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| Who is really gullible? I can't help but shake my head at the people posting here who are so absolutely, adamantly positive that this or that is a scam, and no one can convince them otherwise. How does that make you any different from the people you're mocking, who refuse to believe that a scam is a scam? Both of you are pushing aside any facts or new information and assuming that you know best, no matter what.
People are getting flamed here just for signing up for something like Netbux, but have those flamers actually even given it a chance to find out if it's a scam? Why are you labelling things you know nothing about? If you have no first or second-hand experience of any kind, what gives you the right to pass judgement on it?
This is a new sort of business in the world, brought about by the internet. Some of them, one can suppose, will turn out to be scams, but it seems rather foolish to make blanketed statements with minimal, if any, data to back them up.
Some of the first major, successful businesses of this type, such as freeipods.com and others from the Gratis network have been investigated by many different parties, and I have yet to read a single report that finds them to be illegitimate. If you actually took the time to research before you pass your judgement, you could check them out with the Better Business Bureau and you'll find only a handful of complaints at best, most, if not all of which have been resolved. This is not to say you'll get your item or money for nothing; you have to put in the effort and follow the steps.
All that said, the only site of this kind I have signed up for is freedvds.com, and I can tell you that I have received about 5 DVD's to date, brand new, shipped free, at no more charge to me than perhaps $1 per DVD accrued by certain trial offers. Not only that, but they even replaced one DVD for me which was damaged during shipping, again at no charge and with no red tape. For suspending skepticism and actually taking the time to find out things for myself rather than just blindly attacking others, I have gotten essentially for free what would have otherwise cost me a fair amount of money. I have not tried any other "referral" sites because that's simply not my kind of thing. I do, however, have a friend who now has an iPod which cost nothing, courtesy of Gratis.
If any of you self-important, deaf-to-anything-outside-of-your-own-mind folks have actually read and considered what I've written, perhaps you will, if nothing else, find a different way to feed your egos than rampantly flaming anyone whose opinions differ from yours. I'm certainly no spokesman for free money/prize sites - and note when I say that it's quite possible that some are scams. But, perhaps instead of quoting P.T. Barnum (although I do agree with his quote as well), you should consider that "It is a wise man who knows there is much he does not know." Take some time to find facts to support your case, and you'll be much more persuasive. Until then, you sound like a pompous jerk. | |
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@pinval01.in.comcast. | Well, I have new found reasons to think that netbux is a scam. Ok, they just changed everything over to shares. If you had like $5.26 before, you now have 526 shares. You get 1 share per search. They haven't really decided on how much money 1 share will be worth, but they said atleast 1 cent, hoping for 2 or 3 cents. They said you can make 1 to 5 cents per share. Now, if they were a real true to their word company and were actually handing out this money, they would never promise more than 1 cent per search. Reason is, for that person who had 526 shares now, say netbux gives out 3 cents a share. This person now has 3 times as much money as he had before they converted everything to shares. Now, seeing as the people who still don't believe this is a scam are still searching, the shares they are getting from the most recent searches are added to the shares they got converted from their amount of money they had before. Unless Netbux has some way of detecting how many shares they had before they started searching after they changed all of this, then hundreds of thousands of users would be getting 3 times the amount expected before this. Some people have over $30 easy, on average people would be getting like 60 dollars more. This money can't magically appear, so where would netbux be getting this money if they were actually expecting to pay people. Obviously netbux isnt too worried about how much money they would be losing in this, because they can't lose any money when they aren't paying anyone. And I don't see how they are going to be able to check every single person's searches they had before this new update thing, considering they have hundreds of thousands of users. That would take an incredible amount of effort. | | |
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| have any of you signed up for netbux or a similar site, done your searches and not been paid or vise versa? otherwise it seems like i've read lots of posts from know-it-alls with no evidence either way. I personally don't have a problem trying these sites out for myself since i'm not spamming them and do my searches after i'm done at work. Also considering the fact that netbux has only been in existance for a few months and the heavy majority of its members are very recent i find it hard to believe that all these people who are absolutely sure it's a scam even ever had an account or at least earned enough in their first pay period to be paid considering the payout was untill a few days ago 50$ and you could not earn that your first month without lots of very productive refferals. You can't demand proof that they pay from others while claiming they do not pay with no proof. | |
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