already made. You state that the products are not important, as you make your money from signing others up. That statement is one of the clearest definitions of a pyramid scheme and potentially renders it illegal. Why? because there are no product sales (beyond the selling of recruiting domains) it relies on a continual stream of new entrants to sustain itself and your income relies on their continued subscription. Even if you could get your 3,905 downline (which you won't), how do the 3,125 people on level 5 get their 9.7m downline? In turn, how do those 9.7m people get their 30 billion people to fill their downline? That's just 15 levels down from you and it already accounts for 5 times the world's population. Sooner or later the pyramid inevitably collapses. It always has and it always will.
Sorry, but No Product = Pyramid
Terry, we obviously don't know each other and I have no doubt that you are a good sort. However, I would seriously think again about Ashmax. It has all the hallmarks of a pyramid and I just cannot see that you will make either money or friends from it.