An online scheme called Powerhouse Feeder, fronted by Darren Bradbury, Eddie Harrison, and Eldon Conceicao, promises quick returns without selling any actual products. The operation functions as an eight-tier matrix cycler, a model frequently linked to collapsed pyramid schemes and financial fraud.
Bradbury, from the UK, claims on the Powerhouse Feeder website that he has "been living the laptop lifestyle and earning multiple 6 figure incomes for 6+ years." Harrison, also from the UK, states he spent "3+ years" in network and internet marketing. Eldon Conceicao, based in the US, lists himself as a freelance website developer with "over 15 years" in web and software development. Their online biographies omit a history of promoting fraudulent ventures.
Bradbury's public YouTube channel shows his past promotion of My 24 Hour Income, Leased Ad Space, GiftoBit, ZarFund, Stiforp, and My Ad Story. Regulators have identified each of these as Ponzi schemes or cash gifting operations that later collapsed. Harrison also promoted these same schemes, adding Freedom5 to his list of failed ventures. Conceicao appears new to this type of online marketing, with Powerhouse Feeder marking his first known involvement.
Powerhouse Feeder offers no actual products or services. Participants simply buy and sell membership positions within the system. Once signed up, individuals purchase $7 positions in what the company calls a "matrix cycler." This structure works by using money from new recruits to pay commissions to those who joined earlier.
The system arranges itself into eight tiers of 3x2 matrices. A "cycle" triggers when all positions in a matrix fill, releasing a commission. A Matrix 1 position costs $7 and pays a $15 commission. It also generates three new positions, which then feed into Matrix 2. Matrix 2 pays $30 and creates six new positions. Matrix 3 pays $60 and yields twelve positions. This pattern continues through the tiers. Matrix 8, the highest level, purportedly pays $2,560 and generates 512 new positions.
The mathematics behind this model shows its inherent unsustainability. Each tier demands an exponentially greater number of participants than the one before it. Reaching the upper tiers would require more new recruits than exist in most regional or even national markets. Recruitment inevitably slows. When it does, the entire structure collapses, leaving the vast majority of participants with financial losses.
Membership in Powerhouse Feeder costs nothing. But participants must buy into the matrix cycler positions to earn anything. This is where the money moves: from the pockets of new recruits into the accounts of earlier participants. No retail customers exist outside the affiliate pool. No genuine demand for services supports the scheme. The Federal Trade Commission and other consumer protection agencies consistently warn against such schemes, which prioritize recruitment over product sales.
The three founders understand this model. They have seen it fail repeatedly under different names. Yet they operate it again. Powerhouse Feeder is just another iteration of a long-running fraud, designed to enrich its operators at the expense of later investors. The US Securities and Exchange Commission, among others, publishes resources on identifying and avoiding pyramid schemes.