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Invest In My Breast
image If you're a woman who wants breast augmentation surgery, but can't afford it, then try signing up at InvestInMyBreast.com (mostly safe for work, though some nudity if you look around enough). This site connects women who want breast implants with charitable-minded people who want to help them achieve this goal. So women simply post their pictures, state why they want implants, and the donations start rolling in. Sounds great (well, actually, it sounds bizarre), but as soon as I started checking out the site my baloney detector started to go off. The big catch is that women will only ever receive their donations if, and only if, they reach their goal amount (usually $4000-$5000). It's an all-or-nothing system. But during the year that the site has been up, it doesn't appear that any woman has come anywhere close to achieving their goal amount. So what happens if, as is probable, a woman never reaches her goal? If the system was fair, the donations would be refunded to the donor. This doesn't happen. Second most fair would be to pay out the donations to the women, after a certain amount of time. This doesn't happen either. Instead, all donations are kept by the owners of the website itself. In other words, if you do donate money it's almost certain that your 'donation' will never result in a woman getting breast implants. Instead, it'll line the pockets of the site's owner. Of course, then there's the question of whether these women are who they say they are. I suspect that at least some of them are either shills or fakes. And if you search long enough, the site itself does admit, in its users agreement, that "InvestInMyBreast.com cannot and does not guarantee any user's identity." (via NewYorkish)
Categories: Body Manipulation
Posted by Alex on Wed May 05, 2004		 Comments (11)
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Heather,

You are correct about investinmybreasts.com! At first they did not return my emails when I asked them why they would not release my images so people could donate. They told me they were getting a new server. However, they did take my doners money and now I cant even locate thier site. Please tell me how I can get in on the suit!!

.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

thanks!!

I had donations to at
Posted by Resa  on  Mon Jul 26, 2004  at  11:58 AM
All you women got suckered by your own greed. You wanted free boob jobs, but you turned out to be boobs by not recognizing a scam.

I am proud to say I donated to the original- Michelle at http://www.giveboobs.com -

I checked back just today and BAMMMO- she got her new big boobs like we all hoped and prayed. I am proud to have donated to a worthy, non-scammy, cause. I am proud to be an American.
Posted by Johnny Five  on  Fri Aug 13, 2004  at  07:08 PM
Hi,

I was one of the girls who did this, I also had about 5 friends on there too, can you keep me updated on the outcome, as I also had donations and now they are gone, I gave the guy your email Heather so I'm sure he will write you.

thanks for helping everyone out of this mess.
Posted by Chelle  on  Tue Sep 28, 2004  at  08:40 AM
But it was a great site though, can it not be brought back just for us to look at!
Posted by Phil  on  Tue Oct 19, 2004  at  09:12 AM
I donated to a friend using investinmybreast.com and have not heard anything. Do you have a way I can contact someone in regards to the money I donated??

ty..
Posted by MRW  on  Wed Nov 03, 2004  at  04:19 AM
Well I use to be on investinmybrest/chest website I don't think I raised any money it I think when I joined it was on the verge of being shut down.

Which does not help me much since I am stll struggling to reach my goal of breast implants.

I join myfreeimplants.com so far my fund is at 115.00 I guess that is great but my target is $6,500.00 for saline implants going to a D cup.

I am looking for sites like myfreeimplants.com and it looks like there is none around.

I have my own website http://www.camgirlminnie.com where you can send me directly your donations for my implants & I do live cam shows and I have other fun stuff on my website.

No one has donated yet, its been a serious struggle to reach my desire dream of the size breast I want.
Posted by Camgirl Minnie  on  Sun Oct 09, 2005  at  07:19 PM
hi,was just womdering if there are any genuine donation websites out there??
if they are would someone be so very kind as to mail me the address
i would be very grateful,thankyou, kate xx
Posted by katie-louise  on  Sun Oct 29, 2006  at  05:09 PM
I did a little research on that site and found out that a lot of girls had been taken for their money. Not saying that he isn't legit but there is a large population of girls who lost out big time, never got any money, and their pics won't be removed from the site.

Do a quick google search for myfreeimplants "scam" and you can find a lot..


Anyone who reads this who has been scammed, signed up to the site and is having second doubts, here is some of the hard to find info that all the other girls have been searching for at no charge..

The sites owner is Jason Grunstra
He resides in L.A
His online resume with all his personal contact info:
http://www.grunstra.com/jason/resume/jason-grunstra_resume.pdf

His myspace page
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=343069

Again. I'm not saying that he is not running a real company. There is just a large population of woman who did not receive what the website claims

K~
Posted by K~  on  Wed Jun 27, 2007  at  12:16 PM
That website looked like a scam to me too. I signed up for an account but I haven't put any pictures up(I'm glad I didn't now). I did do some searching and the only one that looks real is Augmentation Nation. I have signed up for an account there and did put pictures up. I've only had the account for 3 days, so I have no comments about it as of yet. The money is suppost to go directly into my Paypal account, so none of this sending it to the doctor or we lost your account crap. If you'd like to check it out, here's my link:
http://www.augmentationnation.com./DarkIsis
Feel free to message me and let me know what you think.
Posted by DarkIsis  on  Sun Nov 11, 2007  at  05:40 PM
Hi,

My name is Mike and I'm the founder of AugmentationNation.com.

When doing our research regarding the site structure, my legal team realized that the 'holding' of money until someone reached their fundraising goal is, in fact, in violation of escrow laws. There are a NUMBER of other laws that are potentially bent or broken if the company is not registered as a banking institution. Thus, this is why AugmentationNation.com is partnered with PayPal and uses their money handling technology. We make no money off the transactions.

Our purpose is provide a place for women and men to receive support for their surgical procedures while having access to information and news.

I appreciate your support and hope you visit our site soon.

- Mike
(please contact via the website 'contact' page)
Posted by Augmentation Nation  on  Fri Jan 25, 2008  at  05:41 PM
Hello

Try buymyboobies.me if you are looking for a genuine site too help you raise money.

I donate their and the donations go straight to the girls..

HTH
A
Posted by Alan  on  Wed May 26, 2010  at  09:34 AM
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