Paid.vg – Cashout Problems!
WARNING: Paid.vg turned out to be a scam site. Please don’t join this site, the following post is only left here to show you how easy it is to get scammed…unfortunately.
As you may know, I´ve reached the minimum payout limit on Paid.vg some days ago. With help of my referrals I have $12.50 in my account balance and, at least in theory, I would be able to request my first payment. But it seems, with Paid.vg payments are somewhat complicated.
You can request your payments only once in a month, on every 22nd. So, yesterday was the 22nd and I logged into my account to do a cashout. But the system told me “Sorry, you can only request payment on the 22nd unless you are a premium member.” I tried it again and again, but everytime the same message. I rechecked the current date only to be sure if it really was the 22nd (and it was).
So, there are two possibilities. The first one could be, that Paid.vg has some serious server problems. Maybe something is wrong with their databases or something like that. I don´t know.
The second one is, that they could operate from a timezone where there already was the 23rd of the month, e.g. Australia?! I don´t know.
I´ve sent a support ticket to the Paid.vg team yesterday, but I got no response so far. I hope they´ll give me a clear answer on this problem. For the moment I´m a bit angry, although it shouldn´t be a problem to wait another month (I was so happy to have reached the minimum payout 
To make it clear, I won´t discourage you in joining Paid.vg, as it seems to be a very good money maker. I think the cashout problems will clarify!
I´ll keep you updated!
Querblogger
UPDATE 02/24:
New infos from Paid.vg! They had some server issues regarding cashouts. The cashout date is now moved from the 22nd to the 25th! Seems, I wasn´t the only one with payout problems 
How much did you spend to arrive at this first payout?
Are there any country of residence requirements?
Comment by David — February 24, 2008 @ 7:21 am
Hi David,
I don´t understand your first question exactly. So, if you mean how much I did spend moneywise, the answer is: nothing. I haven´t bought any referral packages or upgraded my account type. If you mean how much time I spent, it was around 2 month. The most of my money came from my 4 referrals (I got them via promoting Paid.vg on my blog).
To your second question. Paid.vg is open to all countries that support Alertpay. As far as I know, Alertpay supports many countries worldwide. Simply go to their registration form, there you´ll find a drop-down list with all available countries. You´re from the Phillipines, am I right? If so, then you should be accepted on Paid.vg (and Alertpay).
Hope I could help you David.
Bye,
Querblogger
Comment by Querblogger — February 24, 2008 @ 8:12 am
Hello there Peter. I’m also signed up for paid.vg but haven’t reached my payout yet, glad to hear they got your payout settled.
I can’t find a contact link in your blog so i might as well post it here. I’m a newbie blogger, also a skeptic about this online money making that’s why I put up my own blog about a month ago to find out. There are 2 reasons why I wanted to earn extra cash. First one is that I’m supporting an orphanage that I visit once a year to provide them groceries and the other reason is because me and my girlfriend are planning to get married by next year. Yeah, I’m walking down that path.
Anyway, I have a small favor to ask. Can we exchange Blogroll links. I’m trying to make some new friends in the blogosphere. I hope you grant my request. More power to The Money Making Experiment! I’m subscribing to your feed.
My best regards,
Charismaborn
Comment by Charismaborn — March 1, 2008 @ 9:53 pm
Hi Charismaborn,
I really like your intentions in helping orphan childs from the money you make online. I hope you make a lot of bucks, and trust me, you can make way more than a living online (it just needs alot of time and work).
So, you want to marry your girlfriend? Some simple words: Do it! I just got married last summer and I have no regrets about it.
And yes, I will add a link to one of your blogs in my blog roll. Simply tell me which one I should link to!
Good luck Charismaborn and thanks fro dropping by!
See you,
Querblogger
Comment by Querblogger — March 2, 2008 @ 6:23 am
Hello there again Querblogger. Thank you so much for your kind words and advice. I wish you make it big too and I know you will, because you’re putting a lot of heart and dedication in this project of yours. And also, “You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” It’s the cycle of good karma.
Btw, here’s my link – http://charismaborn-blah-blog-bucks.blogspot.com/
Just put “Charismaborn BlahBlogBucks”. Once again, thank you. Have a great day.
I’ll see you around,
Charismaborn
Comment by Charismaborn — March 3, 2008 @ 1:19 am
Hi Charismaborn,
I´ve added your blog in my blog roll. Thanks for your motivation!
I wish you all the best.
See you,
Querblogger
Comment by Querblogger — March 3, 2008 @ 12:56 pm
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I have not reached cashout yet guys..its ok, if its later for him paying me, but i bought his script and was gonna install it on my site but am getting like 3 errors after the script is installed… and i have been trying to contact him for like 4 days now, with no luck.. I offered to give him $20 to install it and fix the errors, but i have not heard back from him. Does anyone else get errors after the script is installed?
Randy
Comment by Lanshire — April 14, 2008 @ 5:06 pm
Hi Lanshire,
I have heard about that script some days ago. The owner of Paid.vg has recently started Script.vg, where you can buy the script (which is not recommended…obviously).
I think contacting the admin would be a very difficult task, he doesn’t even show up on the official Paid.vg forums and he doesn’t answer any support tickets. The latest (serious) payment problems on Paid.vg are another sign for it being a big scam (read my artictle “Paid.vg Scam Alert?!”).
I wish you good luck anyway, although I won’t suggest you paying those 20 bucks to let him install this script.
See ya,
Querblogger
PS: Maybe are those script errors the cause of the latest payment problems on Paid.vg…?!
Comment by Querblogger — April 15, 2008 @ 12:05 pm
Well i am not postive about all of that.. The script itself installas fine.. I had a coder that i had to “rent” ($300) to try and fix the errors in the code, adn he worked on it for like 14 hours straight and he could not figure it out or de-code it either…So ihave a guy at work doing it now. he will be done with it in a few days.. and he is not charging me anything!..
So maybe with our fingers crossed i can get this thing done… Alot of people know my site and what i am trying to do is get it to look really nice and all.. because i know how to manage the money ( Most of the time
)
Randy
Comment by Lanshire — April 21, 2008 @ 6:57 pm
Hi Randy,
looks like that script eats up your money even before it runs. But I hope you get your problems solved soon!
You mentioned the money management that is involved. How can a PTC site sustain for a longer time without relying on payments for upgrading or selling referrals? Cause I’m a member of Bux.to, I’ve done some research on it and I came to the conclusion that it can’t be a sustainable business model. They lose money if they would only rely on advertising fees, which are too small compared to what they pay.
One solution would be to throw in as many affiliate links in the daily shown ads. Even with a low click through rate, they would make good money. Maybe you can give some insight about it?
Btw, could you give me the link to your site? I’m also willing to promote it here (I like PTC sites, hehe)!
See you,
Querblogger
Comment by Querblogger — April 22, 2008 @ 12:36 pm