Netbux : One of the biggest scams
Netbux was the site which began the paid to search concept. Initially the site gained huge popularity as the promised earnings were extremely good. Also the owner, Chad did pay a few members. However, with rapid growth, the site could not be sustained and Chad disowned his site. Netbux became synonymous with scam!
Chad declared this at the gptresources forum on June 15th 2005:
I, along with others who maintain Netbux decided to discontinue the service for several reasons.
First off, if you ever purchased referrals, you should be able to get your money back by filing a claim through PayPal or StormPay. Both of the accounts are frozen so we cannot generate a refund for you. However, I've noticed that a few have contacted StormPay and they have stated that there are no funds in the Netbux StormPay account. This is not true because before it was suspended/frozen, there were thousands. I haven't been able to withdrawal any funds in weeks because you cannot withdrawal funds if you have a dispute on your account from someone who purchased from you. And there was always at least one dispute on the account at all times. Honestly, I believe they froze the account because of way too many disputes and they probably didn't want to keep up with the referral payments that the account was earning (which was over 15,000 referrals).
My phone is set to "do not disturb" until I am able to get it changed. If you call, it forwards to voicemail and then your message is erased at the end of the day without even listening to it. I'm sorry that I cannot talk with you, but I am simply way too busy with other internet projects.
The few days before I put up the "under construction" notice, the server was not under another dos attack like some of you may be thinking. It was actually overloaded with real requests. Simply put, Netbux got too popular, too fast. And I had just made a deal with the host about adding another server with some load balancing hardware but I was inadvertently screwed by them as well.
Netbux.org now forwards to Searchoodles.com until I can figure out what to do with it. Re-make a new netbux with new visions and a better structure? No, I don't think so. I think I will build on the idea of combining the big search engines out there into some sort of service that people may find to be helpful.
If you think that I've benefited from this whole program at all, you're wrong. 95% of the funds earned through Netbux were either frozen through PayPal (over $30,000) or StormPay (over $10,000) or they were paid out to the members who were lucky enough to get a payment throughout all the ongoing chaos we were under.
If you look at the bright side, Netbux sparked a new revolution of earning money online. With all the new services like Netbux that have sprouted and all the new services that derived from a similar Netbux structure all seem to have promise.
Also, let's be honest... This fine community (gptresources.com) wouldn't be thriving like it is without Netbux in the first place.
If you have some ideas for searchoodles.com and possibly what it can be turned into, e-mail contact@searchoodles.com and I will be happy to exchange thoughts.
(Chadf post at http://www.gptresources.com)
Since then the whole paid to search concept has become discredited and all the sites have been shut down. Let us move on to other programs which really pay!
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