TitanClicks Gone

Well, it looks like TitanClicks is yet another Paid to Click website that has fallen by the wayside. So far, only NeoBux has actually paid.

NeoBux Update

Here's an update of where things currently stand with NeoBux:

Money invested: $5

Money received to AlertPay (after fees): $1.80
Renting balance (can only be used to rent referrals and AutoPay): $0.961
Main balance (can be cashed out or transferred to renting balance): $5.414

Total money owed/received: $8.175

There is currently a paper profit of $3.175, hardly spectacular.

Adverbux Currently Down

The Adverbux site is currently down, giving a Page Load Error, and has been for several days. Before that, the site was just showing as a blank page, which has happened several times recently.

New Bux3 Payment Request

Well, it seems that Bux3 has cancelled my payment request, in exactly the same way that bux.to did as I posted yesterday. Also, they've changed their payment terms - a convenient excuse for cancelling current payments. This is the third time I've requested payment from this site, and still not received anything. Their terms say payment will be instant; however, the cashout page states that you have to wait 30 days before payment,

New Bux.to Payment Request

I have today submitted another payment request for bux.to for $73.63. I was checking on the status of my previous payment request from April last year, and discovered it had been cancelled without any notice, instead of being paid. Not very impressive behaviour.

World-Bux Gone

It looks like World-Bux has gone, possibly for good. The domain name expired over a week ago, and hasn't been renewed.

NeoBux Update

It's been 31 days since I purchased the second batch of referrals at NeoBux, which is normally when they would have all expired. This time I had AutoPay switched on, so all the referrals have at least 10 days left to run, and two have 21. Of course, they will more than likely last longer than that if they keep clicking. Total clicks so far are 477 from this batch, although this is probably the last time I can accurately measure this, as I am planning on purchasing more.

Here are the current stats:

Money invested: $5

Money received to AlertPay (after fees): $1.80
Renting balance (can only be used to rent referrals and AutoPay): $0.776
Main balance (can be cashed out or transferred to renting balance): $3.10

Total money owed/received: $5.676

This means that NeoBux is currently showing a paper profit over money invested.

Neobux Referral Renting

I've deposited $5 in my NeoBux referral account. Using this balance, you can rent referrals from them for 1 month, during which you will earn referral income from them. At the end of this period, the referrals will be returned to NeoBux.

I've never done this before, all other sites have offered to sell you them outright. I've purchased a pack of 10 referrals for $3. Now to see how it goes.

Paid to Click Site Wants Proof of Identity

There was a discussion on myLot about a Paid to Click program that was asking for what I would consider to be an excessive amount of documentation before it would pay out. The site in question was asking for copies of a utility bill and/or ID before they would make payment.

Now, I cannot think of a good reason for this. I can think of plenty of bad ones, but when Google doesn't require this for their AdSense program, why does this site require it?

Although the program wasn't actually specified by the original poster, it was suggested it was UrOnlineBux and I checked and yes, their ToS does have mention that as a possible requirement for payout. I've ceased activity with the site for the moment.

NeoBux

I've just joined another Paid to Click site, NeoBux. NeoBux has a $2 minimum payout threshold, and apparently pays out all payment requests immediately, which would be a nice change.

10Bux Payment Request

10Bux have got rid of their new payment system, and returned to the old version. Better in that you don't have to try and catch the admin during the few minutes a day that they're on, which wasn't very good. I've submitted a new payment request for $25.12.

So far, haven't been doing too well with payment requests.

10Bux: Site hacked, existing requests deleted, had to submit new one.
Bux.to: Payment request submitted 6 months ago. Not deleted, but well out of their ToS for payments.
Bux3: Site hacked, existing requests deleted, had to submit new one.
Buxit.info: Site gone.
World Bux: Site hacked twice, existing requests deleted, had to submit new one.

IsabelMarco Stops Paying Free Members

IsabelMarco has announced that they're stopping paying free members. Here's the post from the forums:

This change is to protect our investors and ourselfs!

Today we deleted nearly 60 accounts ( autoclickers )
Today we deleted more then 3000 fake accounts made by cheaters.
Lost aprox: more then 15.000$ ( thats our and also your money! )

most complainers come from free members! 99% of cheaters are free members!

Conclusion:

NO MORE PAYOUTS FOR FREE MEMBERS!
FREE MEMBERS CAN SUBSCRIBE AND CLICK AS MANY ADS THEY WANT,PLAY LOTTERIE AND SO ON.

EVERYBODY FROM NOW ON HAS TO BE pREMIUM TO GET HIS PAYOUTS!

there will always be enough to invest, and you can still refer

We have to get rid off those people who are only here to cheat or to earn money on the back of others (investors)

WE HOPE THAT ALL OUR INVESTORS CAN AGREE WITH THIS!
IT WILL BENEFIT US ALL
WE WILL GET MORE TRUST FROM ADVERTISERS BECAUSE THEY KNOW THAT WE HAVE QUALITY MEMBERS FROM NOW ON.

SUCCES TO YOU ALL!

I doubt I'll upgrade, unless I can use my balance for it. I won't upgrade from free membership in these sites until I know they pay. Too many vanish to risk doing otherwise.

10Bux Back

The 10Bux site is now back up and running. However, all existing payment requests were cancelled, and a new system introduced.

New payout system: the payout pages will be open whenever the administrator of the PaidClicks Network is online, for a few minutes, several times per day. This way the accounts will be audited right after that, and the payments will be sent, via PayPal or AlertPay, much quicker, usually within a few minutes after the request. All pending payouts have been refunded. This solution may not be liked by everyone, but this was the best way we found to be able to send payouts in a lightning fast time, one of the main things which turned the PaidClicks Network in a respected and well-known company in the PTC business for much time, since our beginning almost a year ago.

Can't say I really like the idea. Although prompt payment is good, the chance of being online during the few minutes that you can cash out every day could be pretty small, especially if you're in a substantially different time zone.

10Bux (hopefully) Back Soon

I visited the 10Bux website to see if it was still gone, and found this message posted there:

Hello.

We're finally coming back.
After a few days with DDoS attack problems, we had to dump our former host (Liquid Web) and find a new one, which could offer us some protection for those kind of attacks.
It wasn't an easy task, as those companies offering DDoS protection have outrageous prices, but we finally found something worth a try.
We will keep the websites shut down for a few more days, to correct some bugs and add new features which we're sure you will like.
We want to be fully operational at the moment of our return, so if you have patiently waited until now, I'm sure you don't mind waiting a few days more to see some improvements. :)
Premium members and banner advertisements will, of course, have their expiration dates extended.

Our expected return date is Sunday, September 21st. Until then, stay tuned!

Best regards, the PaidClicks Network administration.

Seems they're not permanently gone after all. For some reason, these type of sites seem to suffer from a lot of attacks against them

10Bux Gone

The 10Bux site has been down for quite a while now, so it's probably gone too. I've had to resubmit my cashout requests to both Bux3 and World-Bux, presumably due to the sites being hacked. It's pretty annoying, even if it's not their fault, to have to go through the whole process of waiting several months yet again.

Bux3 and WorldBux Back

Bux3 and WorldBux are backup, with by the looks of things minimal data loss. Still waiting on payments from both of them, and the attacks aren't helping.

PlusBux is still parked on GoDaddy, so it looks like that's gone, and Buxit.info is still showing no website at it's address, which doesn't look at all promising.

Bux3 Back (nearly)

Well, it appears Bux3 hasn't totally gone. There was a message on the domain earlier saying that they were recovering from a database hack - not the first one either I think - and now the site is there, although not working correctly yet. I wonder how much damage the hack has done.

WorldBux, which was, the last I heard, also owned by the same company is still totally down. Also, Buxit.info has been down for several days now.

PlusBux Back Up

PlusBux is now back up. Or, rather, PlusBux v3 is back up. Looks like the downtime was due to an upgrade being carried out, a promising sign.

Plusbux Still Down

Plusbux is still down. I checked on another ISP, due to the annoying search redirect my main ISP uses, and it is down. Could be just a server outage, will have to wait and see.

PlusBux Down

PlusBux is currently down, or maybe gone to completely. When I try and visit it, I get redirected to the stupid search results page my ISP is redirecting errors to. Sort of like those companies that buy up domain names on expiry and stick their search pages on.