Bux.to a Scam? If if smells like poop…
January 27, 2008
Money for free for the masses from Bux.to? My guess = no. This just gives me a bad feeling. I first learned of this while watching a live session of the Chris Pirillo show at live.pirillo.com. Chris was talking about Bux.to and how he was excited and felt pretty good about its legitimacy. Now even though I trust Chris and have no reason to doubt him, I still have serious doubts about Bux.to and their system. Chris decided to sign up for an account (I think he signed up for a premium account and spent about $500). After a short period of doing this and announcing it online live on his show, he had already made just under a hundred dollars in the first twelve hours.
A basic account is free and from what I understand, the system works by paying a small amount (1 cent) to a member for viewing paid advertising (all seem to be get rich quick ads) on their site for a period of time (30 seconds) – the more ads you review, the more money you make. On the backside of this, Bux.to figures than can generate enough people viewing advertiser’s links that some will eventually make a purchase from that advertiser.
If you don’t want to do all the viewing and clicking yourself, you can always purchase your own referrals instead of getting your own for free. This, in theory, increases your view rate and should bring in more money. This, I suspect, is where Bux.to is making their monies. It’s a numbers game - You spend $459.00 to purchase referrals and they do the ad viewing for you. The more referrers you have under you actually viewing ads is what is supposed to bring in the funds. That is, if they spend as much time as you’d like viewing these ads…30 seconds each? Sounds like the fun would wear outta this pretty quick.
Here’s what I’ve found on Bux.to:
· Their paypal Id is: FreelancerMarketing.com. A website with absolutely nothing on it but some worthless links. A simple email address, no address, nada, zip, zilch. Wouldn’t you want people to know more about your consultancy business?
· Bux.to name registration is private and the site hosting goes out to somewhere in Germany.
· Their forums are at abux.info
· There are over 700 Youtube.com videos on Bux.to mostly by younger males wanting you to become their referral. Many use the maximum payout example while talking about it as an enticement to get you to sign up under them.
· They sell you ads for anywhere from .019 cents per view down to .015 if you spend $16,000.00 with them
Bottom line, I’m keeping my money in the bank. I don’t have the numbers as far as referrals that Chris does, so a dollar a day isn’t enough to get me interested. As of this writing, I haven’t heard if Chris actually got his initial $500 back.
If you have success with bux.to, I’d like to hear about it. Please drop me a line and I’ll share it.
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15 Responses to “Bux.to a Scam? If if smells like poop…”
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Hi,
I´m a member on Bux.to and I had neither good nor bad experiences so far. I bought some referrals, broke even, see some profits, BUT i didn´t get paid so far. They have a 60 business day waiting time for payments! So I have to wait until april to see if they really pay or scam their users. I hope the best…
Bye,
Querblogger
I havent received my payment since nov 26 ,2007…..so NO WAY ..i wont purchse the referlas even i get it for free……bux.to is moving towards another scam!!!!
Hey I had stumbled up on your commentary while doing some bux.to google and yahoo searches.
I have also made a review of my own personal experience, and I strive to be as thorough as I possibly can in this evaluation of the Bux.to webservice. I am not trying to advertise my own referral link, simply spread proper truth about this potential investment possibility.
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Maybe it’s SCAM, but you use this service to advertise your web-sites anyway.
Hmmm… I had a great idea: try to advertise this page using bux.to
Sorry Akceptor, I don’t use the service my friend. I’m guessing you might be a disgruntled Russian coder working with Bux.to to pull off the scam, hmmmm?
Bux.to is not a scam.. no way.. many people say this without trying it themselves I have tried them & they have paid me, now, I currently am awaiting $417 & after that I have over $500 to cash out
I’ve gotten paid $400 and waiting on $10000. Its legit so far…
Bux.to is a scam i just got banned of their forum for telling people that, wait to get realy paid in order to buy referals.
almost nobody is being paid. some are some not.
Please just think. Why to sell for $500 (500 referals) and after to pay ($1500 every month month)the loss is $1000 in month
where is logic? and there advertisment only about BUX.TO coding, the fake topics about payments from bux.to and paypal now don’t accepted. and need to wait 60days…. HIGH CLASS SCAM 
I can only speak for my experience: I got paid $10 in januari as a free member, next upgraded and bought in the course of the following months referrals (total now 350).
Yesterday I received $378 at my bux.to payoneer card and today requested $890 cashout. Counting that amount into my calculation I am now $855 in profit and I have no reason to doubt the payout of the $890 will be done.
How is that consistent with “scam”?
Ren,
Sounds like you are one of the few that might be getting paid. If you are, it’s still a scam as there are many more people not getting anything but excuses. They keep a few guys like you happy so you continue to refute and endorse the scam.
Regardless, i can’t tell by your writing if you’ve received more than $10 cash. Let me know if you actually are able to spend any of the money bux.to has put on your “payoneer card” (?) or it’s just a fictious number listing in a bogus account online.
“# ren on April 12th, 2008 3:15 am Edit
I can only speak for my experience: I got paid $10 in januari as a free member, next upgraded and bought in the course of the following months referrals (total now 350).
Yesterday I received $378 at my bux.to payoneer card and today requested $890 cashout. Counting that amount into my calculation I am now $855 in profit and I have no reason to doubt the payout of the $890 will be done.
How is that consistent with “scam”?”
Generally I am very skeptical about this kind of thing…and I’d say I’m skeptical about this one, too.
However, I did sign up for it, and I do click the ads almost every day, and I have purchased 115 members, and I’m seeing about 7-8 bucks a day in my “account” thru those referral clicks.
Now, “money in a bux.to account” is not the same thing as “money in hand”. I won’t request money for a little while, because their delays and fees are a bit of a pain. But I won’t be putting any more cash into it until I see some real green in my hot little hands. I certainly won’t be purchasing one of the big packages without some evidence that they actually pay.
I don’t understand how it works…and I’m skeptical about anything where the path to value is not clear…and I wouldn’t be surprised to hear tomorrow that the whole thing went belly up. But…for now, I’m reserving judgment.
Gordon, I received the first $10 at my paypal account and a few days ago $378 at my Payoneer Mastercard. That card is produced and sent by Payoneer, not by bux.to.(If you go to the Payoneer website you’ll see that they have different types of cards). It can be used for payments in any shop that accepts MasterCard and for cash retrieval at any ATM in the world.
Do you vision a scam site to go through all the trouble to contact Payoneer, sign a contract with them, let members order cards to only sent money to a few. If that happened red flags would be raised at Payoneer within weeks. The more because the first week this payment method was added the the helpdesk of Payoneer got its own sub-forum at bux.to forums, to answer questions about the card and their service.
Chuck, there are no fees to get cashout with bux.to. Fees are asked by Alertpay (depending type of account) and Payoneer. At Payoneer I paid $2 to have the transfer completed, it costs $19(or such, don’t remember that) to open the account and $3/month to maintain the account.
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The referrals are total generate by them the nicks they used dont have
a mean we test a gen to make fake nicks by using some of the referrals from them….. example…..first refferal…18gads second referral…=..gads80 <— only one character was discover to be difrent …. the site has some connection ports
random IP”S from usa and germany I also know they have a few australian workers, they can move money trough international banks easy
there biggest stragedy is TIME=run if you always want to know
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