Bux.to, the story of a ScamWritten by Abdulrehman on March 11th, 2010
I finally decided to write about the really of Bux.to. I started off with using bux.to around 3 years ago. If you remember well, this is how I got started into making money online. Blogging wasn’t until late 2007 and before that I was heavily occupied with paid to click websites.
To be frank, at that time bux.to seemed to be the best paid to click website to me. In fact, stats prove that it is the most popular paid to click websites as compared to popular paid to click websites of that time. It has risen to below 2000 in the alexa top websites.
So, where did Bux.to go wrong? Quite simple…
Traditional paid to click concept
Let’s go old school (thought it’s just been 3 years, 
) and see how the paid to click websites started up. I remember the first paid to click website to be adbux and many other small paid to click websites followed up soon.
How these websites operated was over a simple concept:
- Advertisers pay the PTC website for visitors to their website.
- Users sign-up to the PTC website and get paid for clicking ads.
- The PTC website takes a part of the cost per visitor paid by the advertiser, and gives the rest to the users.
That’s all!
Pretty basic huh? If this goes on a small scale, it’s all cool. But when you have big ambitions and want to make a lot of money, you have a little problem.
I’m sure that there aren’t a lot of wise webmasters or bloggers out there who would want to be spending 3 cents for a visitor who would visit the website for just 30 seconds. The purchasing power of the visitor can be seen from the fact that he is clicking ads for a cent each. (No offense, I was one of them a few years ago)
So, basically this makes the traffic pretty useless and probably the only reason why a big number of webmasters wouldn’t want to be advertising on such a website. Moreover, even if there are a lot of advertisers, their advertisement budget would not be enough to cater such a large user base as it was in bux.to’s case.
The Dirty Game
Then bux.to played a pretty dirty game. What they did was simple, they started putting up advertisements without actually receiving the money according to the mechanism. For example:
Instead of charging $3000 to a person who wants to buy a 100K visitors package, they’ll give him a discount just to get some cash into the system. Then they’ll use that money to pay off a user who requested payout 3 months ago telling him that this delay was due to ‘manual check’ before payout.
One reason why this was working out was because most of the users never made it to the minimum payout OR never protested if they never got paid and left the program.
Long story, short. Soon, as more users joined they needed more inflow of cash. So, they started selling those referral packages and the premium memberships to have some cash rolling in and as of now, that’s what they’re depending on.
Apparently, they’re only paying premium members. That too only after a wait of several months or years. The system reached a stop a long time ago, I (along with some other users) just didn’t realize that in time.
Therefore, ladies and gentlemen, the bux.to mechanism flunked right before your eyes. i hate to say it, but yes I pronounce it a SCAM. 
If you still want to check on paid to click websites, I’d recommend checking out clixsense. I also have an article on making money on the internet for beginners. 
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I finally decided to write about the really of Bux.to. I started off with using bux.to around 3 years ago. If you remember well, this is how I got started into making money online. Blogging wasn’t until late 2007 and before that I was heavily occupied with paid to click websites.
To be frank, at that time bux.to seemed to be the best paid to click website to me. In fact, stats prove that it is the most popular paid to click websites as compared to popular paid to click websites of that time. It has risen to below 2000 in the alexa top websites.
So, where did Bux.to go wrong? Quite simple…
Traditional paid to click concept
Let’s go old school (thought it’s just been 3 years, ) and see how the paid to click websites started up. I remember the first paid to click website to be adbux and many other small paid to click websites followed up soon.
How these websites operated was over a simple concept:
- Advertisers pay the PTC website for visitors to their website.
- Users sign-up to the PTC website and get paid for clicking ads.
- The PTC website takes a part of the cost per visitor paid by the advertiser, and gives the rest to the users.
That’s all!
Pretty basic huh? If this goes on a small scale, it’s all cool. But when you have big ambitions and want to make a lot of money, you have a little problem.
I’m sure that there aren’t a lot of wise webmasters or bloggers out there who would want to be spending 3 cents for a visitor who would visit the website for just 30 seconds. The purchasing power of the visitor can be seen from the fact that he is clicking ads for a cent each. (No offense, I was one of them a few years ago)
So, basically this makes the traffic pretty useless and probably the only reason why a big number of webmasters wouldn’t want to be advertising on such a website. Moreover, even if there are a lot of advertisers, their advertisement budget would not be enough to cater such a large user base as it was in bux.to’s case.
The Dirty Game
Then bux.to played a pretty dirty game. What they did was simple, they started putting up advertisements without actually receiving the money according to the mechanism. For example:
Instead of charging $3000 to a person who wants to buy a 100K visitors package, they’ll give him a discount just to get some cash into the system. Then they’ll use that money to pay off a user who requested payout 3 months ago telling him that this delay was due to ‘manual check’ before payout.
One reason why this was working out was because most of the users never made it to the minimum payout OR never protested if they never got paid and left the program.
Long story, short. Soon, as more users joined they needed more inflow of cash. So, they started selling those referral packages and the premium memberships to have some cash rolling in and as of now, that’s what they’re depending on.
Apparently, they’re only paying premium members. That too only after a wait of several months or years. The system reached a stop a long time ago, I (along with some other users) just didn’t realize that in time.
Therefore, ladies and gentlemen, the bux.to mechanism flunked right before your eyes. i hate to say it, but yes I pronounce it a SCAM.
If you still want to check on paid to click websites, I’d recommend checking out clixsense. I also have an article on making money on the internet for beginners.
I am Abdulrehman Agha, the guy behind 3arn.Net. I am 17 years old, and live in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. I'm in Grade 11 studying in Saint Mary's Academy. I started this blog to share my money making experiences with others through the internet.
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I have emailed the government of Dominica that Bux.to which is registered in their country is scamming people in the world. Their registrar of companies have sent this report to their police and ask me to make a police report in my country and the police here will liaise with the police there. So, all that got scammed report police in your own country.
Let’s get them before they get others!
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That is definitely not a good way to do business! They got too big for their own good and they should have anticipated that ahead of time. Thanks for letting me know about this, I will be sure to tell my readers to steer clear of them.
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Paid to click website is bad money making scheme. It doesn’t make sense. People pay to advertise. If you are the advertiser will you gain any benefit from this click traffic? It’s not effective traffic. So eventually it will be left behind and it people wont get paid. So I say paid to click website are all scam eventually.
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Honestly, I really never tried PTC sites. Feels like it will not fit in my time. But, I heard that some people have huge success with it and cashing out good amount of money.
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Careful not to include everyone in the same basket. I never got paid several hundred from Bux.to, but I joined Neobux and made over $1,400 from them. I also used Neobux to purchase advertising and more than recovered my cost from the 94 referrals it handed me.
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thanks for sharing this one…still did not do this and other PTC out there..nice info too!
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i found your blog very interesting…put it in my follow list…cool!
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i believe many people hate bux.to now. But if you want to join any program, do some research first..
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I joined bux.to over 2 years ago and still haven’t gotten my cashout request of $313. Now I have accumilated over $3000 and I know for certain I will never see that money.
I had to file bankruptcy for using my credit cards when I invested in that crap site. At least I don’t have to pay back all that money I lost investing in 600 referrals and upgradingmy referrals by the way, all have stopped clicking cause obviously they too lost out never receiving a payment. They ought to arrest such crooks that start these fantasy sites that don’t intend to ever pay their members. If only they’d of paid me keeping true their promises I’d of never had to file.
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HELLO GUYS,
THE BUX.TO IS THE BIGGEST SCAM IN THE INTERNET TODAY !
IF I CAN IT, I WILL SEND THESE PEOPLES IN THE PRISON !!
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Well, requested a 59$ payment on April 13th, still waiting. I’m not expecting to be paid since, luckily, I wasn’t stupid enough to invest any money in bux.to. Went to check my account and it’s now over 107$ (thanks to whoever keeps clicking, I haven’t in a year).
Imo, don’t mean to insult anybody, but I don’t get how people can invest several hundreds of dollars in these sites. You people are too trusting: it’s way too easy to con or scam people on the internet, I hope you now realize this.
PTC sites are all full of shit, period. Get a job.
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They paid me $250 six months after it was due. Sadly, I put the money right back into their system and accumulated over $10k. That was two years ago, and I am convinced they will never pay me again.
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BUX.TO SCAM SCAM SCAM - THEY OWE ME OVER USD 600….I AM PREMIUM MEMBER AND NEVER GOT PAID !!!!!!
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BUX.TO - SCAM SCAM SCAM - THEY OWE ME USD 600 AND I AM PREMIUM MEMBER TOO !!!!
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