Well, it’s been a while since I posted so i thought i’ll start off with where i left off. I guess the post title pretty much speaks for itself but anyway. Just so you know the Bux.to ‘experiment’ is an ‘experiment’ that I did to find out if these so called ‘PTC(Pay-to-click)’ sites are actually worth the time and money. The result is kind of contradicting though. While I learnt that this particular PTC is not the most reliable in this niche while being the most popular i was in the mean time experimenting on another PTC which turned out to have a far different outcome.
Just to let you know i was tracking the ‘experiment’ in posts(refer to the ‘related posts’ section) telling my readers the progress of my experiment. Making money out of these programs generally requires investing in the program to get a good return out of it. You make money by referring other members and earning a percentage of your referral earnings(usually anywhere between 50 and 100%) and this is where investing comes in. If you don’t have access to enough publicity to get direct referrals you can ‘purchase’ unreferred members and they will make money for you. So i thought i’ll try this out just to find out and let my readers know if these kinds of sites are worth the time and money.
Filling you in on how things turned out, I actually made my money I invested pretty quickly of $16.98 and I requested payment on 23rd May and well that’s it. Today, six months later I am yet to receive my payment. The site still seems to be up and running with a strong alexa of 1k. Reading posts on their forum, members have stated having been paid after 9 months of payment request. I won’t be surprised if I receive my payment 3 months or maybe even another 6 months from now if the site is still up but it’s a lost cause really. A $3 profit after 6 to 12 months.
While this outcome should conclude this experiment as these PTC programs cannot be trusted i would say otherwise. In the past few months I was also experimenting with Neobux. This result tuirned out to be far more different. I’ve been paid instantly at Neobux several times now and not in 6 months or 3 or even an hour! I’ve been paid there in just a few seconds several times. This just goes to show that investing time and money in this programs are not such a bad idea except that you should be aware of which sites to invest your time and money in.
After the launch of Neobux with their new more profitable business model, many PTC sites have followed their lead and these sites that now follow the new PTC model are commonly known by the PTC community as 2nd generation PTC’s.
This generation of PTC’s(as used and virtually started by Neobux) most highlighted differences to the old model (as bux.to) are the following:
-Referral Renting (as opposed to Referral purchasing) of unreferred members.
-Automated Referral Recycling (as opposed to no recycling of referrals once purchased) of unreferred members.
-Instant payments (as opposed to manual payments ranging from 24 hours to 9months)
-Lower ROI for members (as opposed to a much higher ROI) thus making the model more sustainable for the PTC owner.
From WIkipedia’s Paid-to-Click page:
A new generation of PTCs has started emerging lately like Neobux, Buxout and Sandraclicks which continually keep revising and tweaking themselves to evolve an efficient survival strategy. Some of these websites offer instant payouts, wherein the website’s script credits the user’s account as soon as he cashes out. These websites also feature fraud prevention and hacker-proof technologies.
Making sure that the site offers the above features (2nd generation PTC sites) and visiting their forums and researching about how the site has been progressing and investing in the most hyped ones can turn out to make the PTC industry one of the most profitable online money making opportunities without a lot of effort.
This niche of online money making will always be notorious for turning into scams. This is mainly due to the simplicity of setting up such a website thus resulting in many PTC websites run by an unstable administration which lead to many of these sites rapping up everyday. Also the ability of these kinds of websites to give owners a quick initial profit also contributes to the amount of fraud involved in the industry. But careful analyzing and investment in the select few best websites could reap a very decent profit by any standard.
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Nov 23, 2008 at 14:31:11
Nice writing. You are on my RSS reader now so I can read more from you down the road.
Allen Taylor
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Dec 21, 2008 at 23:55:57
Same like you, till now I am yet to receive my payment from Earn3. For information the member in waiting list to receive payment is 7633, wow i can’t imagine when the payment day. So i quit to Click.
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yeah the ptc industry is really going down now, most of the ptcs meant to be the top in the industry have closed down recently.
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Dec 22, 2008 at 03:31:34
Great post! Come check out my new paid to click site at http://paid2site.com . We are about 3 weeks old and have 400 members so far. Happy Earning!
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Good luck with the site, just remember the ptc industry is a hard one to manage, unless you innovate and find ways of keeping a constant cash flow it’s not going to be easy.
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