Major rumors are going on in the PTC scene and especially this post from the TakeTheGlobe admin has fired up some heavy discussions on whether Bux.to is a scam or not. Let me tell you what I personally think about it.

First of all be warned, this post is against Bux.to and their scam business model! Although I was a long time supporter of Bux.to (and I feel really sorry for that), I’ll now want to warn people to invest even a single cent in this site! Seriously, DO NOT INVEST IN BUX.TO!

Ok, let’s start. Bux.to LTD is most probably run by a guy from UK named David John Withers, a person well-known for many online scams and tax/VAT frauds. There’s some unchecked evidence that he was born on June 15th 1956 and lives (or lived) in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, UK. It seems there’s no “George” or “Debbie” who are the supposed founders of Bux.to, but only a single guy with some “partners” who run a scary million dollar scam business by ripping off thousands of people everyday.

Let me give you some more facts that make Bux.to look very suspicious besides the above mentioned:

• They have payment delays exceeding 6 months, independent of having an upgraded account or not. I’m personally still waiting for some measily $75 since April 18th 2008. Ironically, their excuse for this huge delay is the manual payment audit process to prevent paying out scammers who are trying to game Bux.to. They claim to have more than 10 million members and in more than half a year they haven’t a solution for this auditing process? No way! They should have enough funds to pay a company for this or hire more employees.
• They moved their company’s place of residence to Dominica, a tax haven without much control from any government or lawyers. They claim to finally call themself a real company. No Way! They simply hide in that country to scam even more people. Hey, when they are really coming from UK why don’t they register their company in the UK?
• They promise to come back to their normal payment schedule after a new script is released. They are now working on that script, called “Bux Reload”, for several months and it isn’t finished yet. They claim that a good script simply is taking that long. No way! Ask a coder and he will tell you that it won’t take more than 2 weeks or so.
• They are currently setting up a new server system with help of Theplanet.com (a major reliable online host) which causes extra payment delays. Afer several weeks they are still working on it. They claim that they have no influence on this time frame since the job is done by the Theplanet.com staff and that it simply takes that long. No way! Setting up a server rack can be done within a week, especially with well-trained people like those from Theplanet.com
• Their business model isn’t stable and nearly completely relies on people upgrading their accounts or buying referrals. They claim that they make all their money from advertisers. No way! With some 50% of self-sponsored ads (e.g. promoting their own forum or success stories) they simply can’t make that money back.
• They are selling bots. They obviously they claim to not sell any bots. No way! Take a look at all those funny usernames in your downline which look like randomely generated by a computer (or simply look in the forum to find people from your downline).
• They delete forum posts. Whenever someone is trying to tell the truth about Bux.to, the post or thread is closed or deleted. They claim to prevent people from telling lies about their holy Bux.to. No way! They simply fear of losing paying members that bring them money. It also seems like the forum mods are paid for bringing those people “under control”. Mods like Nattymoo, Tri or Spiderwoman are defending Bux.to like their life depends on it, although they didn’t got paid by them yet (or made only some small bucks).

I could go on and on and point out several more concerns I have with Bux.to and their scam practises. But I think those facts above are enough to at least have a closer look on them before thinking about investing money in it. Sure, I can’t proof all of the facts above, but I think common sense should tell us that something is completely going wrong with Bux.to.

To all my readers, please don’t invest any money in Bux.to anymore! Really, DON’T DO IT! You’ll most probably never get a single cent back. Also don’t necessarily base your descisions on whether or not to invest in Bux.to on only the facts provided above, but simply use your brain and ask yourself if Bux.to really looks that trustfully!

If you have any additional evidence that Bux.to is a scam, please comment on this post or simply tell us how much money you’ve lost. Please also note that I will delete any comment trying to defend Bux.to, simply because there’s nothing to defend about Bux.to anymore. For me they are big scammers and I’m done with them. All I want to do now is to warn people from joining them and investing their hard earned cash, because they WILL lose it.

See you later,
Querblogger

PS: Dear Bux.to staff/admin/mods/robots, fell free to delete my Bux.to/forum account after my evil post here. That would give me some nice extra opportunity to add some more facts to this post. It’s highly appreciated!

To keep this post short and simple, Paypal is back! You can now use Paypal for both purchases AND cashouts again!

You’re not already a member of NeoBux but want to make some nice extra money? Feel free to join under me if you want!

Cheers,
Querblogger

Today I want to present you a real awesome software that will help you in building an affiliate niche store for all your money making needs. I already talked about some software scripts like BANS or PHPBayPro and all their shiny features and benefits, but this one is definitely better!

The software I want to present you is named StoreStacker and, as the name already implies, it lets you literally stack together an online store, easily and within only some minutes time. And all that without the need of manually gathering product information, choosing the right products to promote on your store, choosing the right affiliate links and even writing the content that should accompany your product listings. StoreStacker is a script that does most of that hard work in a nearly automatic way and it’ll save you a lot of time so you can concentrate on building even more stores or work on your money making projects.

Basically, StoreStacker is an easy-to-install script that you’ve to put on your webspace in order to make it work. After installing it you’ll be presented with an admin interface where you can easily manage all the settings and features that ship with the software. Setting up a shop is easy, even for a complete newbie.

StoreStacker lets you choose out of a vast number of 10,000,000 products from several major affiliate networks. All you have to do in order to bring the right products on your store’s pages, is choosing the right category that fits with your choosen niche. After setting up the look and feel of your site (StoreStacker also comes with 12 high quality templates) and choosing different options on how your brand new affiliate niche store should behave (e.g. cache settings, extra content), the software will create your affiliate store with dozens of product listings within seconds! The script will also automatically keep an eye on your site’s SEO (Search Engine Optimization), an amazing and well thought-out feature never seen before in comparable products on the market. The right SEO behind an online shop is pure gold since it drives more targetted traffic to your site. And you know, more traffic means more sales means more money to earn!

The StoreStacker software natively ships with support for automatically pulling dozens of products and information from eBay, Amazon and even Youtube so that you can integrate targetted videos with your affiliate product listings as well. If you want to add even more power, you can also ramp up the software with plugins that support Clickbank, RegNow, Overstock, Hotelclub, RSS (for enriching your store with external content) and soon even Commission Junction as another major affiliate network. An amazing portfolio and a lot of potential money to make too.

StoreStacker can be used to build a website completely from scratch or be added to any existing website to take advantage of existing traffic. Once purchased, you can use it on unlimited domains to build unlimited stores. And since a store can be build within minutes, you can only imagine the possibilities. The automatic Search Engine Optimization (e.g. setting the right meta keywords, showing related products, automatic asitemap creation), the integration of Youtube videos and content via RSS makes for an incredible software capable of attracting many visitors.

The StoreStacker Affiliate Niche Store Builder combined with some good niche research and promotional efforts, can really make a difference in your wallet. Once an affiliate store is up and running, it’s only a matter of time until the money flows in. And the best thing, you don’t have to spend a lot of time on maintaninig your stores, the script automatically takes care for you and updates your pages with fresh content and product listing! It can’t get any easier!

To get some more insight into this powerful affiliate store builder, I’d highly suggest you to visit their extensive tutorial page, where you’ll also find some nice videos explaining the software and how to set up a niche store. Or you can download StoreStacker right here, it’s affordable and worth its price! Definitely check it out, it’s worth it!

The best regards,
Querblogger

Yes, it gets boring to only write about the same money maker each day, but these news are quite important! Paypal has just released/unfrozen the NeoBux account, which means that the financial stability from NeoBux is secured again.

It seems that it came to Paypal’s attention that several thousand members started complaining about Paypal and their strange behavior, mainly due to all the posts in the NeoBux forum and even a petition that got signed by more than 3,000 people.  They apologized for all the incoveniences and re-opened the NB account and also raised the limit of it. Now it’s up to the Admin whether he will use Paypal again or not, but I believe we’ll see Paypal back soon (although it’s just a feeling).

Another good thing happend some hours ago. I just made a new Alertpay cashout today (only 16 Bucks), but somehow my NeoBux balance didn’t reflect it, meaning I still had the money in my account plus in my Alertpay account. Since I’m usually a honest person, I immediately submitted a support ticket stating my “problems” and it took them only around 2 hours to reply and correct it. And the best thing, the admin gave me 100 referrals for free since I was so honest with him and NeoBux (thanks again, you’re great!). Now I’m even more lucky!

Ok, back to work.

See you later,
Querblogger

No really, I just have upgraded my NeoBux account to the highest possible membership, the Ultimate one. Although two features are currently missing (the rental queue and vacation mode), everything seems running real fine. I’ve already recycled a whole bunch of my refs for only $0.05 each and extended some of my refs rental time for $0.03 less the usual amount.

I’ll keep you updated when I’ll see some first results from the new Ultimate pack!

Cheers,
Querblogger

PS: Please don’t expect some major new posts within the next days since I’m currently involved in a brand new project that unfortunately needs nearly all of my time. I’ll post about it later on, but only if it works for me (and it should in theory and also bring me a lot of money)…

Just some short, but bad news from NeoBux. Paypal has frozen 72% of funds in the NeoBux account and also suspended the account for the next 180 days. The reasons? With one word, Paypal…

Paypal isn’t giving the NeoBux admin any specific information besides telling him that “too many transactions were done with his account”. WTF? What did they expect from a PTC site with nearly 2 million members, 10 transactions a day or what? Although you can use Paypal nearly everywhere on the web, I really believe they get worse each day, now that they also refuse to work with one of the rarely honest PTC’s on the web, and that in times of one bank crisis after the other…that’s ridiculous!

Anyway, NeoBux admin has announced that instant payments won’t be affected by this “ban”. In fact, nothing will change with NeoBux besides only having Alertpay left as a payment processor. The site business is still running stable, although a great portion of the funds are frozen right now.

Maybe it’s time to introduce NeoBux’s own debit card? Maybe this ban isn’t as bad as we all think it is as it drives even more innovation. Well, we’ll see…

Bye,
Querblogger

Yes, it really is! Article marketing is one of the many ways to drive targetted traffic to your website, blog or niche site. It’s really amazing to see how much traffic a well written and keyword rich article can generate in a very short time. And I think I know what I’m talking about since I’m currently using article marketing to drive traffic to my new niche websites…and it works!

Over the last days I published several new articles on EZA to promote my new niche sites. Some days ago I already made 2 new sales from the traffic I got and $33 went to my Clickbank account. And the best thing, I’ve only submitted 10 articles to EZA so far! Unfortunately I can’t submit any new ones right now because my account is under review and the people there will decide wether they upgrade it to a premium one or not (this descission process is normal after submitting 10 articles).

My articles have generated around 336 views so far with 62 clicks on the URLs in my article’s resource box, those URLs that point to my niche sites where I make the sales. That’s a CTR (Click Through Rate) of over 18% and I wouldn’t call that bad!

If I become a premium member on EZA (which means I can submit unlimited articles which also get reviewed faster), I’ll fully concentrate on submitting new articles for sure. Since I know that article marketing really works, I’ll also think about outsourcing the writing work because I’ll most probably make the money back from my affiliate sales (and I’m not the most talented writer anyway). I already found quality content writers that charge only $3 per 500 words and are able to write several hundreds of articles per month.

More infos about my article marketing progress will follow soon, hopefully when I also have a premium Ezinearticles account, hehe…

See you,
Querblogger

Some major news from NeoBux! Today the pre-ordering phase for some new enhanced memberships has started and will run until October 13th. Below is an overview of all the different available packs:

You see, the price are exceptionally high, but the benefits are simply amazing. Those new membership are especially lucrative when you have lots of referrals, I would assume at least more than 1,000 if not more. In order to be able to buy those packs you already have to be a Golden member and should have been clicked 500 ads, only then you’ll be able to pre-order those packs.

Today I funded my Golden Upgrade account with $810 and I will go for the Ultimate pack. You may call me crazy to invest so much money in a PTC, but I’m quite relaxed since NeoBux has paid me already 5 times, instantly! I’m quite sure they will still exist after I broke even with this investment.

So that means saving every single cent for the next weeks to come to get my investment back. With help of the Ultimate pack I should make an extra $10 or $15 per day, so it shouldn’t be that problem. But the benefits will really start to kick in when I have more referrals. Well, let’s see. I’ll keep you up-to-date!

See you later,
Querblogger

PS: Today I made my first sale on one of my newly created niche websites, yeah!
PPS: Sorry for the bad image quality…

I believe you’re quite excited, aren’t you? So without any further ado, here are the winners of my birthday commenting contest:

1. Stefan W. - $50 - Congrats and invest the money wisely!
2. Harshad - $30 - Second place, congrats to you!
3. Tiberius - $10 - Well, I would have paid you more, maybe next time?
4. Mahesh - $5 - Sorry, only 5 bucks. But don’t give up, more contests will follow!
5. King joel - 5$ - I hope you don’t mind that you got only 5 bucks, the luck wasn’t on your side.

I will now start to transfer the money to your Paypal accounts. Congrats to you all and please don’t argue if you haven’t won the first prize, everything was based on luck. Stay tuned for more contests and even bigger prizes in the future of TMME!

Ciao,
Querblogger

PS: I have send the money, but it seems some of you have provided the wrong Paypal email address. I’ve send you a mail with further details!

Welcome to my earnings report numer 12! One year of my Making Money Experiment is over now and the last months I made my biggest earnings so far!

To make it short, in September I made exactly $1,115.21 in gross profits! I say gross profits because only a small percentage of this money actually found its way into my wallet, most of it is already reinvested in my projects in order to make even more.

I believe you already know where most of the money was coming from? No? Ok, it’s NeoBux again. This brilliant PTC brought me $994 in this month alone. Thanks to all of my 1850 referrals who heavily contributed in making me that big bucks! Thank you so much!

The next biggest earner was my first niche site. It made me a total of 3 sales for this month and I got another $85 in my Clickbank account. It’s quite amazing how well this site performs since I’ve actually put only around 8 hours into it. The last year it made me over $250 without any further work. Affiliate marketing really rocks!

The rest of the money mainly came from selling links here on TMME and contextual ads (which I’ve dropped right now since they make me barely any money).

In september my blog only received about 2,500 unique visitors, a declining trend not only seen here on TMME but also on other websites. My blog still has a Pagerank of 2 and an Alexa rating of 200,000 due to the drop in monthly traffic.

Anyway, september was the best month in my whole one year making money career, regardless of how much traffic my site has received. Since the earings have massivly increased, I’m quite lucky about it.

Everything began with a small blog hosted on Blogger.com, nearly exactly 12 months ago. I had no visitors, my earnings were around 1% of what I currently make and I was a complete noob. Now, 365 days later, I can say that I’ve managed quite alot the last weeks and months. My blog attracted nearly 25,000 unique visitors. Can you imagine that crowd in one place? Sure, Probloggers and Shoemoneys may laugh about that because they receive such traffic on a daily basis, but I’m still very proud of myself!

But that should definitely be not the end! In the long run I’m trying to quit my regular day job, so I’ll definitely need more cash, and I should also concentrate my work on more serious money making opportunities like affiliate marketing for example. Feel free to follow me the next years to come, I’ll do my best to bring you quality information!

Just a side note, I’ll give up reporting my earnings on a monthly basis since I feel like a boaster and also because a lot of research work is involved with it. But have no fear, from now on I’ll report my earnings quarterly, that means every 3 months instead of one!

Thanks to all my readers, referrals, commenters, my friends, family and especially my wife for supporting me and my Making Money Experiment! THANK YOU!

Cheers,
Querblogger

PS: In some minutes I will announce the winners of my birthday contest!