All Gone Netbux No big surprise I guess.

[Fun4TheMoney 0]

I read it on another board, then checked for myself. It's now Searchoodles or something and just takes you to a regular search page. Suz

[OhMyBosh 0]

He had a pretty good idea, but he didn't test it before he offered the service to the public. I stopped when I noticed that he was starting to get into trouble. I believe that it's wrong for some people to release his address, phone number, and etc. He's not a con man, he was just a idea guy that couldn't handle it. He closed his site cause it got too popular too fast. I wish I had a site liket hat.

[karlo 0]

So, NetBux is not true? I was all SCAM? I would rather trust Google Adsense... Because I'm really sure that they will pay me... NetBux is a website not to be trusted because only 1 person runs it... I felt so sorry for those people who lost their money...

[melkonianarg 0]

Yes this was really obvious if u just crunched some number into a calculator...they were never gonna keep up with payments....10, 000 members x $20 = $200,000Yes..because they do have that much revenue from showing banner ads--------

[sunkist 0]

What was the deal with theM? I don't even think they were around very long.Did anybody receive any money?Sunkist

[malish 0]

Same happened to me.. Everyone was literally yelling that netbux just gives you tons of money but I always knew that if company reaches that amount of customers, something is gooing to happen. And as you see, Chad couldn't hadle so many people on his service and he ran away with a lot of money, saying nothing to those who believed in him. I was one of them.

[whyme 0]

The fact is, NetBux could not keep up with the massive amounts of members, they were literally the most visited site in the WWW for a few minutes. In attempt to make some more money, they sold referals, but this only pushed them further down the cliff. The massive amounts of referals bought made them lose even more money.

[Hamtaro 0]

I used Netbux for a while...until they no longer accepted PayPal payments...It did seem that the wouldn't last that long. It's no surprise that Netbux is gone now. I guess getting paid to search is too good of an idea.

[Nashkwon 0]

I knew it was too good to be true. They must have also lost their account with StormPay. It would be a lot of work for them to send out 1000 checks each month, so they must have just decided to keep the money and redirect the page to a regular search page.

[Saint_Michael 3]

thats what you get when you try to make money the easy way it always comes back and hits yah in the face.

[jay2aust 0]

This was taken from http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Netbux and PayPup are quickly gaining attention as two awful scams. Covering the background, both programs promise to pay each member 2 cents for searching Google, Yahoo, eBay, MSN and many other sites with searching capabilities. Both were founded in April of 2005, first Netbux.org, followed by Pay-Pup.com. Pay-to-Search (PTS) seemed to be a big splash, with members able to earn thousands of dollars per month.
Unfortunately, both websites are overhyped scams. First of all, there is no way that any advertiser would pay 2c to Netbux and PayPup for each time a random user searches and receives an advertisement. Ads are not worth $0.02 each. Not to mention, referral commission is 100%, so Netbux and PayPup scammers are actually promising to pay $0.04 per search! If you know anything about the advertising business, $40.00 CPM is absurd, and no company would pay that much.

As if that were not horrible enough, Netbux and PayPup are offering to sell unreferred members to those willing to fork out some cash. At first, both sold referrals for $1 per each member. Later, Netbux increased the rate to $3, and PayPup to $2.50. In any circumstance, this is nothing more than a fishy smelling scam. Since referrals can earn $1 PER DAY for the user who purchased them, it makes zero sense for the website owners to sell them at such a low rate! The only possibility is that Netbux and PayPup simply want to earn more free money before they close down their business.

Perhaps they are eager for more money to make up for lost revenue. Both Netbux and PayPup had their Google AdSense accounts terminated, for two separate reasons. Netbux urged members to "CLICK HERE!" which is a clear violation of AdSense for Search policy. PayPup greedily edited its website code so that mesothelioma attorney and lawyer AdSense advertisements would always show up. Anyone with knowledge of the AdSense knows that these pay dollars per click, and forcing them to appear is against the terms of service. On top of that, Netbux was also removed from another advertisement company, Clicksor.

Forced to move on, both sites were required to find new advertisements. Netbux settled for selling 75,000 ad impressions for $29, which equals $0.0003 income per search. This is less than 1% of the 4 cents promised per search! Not even 1%! PayPup went solely with advertisements that only pay when users enter private and personal information, not exactly the most courteous way to earn income through members.

Now attempting to get quick cash by selling unreferred members, Netbux and PayPup earned well over $10,000 through sales of referrals. Ironically, PayPal caught on to the scam, and froze the accounts of both, meaning that they could not send or receive more payments. On they went, scamming again through 2CO.com. Once again, they were recognized for the scammers they are, and removed from that service as well. Finally, they had to settle for accepting payments via Charge.com, a high-risk company which simply put is a credit card transaction processor. Anyone foolish enough to give away money to these two scoundrels after seeing all of this occur certainly does justice to the saying, "A fool and his money are soon parted..."

Furthermore, if it were not apparent enough already, Netbux and PayPup are, in all honesty, the same company (scam). The same person, MidiFox.com hosted both websites, until traffic became too much to contain. One site simply was not enough to reel in users and advertisement agencies, as well.

Both websites say that they will never sell, trade, or give away any personal information. How then, do they justify the fact that anyone can see the email address of each referral he has - including ones which he purchased?! Netbux sneakily removed its forums right as PayPup was being launched, simply a way to stop users from communicating about the obvious relationship. PayPup went down for days at a time during the first week of its existence, causing many members, including referrals who had been "purchased" by someone else, to stop coming back and earning money for the one who had shelled out $1 per member. Netbux was hacked and its security breached. PayPup mysteriously made referral links virtually invalid, as anyone clicking on the "Create" button for a new account would have the referral code wiped away from their browser, a cheap way of getting more "unreferred" members to selfishly sell for more cash, and a clear violation of the statement that referral codes would stick to that potential new member's IP address, even if the browser were closed and the computer shut down!

Netbux and PayPup are most certainly scams. Feel free to check back shortly. The only ways they could survive more than a few months would be to ban multitudes of members with high earnings, lower their payment rates dramatically, or add tons of new advertisements. If none of those happens, you probably will not see them around after a few months, at least not with the same business plan.

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[cleryavance 0]

This was taken from http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

 

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Man, netbux, gainpay, solomanic, airmail, all those are *BLEEP*! Sorry but they are, reading mail for money, hey if it was THAT easy, EVERYONE would be rich?

 

In truth you?re only making everyone else rich, these people are paid to advertise everyone else?s stuff and with everyone clicking on it all and giving them the promised amounts of clicks? well you?re making these people come back for more because they?re making money off of it?

 

I?ve lost so much money into these stupid things?. I gave up and started looking for some kind of casino?.

 

I found something better, got normal computer games and you bet like $0.50 a game and can win WAY over $100 if you score high, and they give you practice rounds where you don?t have to pay anything at all or whatever you want to do, you don?t even have to deposit anything in, just play the games with ?play money? and to be honest you can make as many different people into this as you want lol but hey if you all wanna look and want to actually get real money and not lose money to these fake pieces of crap, well here?s the website:

 

https://www.worldwinner.com/cgi/start.pl

[sonicbj 0]

wow that paid to play games looks good