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! 
