neobux
NeoBux is a Bux site, which is a category of PTC sites that's gotten a lot of bad press lately. Bux sites in general have a reputation for making their money and fleeing, usually after paying enough members to get some trust going so that members invest their own money into the site. Bux.to is a current example of this. They also tend to be glorified MLMs (multi-level marketing) schemes, which are not only illegal in the Uited States but are also unsustainable. In my experience, NeoBux is one of the only honest Bux type sites out there right now, and it is not an MLM.
Like any PTC site, Bux sites are owned by different people, though sometimes one owner will start several sites or a site will be run by two or more people. NeoBux is owned by one man (from Portugal) who does not own any other sites, bux or otherwise - and he has made a point of mentioning in the forums that he will never open another site. The site has been online for over a year now, and paying all that time.
NeoBux works pretty similarly to other Bux sites. You can click links every day, worth $0.005-$0.015 (0.5-1.5 cents) each, as a standard (free) member. NeoBux guarantees you a minimum of four links at one cent each every day, no matter what part of the world you are in. I average 5-8 one cent links per day plus 1-2 "mini exposure" ads, which are worth 0.5 cent. I usually get an "extended exposure" ad, worth 1.5 cents, every few days.
The minimum payout for your first payment is $2, and then it goes up by $1 for each payment after that until you reach $10. You can request any amount over the minimum, i.e. there is no maximum payment amount. Payments are processed through PayPal or AlertPay.
You can refer others to NeoBux using your referral link, and they then become your direct referrals. (The word "referral" is often shortened to "ref".) As a standard member, when your direct ref clicks a one cent link, you get 0.5 cent. When they click a 1.5 cent link, you get one cent. Direct refs are a great way to supplement your earnings on NeoBux, but they're hard to get nowadays since the site itself has such a huge membership base. Direct refs can also be sold back to NeoBux provided they meet some standards. The $ sign to the right of the referral listing will turn green once they are sellable, and they can be sold for $1-$3 depdning on their average clicks. A direct ref muct have a minimum of two clicks per day to qualify to be sold back to NeoBux, and this is only available for direct refs (i.e., not rented refs).
The other way you can make money on NeoBux is by renting referrals. These are people who are not anyone's direct referral. A referral will only become available for renting when they have clicked at least ten links in five days. The person may have just joined the site five days ago, or they might have joined a year ago and only recently become active enough to be rented out. They could also have been a rented referral in the past who was not renewed by the person who rented them. The rented referral will not know that you have rented them - it is anonymous. (You can choose to mask your screenname as well, so the person renting you will only see a number, not your real username.) Most refs have their username masked.
As a standard member each rented referral costs 25 cents per month. A month is 30 days. The prices are cheaper for upgraded members. The rental prices for upgraded members go up once you've passed certain numbers of rented refs. Each ref is more expensive when you have 501 rented refs vs 499 rented refs, as an example. Standard members are capped at 300 rented refs. You earn the same amount of money from your rented refs as from your direct refs.
Since this is a rental, your refs expire at the end of the rental period. (Your direct refs only expire if they quit or are inactive for 60 days, in which case their account is closed.) In order to keep your rented ref you must renew the rental before it expires. You can choose to renew for 30, 60, or 90 days. It's best to renew for 90 days if you can, since you get a 20% discount. You get a 10% discount if you renew for 60 days, or if you use the Autopay feature. Autopay will automatically renew a referral for one day each day that the referral clicks. For example, say you just rented 10 new refs today and turned on Autopay. If three of those refs click today then those three refs will each have an additional day tacked on to their rental time, but the other seven will not. The money to pay for the autopayment is taken out of your rental balance if you have enough, or your main balance otherwise. This feature only works as long as the rented referral has at least 20 days left in their rental period.
If you choose not to renew a referral there is a one-time charge of two cents. This was implemented recently to encourage users to recycle their inactive refs rather than let them expire.
Just because rented referrals have met the minimum for becoming a rented ref - that is, 10 clicks in five days - that does not mean that they will continue to click like that for you. Sometimes you will rent a ref who will never, not even once, click for you. More often, they start off clicking well but then slowly taper off into nothing. You have to maintain a pretty high average rented ref click rate as a standard in order for your rented refs to be profitiable for you. To pay for the initial renting fee, with a rental period of 30 days, the refs must click an average of 1.67 one cent links each day. To pay for a 90 day renewal, with the 20% discount, the rented refs must click an average of 1.33 links every day. Any amount above this will be pure profit to you. However, in my experience, very few refs maintain a profitable clicking rate for long.
There are a few options for getting rid of bad rented referrals. One is to just let them expire when their rental time is up. This is a good option if you have a week or less left in the rental period and are willing to accept the two cent fee. A second option is to wait for the system to automatically recycle them, which will happen if the rented ref has not clicked one single link for 14 days. As you can imagine that rarely happens, plus by then you've paid a hefty opportunity cost by wasting 14 days on a dud clicker. The third option is to recycle the ref yourself. This costs 7 cents as a standard member. The rented ref will be replaced by a new ref who meets the 10 links in five days rule, but the new ref will only be rented to you for the remainder of the old ref's rental period. For example, if you recycle a ref who has 21 days left in their rental period, then your replacement ref will also only have 21 days left.
It is very difficult - though by no means impossible - to make money off rented refs as a standard member. It is a fun challenge however, and I enjoy this aspect of the site. Just don't bite off more than you can chew if you choose to try this out. It can become more work than it's worth.
As I mentioned a couple times above, NeoBux offers upgraded memberships. The fee to become a Golden member is $90. The most expensive membership is Ultimate, which costs $890 on top of the $90 Golden membership fee. Some members have a Pioneer membership, which was given out when NeoBux was in pre-launch. It is no longer available. Each level of upgraded membership garners you more benefits, mostly lowered rental fees, more personal ads to click (Goldens are guaranteed nine ads per day), and higher click values (ref clicks are worth one cent for Golden members, vs the 0.5 cent for standards). If you have a lot of referrals - direct or rented - it makes sense to upgrade to Golden, since your ref clicks will be worth twice as much. However it is difficult to rent new refs as a Golden member, so it makes sense to build your number of refs before upgrading.
NeoBux has a great forum that's very active. The admin is also quite active on the forum, and posts updates pretty often. Definitely make a point to read the NeoBux News section of the forum a couple times a week to see what the admin has planned for the site. The forums are also a great place to ask any questions you have, though of course be sure to check out the help page (link at bottom right corner of the site) and FAQ (tiny blue and white question mark at the top right of the site) before asking in the forum. The forum search feature is also very useful.
I've been paid by NeoBux several times, always with no problems, and have also rented referrals. To be frank, I have not found renting referrals to be profitable as a standard member, but I also had the bad luck to rent them during a slow season (late spring and summer). I plan on trying again this fall. There are many strategies for managing your referrals discussed on the forum, and I suggest you read some of those before embarking on the renting journey yourself.
Overall, I enjoy NeoBux and recommend it to others. I wouldn't invest my own money right off the bat to buy referrals, as it's so difficult to make any money off of them as a standard member. However I'm a cautious person and don't like taking risks, so take that with a grain of salt. ; ) NeoBux is a great PTC for those not interested in renting refs, too, with high click values and instant payout.
Note about server time: I get a lot of questions asking me about server time. The NeoBux server is in the United States, in the Eastern time zone (or GMT -5). If you look on the "View Advertisements" page there is a small bar right above the ads. It tells you what time your advertisement clicks reset and also what the server time is. Look at the server time and look at your own time. Figure out how far ahead or behind you the server is. For example, if it's currently 1pm for you but the server time is 16:00 (4pm), then the server is three hours ahead of you. This means that the day for the server will be over when it is only 9pm for you. This doesn't matter if you're just a regular cicker. This does matter if you have any referrals, direct or rented, because in order to receive all of your referrals' earnings you need to click every single day according to server time (not according to your time). If you miss a day, then you don't get credit for your referrals the next day. So it's important that you click either after your ads reset and before server midnight, or after server midnight and before your ads reset. If you need help with this you can contact me using the contact page (link at bottom of page).
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