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In this lens, we will discuss whether Bux.to / Buxto is a scam. I hope to get various opinions that will help me and others on the Net make decisions about this site.
Bux.to /Buxto is a PTC site that started their beta launch on June 12, 2007.
Their layout was almost identical to another PTC site, Adbux. This caused concern to some people, but others were just happy to use something that is familiar.
They grew quickly because, each Ad click is 1 cent and you earn 100% of your referrals earnings.
This is on their Welcome page:
" Welcome to Bux.to!
At Bux.to, you get paid to click on ads and visit websites. The process is easy! You simply click a link and view a website for 30 seconds to earn money. You can earn even more by referring friends. You'll get paid $0.01 for each website you personally view and $0.01 for each website your referrals view. Payment requests can be made every day and are processed through PayPal. The minimum payout is $10.00.
Earnings Example
» You click 10 ads per day = $0.10
» 20 referrals click 10 ads per day = $2.00
» Your daily earnings = $2.10
» Your weekly earnings = $14.70
» Your monthly earnings = $63.00
The above example is based only on 20 referrals and 10 daily clicks. Some days you will have more clicks available, some days you will have less. What if you had more referrals? What if there were more ads available?
Join now and receive a $0.05 Sign-up Bonus "
This is my experience with them in terms of receiving payments.
Oct 20 2007: I received my first payment of $10.01 after waiting for 30 business days.
Dec 30 2007: I received my second payment of $10.11. (requested on Oct 20 2007).
May 23 2008: I received my third payment of $102.84 (requested on Dec 30 2007).
So, I guess they may be slow in payment, but so far they have been paying me.
Bux.to is still one of the fastest growing PTC. Their payment of 1 cent per click and 1 cent for each of your referrals' clicks means that your earnings can grow quite fast especially if you have some active referrals. I am now getting about 13 clicks per day. Upgraded members get at least 20 ads per day.
Well, if you are interested to join as my referral and give it a try. Click here.
They are now paying via AlertPay.
Sites that Pay and Sites that Don't
PTC sites for sites that do pay.
PTC/PTR scam sites for sites that are scams.
Updates
May 23 2008: I received my third payment today. Amazing!
May 9 2008: It seems that they are now paying those who requested at the beginning of Dec 2007. I requested my payment at Dec 30 2007. Another month of waiting ...
March 8 2008: Bux.to card is now only available to Premium members and no longer to Standard members as was originally announced. buxto forum
March 7 2008: They have just issued the Bux.to MasterCard which should help to speed up payments.
The people at the Bux.to forum are all excited about the Card, but I think that it would be wise to look at the fees.
Activation Fees: $9.95
Per Payment: $2.00
Monthly Fees: $3.00
and the minimum payout is $75.00
Also, if you have a pending payment then you would need for that to be paid before you can request the next payment.
April 6, 2008 - Database maintenance. (7th of April)
April 5, 2008 - Server update forum may not be accessible.
April 1, 2008 - Fast payment? There was a post in the forum that a member received payment 3 hours after request. Although, this may be good news to some but to others who have been waiting since December 2007, this seems highly unfair. buxto
Mar. 30, 2008 - Database maintenance tomorrow (31st of March). Website will be unavailable approximately from 7:00 to 9:00 am GMT
March 6 2008: Payment and account security
For large payment requests, bux.to will do a history check to make sure that legitimate person are being paid. If there is no cross-reference or payee address recently changed payment will be marked as "Sent" but not released. They will then try to establish contact with the member to confirm the payee address.
Please do NOT use the same passwords on other sites or email at Bux. Make a new seperate password dedicated for Bux and Bux's forum.
Feb. 21, 2008: Phishing Alert from Bux.to
Please watch for fake emails from buxtomarketing@yahoo.es or any other that look similar. It will say something is wrong with your account/payment and ask for your Bux password. We will never ask you for your password. All official emails we send are from @bux.to so please disregard all other email domains. You are responsible for your own account. Do NOT disclose your email on public forums including Bux forum.
Feb 17, 2008: Bux.to has been removed from the scam list of PTCTalk.
The admin of PTCTalk says that altough bux.to may take longer to pay they have been paying and so do not belong on the scam list ptctalk-bux.to
Feb 1, 2008: On the Bux.to news - Payments will be processed as usual today thereafter via AlertPay or Bux.to card which can be used worldwide.
Jan 23 2008: On the Bux.to news - Tomorrow the 24th of January at 3.00 am GMT we are moving to our new servers as recently announced. We will try to keep the downtime as short as possible.
Jan. 23, 2008: On the Bux.to news - Seems that PayPal changed their policy in doing business with PTC websites. We are just checking on other payment solutions. Business continues as usual. We will keep you posted.
Jan 19 2008: Do not use autoclickers with bux.to. Just as we do not want to be cheated, let us not cheat others. You will also be banned when you are caught.
Jan 10 2008: There are some new sites claiming to be affiliated with Bux.to. The following link lists the authentic bux.to sites https://truebux.com/
Jan 9 2008: Bux.to have started live support chats and there are some interesting updates at uronlinebiz. http://uronlinebiz.com/index2.htm
Jan 5 2008: The payout time has changed 30 business days for premium and 60 business days for standard members. I think that that is really a long time to wait to be paid.
Dec 30 2007: Bux.to did it again. Just when I thought that they have forgotten me, suddenly I got paid ;)
Dec 26 2007: I am still waiting for my payout. No Christmas present from them :(
Dec 12, 2007: Bux.to has been added the boycott list of gptboycott. I have also been waiting for my payout since Oct 30 and I think that the 30 working days are up. There are some people being paid at the forum and I hope that my turn will be soon.
Nov 12, 2007: Bux.to received a rating of 10 from Uronlinebiz. .
Oct 20, 2007: Requested payout. I think that I should receive this within the 30 working days. I will keep you all informed.
Oct 16, 2007: According to uronlinebiz, Bux.to do not have anymore late payouts and they have a new support site - www.buxtosupport.com
Oct 10, 2007: Bux.to have now reached payout up to Sept 9. For members who are suspended Bux.to have a special thread in their forum for them to make enquiries.
Oct 10, 2007: You can now access Bux.to using the normal domain. Does this mean that Bux.to has won the "war" against Adbux? I am just glad that things are back to normal so that we can do our clicking.
Oct 08, 2007: I just read an interesting article from uronlinebiz.com, that due to an all out "war" between Adbux and Bux.to, the Bux.to site was shutdown. However, you can still access the bux.to site from here.
Oct 05, 2007: Surprise! I received my payment from Bux.to. So, is it a scam or not?
Sept. 24, 2007: Message on their site which would upset a lot of premium members.
"Due to an extraordinary high amount of new members joining daily our payment queue is continually growing. Because of this we need to change the term to 30 business days for standard and premium members. Premium members are usually getting paid faster since payments are handled with priority."
23 Sept 2007: Today is the day I am suppose to get paid after waiting 30 days but I am still waiting ...
21 Sept 2007: I received this email from the bux.to's admin
"Against all rumors let me tell you Bux.to is doing excellent. More than 10,000 new members joining daily.
Unlike AdBux and many other PTC websites we pay our members! Check http://bux.to/proof_of_payments.php for more information. Delays are may causing due to using a new checking algorithm."
Sites that Pay and Sites that are Scams
For a list of sites that pay:-
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For a list of sites that are scams or latest news and warnings:-
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What is your opinion about Bux.to?
All opinions will be posted except for those that are clearly spam.
Is Bux.to a scam?
Fetching blurbs now... please stand byYes, it is a scam
bev hanson says:
Date: 2008-07-02 21:35:39
Name: Bev Hanson
Message:
No I do not want to buy 500 so I will not be transferring any money. I do want my access back to my original 101 that I purchased plus the 1 that is my own referral. Now get off this wanting my money and not letting me have access to my 101 I decided because of this I am going to stick with only my 101 that I already own. So get rid of the extra 500 that you added to my account and give me my access back. This is your mistake in adding them when you did not get the funds from Reg.net not mine. Plus I had requested a payout on my 101 referrals that I already own and you are not giving me that either. Alex I don't want to speak to you because you are not hearing me - I want the top person. Owner or manager. What are you going to do to conpensate me for your error plus suspending my account so that all this time I could be clicking on my 101 referrals? Where is my compensation. They are saying that Bux.to is in trouble and can't make their payouts. Obviously this is proving it to me by holding my yes my I already paid for them and own them 101 until I purchase another 500. Can you understand that!!! I am soo glad that this is being copied to show others how you operate.
Doesn't anyone understand English over there?
Posted July 02, 2008
bev hanson says:
Date: 2008-06-29 04:54:35
Name: Bev Hanson
Message:
So you are telling me that because i requested 500 referrals and reg.net didn't put it through and I decided to stay with my original 100 that I have already paid for you won't let me have just my original 100. so you are holding my 100 referrals ransom until I buy 500 more? Is that what you are saying Alex?
Date: 2008-06-30 05:48:43
Name: Alex
Message:
No,
Upon receiving the money, we will unsuspend your account.
At the present, the only solution available for us to receive the money from the purchase is a transfer to our AlertPay account: mail@bux.to, as "Service" and in the subject you should write your account name.
Best regards,
Alex_Support
Posted July 02, 2008
bev hanson says:
Date: 2008-06-21 21:23:39
Name: Bev Hanson
Message:
You still don't understand - the first purchase went through the second purchase for 500 did not sooo I do not at this time want the 500 I will stay with the 100 I originally bought and I still want my payout Alex you don't seem to understand that I do not want the 500 so you will not be getting paid for that. So you can unsuspend my account of the first 100 that you were already paid for.
Bev Hanson
Date: 2008-06-23 08:36:50
Name: Alex
Message:
You have to pay for that 500 referrals
Once you make that transfer, attach the screenshot in this ticket
Is the ONLY WAY to unsuspend your account
Best regards,
Alex_Support
Date: 2008-06-25 12:37:39
Name: Bev Hanson
Message:
But I already paid for 100 this isn't fair!! I don't want the extra 500 I can't afford it now and I already paid for the first 100 plus I had one person under me.
Posted July 02, 2008
Bhanson says:
I purchased 100 and had 1 of my own referrals - requested a payment a month ago and paid for another $500 through reg.net. reg.net said it went through and I would receive my referrals when buxto got their money. I got my extra referrals from bux and thought everything was ok. then my account gets suspended because they said they didn't get their money. Reg.net did not advise me and bux gave me the referrals. so because I am on disability and income is tight I told them to remove the extra 500 for now and leave the original 100 and give me my payout on the 100 they said they can't unsuspend until they receive the $500?!? What?!? I can't have access to the first ones I purchased.
Posted June 30, 2008
nero says:
I`m waiting for the 600 dollars allready 4th month.
LIARS. I would kill the owner too.
Posted June 25, 2008
Shane3x - PTC Talk Mod says:
You seriously have to be a fool to believe bux.to is legit anymore. They continue to run due to all the bot referrals and premium memberships they sell.
As small as the loss may be they aren't profiting every time someone buys a 1,000 click ad (Assuming all the links available were bought and no just self-sponsored). It's a ticking time bomb.
Posted June 25, 2008
louai says:
its scamer site i tried by my self and the steal my money i didnt get any thing
Posted June 24, 2008
shit says:
yeaaa its a big fat scamm....i requested payment it keeps saying pending audit since like 8 months freaking a wasted so much time on this stupid web site...if i see the owner il kill him aarrrgghhh!!
Posted June 23, 2008
Mohan says:
ain > Bux.to Support > Your ticket
Not recived payout
Tracking ID: HTHRPMLLP5
Ticket status: New [Close ticket]
Created on: 2008-06-17 15:39:34
Last update: 2008-06-17 15:39:34
Last replier: Customer
Category: Payment Support
Replies: 0
Priority: Low
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Date: 2008-06-17 15:39:34
Name:
E-mail:
IP: 117.192.130.42
Bux.to Username:
AlertPay Email Address:
Transaction #:
Email Used To Pay For Referrals/Premium:
Message:
I HAVE NOT RECIVED PAYOUT JUST 10$ , and it is not fair, it took more than two month .
reagards
racking ID: HTHRPMLLP5
Ticket status: Waiting reply from staff [Close ticket]
Created on: 2008-06-17 15:39:34
Last update: 2008-06-17 16:15:40
Last replier: Staff
Category: Payment Support
Replies: 1
Priority: Low
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Date: 2008-06-17 15:39:34
Name:
E-mail:
IP: 117.192.130.42
Bux.to Username:
AlertPay Email Address:
Transaction #:
Email Used To Pay For Referrals/Premium:
Message:
I HAVE NOT RECIVED PAYOUT JUST 10$ , and it is not fair, it took more than two month .
reagards
Date: 2008-06-17 16:15:40
Name: Nattymoo
Message:
Hello
Please do not submit multiple tickets regarding your payment.
It does not speed your payment in any way by submitting more than 1 ticket about your payment.
We do not pay to Paypal. Payments are made via Alertpay. Please make an account at http://www.alertpay.com and update your Bux.to details at http://www.bux.to/profile.php if you haven't already done so.
Please read the Terms of Service that you have agreed to during registration when you signed up with us.
It stated that "We will endeavour to process and issue your payment via AlertPay or Bux.to card within 30 business days for premium and 60 business days for standard members, however due to our extensive audit procedure means we cannot guarantee this."
Please take a look at our members' own Payment Tracking System by looking at the Latest Payout Dates in Success Stories at http://buxbb.com/index.php?showtopic=29766 to see what date we're paying now.
Payments are currently delayed because:
1. There is currently massive amount of requests to be dealt with
2. Currently the script we're using is extremely limited, 100% manual work to check each and every single one request to make sure payments are made to the right person
3. Out of 10 requests, 4 are cheaters, we have to make multiple checks to make sure we pay to the rightful person
Please accept our deepest apologies for this.
Be patient, you will be paid soon. Please do not send any more tickets on the matter, as we are doing our utmost to catch up, and repeated tickets will slow down the the whole ticket system, and uses staff that could be solving other cases or doing payments. Thanks for your consideration during this time.
Best regards,
Nattymoo
Payment Dates: http://buxbb.com/index.php?showtopic=29766
FAQ: http://buxbb.com/index.php?showtopic=38617
Apply for Bux Card: http://bux.to/buxregistercard.php
TOS: http://www.bux.to/tos.php
Forum: http://www.buxbb.com
Posted June 22, 2008
Adrian says:
IIts a scam, a good one but a scam they just are not paying people and will cut and run soon
Posted June 21, 2008
No, it is not a scam
Ernest says:
No, it is not a scam. I thought what bux.to is a scam, but yesterday, after 3 months, they donated my 10.45$ to me :D. The problem is, what they donated money to my Alertpay account, and I can only cashout them. :/
Posted July 04, 2008
Ravi says:
bux.to is not scam. They are releasing shortly new script.That means faster payouts.They are still paying.How come it is scam.
Posted June 30, 2008
mike says:
its good!
Posted June 28, 2008
bux.tofucker says:
i git scammed by bux.to, they did't pay me even $10.
STUPID BUX.TO
D O [N O T] B E L I V E T H E M !
Date Amount Method Status
Wednesday 30 Jan 2008 10:34 AM $ 10 PayPal Pending Audit
still audit till now?! WTF?! 26/June/08
Posted June 26, 2008
Zapico says:
Bux.to isn't a scam, and that is a fact. However, people that say it is a scam are partly right, however they are just missnaming it. But.to suffers whats called "the ponzi effect", what means it gives out more than it can take in, thus making payment prossesing incredibly slow.
But, due to this ponzi effect, it isn't living up to it's own terms of service, where it says they will pay within 60 bussiness days to normal members.
Posted June 17, 2008
marianne says:
BUX.TO IS GREAT! IT IS THE NUMER ONE SITE!
If you get to this page and read this, trust me, it is not a scam, and even if you don't believe me, you can check their Success Stories on their site: www.bux.to where thousands of members world wide have been paid!... register now! personally, i'm waiting for a payment right now, patience is a virtue! :) cheers!
Posted June 17, 2008
the coolio says:
no it is not
Posted June 16, 2008
predrag says:
As far as I'm concerned I joined bux.to about a month ago maybe more, and couple of weeks (2-3) I first made order to become premium member, then after one week I bought my 1st 35 pack of referrals and in both times I waited 1-2 days to see am premium an 1-2 days for my 1st pack of refs, then I bought 2nd pack of 35 refs and that took less than two days, and just yesterday (03.june.2008) I ordered 3rd time 35 refs and believe it or not the very same day after couple of hours those refs were on my account! Which means they are trying to fast things up. I requested one payment of $10.00 on May 31st 2008 just to see how long it would take them to pay me out since I became premium member before buying any refs. Will see. There are too many proofs on net that people were payed and I believe them because you cannot fake so many people and it make sence in my head their way of doing business thats why am continuing to click everyday and will buy more refs. My vote goes definitely for bux.to!
Posted June 04, 2008
poep says:
its not a scam, they're great
Posted May 26, 2008
Steve says:
Bux.to is serious. I'm proud to be a member.
Posted May 23, 2008
Tell us what you think.
Lots of promises of future fixes on this site but it has now reverted to the "We love buxto your the best Internet love child " type of posts just trying to "Burn the unbelievers"
They Will not even tell the truth about being a UK based company just using a Cheap company address in the Uk and an even Cheaper divert in the West Indies.
After Paypal was cancelled and everyone had to resubmit to Alertpay people thought there might be light at the end of the tunnel, wrong.
Then we have the "We cannot pay you because we need to write a new script". So everyone waits for this new script which is apparently coming in the next few weeks.
But what happens then? No delays and everything and everyone would get paid you would think. Well not quite the latest from admin is that the idea is to once again cancel all payments and just let people start again.
My advice would be if you are bored and want to read some unbelievable comments visit the forums, if you want to make money on line keep w
Posted June 29, 2008
So sad....I had read so many good things about Bux.to paying that I decided to purchase 100 referrals. Everything was fine, no log in issues or anything, for about a week and then all of a sudden on the 23rd I couldn't log into my account. I messaged them and they have responded back three times asking when I last made a purchase. I replied that my last purchase was on the 9th, with them crediting 100 ref's to me on the 11th. After three times of explaining that to them you'd think they'd move on to fixing the account so that I could log back in, but I think they are prompting me to buy something else before they unlock the account. Well, since I'm not using a bot and I didn't do anything to violate their TOS I'd say that bux.to is a scam.
Posted June 26, 2008
I am afraid it is. See this URL
http://buxtofraude.wordpress.com/
Posted June 24, 2008
bux.to stinks....
Posted June 23, 2008
i think it is ... I think that thise bux thing should be making money off addvertasment. wich means that they do want as much as they can get ppl to surf adds. cause, the more adds surfed, the more addvertisment cliants are happy and will want to advertise ate bux. BUT the way it seems an regular person have onley 10 adds to surf a day. only by paying bux (to get a primium member)U will be able to make more money. which means: that what tey r acully saying is. " U want to make money? pay me. in other words, Bux is not making money from surfing adds. it is making money "surfing" U'r a$$
Posted June 23, 2008
I requested them to send me the money on the 2nd of februari. And I still don't got the money. And I can't seem to find a way to contact them. In my opinion, It's a BIG SCAM!
Posted June 21, 2008
Still no payment ....
Payment Request Date
Sunday 6th of January 2008
Estimated Payment Dates - Standard
Monday 7th of April 2008
(85 actual days, including 6 public holidays)
Estimated Payment Dates - Premium
Wednesday 20th of February 2008
(43 actual days, including 2 public holidays)
I am a Standard Member and should have had payment 76 days ago.
Posted June 21, 2008
It is a scam! Lets all sew bux.to for scaming other people like they did to surfjunky!
Posted June 21, 2008
Bux is a SCAM
Here this is when i requested my payment
Sunday 16 Mar 2008 09:53 AM $ 10 AlertPay Pending Audit
And still did not get paid!! How much more should I wait??? Its a scam thats what bux is! I cannot wait anymore this is soo unfair! I had to find 21 referrals and took mee months of hard work! DO YOU THINK ITS FAIR? If i were you i would QUIT bux.to!
Thank you
Posted June 21, 2008
I termed Bux as a Scam and today 1 Month after the post I received my $10 Payout and so I wanted to come back and update my review.As they paid me its not a scam but too slow in processing payment requests 6 months in my case.
Quote from older post Posted May 28, 2008
I guess there is a point in what the Author has said in the main post.
Quote:"However, due to the long payout time, some people find it difficult to wait and start calling it a scam."
However, the point is if a company cannot pay 100% of its customers based on the timeframe created by them then it must be callled a scam.
In my case i made a request for payout on 27-Dec-07 and the site still shows the status as "Pending Audit" whereas the author recieved his 3rd Payment for a request made on 30-Dec-07 perfect irony that some are happy and some are not..if you analyze by results people who are happy by Bux.to are half of those who say its a scam
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