Why do people insist on joining scam sites?
By kris182_2000
@kris182_2000 (5453)
Canada
December 31, 2009 1:13am CST
My profile indicates that all PTC sites are scams, so why do people continue to bother with them?
This is going on about 3 years that the true scam sites have come and gone.
Isabelmarco
TaketheGlobe
The biggest scam? Bux.to. I'm sure they've stolen BILLIONS of dollars by now, up from the $57 million that was posted about less than a year ago. They were the biggest scam after Adbux, they stole Adbux's database and everyone who signed in there who was not a member knew it.
GPTboycott forum? That's a freaking scam as well, and I'm not afraid to say it. They will label almost everyone a scam. Unless you were in bed with them, or perhaps paying them to keep their mouths shut, you were on their scam list.
PTCtalk, Talkptc, the latter run by a stuck up, selfish snob, were both forums that labeled all sites as scam without even looking into them. If they didn't like your site, you were an instant scam.
The only forum that told the truth, but had to close due to the people at all the other forums was Letstalkptc. The forum was run by a former PTC owner who was sick of being labeled as a scam, despite actually being one of few site owners that actually paid members.
The concept of Paid to click is not new, by far, in fact, it's been on the web since about 2001. The owners of those sites that are still around are owners of current sites that are labeled as scams. So how are these owners scammers when they've been out doing business for over 8 years? Ok, so I take back what I previously said, not all sites are scams.
However, lets break that one down for a minute. The sites that have been around for 8 years started off doing things right the first time. They were paying users less than 1 cent to view ads, and the cost for advertisers was higher than what the members were being paid. So these sites are the ones that were viable, that wouldn't sink in debt as long as they didn't start paying users more.
Now lets talk about the scam sites. The ones that would pay 1 cent per ad viewed, yet charge 1/4 of a cent per ad to the advertiser. Do the math here, it doesn't add up.
Other sites like Bux.to, how long does it take to pay out one request? For them, long enough that maybe the user decides to leave the site. The last known payment wait was a year and a half!!!! 18 months for a measly $10, is it worth it?
How about another scam site, Taketheglobe. This was a site that I trusted in the past, it seemed so good, people were getting paid, on time, every time. Then, while I was waiting for my $525 payment, all of a sudden, the owner disappeared. No one could reach him, not even his closest company employees. Yes, this was a registered company, an LLC if you will. Not a cheap license to obtain. The owner had many people working for him, some paid, some volunteer, but even the volunteers were supposed to get paid at some point.
When the owner disappeared, everyone wondered what had happened, we all knew he was plagued with bad luck, or so he said. No one ever knew if he was telling the truth, and in the end, no one ever believed anything he had said in the past.
You know, the biggest payment was supposed to have been $60k, but the person who was supposed to have gotten this, decided to go 50/50 with the company and signed on as a partner. Little did he know that this would explode in his face. So much for buying the house he needed for his family.
Other sites went belly up, some because of the economy, others because they were too greedy and didn't want to pay out anymore. I was a member of many of those sites facing both situations, and I was easily able to determine which was which. Of course, the sites that failed due to the economy had owners I knew quite well, but one scam owner I knew as well, and he owned quite a few sites. He deleted my account on several of his sites when I was waiting for payouts, made all kinds of stupid claims that I was cheating or some garbage like that. I knew I couldn't trust him again and immediately removed him from my contacts. He claimed that he was dying of cancer, but my connections tell me that he's alive and well and still scamming others.
So, still think that these sites are good after all you read? I hope, for your sake, that you do not. Don't waste your time or money anymore. It's seriously not worth it.
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@nitu1952 (286)
• India
31 Dec 09
people usually insist for joining the scam sites because when one joins under them then they will get te money for this. but people doesn't know that this money is displaying just in their accounts and when the time of reedemption comes then definitely there may occur some problem. so always do research before joining any site.
@chenxiaoyue_713 (2165)
• China
31 Dec 09
It's wise to quit scam sites as quickly as possible. I believe this is what most poeple are doing all the time. No one wants to waste his or her time on scam sites. But not all sites are scams. Many of them are legit in the initial period and pay memebers regularly. After some time, they may turn into scams because of different reasons. But why do people insist on joining scam sites? It maybe because they don't know clearly that they are scam sites or some members are still receiving payments from them. All these influence a person's choice. In spite of this, I'm sure they'll ultimately find that they are just wasting time and will quit them.