Pre-selling is common practice nowadays, presumably so companies can guage demand ahead of time and produce accordingly. It sounds like the good folks at Agloco are doing the same, promoting a great new way to earn money: paid to surf via a View bar. It sounds interesting except:

The hook

They get you hooked with plenty of persuasive reasons to sign up, then you find out almost as an afterthought, that the almighty bar is not yet available. Blast. Is the rest a pisstake too?

The line - Search

Every time you use the Viewbar™ to do an Internet search, AGLOCO earns money from the search engine providers.

So Google pay Agloco 10 cents a click do they? Interesting, seeing as I thought it was common knowledge that nobody really knows what Google pay who for what.

The sinker - Advertising

The Viewbar™ itself displays ads that are targeted based upon the websites you’re visiting.

Oh blimey, so ads in browser bars as well as on top of the screen, down the sides and in the middle? Sometimes making money isnt worth it, boys and girls. We surf to educate and entertain ourselves, don't we? Surfing to collect ads is like reading a phone directory. The only way it might work is if you go round to your grandparents' home and sit your inquisitive granddad down and tell him to play with this great new game called click the ad.

More bait - Transaction commissions

Many major retailers pay commissions when you refer customers who make a purchase. AGLOCO collects that commission and passes it on to our members. (For example, Amazon pays an 8.5% commission to most websites who refer customers, and has cut deals for even larger percentages.

Stop press, Amazon are paying double the normal commissions till Christmas, but of course that's no good to us AGLOCO aspirants because that bloody Viewer bar won't be out till sometime next year.

More lines - Software distribution

Numerous software companies pay websites to encourage the download of new software releases (for example, Adobe’s Flash and Acrobat Reader software), and trial versions of new programs.

Great, so we will be paid to download software, but are we obliged to use it? Hopefully it doesn;t involve programs known to upset computers, like browser bar add-ons full of spyware?

The final flap at persuasion -Service distribution

Many online service providers will look to the AGLOCO community as a source of new and active users for their services. (For example, eBay, Skype, and PayPal, among others, all pay fees to people who help them recruit new active users to their services)

So why don't AGLOCO join the rush and do the same and pay referrers of their View bar? We will be following this attempt at collecting email addresses with great interest, and hope to be proven wrong about our cynical thoughts.