By Chris Emejuru, 2306051
On Thursday morning of June 1, after a couple of HIDDEN games, when I attempted visiting the News tab at SFI to begin the day’s tasks, via URL on the address bar as usual, I got a blank page after logging in. This repeated each time I reloaded. Shortly I discovered that the “simplified SFI” that Gery had been talking about for some time was now in effect so spent the next hour or so reading about it. (I’d left the site too early yesterday to see the announcement, I later discovered.)
It was when I tried the URL for the Build tab that I discovered something had changed, as I got a message saying I didn’t have the right rank to access the page. So then I used just sfimg.com and the new home page opened with Gery’s intro to the new system.
Rather than being automatically entered into the Daily Grand drawing after reviewing the 6 building blocks, you now do it manually from the home page that no longer has tabs. Now for the majority of people, there are just two ranks of Affiliate and EA (Executive Affiliate, like back in the day). To make EA you just sell or buy an E-Pack containing 50 TCredits and other stuff for $19.95, or win one. Direct commission for seller or buyer’s sponsor is now 80% of CV for all products with the exception of the E-Pack. Direct commission for the E-Pack is a flat $5 as long as you are EA.
No more Astro Auctions and PriceBenders, but only Jolt Auctions, with existing Jolts on account converted to TCredits at the ratio of one to one. This meant I now had 128 TCredits (instead of about 45) that surprised me initially. Use of TCredits is now reduced to bidding at Jolt or playing games. As they are used they get transformed to PSAs, CSAs, Rewardicals and sats. By the time 50 TCredits are spent, you will have gotten 3 PSAs, 4 CSAs, 250 Rewardicals and 250 sats. No more Flexxity, Localvantia, Biz Quiz, Zingo and Mega-Zingo. No more answering questions to complete review of the former building blocks, something that became monotonous after a while. The network structure also changed to one where each affiliate has a maximum of 5 PSAs on the first level, with additional active PSAs being spilled down the levels automatically.
But why the change? Hear Gery at the SFI Forum:
On September 1st, 2021, we unveiled our 20-level, “level up” system. Eighteen months in, and to my great disappointment, it’s clearly NOT working out as we had hoped. And because I’ve also learned to cease fighting when it’s clear that there’s no remedy, we are going to make a change.
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Meet the Share-Tech™ Profit Sharing System
Through Share-Tech™, we’ve dramatically simplified almost everything about SFI. Layers of complexity have been removed in favor of a highly-focused and streamlined system.
A big part of that simplicity and focus comes from the fact that there are now just two primary ranks…Affiliate and Executive Affiliate. Yes, there are some additional “VIP” ranks for go-getters, but let’s focus on the rank of Executive Affiliate (EA) right now.
“Going Executive” requires ONE thing—the purchase or sale of something new we call the Executive Pack (E-Pack). That’s it! And the price of an E-Pack is just $19.95 and comes with a 100% guarantee of satisfaction or your money back! More on E-Packs in a moment.
“Going Executive” also means you’ve staked out a position in SFI’s major new profit-sharing program…which, for the first time ever, includes a guaranteed monthly income! You heard right! If you’re EA, you’re now earning money with SFI…every month!
For the next few days, Astro Auctions was partly available, and the Mega-Zingo sessions on Saturday, June 3 were held, and I won twice. On Saturday, I realized Astro Auctions was still coming up so those auctions people had bid on before the beginning of the month would complete; no new auctions were being created. The Mega-Zingo had a different URL than what I used to see, the link for it being on the home page. My new daily SFI routine now includes Daily Grand entry, hits tracking download, Card King (spending at least 1 TCredit), HIDDEN (possibly spending TCredits), Grandmaster Poker, Zackjack and of course Clocktivity that can now fetch free TCredits just like T-Time, running on timer at the background.
After June 1, the new home page began showing the News & Announcements section before the Dashboard, as shown in this screenshot that was taken on Saturday. The News & Announcements section includes news (loudspeaker icon), announcements (three wavy lines), latest Forum posts (quote bubbles). In the image, notice the guy at lower right, next to PSAs? The lower blue section indicates the fraction of one PSA that you have earned so far, and will rise with time, as TCredits are spent. Once the figure is completely blue, you have one new PSA to claim. Below it is another figure for earned CSA.
Again Gery gives a summary of the new system here:
My first post at the SFI Forum on the new system:
On Sunday, by the time I was done with the day’s SFI basic chores I’d spent enough TCredits in the month to earn a PSA and a CSA. Claim PSA and Claim CSA buttons began to appear. But I found I couldn’t claim them because I wasn’t EA yet. This made me convert 3,000 of my Rewardicals to a $5 gift certificate then go EA by paying $19.95 for the E-Pack using both SFI account and gift certificate funds. And I shortly began sporting the new EA badge. 