Is Bux.to a Scam?.. Please Comment..

Bux.to - Love 'em or hate 'em, they are still probably the most popular PTC around at the moment but in the last 6 months or so we have seen a very big dip in the traffic to the site, the confidence of the members, payouts and revisions to the site (that were promised) I, like a lot of you reading this invested into Bux.to (approx $400) I HAVE been paid twice & have just about got my investment back. BUT I still have over $2000 pending from May 2008. As a so-called 'Premium' member we are supposed to be paid within 30 business days, although the revised TOS state that this may not be the case. No s**t. My payment was due on July 4th (two months late) I consider myself one of the lucky ones, some members have been waiting patiently like me for 6-8 months!

The role of the is blog is to get bux.to members/ ex members to give their opinion about bux.to without fear of being banned from the forum, which is a target for many hate-filled post these days & the moderators there seem to be banning people by the second. Bux.to strted so brightly back in July 2007, but if you look at a few tell-tale statistics like their Alexa rank, you will see the alarming decline this site has taken in the last few months. As of today (Sunday 5th October) their Alexa rank was 806 which is still good but a 42% dip in traffic means they were as high as around the 400 mark three months ago. If you look at the charts below, you will see how much the traffic has dipped recently. This makes very worrying reading, unless drastic action is taken soon, the entire confidence of the members will me smashed to smithereens.

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If you want to check the current state of mind of the bux.to community, just take a quick tour around the official bux.to forum HERE You will see that 90% of the members there are very disgruntled & the mods there are doing fine job in trying to convince us that bux.to 'will pay, does pay & how dare you state anything even slightly slanderous against us' kind of attitude. Be careful what you say there, if you as so much as in-directly offend bux.to or any of it's 'volunteers' then expect to be banned. There is no such thing as freedom of speech there, they are protecting their image to the hilt, even though it is heavily tarnished.

How long will these Bux.to delays go on for? How long is a piece of string?.... who knows.. The new script & Bux.to re-loaded (which I imagine was inspired by the fact that their bank accounts have been nicely 're-loaded' & not the members) have been delayed & put back many many times. The official launch date was supposed to be back in July, but so far no official word on when this is supposed to be finished & ultimatley launched. The only news we get is when Tri (a forum Mod & someone who is in 'close contact' with the owners) popping in now & again to the forum telling us little sound-bites of info such as 'new server being moved' etc. This is all technical gargon nonsense to most of us & we have been fobbed off with this kind of talk for month & months.

So many PTC's (Paid-To-Click) have fallen by the way-side in the last year & I fear Bux.to will just become another statistic like all the other failed ventures that the PTC world has given us. My advice to anyone wishing to earn money in the PTC world is 'BE VERY VERY CAREFUL!' read the Terms Of Service (TOS) thoroughly & never invest more than you can afford to lose. In fact there are only two PTC sites I would recommend joining these days one is NEOBUX the other is IsabelMarco. I have been earning from PTC for the last two years in during this time I have seen at least 10 PTC sites proven to be scams. Not a very re-assuring statistic if you are new to the PTC world I think you would agree! Why do I recommend NeoBux & IsabelMarco? Well, NeoBux sells only real referalls (not bots) & also have a awesome instant payout feature where by you can request your payment & have it paid INSTANTLY to your Paypal or Alertpay account. With all the delays with Bux.to this site is a breath of fresh air , innovative and very stylish with secured 256 bit SSL (Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), are cryptographic protocols that provide secure communications on the Internet for such things as web browsing, e-mail, Internet faxing, instant messaging and other data transfers) NeoBux is all the things that Bux.to isn't. IsabelMarco on the other hand isn't quite as stylish, but have a very good record in terms of payment processing & good feedback from their members. Respectively I have been paid three times from NEOBUX & eight times from IsabelMarco! and all since May 2008. I have been paid twice by Bux.to in 15 months! The total I have been paid from these two sites ($500) dwarfs what Bux.to have paid me, and in only 4 months!