It's not worth it to pay for referrals
By dreamy1
@dreamy1 (3811)
United States
April 10, 2011 4:09pm CST
I knew this before and I've never paid for referrals but I decided to sign up for the Hits4Pay affiliate builder program in January to see what what happen. It's $5.99 a month. I got 12 referrals from it out of 268 visits from my referral link. Since February I have earned .59 cents from referrals and I'm not even sure they came from the affiliate builder it could have come from my earlier referrals.
At any rate they aren't active. I know this is the case with referrals anyway. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink. I don't rely on referrals to make my money for me. They are nice to have but they are useless if they aren't active this is why I don't pay for referrals because it's not worth it. I just wanted to try it out and see what happened and it confirmed what I already knew. To those of you who buy referrals or thinking about buying them save your money. I'd rather stick to free ways of getting referrals.
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7 responses
@housechaos7 (609)
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11 Apr 11
I agree also i have some referrals that joined through my promoting links and some stay active as they want to earn as we do I find the ones whi joined me through ptsu links rarely stay active for long
@o0jopak0o (6394)
• Philippines
11 Apr 11
I usually don't pay for referrals because they are either bots or spam accounts.
@o0jopak0o (6394)
• Philippines
13 Apr 11
there are some legitimate people who signup but just got bored but there are some sites that sells referrals that is either bots or spam accounts.
I used before some sort of "be active and have real referrals" sort of thing and they are mostly inactive.
@megamatt (14292)
• United States
10 Apr 11
Yes, trying to spend any money on referrals...well even when I was a newbie and not really all that familiar with the online learning game, I thought it was rather dubious. Now, I just think its just an absolute fool's gambit to say the least. The fact is, you can rent referrals or buy them or whatever, but its just very short time, with miniature profits. After a while, the profits become nonexistent and then you are struggling just to break even, if at that.
I just tend to throw my referral links up somewhere. If someone takes the bait and signs up, then they are good to go. If they are not going to sign up, fine. If they do sign up and then lose interest, whatever, at least there is no money that comes out of my pocket. It is just too much of a longshot, with little or no return. I learned this fact a long time ago and now its becoming something that is extremely apparent the longer I'm online.
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@sajeevking (5073)
• Mumbai, India
15 Apr 11
well free ways are always better than paid
i spread my links where ever i can and only try to get direct referrals they are the best as we don't have to spend money on them but we have to work on spreading our links here and there
first i used to rent referrals but now i have totally quit that and just rely on direct ones
@yallit (3677)
• Philippines
12 Apr 11
Possible reason why it didn't work out for you is because Hits4Pay accepts international members. However non-US members don't get paid emails at all. I reactivated my Hits4Pay account 2 months ago and until yesterday (when I closed my account), I have not received a single email at all. So, the site doesn't work out for me since I'm not in the US. So, if the referrals you're getting are non-US members, then, that's the reason why they're inactive.
