Adbux Concerns! (warning: long post)

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Up until today, I've been an active member of Adbux. I was really excited to see if it was a real site that paid it's members. I finally reached payout on Sunday night but I was debating on whether I should cash out or wait until it was higher than $5. I decided to cash out on Monday night. Then last night (Tuesday) I went to log in and couldn't. It kept taking me back to the 'guest' page. I'm still trying to log on and it won't let me. I sent a message to the owner and have yet to have heard anything back. I also noticed they raised the payout to $10. So I went to a forum I belong to for these types of sites to see what other people who have been doing this much longer than I have, were saying about the recent events. First, if you haven't seen the update on Adbux - here is what it says about raising the payout to $10: (this is copied from the site) "05/01 - I know - I know. We're behind on payments and other things... the reason for this is because of the sheer volume of users that we have. We just processed 212 payments from the past 3 days and have 140 more to go. Therefore... because of this issue - we've increased the minimum payout to $10 with a payout time of up to 3 business days. We really want to get some other features started on the site but the payouts (including auditing accounts before the payout) is causing huge delays so we think this will lift the burden. I (personally) know that a lot of you are probably sick of clicking on the same links everyday. This will soon change when our new advertising system goes up. We feel it will attract hundreds of advertisers! A security exploit was discovered and has been patched. Please make sure your profile information is up-to-date and we recommend that you change your password every so often and make sure that it's a hard one to guess!" Now I want to give you a little history.. Before Adbux there was a site called Netbux. The owner (his name is Chad) basically scammed his members and left them with nothing when the site crashed and burned. He owed alot of people, alot of money that he never paid. There are ALOT of similarities between Adbux and Netbux. "Chad" said many of the same exact things that are now being said on Adbux. Same excuses and same changes taking place. So many signs that if they are in fact owned by the same person, Adbux is on it's way out the door with your hard-earned money. The owner of Adbux has been contacted and he was asked for his name - he claims his name is Tyler but no one can verify that. I know alot of people say, oh well.. I'm not losing any money so I'm just going to keep clicking. Of course you are free to do whatever you want but you are losing your time which in my book equals money. I would much rather spend that time on a site like MyLot that actually pays for my time rather than clicking away on a site where the owner is going to pocket all of the money from the advertisers and leave me with nothing. I went searching some more and found this interesting little blog about Adbux and Netbux. I highly urge those of you who are spending your time on Adbux to please read the blog and then decide if it's a place where you want to invest your time and energy. adbuxtruth.blogspot.com Good luck to all of you. Personally, I'm going to be deleting my blog entry on Adbux and I will not be referring any of my friends or family to take part in a site that I can not fully trust. Some people have been paid but the majority of the members have not and most likely won't ever see a penny from this site. I'm curious to know if those of us who made payout over the last few days and requested it .. who are now having a hard time logging in, were in fact, deleted. It wouldn't surprise me. I'd also ask that you read the TOS. It clearly states that they can delete your account at any time without any warning or explaning on their part. So you can work your butt off clicking only to have them delete you and never tell you anything or owe you anything. Again, Good luck!