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August 28, 2008

Bux.to has beaten the DoS attacks and the site is back at full strength.

Announcement from bux.to:

Fully restored As you are well aware, Bux.to was hit with a massive DOS Attack in the beginning of July. As such, the system was undergoing maintenance to restore service stability. During this necessary maintenance period, some of our members had experienced intermittent slowness, internal page errors, or were unable to access their account. Our Host as tried everything in his power to defeat these attacks and should be commended, but despite his best efforts he was unable to prevent them. Some of you may have lost their faith due to these events. We regret the circumstances aforementioned, and we sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused you. We acknowledge and appreciate your patience during this time. Since yesterday, Bux.to has been fully restored and is now operating at normal efficiency. In addition we made several efforts to enhance our protection level with the intention of increasing and maintaining the stability of our system. Bux.to is now protected by Blockdos.net to be able to defeat tremendous DOS Attack. If you may just have a minute visit www.blockdos.net to find out more about their good and valuable services. Please do not hesitate to contact us via support interface if you need any assistance. Thank you for your understanding and support! Regards, Bux.to, Ltd. Customer Support

 

May 26, 2006

Bux.to update

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It’s been a while since we’ve covered the happenings at bux.to. So here are all the important updates surrounding bux.to:

The New Script

The much awaited and highly anticipated new script from bux.to, codenamed Bux Reload, is here… almost! The script is currently in its beta testing phase, where users have been invited to test it. Here’s a timeline on the script which we have gathered from the announcements made on bux.to’s forum and information we acquired from alt3rn4tiv3:

 

Date	Update
10th Jan	Idea of the new script, along with a new design was born
16th Jan	New design for bux.to publicly announced
13th March	Script is 70% done; expected release by the end of month of early April
29th March	Script is 98% done; should be finished by the end of next week; 1 week of test after coding required; expected launch in mid-April
13th April	Script is being tested; release expected in a week or two subject to bugs
25th April	Codename given; proposed public release date of 1st May announced
1st May	Expected public release announced as “next week”
10th May	Beta testing day of 14th May announced
14th May	Beta testing commences
25th May	Beta testing completed; public release date awaited

 

It is difficult to understand why such a delay would happen. So we caught up with alt3rn4tiv3, bux.to’s script coder and buxbb’s admin, to share his thoughts on this.

 

alt3rn4tiv3: I spent countless sleepless nights because of the script - solving logistical / administrative matters + coding + testing + managing everything else that comes under my wing. Creating a script that will let bux.to run its business on is not as simple as "<?php ...?>" It involves getting approval from people, liaising with people to settle legal affairs, seeking permission for various uncertainties, etc. It isn't just designing a website and launching it. You don't "have 20 years experience in programming and can code this in 1 week". If I wanted to, I could. It's not that simple. Everything has red tape on it. It's a business after all. Apart from keeping updated about the script, managing the information coming in/going out, I also need to code. And apart from all that, I needed to do technical liaison with the Payoneer staff during the same period. Plus handle some staff issues (before Tri got more involved with that and he managed it pretty well so he does most of the PR work) and publicity issues (not disclosable)

 

UOB: bux.to has a responsibility towards its users, as I understand. You are pressed for time, understandable again. But wouldn't it be a duty of bux to do something about it?

 

alt3rn4tiv3: If your point is that responsibility refers to keeping promises about deadlines, what I can tell you is that "expected release" implies an estimate. It is a speculative announcement by a member of the staff, but it's not an official announcement about the release of the script.

 

UOB: Would you like to make a public statement?

 

alt3rn4tiv3: The script was planned but not delivered during the date estimates due to over expectations, i.e. over promising and under-delivering. We apologize for that. However, late as we are, we will bring to you, the new script, which will have features that include, confirming rumors, an attempt to speed up cashout. Other features relating to the new script can be found in our forums. It is, for sure, not "just a new face". We have met with many hic-cups along the way and we hope you understand our position. We would like to express our gratitude and appreciation to all members who have weathered this storm with us. Now that the beta has been released, we have collected feedback and will weed out all the bugs and implement good suggestions as soon as possible. We will strive to do better in future and deliver to your expectations. Again, we apologize for the delay and seek your fullest cooperation and support in aiding us in implementing the script at the earliest possible date.

 

 

We summarize that bux.to is dedicated to its users and want to deliver at the earliest possible. We hope that after reading this, users will be more patient as the script is already in its final stage of development – testing.

 

There are still some features yet to be uploaded onto the new script, but the most important ones like the access panel for the moderators, which let them do much more, have already been installed.

 

Some of the improvements that the new script will bring are:

1. Real-time stats updates
2. Optimized
3. Autoclicker prevention (beta and not shown during beta testing)
4. Forgotten password feature improved
5. Numerous security improvements
6. Better admin control panel
7. Mod control panel - allows some staff to do inactive ref replacements for 500-package refs, do fraud checks, etc.
8. reCAPTCHA used to hopefully prevent mass registrations of fake accounts
9. Cancel current payment request
10. Referral box/field locked on registration if register through a referral link
11. Onscreen keyboard on registration page and login
12. Display your refs details including last login date, easily identify who is inactive

 

Payment Delays

The delays have run into months due to a couple of factors: problems from the payment processor & inefficiency in the current script to audit accounts.

We are all well aware of the PayPal problems that every PTC site has faced, including bux.to. Since then, bux.to started using AlertPay and also introduced the bux.to MasterCard®.

However, AlertPay has hardly made life any easier for the PTC owners. AlertPay has been marred with payment problems which has hindered the process of mass payments.

It has to be noted that bux.to currently has close to 6 million users. This is the highest number of users that any PTC site in business today have. So when this is coupled with processor problems and inefficient script, we get massive delays.

We also understand that handling monetary issues is highly classified. Due to this, only select staff handles the payments.

Bux.to has taken a few steps to resolve the above issues. They’ve got AlertPay representatives on their forum to help their users understand the delays. AlertPay has acknowledged the payment problem and taken responsibility to solve the issue at the earliest possible.

With the new script seeing the light of the day soon, and AlertPay committed to solving its problems, we hope to see bux.to paying out its members as per the time limit that they have set viz. 30 business days for premium members and 60 business days for standard members.

Any member who thinks bux.to is a scam simply because they have massive payment delays, please read here.

The UrOnlineBiz crew got paid almost $400 via the new Payoneer card only a week ago and in time so this shows that whatever delays there has been it looks like it is solved or very close to be solved. According to bux.to they have paid out somewhere around $400.000 in 30 days which is pretty fantastic.

 

Defamation E-mail

Someone had posted an e-mail to everyone who had displayed their e-mail addresses on bux.to’s forum, posing as SPIDERWOMAN, forum’s admin. It basically slandered bux.to about everything under the sun, specially picking on Tri, another forum admin. The e-mail was notified to the bux.to’s admins and they replied on the forum thereafter. Soon, it was established that the person who posted this e-mail was definitely not SPIDERWOMAN. The bux.to admins quickly took notice of this and took necessary steps to trace the originator of that e-mail. Their trace lead them to Leon64, a former admin on bux.to’s forum, who was demoted to moderator and thereafter removed from the moderating team altogether. Incidentally, even VinnyB has some hand in this mess. Bux.to has decided to not pursue the matter any further.

 

Bux.to | .shop

The bux.to shop officially opened on the 30^th April. The store can be reached at http://buxtoshop.com/. The shop holds a wide-variety of products which include t-shirts, bags, mugs, etc. The shop is located at cafepress.com. Further items for the shop are expected.

Since its opening, many of the members made uproar about how bux.to’s staff is wasting precious time which could’ve been better used for making payments and coding the new script. Subsequently, the forum admins have made it clear that people involved with the shop do not handle payments or code the new script.

 

NeoBux V/s. Tri?

Recently, there was spat between the NeoBux admin and bux.to’s forum admin, Tri. Tri had posted his opinions about NeoBux on PTCTalk. According to Tri, NeoBux was an ‘island of cheaters’. People sat up and took notice of this since it was coming from a well recognized member of the PTC industry, and not just any other guy. This ofcourse added more fuel to the fire. People replied to the posts and then both the admins got involved. NeoBux admin went over to the bux.to forum to clarify things. This attempt didn’t work as it only inspired Tri to go over to the NeoBux forum and post over there. A few more posts later, the fire was put out. Both the admins called it truce over private messages and also censored each other’s sites on their respective forums.

This wouldn’t have been a big issue if Tri was just a normal user in the PTC industry. His status from bux.to put more weight into his posts and opinions. Damage had already been done when Tri said that his opinion about NeoBux came from a personal level and not as a voice from bux.to.

When we approached both the admins to get their thoughts on this issue, both of them replied that the matter is already over and it’s time to move on.

 

PayBux.com

This is the most refreshing change that bux.to has announced in recent times. Bux.to is coming out with its own payment processor in PayBux.com. They have been in negotiations with an international bank for this venture. This marks a dawn of new era in the PTC industry ever since PayPal refused to work with PTC sites and AlertPay has a bunch of issues which are noted to cause massive delays. We hope that PayBux.com will not be associated with any of these problems and users will have an easier and simpler access to their funds. Bux.to has not given out any more info about this presently, including the feature list and release dates. This seems to be a good move since the last time they gave out dates and could not keep upto them (during the script), people everywhere made a huge hue and cry. We only hope that the release of PayBux.com won’t stretch too long.

 

Bux.to Academy (http://www.buxacademy.com/)

With a view to provide a platform for good project ideas, bux.to is coming out with their academy introduction. They are going to provide financial help for web projects, subject to approval, to help foster a better world wide web. More details are awaited.

 

Bux.to Trademark?

Yes, it is official – bux.to is now a registered trademark company. We expect this to bring recognition to an already well established company.

 

 

Bux.to is one of the longest running PTC site in the industry. Ever since its launch in June of 2007, bux.to has seen a steady influx of new members joining in everyday. This has proved to be both a boon and a curse for them. Boon because they are the single most famous PTC site, and curse because they haven’t been able to handle the huge workload which comes alongwith new members… yet, atleast!

We hope that the new script will help them resolve all their pending problems and give them a much better efficient way to handle their day-to-day processes.

We would also like to see news about bux.to being posted in their news section instead of just the success stories.

 

bux.to update

Payout record? 

Method: PTC

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Brief history

bux.to was one of the first major PT sites to hit the industry in 2007 and since then it has progressed higher than any other PTC site in terms of popularity. As we are now rating this site under our new rating process it wont be the old +10 but sure to be one of the new systems highest.

No doubt bux.to has managed to produce the highest known payouts and turned out to be much more than just extra money for some people. October last year became a turning point for the popular site when numbers got so high they felt a strain in the systems ability to keep up with payments which were more a direct result of the need for increased security as the number of cheaters increased.

Since then they have only progressed further with sign ups and expanded with professional forum moderators and a mammoth amount of server support. In recent times they have adapted the site further to introduce their own credit card and are slowly catching up with late payments. To get an understanding of just how high the payments are at bux.to we check their substantial proof of payment page and their recent news of a lucky member receiving $9,800.00 which is one of the highest payments ever made within the industry.

 

 

Another factor that has come to our attention in this latest review is that bux has one of the biggest proofs of payment areas in the industry totalling 18 pages. One of the reasons for this is that they are also one of the longest running PTC sites and of course have the most members but even since the payment waits have been made longer the proofs have still come flooding in.

Design

The design of bux.to has always been very simple yet functional. The sites design itself can now been seen all over as the script has been widely distributed to new PTC sites. Many of these sites however make little or no effort to change it to something a little more unique. This is mainly due to the set layout within its script. Recently at bux.to there have been design competitions to give bux.to a whole new image all together to accompany a new script that will soon be installed which should give extra security and thankfully make the cheaters life harder.

Advertising

Advertising has always remained good to average value at bux.to with 50,000 ads worth $91.50 with 10.000 for £179.00. Considering the high traffic that is active at bux.to these prices are fairly fitting with high conversion rates. Our advertising tests at bux.to produced some of the highest results recorded providing up to 77.000 members a day for an eZine like ours and much higher for actual PT sites. The fact that they haven’t pushed the value up too high since they became really big shows a very humble and smart business move as profits will still be made and they will not gain as many price competitors.

Referral system

Bux.to has always made an effort not to over price their referral packages and haven’t changed this fact recently either. Here you can still purchase 15 referrals for just $16.98 on what has always been 100% down line. One thing that has been no stranger to bux.to is inactive referrals which used to be replaced quite easy but now for obvious reasons with working hours not everyone can get this help. What may help this situation in future is for them to implement more of an incentive for people to click ads rather than purchase referrals and get lazy. The value for money here is very much the same story as the advertising area where they are not getting ahead of themselves and losing any good value.

Upgrades

The upgrade package has performed well according to our tests providing members with over 20 ads a day with an increased bonus for each ad clicked. One thing that is great about the bonus added to each ad you click is that your referral earnings are equal to it which means you earn $0.0125 per click along with any of your referrals clicks. This boosts performance and somewhat takes the sting out of having any inactive referrals. The upgrade lasts for a year and is priced at $59.00 which to our memory is a slight reduction from what it was a few months back. As standard members have to wait 60 days for payment the 30 days for premium makes it much more worth while.

Currently around 5% of members at bux.to are premium which can sound misleadingly low but it’s actually quite good in terms of average upgrade sales on most PTC sites. The thing is it should be much higher on sites that are as well established as bux.to, AdverCash or ClixSense. The reason for this is because most of the major PTC sites have generally have proven their legitimacy and adapted their upgrades to provide the extra performance you would expect. What is more, most of the major brands hold good prices for what you’re getting.

Performance

With standard membership at bux.to you get an average amount of ads at $0.01 with 100% down line which is very much a typical level of performance and very much expected of a standard account. This makes a lot of room for boosted performance on the premium account and the benefits work well for the price. The premium membership is about as good as it gets thanks to the twin boost to your clicks and your referrals.

Conclusion

It was a bumpy road for bux.to in 2007 and probably the most slated PTC site that is commonly victim to rumours and accusations of scam but through it all they have still paid their members and proved the rumours wrong each time. Many of the people who slate the site often state something as fact without producing any evidence to prove their complaint. It is these inconsistencies with people’s negatives regarding the site that have caused the majority to act objectively and try the site for themselves.

The number of members at bux.to is enough to fill 3 major PTC sites which means those with a bad experience on the site are likely to be in larger numbers than your average site. This causes an unbalanced effect as any PT site faces the same issues bux.to has eventually.

Of course one of the reasons bux.to has been able to power through this is to become less vocally defensive which shows they have nothing to prove regarding the legitimacy of their service. There are a lot of negative comments made by people who are unsatisfied that it now takes up to 60 days for payments to be made to standard members and around 30 days for premium. The problem with this argument is nobody would be able to take the helm of their site and be able to decrease the delays if they had the same staff and amount of accounts to check. In short you can only really blame the selfish cheater for such delays.

The auto clicker is the industries worst enemy and causes advertisers to trust the industry less. It is this fact that shows the cheaters are shooting themselves in the foot by decreasing the amount of ads they would benefit from in the first place and all because they can’t view an ad for just 30 seconds. Luckily at bux.to they do a good job of catching these cheaters making it almost a dead cert that cheaters will be caught there. The effectiveness of their checks means that it’s not a question of when or how many cheaters will be caught but the fact that as soon as they use a method against their TOS they will lose all their earnings and rightfully so.

If we lived in a world without cheaters the PTC industry would be a much more successful industry…. and I would still be playing Crysis online

March 27, 2008

Referrals,  earnings and a trip to Korea

Article by Jane

I bought my first 500 pack of referrals at bux.to about 6 weeks ago and the first few days I earned around $25 per day. These were all new referrals that has just signed up and most of them were american residents, that means they click ads while I am sleeping and I don't see much happening during daytime in my stats. Also we know from experience that many new members try out the click business for a while and then scratch it. I knew some of my referrals would become inactive within a week and I had them replaced quickly by bux.to's staff. The earnings from 500 referrlas kept on a steady $20 per day after 3 weeks of evaluating.

I decided to get another 500 referrals to increase my incomes and this time I was even more lucky as these were very active ones. The first day I made $70 and after a week I did some calculating and found my averigae earnings to be $65 per day.

So what does this mean? Well some simple math shows my earnings will be $1,950 per month and that is without even clicking ads myself. I spent $918 on the referral packs and that leaves a profit of a little more than one thousand dollars for the first month.

I will definitley buy two more 500-packs of referrals. My average earnings would be around be around $4,000 which is almost twice an average income in western Europe.

Another person who is making great money on bux.to is Linyera who has just booked a dream holiday to Japan and Korea using  the money earned from bux.to You can read more here: http://buxbb.com/index.php?showtopic=26771

Does bux.to make our dreams come true? In some way I would say they do. Where else can you make this kind of money doing nothing? Their forum is loaded with success stories and I think it is only fair to say that bux.to has become a virtual Dream Factory for many of us.

 

March 26, 2008

Article by Jane

And the winners of the Easter Puzzle are....

1x500 referrals : nipoon
4x100 referrals: haydnscott - retkimora - JuriX - casla1982
5x35 referrals: korbman - UWARRIOR - hagen199 - SK_WOOT - Ninjaxin

Congratulations!

Even though the puzzle was very tricky there were thousands of members who managed to find the hidden pictures and do the math.

And the easter eggs were found on the contest page. If you selected the picture in the middle and highlit it, the eggs appeared.

Personally I spent 2 fun hours trying to find the eggs and then it was another hour to solve the math and even though I knew I wouldn't win (all I ever won was a toaster in 1989 that broke after a week and after setting fire to the kitchen table) it was a lot of fun. I hope Bux.to will come out with more fun contests like this!

March 18, 2008

Fun Easter contest at Bux.to

Over 1,000 referrals to WIN!

We came across this contest at Bux.to yesterday. Lots of referrals to win and lots of potential incomes. They have hidden baskets with easter eggs on the site and your job is to find them and then do a little math puzzle. You can visit Bux.to and read more.

Contest will end 11.00 pm GMT Easter Sunday and winners will be published around 11:30 pm

 

March 12, 2008

Bux.to hiring sales staff
and building a fortress against fraudsters.

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Bux.to is expanding even more and now they have hired more staff for the sales department to handle advertisers and related issues. This means the bux.to crew and rapidly nearing the number of 30 employees.

"Seems with more and more unserious PTC websites which popping up and disappearing very quick we record a big increase of new members. We had a extreme workload before, but now. You cannot imagine!" says the bux.to spokes person.

The new PTC script is preliminary scheduled to go live in the first week of April 2008! With the script a lot of things will be handled automatically which should mae it easier for both staff and members.
Also the highest security standards will be used and this will make the work of cheaters and hackers very hard.

 

March 7, 2008

The bux.to MasterCard® card is here!

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For all the members that has being waiting impatiently the time has now come to apply for the bux.to MasterCard® . The news has followed by the members excitement and cheering on the forum.

 

You find this information on the bux.to forum today:

The time has come. You can apply for your own Bux card here: http://bux.to/buxregistercard.php Please note: Minimum payout for the card is set at $75 The exciting news is that both Standard and Premium can order the card. As card will take sometime to come, we want you to order card now. All other information regarding cashout will be on held during this time while we make decisions, we will find a way to satisfy all members. If you are having trouble, there is a Live Assistance available http://www.payoneer.com/ContactUs.aspx or leave your question here where staff will be available to help.   Card order questions: Within the United States: 1-800-251-2521 x2 (9:00-5:00pm EST Sun-Fri) Outside the United States: 1-847-461-1386 x2 (9:00-5:00pm EST Sun-Fri) *Update Important Note about Activation Fee for Non-US: Please refer to OUR fee page not on the general web site for the activation fee for Non-US. We made a deal with them. It is $9.95 NOT $19.95 as stated in their Terms & Conditions located at http://www.payoneer.com/terms.aspx If your are getting a message "Please Login First" on Bux site. Please click Logout and then login again then go to the link.  If you receive the "not logged in" error, please logout, login again using your case sensitive password, then visit the page again.

Feb 18, 2008

bux.to -
The PTC site that has changed the whole industry

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Taking a look at the PTC industry current top PTC site we can still see giant leaps of progress being made here. For quite some time it seems that bux.to has been able to pay out much more than “extra cash” which is a common phrase related with PTC sites. The last highest payout we had heard of was around $4000 at bux.to but recently they have gone much higher with an unbeatable $12.750 payout which went to the lucky owner of a large community.

Obviously that person had the means and the traffic in which to refer so many people however the amount of people gaining 3 figure payouts is increasing all the time thanks to more people purchasing the upgrades. The 500 referral upgrade has never been so popular and the results are just astonishing. The collective high earnings of the members at bux.to are now changing the way people see bux.to. Now bux.to is seen by many as an extra source income rather than extra small cash.

Because the site is now so popular we were curious as to how they handle this with their number of servers and what their plans are for them. They told us the servers in use are 2x Load balancer 3x Web server 3x SQL Server FireWall included which costs a small fortune.

They told us that their future plans also include a completely new script which should be operational within 4 weeks or so.

Its common knowledge that bux.to has been recruiting for quite some time in an effort to improve their service to the members. The last time we heard 15 people were employed at bux.to but that has now risen to 20 including volunteers and freelancers. The difference is very noticeable especial with the support system thanks to a very active forum with professional administrators.

It almost seems bizarre when one checks these facts they also find that bux.to is still listed as a scam site on other PT review sites. These seemingly rushed results bare a contrasting existence with the results found at the Alexa chart and bux.to’s very own proof of payment system with happens to be larger than any other PTC site.

The Alexa chart will also show bux.to miles ahead of any other known PTC site. To get an idea of what their Alexa position means we had a small interview with them regarding the stats of the site.

UOB: How many members do you have now?

bux.to: 2.5 Mil.

UOB: approximately how many visitors do you get per day?

bux.to: 500,000

UOB: What is your opinion of these sites that black list you so rapidly?

bux.to: We believe in them having freedom of speech even if what they claim isn’t true, at the end of the day our facts speak for themselves.

So there you have it bux.to has gained so much success that they have the right to be slightly un-phased by such black lists. What ever their reason for trying to discourage people from signing up at bux.to the 2.5 mil members with 500.000 visitors shows us that it isn’t harming bux.to or stopping them from growing as a business.

Recently at a global forum conference the worlds most famous entrepreneur Bill Gates spoke about how he is an optimist but and impatient one who feels the world is getting better but not fast enough and one of the reasons for this is because wealth is not accessible to everyone. We feel that what bux.to is currently doing is knocking at the door of this issue because literally anyone who has a computer or access to one anywhere in the world can sign up and earn money at bux.to there are no countries banned from signing up with them.

As materialistic as it sounds in reality money is what makes the world go round, it pays our bills and puts food on the tables providing it with not only our essentials but our luxuries too. Because of this it’s hard to find a reason why people should not sign up with bux.to and try to earn money there as it is quite simply the easiest way on the internet to get a lot of money for so little work.

Jan 9, 2008

bux.to - Live support chat and updates

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Method: PTC

Article by Phil

 

The last time we reviewed bux.to we thought to ourselves they surely can’t come to us again in a month and tell us that they have yet again gone the distance and added yet more improvements to the best PTC site around. But they did and this one is just absolutely incredible as bux.to have managed to come up with improvements to the site while under their massive work load. These improvements aren’t just little tweaks either....

Live Support Chat

The first massive achievement has been the implementation of the very first PTC live support chat. As far as we know bux.to is to the first to successfully integrate this very useful system onto their site and they have set an example by doing this as you can now see Paid.vg will also have the same system to help them rise up the industry.

Bux.to live support should help all those who work for it in a big way as before the standard ticket email system was becoming hard to keep up with purely because bux.to has so many members. Now questions can be answered more or less the moment they are asked which speeds up the process and keeps the system from being swamped with questions building up. This simple addition to the bux.to site will help them to get on with other important tasks such as paying members.

Speaking of bux.to payments let me just check today’s latest emails.

 

Payment and TOS

Just yesterday the 8^th of January 2008 I found my 4^th payment from bux.to has arrived. Of course there are still many people complaining that bux.to isn’t paying and even going as far as to say they are scam. Recently bux.to changed their TOS so the standard member’s payments would be 60 days after request simply due to the high demand. This doesn’t mean those who wait will not get paid though which seems to be what some people are trying to push into peoples minds.

It has been common knowledge in the PTC industry that PTC talk has labelled bux.to as scam without a proper investigation however it is also common knowledge that the owners of PTC talk have a lot of close communication with the owners of other PT sites who would like to see bux.to close down.

Slandering of bux.to

Recently in the Bux.to forum itself a thread was started about this rushed labelling and without a surprise the admin of AdverCash soon posted there too. He original tried acting anonymous until he gave a few hints which site he is running. He was insisting that bux.to had scammed him and that it would eventually happen to all the other members. He wasn’t really speaking to the right audience however as most of the people in the forum are very happy with the service and don’t mind the new wait for payment because what ever payments are processed are still higher in the long run that what people get else where.

 Within this thread he also accused us of only updating bux.to articles because bux.to pay us to do so which is pretty aimless guess work considering he has never over seen our communication with bux.to itself. To set the record straight however the only exchanges that have happened between bux.to and UrOnlineBiz is simple banner exchanges and good communication. Of course the whole affair produced some very bad publicity for AdverCash. We saw the same own foot shooting happen when adbux.org tried to bring bux.to down in October by spamming their domain which only sent adbux.org plummeting in popularity for over stepping the mark.

The administrators of bux.to have always contacted us directly about updates they have made to the site and it is for this simple reason that we have a lot to write about them. This is on top of the fact that people want to read about the most popular PTC site at the end of the day.

The VISA Card

 As a bonus to their recent update to us they informed us about their new bux.to VISA and Electron card. These cards will act as a new secure and advanced way of getting paid which should be in action by spring. This system should also help free up the work load for staff to pay the members and communicating with them.

Conclusion

Our conclusion is bux.to will be constantly improving as 2008 goes on and its current progress rate is an immense achievement when you see that this site has yet to have a birthday. We have to commend this as on average it can usually take up to 2 years to get a business running at such a rate. The recent improvements to bux.to have also caused a very steep rise with its Alexa rank which gives the service the right to say they have no competition as no other PTC comes close to their current position.

Jan 3,2008
 

bux.to news

Just recently Bux.to members database reached over 1.4 million users and the average sign ups are 5,000 new member per day. It is no understatement to say that bux.to truely is the largest and most popular PTC site out there.

VISA -cards

Bux.to published some exciting news on their forum today:

Bux.to is pleased to announce an innovative and improved payment option. This spring we offer* all our premium members a Visa® Electron® Card which allows you to receive money securely and quickly in a way never before possible. More details will be posted as soon as they are available.

This sounds very interesting for more than one reason. The most obvious reason is of course to get away from the fraudulent friendly PayPal but another reason could be that it will make it a lot harder for people to try and cheat the system by creating double acconts. All honests members will gain a lot from this and the cheaters will risk a lot by having their true identities exposed.

Recently we have seen happy members recieve high payout up $1,500 from bux.to and with the amount of cash they handle every month I am sure they can make a good deal with VISA and get away from PayPal for good.

 

bux.to

and rising

 Go to Bux to Website

Method: PTC

It has been well documented by us and many other online business observers that bux.to is still improving its service just when you though it couldn’t get any better. Over the past month they have shown just how far a PTC site can go by achieving the world’s highest known Alexa rank for a PTC site.

As you can see from the picture below bux.to has not only beaten their competition but are still rising up the chart at a remarkable rate.

 

 

This progress from bux.to also shows us that the standard $0.01 per ad is the one that works. Adbux.org made the mistake of converting away from that performance level around the time their Alexa rank started to fall and another decent after the administrators attempt to take bux.to down which can also be seen just past October.

Referrals at bux.to have also increased in performance with most bux.to members having their dead purchases replaced after a long month of fresh sign ups. Member satisfaction at bux.to is now at an all time high as people are able to report very respectable earning from the site which range from $20 payouts to $4000 and beyond.

The $4000 is a recent achievement of one of the bux.to members who got there by investing 50% of his earnings each time into purchasing referrals and going to distance to promote his link. His referral count came to 6500 by the time he reach these high earnings which shows with a little bit of effort and patients you can get huge rewards from working with bux.to.

As a side scam warning note, the person who advertised these stats is unaware that his sig link is scam site. So if you see his post on the bux.to forum please avoid his sig.

After our bux.to tester also had his 100 referrals replaced he is now on $70 from $10 in just 2 weeks which is by far the best PTC performance we have on record. This reveals more than ever why bux.to holds the highest UrOnlineBiz rating of +10.

There is of course a lot of people that argue against their ranking however these people are generally loyal to the competitors sites and at the end of the day you can’t argue with the stats and any stat to do with bux.to at the moment is a high one.

So with a ranking of +10 we couldn’t recommend bux.to more as it is now pure fact that they are the best PTC site around. This begs the question of them who are still sceptical about bux.to “Why pass up what has been proven to be the best performance of the very business you seek?” bux.to although doing very well already can only do better as time goes on which makes the future of bux.to a very exciting one.

Bux.to running at a steady +10

Nov 13,2007

"We welcome all nations!"

Interview with Debbie from bux.to

 

 

Recently it has become increasingly noticeable that a large number of PT sites are changing their terms and conditions to ban whole nations on the grounds that they get more cheaters from them. In the past we have only seen small PTR sites banning countries such as China who not only banned them for having more cheaters but refused to give a reason why on their website.

We at UrOnlineBiz do not condone this way of doing business as we feel it’s unfair on those who don’t cheat in with a country that gets banned for this reason. We happen to know there are plenty of ways to deal with cheaters and that it just requires a little bit of effort into preventing it. We too have had our fair share of cheaters and only prevented it by putting in the little effort and time it took to fix. If we had of chosen to ban the country the cheater came from we would have no doubt damaged our reputation and traffic.

We spoke to the Debbie who administrates our most trusted PTC site bux.to about this matter as they accept all nations and are still able to operate with minimal loses from cheaters.

UOB: I would first like to ask how does Bux.to deal with cheaters from around the world?

Debbie:

a) There are two groups of cheaters. The real ones which are harming and damaging the business. They are getting blocked/banned.

b) They family/people in relation. They are just trying to make a little more. May they are in need. They are getting banned if there is a real overuse via multiple accounts and so on.

Bear in mind each case is reviewed individually.

 

UOB: What is it that enables you to accept all other countries while other sites have to ban whole nations to avoid cheaters because of stats regarding a certain nation?

Debbie:

You cannot ban whole nations. Of course we understand if there are more people in need or financial trouble there is a higher risk that people are cheating.

 

UOB: We noticed in the past when reviewing some small PTR sites we found that they banned counties such as china for example and refused to give a reason. What are your views as to why they do business this way? Would you say it's a political thing?

Debbie:

China is a big country with a huge potential for business but also has a lot problems and many people in need. You cannot generalize because a few Chinese are cheating to block the whole nation. We have excellent contact and reliable members all over the globe. It is not fair and from my feeling racialist to ban whole nations.

 

UOB: We understand it's hard to give away any information as to how you deal with cheaters due to the fact that you don't want to give them tips on how to avoid detection but is there one set method that is unbeatable? Or are there weak points to any method?

Debbie:

Mostly they are caught by human reviewing. This is very time consuming. We also use other techniques and software to track them.

 

UOB: How much money would you say has been cheated out of the Bux.to website from people trying to get around the system?

 Debbie:

In relation to the volume we handle not much. Less than 1%

 

UOB: What kinds of things do these cheaters do when they are caught? What methods have they used to cheat the system?

 

Debbie:

They use a wide range of techniques. I can assure you all are traceable. In 100 cheaters 1 may luckily get paid undetected.

 

UOB: According to your terms page cheaters who are caught will have their accounts deleted without notice and little discussion as to why is then involved in the case. Is there no follow up to a cheater being caught for fraud? Is there any authority you report this illegal activity to?

 Debbie:

Right now the damage/lost is not enough to follow up or to pass this to authorities.

 

There you have it, 1% is on average the % these websites are hanging onto by banning whole counties. We thank Debbie for taking the time to talk to us about this issue as this shows us the reasons for banning whole nations isn’t as valid as whose who work to that rule say. If Bux.to being the most popular PTC site can handle a global traffic storm with little problem from cheaters why can’t the smaller sites do so too? This question goes out to these websites that stick with this seemingly unnecessary rule.

Graphic below show where Bux.to's traffic came from during last weekend.

 

Bux.to are now back at their old +10 rating!

 

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Oct 16, 2007

Bux.to - New support ticket system

Bux.to is doing well and have no late payouts.

Their new support ticket site makes the correspondece between the admins and the members a lot easier to keep track of and Bux.to says they got a lot positive feedback for making these improvements.

www.buxtosupport.com

 

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Oct 10, 2007

Bux.to status

 

So what's the status for the PTC Giant Bux.to?

Bux.to has now reached payouts up until 9th of September which basically means that they are up to speed.

Yesterday Bux.to closed deals with two large advertisers and the ad sales goes up the whole time, which of course means more money for the active members.

Due to fraud attempts Bux.to have had to suspend some accounts but as the organization now has 4 moderators  for the forum only they believe they will be able to answer questions quickly.  For members who had their accounts suspended Bux.to has a special thread in their forum where they can find some answers to their questions.

http://abux.info/viewtopic.php?t=3424

And there are a lot fraud attempts right now that take a lot of time to sort out for the Bux.to staff.

We got a comment from the Bux.to owner today:
"Yesterday for example a standard member claimed that he had clicked in very correct manner from July 1st until yesterday, about 6,500 times. For people like this we are the bad guys and the cheaters. But if you do some easy math: approximately 6 ads daily x 100 days = 600 ads. Do I need to say more?"

 

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PT owners!
Send us your news and updates and we will write about them.

Some people are wondering why we cover Bux.to news this often? The answer is simple, they are the largest PTC site out there, a lot of things happened to Bux.to recently and a over half a million members want to know what is going on.
 Also Bux.to keep us updated daily with their progresses and changes they make which makes our work easier of course.
It is a smart marketing strategy too as they get free publicity and more visitors to their website of course. 
- If all PT owner kept us updated on what's going on with their sites we could write more often about them too. As it is now we more or less have to drag the information out of some PT owners. Maybe they don't want free publicity?

And just to clearify: We are not owned by or associated with any PT site, we just write about them. ;-)
 

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Oct 9, 2007

Bux.to back with same domain!

AdBux's attempt to close down Bux.to, by getting their domain suspended, didn't last for long. 62 readers sent us email yesterday expressing their anger with the AdBux admins and how they are now boycotting that PTC program for good. Incidents like this cost a lot of money and effort for all parties involved. One may wonder who lost more in this battle, AdBux or Bux.to?

Today at 13.30 GMT the Bux.to site was backup with it's old domain. All members supporting Bux.to in this battle against AdBux are now celebrating on the forum. Legal actions are in process against AdBux and the people involved in the sabotage.

Let's hope that this is the end of the drama and that everyone can go back clicking and earning.

 

 

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Oct 8, 2007

AdBux vs Bux.to - the final round?

There is an ongoing war you don't get to hear about in the 9 o'clock news. The debate between AdBux and Bux.to has blown up out of proportions and it is now a full bloody virtual war.

The members seem to have taken sides in this dispute and even those of us who just want to click ads and cash in seem to be drawn in to the debate, whether we want to or not. AdBux has accused Bux.to for fraudelent activities for months now and the slandering has been rough in both directions. It all started when AdBux accused Bux.to of hacking into their system and stealing their script and database. Bux.to's response to the matter was that they had actually hired their own programmer.

Just as Bux.to was getting up to speed with the late payouts and everything seemed to look brighter for the members, the AdBux admins decided to take the war one step further. On the AdBux forum there is a 135 page thread about Bux.to and the main subject over the last 24 hours has been "how to close down Bux.to for good". The AdBux admins had an open discussion with their members and brainstormed a few ideas such as reporting to the FBI for fraud. The FBI's response was that they had nothing to go on so the AdBux-ers had go back to brainstorming. This time they came up with the idea to report abuse and accuse Bux.to of spamming.  All AdBux forum member were asked to send copies of sales letters sent to them by Bux.to and the owner of AdBux forwarded these emails to the Bux.to domain registrar as spam.

The fact that the salesletters only are sent to registered Bux.to members was not something they took into consideration. And it seems like the AdBux plan worked. A few hours later the Bux.to website was unaccessible, hundreds of thousands of Bux.to member shut out and wondering where their money went? Meanwhile the AdBux admins was laughing out loud on their forum and thanking the supporters for a good job.

As a mere observerer it was fascinating to see how the AdBux admins slowly, hour after hour on Sunday the 7th of Oct, was slandering Bux.to and convincing doubtful members to join their side. Any objection was forced down quickly by the admins and their closest men. The scene made us think of a notorious german man with black hair and a little moustasche who yelled out his propganda to the people and conviced them to either take his side or suffer the consequences. The AdBux admins even managed to get the Bux.to forum moderator over to the other side.

The accussations

It's no understatement to say that both sides has accused one another of scam. Those of us who has been around in the PT realm for a while surely remember the Netbux scandal. The netbux owner stole around US$40,000-US$50,000 of the members money and ran for the hills. A lot of people mean that the person behind that scam is now the owner of AdBux and they cannot understand how people can trust this person and his accussations against Bux.to.

"It is only a matter of time before he scam us all again. One would think people would learn a lesson from dealing with this guy." says Joanna, an angry  PTC program member.

AdBux responded to the matter by putting a website explaining the circumstances around Netbux and AdBux. http://theyscammedus.com/adbux.php#1

"Well of course he would try and defend himself. If I was a scammer I would too. But frankly I don't believe one word written on that website" Joanna continues. "This war AdBux has started will only harm the members and no one will gain anything if Bux.to goes down. There is a lot of money invested in this program and they had just gotten back on track with the payments.....then the AdBux snotty kids had to come sabotage it. Their forum is filled with smileys, LOLs, LMAOs and disgusting pictures supposedly impersonating the admins of Bux.to. It is clearly a bunch of kids running AdBux and they're trying to take justice into their own hands.
The AdBux forum really looks like a refugee camp for people who were banned for cheating on Bux.to and couldn't take the fact that they were caught."

But not everyone was angry. Those standing on AdBux's side was celebrating loudly on the forum.

"I am glad to see Bux.to shut down. They were very late with payments. I just got all my money this weekend from Bux.to but I still think they are bad. It has to be bad, if they are late with payments,right?" said an anonymous member of both AdBux and Bux.to.

Most of us have heard that Bux.to had troubles to keep up with payout and it has caused a lot of turbulence among the members and some even started to suspect scam. Bux.to admins explained that they were understaffed and simply not prepared for this large amount of people joining the program. Just a week ago they hired more staff to help out and have been working around the clock to catch up with payouts.

We managed to get a hold of Bux.to admins for a comment.

"In regards to the payments we have reached the 5th of September, so we're close in our 30 days time frame as stated. Difficult to work well if other people are trying to damage your business just for the reason that we are more successful. At the moment 80% of our working power is wasted, they even send fake people to our forum to keep us busy."

How this virtual war will develop we can only guess, but today at lunch time (GMT) the Bux.to wesbite was up again and running from the IP:

http://89.163.144.146/

Bux.to administration are taking legal actions against what they think is a sabotage but first they want to sort out any member issues and continue with the payouts.

"After all the members has to come first" says Bux.to.

 

Oct 4

Bux.to - back on track by the end of the week!
 

This morning Bux.to let us know that:

Oct 3, 2007
Bux.to - one man stronger!
Today  the new hired help start working at Bux.to and this hopefully means any late payouts  will be taken care of shortly. This is indeed great news for those members that have been waiting for their money for quite some time now. Support from Bux.to are now also provided in English, Italian and Spanish

Bux.to jobs
Sep 24,2007

 

 

 

If you woke up today with that Monday morning feeling on your way to work, why not work from home instead? Bux.to is now hiring staff for their leading PTC site. This is a great opportunity for anyone who wishes to work in the comfort of their own home with flexible working hours. Bux.to themselves are slightly thin on staff at the moment which makes now the time to apply since many people are going to jump on this opportunity before you get a chance. The jobs on offer include areas of support, sys developer/admin and sales/marketing.

The support role is optional weather you want it full time or part time also includes flexi hours. You won’t be left in the dark when you start up since you will have a great team of people to help you if needed.

The support role requires the following

1. Service management.
2. PPC/PTR knowledge.
3. At least two year experience

Sales/Marketing is a fantastic opportunity if you have studied online marketing and have the ability to bring in new prospects by selling the company via enticing promos and advertising deals. This position also has the option of part time or full time with flexi hours.

The Sales/Marketing role requires the following

1. Good Sales and Online Advertising/Marketing knowledge.
2. At least two year experience.

Sys developer/admin is for those who are good at programming and web mastering since the bux.to site requires a lot of maintenance to keep up with the traffic demands. You may also need to communicate well with those who work for support so you can update them on the sites status if any issues arise. This position also has the option to work full time or part time with flexi hours.

The sys developer/admin position requires the following:

1. Profound knowledge in Linux systems.
2. MySQL DB optimization + PHP.
3. Writing scripts in perl/C.
4. Load balancer configuration.
5. Must be also a programmer - C/C++/.NET.
6. Must have experience in deploying high scale servers and distributed web systems.
7. Caching systems.
8. PHP optimization tools.
9. Monitoring the system.

If any of these positions appealed to you then apply your cover letter and CV to mail@bux.to

 

Bux.to

Method: Get payed to click ads

Go to Bux.to website

Bux.to

Bux.to is said to be the leading PTC site. This is due to their early start making a good reputation by responding fast to member questions and always paying out on time. Their members have now increased making them one of the most populated PTC sites on the web. To learn more about them we turned to their terms of service page which included all the important sections about pay.

Something great we found in the terms of service when signing up was that you may refer other people in your household but only one member per computer. However they lacked in responsibility with “We have the right to suspend or terminate your account at any time, for any reason and without warning or notice” Which isn’t good as it reduces trust in the service.

On the intro page a sign up incentive has been advertised where you are instantly given $0.05 when you sign up a new account. The introduction page also includes an estimate of your earning if you have 20 referrals when you click 10 ads a day coming to $63.00. You can also access the forum here and donate to charity.

 

Performance

When we signed up to Bux.to we were pleased with the earnings area. We got around 8 ads to click on the first day priced at the standard $0.01. They didn’t display any tacky annoying ads either as some included some very interesting high end products such as property overseas and luxury H20 products. The count down process was another 30 second one but we did on some occasions run into some bugs like having to look at the ad for 30 seconds only to receive an X rather than a tick. This bug prevented us from earning that time round which meant we had to do the 30 seconds again which worked fine second time round.

After 2 weeks of use we only had around $0.43 from normal clicking so we decided to test out their referral system. Bux.To was one of the first PTC sites to offer referral purchase where you can buy un-referred Bux.To members to become your referrals. You can buy them in packages of 15 members for $16 and 100 for $98.00. We purchased 15 members to test out if we would gain anywhere near the amount they estimate. Their estimate for 15 referrals clicking 10 ads a day would result in you getting $45.00 a month. It took 3 days for our referrals to be added to our account which was expected as they warn it can take up to 3 or 5 days to appear.

When another 3 days past we had round $1.85 with the help from our referrals and our daily clicking. We were able to check who our referrals are and how many visits they were making. We found a problem when we noticed one member had 0 visits meaning we were not earning from that member. This is a problem because the 15 referrals become 14 making this purchase botched. After contacting Bux.to to see if they would replace the inactive member we were delighted to see that they had accepted to move one member across free of charge.

 

Advertising

We tested their advertising area to help promo UrOnlineBiz. We were not blown away by their prices considering 100 views were going for $1.99 but 500 were going for $9.75. Comparing these prices with ClixSense we found we were able to get a much better deal there at $6.00 for 500 views. We tried out the Bux.to advertising package of 100 ads but once purchased we unhappy that we had no page or tools to see if the ad had been working. For all we know they took the money and did no adds. The fact is there was no proof that they had shown it like there is on ClixSense. When we emailed them about it they told us that our ads had already expired and were all used up within 2 minutes. We didn’t get any new members from Bux.to that day which is of course a sign their advertising is far from worthy of the best PTC site.

 

Evaluation

We were impressed with Bux.to and feel that it has further more potential to become a better PTC site. Due to the lack of referral package choices we feel they are still shy of being crowned the best PTC site but what really lets them down is of course the poor advertising system. We need to see them reduce their prices and provide a page proving the ad is in rotation. With these two simple tweaks we are confident they could hit +10. We are happy with their member service after they responded so quickly to our problem about the inactive member and acted accordingly in a fair manner giving us a replacement.

Bux.to currently gets the rating of +8 for a good PTC service and web site design