I was surprised to see that Wellness360.com appears to be back up, although it’s not currently functional. None of the links on the home page are working, including the login. The site disappeared in January with no warning or explanation to members, many of whom were owed money for participating in various activities on the site.
In doing some digging, I found this press release from November stating that Aperture Health, the owners of Wellness360, had signed a contract with Neudesic Media Group to provide advertising for the site. Neudesic represents an impressive stable of tech websites, but Wellness360 would be their first foray into the “health and fitness vertical.”
Maybe the site’s been down for them to do some tweaking of the program as a result of this partnership with Neudesic Media. I haven’t been able to find any new information since that announcement (which pre-dated the site closure by almost two months). The company is still a “pink” stock, traded OTC but without any requirements to disclose financials. They were losing money as of the last time they did file publicly, for the third quarter of 2008.
If you were owed money from Wellness360, I’m still very skeptical that you’re going to get it. The homepage still promises the sharing of advertising revenues with members, but with a new company in charge of handling the advertising, who knows how that’s going to play out.
I just hope, for poor John Schneider’s sake, that they remove his pic/video from their homepage. I can’t imagine that he’d want to shill for these guys.
