Bubblews Was NOT a Scam
@GajaGamini (1065)
India
November 20, 2015 12:23pm CST
I have been seeing lots of discussion where people are saying Bubblews was a scam but I don't believe it because I got many times. I got banned later on because I had two accounts and on Bubblews we were allowed to have two accounts with separate email IDs (they changed this rule later on).
I think, they had very poor model and they didn't have any kind of experience in terms of managing the funds, how to manage the advertisements, how to distribute the money loyal members and most importantly how to tackle the spammers and spam.
Bubblews had very nice intention, they wanted to give back a percentage of share to their users but they didn't know there would be spammers who would be using their site to suck money from their pockets.
I have earned a lot from Bubblews and I don't think I have earned that much from any other site and that's why I am thankful to Bubblews and I am feeling sad for those people who used it wrongly and that's why we all loose an opportunity to earn by writing articles.
I am happy Mylot is back now but because of these kinds of news, I am worried about the future of Mylot.
So what's your views on this,
Why do you think Bubblews was a scam or not scam?
How much money did you earn there?
According to you, what's the future of Mylot? Will it be able to sustain its business model and the site?
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13 responses
@LovingMyBabies (85288)
• Valdosta, Georgia
20 Nov 15
Maybe scam is too harsh of a word but making promises you cannot possibly keep is wrong and should not be done. They did many things that were wrong and even the way they shut the site down was wrong-there should have been some kind of warning. They had horrible communication skills which in any business is a FAIL. They hurt many members with the way they did things and it was unfair.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
23 Nov 15
hi@LovingMyBabies you are so right they had actions that to mne appeared dishonesst and to q uit without paying the rest of their writers shows their ilk. Now a new writing site shows u p called Sweba sound familiar? I wonder how they managed to do that but it seems this has been golng awhile so they were already making plans for a new writing site and swindling us outof our money .
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@GajaGamini (1065)
• India
22 Nov 15
Hey LovingMyBabies, You are right.
Scam is quite harsh word but they didn't keep the promises. They promised users that they would come with solutions to cope up with spammers. They also failed to communicate with their users, they should have told people that they are not able to manage the site and they are thinking about closing it soon.
Many people were using Bubblews though they were not getting paid for that.
Where are you writing for money now except Mylot?
@suzzy3 (8341)
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20 Nov 15
Bubblew was not a scam as I got paid really well for a long time. Like you said they were inexperienced and paid everyone far to much . I think they were well intentioned but poor business people. I hope My lot does not shut down. I used to use this site a lot until they stopped paying and found Bubblews . I see they are paying a bit but now the winters here it will be very nice to write and read posts from other members.
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@suzzy3 (8341)
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20 Nov 15
@GajaGamini There were so many spammers operating in Asia which messed it up for the genuine people. I knew some bubblers that relied on money they earned . It would not have made to much difference in the UK but in some countries it was their wages to live on or pay their bills. For me it paid for my holidays and bought me this computer . So I have a lot to thank Arvind for.
@GajaGamini (1065)
• India
20 Nov 15
Yes, you got what I mean. They had very good intention but they didn't aware about the online business. They didn't know how much they will be earning and how much they are going to spend on marketing and promotions.
They were promoting Bubblews on various popular news channels and sites.
We all know Mr. Arvind and he had good intentions that's why he was active there and he was interactive and showed his face to people.
Arvind didn't start to shut Bubblews he has good intentions and that's why he was and is in front of people and he didn't hide from the people. SPAMMERS don't reveal their identity.
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@ReViewMeMedia (3785)
• United States
21 Nov 15
$0.01 per hit/comment/like is very unsustainable, especially if people game the system, I got paid twice before they changed the pay rate and I left the site to focus on YouTube.
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@GajaGamini (1065)
• India
20 Nov 15
Yes, they started with good intentions but they were not aware about the fact that there would be lots of people who are going to misuse their site and they would be using it for earning money and not for forming a community.
@GajaGamini (1065)
• India
22 Nov 15
@esfes025 Hey Eric,
Thank god you got it. Many people used to cash out hundreds no dollars and they did pay. The fault was in the system it was based on.
What was your username there?
@GajaGamini (1065)
• India
22 Nov 15
Yes, All's well that ends well. Because of their poor communication and lack of business knowledge they are considered as scammers but I frankly think, we should not say that because they paid a lot to people compared what they contributed to Bubblews and Bubblews was faulty, people used it wrongly and took advantage of their poor system.
@GajaGamini (1065)
• India
22 Nov 15
@euphie Hey Jacqui, How are you doing?
Yes, as I said before "All's well that ends well."
Bubblews started well but they haven't ended well that's why most people are thinking Bubblews was a scam.
We know they were trying to maintain the site by making various changes but they failed.
I know there were many people who believed on Bubblews and they were working hard to earn and to get the site back on the track. Unfortunately Arvind and Bubblews Users were not able to get site back on track.
I think, they should have cash out to people who were still there to help out them and believed on Arvind and the system. Is this what you feel?
@euphie (573)
• Ballymena, Northern Ireland
22 Nov 15
@GajaGamini They did pay a lot and helped a lot of people but the site has been badly mismanaged for the last year so I think that in some ways while their intentions were initially good, when things went wrong, they were only out to scam people who were working hard to keep the site afloat.
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@shellyjaneo (1081)
• United Kingdom
21 Nov 15
It was't a scam it was just really badly run. The only thing that made it a bit scammy is that they closed without paying out what was in people's accounts. That is really naughty x
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@GajaGamini (1065)
• India
22 Nov 15
Yes, they failed to maintain the balance and the system didn't work according to their expectations.
I think, they didn't pay anyone because it was hard to figure out who are the genuine users and who are scammers and that could be time consuming or they didn't have the information to sort it out. Another reason they failed because they didn't had any preventive measure to remove the spammers from the system.
What was your username there?
@shellyjaneo (1081)
• United Kingdom
22 Nov 15
@GajaGamini Yes it wasn't managed very well. It does seem that this site is better maintained as I haven't seen much spammy posts yet x
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@Namelesss (3365)
• United States
27 Nov 15
Oh we could remove the cheats and remove them we did. We just could not stop them signing back up. And while it is true that some of the cheats were paid before they were caught a greater number of them made false claims of payment to muddy the waters.
I sincerely doubt Arvind or Jason took the money and ran. They operated in the red most of the time. Any money they used for other ventures would have certainly come from other sources.
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@UmiNoor (4522)
• Malaysia
25 Nov 15
If you truly believe this and I do think you do, you must be delusional. Bubblews was and had always been built as a scam from Day 1. But if you believe that it was not, that is what you believe but the evidence is right there in front of you and it says that Bubblews had always been a scam and was planned to scam writers.
The owners must be rolling on the floor laughing so hard that there are still people who believed in them. They're already laughing their way to the bank and leaving every writers biting the dust and still there are people who believed in them. I really can't believe this @tallawah.
@GajaGamini (1065)
• India
26 Nov 15
@tallawah The blueprint was not scammy it was purely designed and they didn't fooled us they were amateur in the field of online money making.
@koopharper (7601)
• Canada
23 Nov 15
Bubblews in a lot of ways was a victim of its own success. The program provided great cash incentive. It attracted a lot of online writers but it also was a very attractive target for people who were looking for a system they could game. Bubblews was completely unprepared for the number of people willing to cheat the system. Then they botched fixing the problem. At that point I think most of the experienced online writers knew the site was done for.
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@GajaGamini (1065)
• India
22 Nov 15
Hey Eric,
You are right, it was not good it was great but they were not able to manage it when they thousands of registrations overnight and they were fixing the site glitches and working on improving the overall site.
In one sentense, "They had so many things to manage and they had little time and resources and the problems (spammers and site glitches) were rising day by day and they quit"
Thanks
TheYogeshShinde
@antonbunot (11093)
• Calgary, Alberta
23 Nov 15
In the beginning it was legit not a scam . . but as time went by, it gradually turned itself into a scam. And when it shut down . . that was the time that it was a real scam as Arvind took all our outstanding money in our banks.
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@norcal (4889)
• Franklinton, North Carolina
23 Nov 15
I made abut $700 on Bubblews. The were really quick with payments at the beginning. Yes, there was a lot of spam, but by the time they quit paying, there was a lot less of it. What their motivations were, I can't say. I don't know them, and I can't read their minds. I don't assume they set out to cheat people, and I have no hard feelings toward them.
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@franxav (13849)
• India
21 Nov 15
Yes Yogesh, I agree with you. Arvind was sincere and it was seen in how he was interacting with members. I earned most of my online earning from Bubblews. I am sure, it were the spammers and abusers who sucked the money and brought the downfall of the great site.
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@GajaGamini (1065)
• India
22 Nov 15
Hey Xavier,
Thanks for getting my message and what I am trying to say here. The whole system was workable and manageable with few more tweaks but the situation got out of control when they got sudden rise in the user base and they were in the experiment phase to get rid of scammers and site glitches.
