What have they done to GOODF

(And truly saddening and shocking if the cause of the sites demise is true.......)

welcome mrblue! The only mod from the old goodf is ceylon , tiggy was aware of this site since the beginning but never replied to my invites ,others tried too. He did sticky my post with the 3 letters attached when the files went down on goodf1 so big credit there.

Does anyone know how to get in touch with Tiggy or Faljay?

Emails were sent out in MAr and MAy 2016 indicating changes.

Hi Handle
I contacted you and the rest of the platinum members last month, in confidence, requesting your feedback, regarding how we need to take the site forward, to keep it up on Google as it is currently vulnerable and in the last month, our traffic has dropped off somewhat.

I explained that we are up against debt companies who have way more resources than we do, and that's the problem. I'm having to fit GOODF in around other work, so my time to develop more content is limited. If we drop off page one for ‘get out of debt’, then our traffic will drop from thousands a day to a few hundred and at this time, more than ever, I feel people need to be able to find the template letters and find all the other wonderful information on the forum.

Although most of you were supportive of the idea we put forward, a few of you did voice some concerns and after much consideration regarding how we proceed and testing some ideas, we have come to a decision.

We have decided to keep the site independent and go it alone, so to speak, however, we still need funding to be able to secure the future of the site, by getting up there with the big debt sites.
So we are looking at crowdfunding to raise the funds to secure the future of the site and be able to get the site to where it needs to be, an idea put forward by one of you. To take on the big boys, we need big money and are asking for a target of £20,000. If we get more then we can do even more.

This will allow us to have a complete site design, so it works and navigates more successfully across all devices and also to offer far more content, including more on Bailiffs, the Courts, Insolvency, Council Tax and more, not just for the UK, but the 7 countries we support.
Also, as I was struggling to keep up a dialogue with over thirty people by pm, so have created a private part, at the bottom of the forum for you to share your feedback (unless you would prefer to pm me privately).

As before, we can only go forward with this idea if we have your support and the vast majority of the members support, which is why I'm running it past you first. Please let me know you views. Thank you.

Blessings, Jon
Hi

I'm writing to you and the rest of the platinum members on the site in confidence, as I'm looking at plans for how we take the site forward and would like your feedback.

Despite our traffic holding up reasonably well, we have dropped on many google terms in the last year and generally our google ranking is vulnerable.

We are up against debt companies who have way more resources than we do, and I'm having to fit GOODF in around other work, so my time to develop more content is limited. If we drop of the front page for ‘Get out of Debt’, then our traffic will drop from thousands a day to a few hundred.

Sadly, most people are not awake and are looking for conventional solutions.
The majority of people who come to the site, don’t sign up, with less than 0.05% actually signing up and 40% of them, only downloading the first letter.

I am working on updates to all our current pages and documents on the main site and in the process of creating a load more pages, including, dealing with the courts, CCJ’s, TV licensing, Section 10, bankruptcy, but as you can appreciate it's a huge task.

Then few weeks ago, through synchronicity, Jonny our ‘techie’ on the site came into contact with a guy who’s a big fan of the site and has been helping people with insolvency solutions, at a fraction of the cost of paying back debt collectors. I have since met him and he’s really genuine and up to speed on the fraudulent nature of the current banking system, as well as 911, and the truth movement, and having similar spiritual outlook.

He has suggested the proposition of working with GOODF, where he and his team could offer us content, and resources to really improve the site content, to improve our ranking, and getting the template letters and the information on the forum available to more people.
They could offer the members the opportunity to put their details into a form and look at different debt solutions, so people still wanting to go down a conventional route would be able see the different options, in addition to our letters. Their number would appear if people wanted insolvency advice, but the site would remain focussed on the template letters.

I would like to see Getoutofdebtfree come up on the first page for ALL debt terms and beat the government and debt sites, and offer the free letters to everyone on the planet who is experiencing debt, as well as educating them with all the information on the forum.

I feel at an intuitive level that this is the best way for the site to go forward, and Mark (Ceylon) agrees, however, we can only go forward with this idea if we have your support and the vast majority of the members support, which is why I'm running it past you first. Please let me know you views. Thank you.

Blessings, Jon
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@1saberwow wrote:If you had kept a message from the old site that you can get into the old site as i was there minutes ago.

Yeah I still have a notification from a message that was before the bottom feeders took over, though trying to login is a bit tricky..!

@Prometheus wrote:Does anyone know how to get in touch with Tiggy or Faljay?

I have tried to contact them via private messages through the old site, though it looks like the messages don't get sent..!!

So we are looking at crowdfunding to raise the funds to secure the future of the site and be able to get the site to where it needs to be,
an idea put forward by one of you.

Does this strike anyone else as a bit ODD ?

Enlighten me

@handle wrote:Enlighten me

It's like he was seeking to pass the blame if anything goes wrong.

If you dont like that answer,
I only responded because you asked me too.

SEE how that works ?

Thats good enough for me. Similar to my own thoughts at the time, being:

"If you guys don't pay up, I'll trash it".

Hows that work for you?

The phrase "Hegellian Prison" springs to mind.

Hello there. Newbie here but had an active ongoing thread going over at GOODF before it all went south.

I started the 3 letters process and have been over the moon with the results.

The advice i received was superb and now that the site has gone i am looking for some advice again as a couple of letters have recently arrived again.

One is threatening court action and I was wondering if anyone can help?

Many thanks as ever.

Hi westcountryhelp,
welcome.

suggest you start a new thread ,also more info please.

OK will do. I'll post up later as I am at work at the moment. Many thanks as ever.

Thanks goodness I found this forum!
I was on the GOODF website and started to 'deal' with banks and loans etc sent 2 of the 3 letters then I let things slide, went back to the site and it was gone.

I've just received an email from a debt collection company so I will commence the 3 letters with them. I' would just love a place to come and get some support when I'm freaking out

and here you all are

Hi and welcome to the forum. There are new versions of the 3 letters now available to use on this site

We now have separate ones for agent debt collectors (Fredrickson, Moorcroft etc) and debt purchasers (Lowell, Cabot etc) and also new ones for banks and original creditors

And please don't get freaked out over debt collectors, banks etc, they're really not worth it

I can vouch for discodave4093 too, they're really not worth it and you'll soon lose the fear which, effectively, is and will only ever be about a 'clever' use of words by the banks/DCAs too induce fear... but all it is is words in a piece of paper. It's not someone at your door with an axe, remember that each time you get a letter! And the letters will die off one you follow the process and then ignore them... I wrote off £18k in separate CCs, Loans and an OD haha!

I find it hard to believe Ceylon  would have anything whatsoever
to do with something so bent as to what happened to the old goodf site

@QUEENISABELLA wrote:I find it hard to believe Ceylon  would have anything whatsoever
to do with something so bent as to what happened to the old goodf site

The decision for the sale was made behind his back ,
after that,
he had to keep quiet or get Banned.
He spoke out and was banned.

I knew I was right straight as a die that lad keep up the good work ceylon

society of the spectacle. thanks for that information

I also logged onto GOODF today and was amazed to see that it had changed...again. The site I joined years ago was very 'homemade' (green theme and bee logo) and it was good. Then a couple of years ago it went a bit too professional for my liking (blue theme and a bit polished looking...same as the site that somebody here has screenshotted). Now it's plain weird. All weird posts under topic headlines with links to porn sites.

I googled 'What has happened to GOODF?' and it brought me here.

So - what's the background to this site? Does anybody know?

I was logging on to GOODF for information on old style student loans (pre-1998).

@Stashmam wrote:I also logged onto GOODF today and was amazed to see that it had changed...again.  The site I joined years ago was very 'homemade' (green theme and bee logo) and it was good.  Then a couple of years ago it went a bit too professional for my liking (blue theme and a bit polished looking...same as the site that somebody here has screenshotted).  Now it's plain weird.  All weird posts under topic headlines with links to porn sites.

I googled 'What has happened to GOODF?' and it brought me here.

So - what's the background to this site?  Does anybody know?

I was logging on to GOODF for information on old style student loans (pre-1998).

It was sold and the Buyers ,
a Debt Management firm used the Reputation of the old site to trawl for customers.
There used to be a pop up Add that told you how angus from Aberdeen had just got a Debt rearrangement,
But I guess Angus died of old age,
or Debt management Company FEES;

Hiya SotS

Thanks for replying.

I had a read through the posts and gathered that some such thing had happened to the old GOODF site.  As I said in my previous post, it had already started to go that way a while ago when it changed from 'green' to 'blue'...the latest version is even more super-slick and I'm not really happy that I'm still registered on there tbh.  I couldn't see anywhere where it lets you delete your account though.  Having said that, I don't have any debts that I'm avoiding, so I'm not worried on that score because it's so obvious that people from these DMCs trawl sites like that looking for whatever info they can glean.

Anyway, I actually meant 'what's the background to THIS site?'  The Community.  In my welcome email it said something about having been set up by people from GOODF.  

Is that a good thing?  

I am incredibly disappointed that the guy I used to watch being interviewed on 'conspiracy' tv channels and watching his talks on YouTube - how vehemently he fought the debt collectors - has actually sold his site to some skanky DMC.  It's like finding out that Gandhi was a meathead or that Jonny Marr's a Tory...horrible.

We cant be sure what happened.
Some pressure may have been put on him,
or a personal crisis.
Or maybe he just felt that 10 years of work helping others was his limit.

So far I havent heard of anybody having their detasils abused by the new owners.