Monday, November 11, 2013

The way Neobux (and probably many other PTCs) makes their money!

Hi and hello. If you encounter this blog, I guess you either have been scammed or have read a lot of post that points out that Neobux are scamming people. Here a few basic facts about Neobux

What is Neobux?

Neobux is a bux or paid-to-click site. It claims to have millions of users worldwide, and serving several millions hits daily. The website offers users to view advertisement for a selected duration of time, do offers, complete surveys etc to earn money. As you might guessed, people around the world will pay neobux money so they can increase traffic and sales to their site.

How can users earn money?

As I said earlier there are "many" ways, but the most profitable one is to refer people.
Every single time a referral (a human being that you have referred to the site) clicks an advertisement you will get some cash. Let's say you refer 100 people and they click 4 ads each day. You will get 0,005 each click which will result in 2 $ each day. You also get commission from your referrals if they do offers and surveys. It is possible to upgrade so you can earn even more.

Upgrading

As I mentioned it is possible to upgrade your account. Currently there are two possible memberships, standard and Gold. If you buy gold then you can upgrade to Emerald/Sapphire, Platinum/Diamond or Ultimate. Gold costs 90 $ a month and if you want to upgrade to Ultimate you have to pay additional 890 $ for a year. As you upgrade your account you can rent more referrals, you don't need to click every day to earn from your referrals and much more.
Here are some basic stats:



Renting referrals
 
It's hard to gain referrals on your own, that is why Neobux has a system which allows you to rent referrals.
Renting referrals cost 0,2 $ for 30 days, and you can extend them anytime you want. If you extend them longer than 15 days, you will get a "generous" discount.

The scheme


So now you have a picture of how Neobux works. First I want to take a closer look on the advertising prices.

Micro Ad (5 seconds):
 • 500,000 views + 500,000 AdPrize credits for $600.00

Mini Ad (15 seconds):

 • 100,000 views + 400,000 AdPrize credits for $600.00

Standard Ad (30 seconds):

 • 50,000 views + 450,000 AdPrize credits for $680.00

Fixed ads

           • Unlimited for 1 day: $100.00 or 65 $ if you buy for 1 year
Neobux has about 9 self-sponsored ads (orange), some micro ads and a bunch of Fixed ads.
I haven't included extended because nobody buys them. I also just included the most expensive alternatives, because Neobux will earn less for each click.
When clicking Micro ads only YOU will be credited and you will earn 0,001 $. It doesn't matter which membership you got.
500 000 * 0,001 = 500 which means Neobux earned  a 100 $.
The same goes for Mini ads.
But when it comes to Standard ads, Neobux will lose money on all upgrading packs including standard.
Each click cost Neobux for a standard member who are referred by a standard memeber 0,015 $.
0,015*50000 = 750
Neobux makes a loss of 150 $
But this isn't really interesting since it is so few of them. The really interesting part is the self-sponsored ads.

Self-sponsored ads

I guess that Neobux makes some money on the self-sponsored ads, but how much do I not know.
Let's say that Neobux has a 100 000 Gold members and half of them are referred by the other half.
That means that of Neobux will have to pay 100 000* 0,01 + 50 000 * 0,01 = 15 000 $ just that day.
There is no way that Neobux will have 15 000 $ for 1 ad for 24 hours. It is just to expensive.
But what if all those referrals wasn't human, but bots programmed to click a certain amount of ads.

Bots

Bots are non-humans that pretend to click. It is part of the script. Many ptc sites sell bots because there are no more humans left to rent out, others do it to control the income of the users.
Let's say you have Gold pack and just rented 1000 refs.
The referrals cost 200 $ (0.2 each) and you earn 0,01 $ each click they make.
The referrals have to make 20 000 clicks within a month for you to break even. Actually a little more because you pay about 9 $ a month for the membership. Each referral has to do 20 clicks under a month, under 1 click in avg each month. You take a look at the ads and see that there are 5 orange ads available. Piece of cake you think, and it should be!
But here the strange thing happen, they don't! They actually click a little bit less each month. Maybe they click 19 000 and then 20 001 next month. You start to recycle your refs (which of course isn't free) and then you actually make a small loss each month. You start to invest more because you keep loosing your referrals.

F*** Neobux!

This way it doesn't matter if Neobux pay for they own ads because you pay more than you actually receive.
Some members will be lucky and get some good bots, but the majority will experience very bad clicks from their referrals. Of course I can't prove this, but let's take a look at some very known PTC-scritps.
- Gen 4 (bots)
- Incentivescripts (Bots)
- PTCevolution (check admin demo)
- Usetitan (Innovative bot system)

Bots, bots, bots..

I think that Neobux have a lot of customers, but they would not have a chance to pay its members if they played honestly. They are making money on their investors which is highly illegal. Therefor I make this "blog" as a warning. Don't invest there. Find a way to refer people directly and don't depend on their renting system.

If you don't believe me make a quick search on google. Visit blackhatworld, emoney or even Neobux own forum. This is not an easy way to make money.
I've never invested in their site, but I have tried to make some bucks buy starting from scratch. It went ok, but when I started to get about 50 refs I quickly found out that it wasn't profitable and stopped it.

If I could recommend a PTC-site, it would be Clixsense. They don't have a renting system, and they actually warn members to upgrade if they can't make direct referrals. Because it wouldn't be profitable for them!

Regards
A grumpy ex-clicker