Anyone ever heard of ProBux??

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seamus7227

seamus7227

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My step-son is 15 and interested in this site where it says you can earn money through people clicking on your links(or something to that effect). Can anyone help me to better understand how this works(if it is legit first of all). He seems to think that all you have to do is purchase 2500 clicks for $4 and that you can triple that in one day and that there is no work involved. I just merely want to know who uses this site and what its intended purpose is besides making you money. The old adage of "if it sounds to good to be true, then it is too good to be true", comes to mind.

Please advise,

Clueless Dad:rolleyes:
 
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My good friend has tried several things like this. He paid for a bunch of clicks (several thousand at a time, multiple times) for his hat website and made 1 sale. He also clicked on others' sites to make money, and it didn't add up to much.

My big question is this: If you are paying people to click onto your site, are they there to buy or are they there to click for two cents and then move quickly on to the next two cent click? How can a company pay Mr. Citizen to look at a website AND tell Mr. Advertiser that those clickers are there to buy something from his site.

Have him try it as a clicker and make the big bucks:
Earnings calculator
membership with

referrals having an average of

clicks/day
$0.17 per day
$4.95 per month
$60.23 per year

How exactly do I get paid?
The amount we pay you depends on a few differ


If he upgrades to ULTIMATE he can make UP TO $5.20 a day for only a few hours work. Less fees and Paypal fees and they can limit the # of ads he can view at any time. Check out the FAQ page.

Good luck!
 
well the red flag for me was that, on the forum part of it, all of the testimonies sound like foreign people, not really typing in proper english, which seems a bit odd.
 
seamus7227 said:
well the red flag for me was that, on the forum part of it, all of the testimonies sound like foreign people, not really typing in proper english, which seems a bit odd.
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That not uncommon... I hear lots of stories of "click farms" in countries where labor is significantly cheaper. This ranges from web click stuff to playing video games where some people will pay real money for fake "gold" or experience points.
 
alphageek said:
seamus7227 said:
well the red flag for me was that, on the forum part of it, all of the testimonies sound like foreign people, not really typing in proper english, which seems a bit odd.
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That not uncommon... I hear lots of stories of "click farms" in countries where labor is significantly cheaper. This ranges from web click stuff to playing video games where some people will pay real money for fake "gold" or experience points.
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well, so am i right in thinking that these are a waste of money, especially for a 15 yr old that has it in his head that he is gonna make some big bucks?
 
seamus7227 said:
well, so am i right in thinking that these are a waste of money, especially for a 15 yr old that has it in his head that he is gonna make some big bucks?
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Yep... not likely big money. And most definately a waste of time. If you have a high profile/traffic site already, then some of these things may make money. But a 15yo kid should be able to find MUCH more effective ways to make money.
 
Mow yards, clean out cutters, wash cars, clean garage's, lots of ways for 15 year old's to make money but they have to WORK for it:biggrin:, not sit in front of a computer and expect a check in the mail.


alphageek said:
seamus7227 said:
well, so am i right in thinking that these are a waste of money, especially for a 15 yr old that has it in his head that he is gonna make some big bucks?
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Yep... not likely big money. And most definately a waste of time. If you have a high profile/traffic site already, then some of these things may make money. But a 15yo kid should be able to find MUCH more effective ways to make money.
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BSea said:
Sometimes it's better to let them learn a lesson than to tell them "NO". If it doesn't require a credit card, and doesn't cost much, I say let him try it. If it takes 2 hours to earn $5, then he should learn pretty fast that it's not a way to get rich quick.
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That would be a really good 'life lesson' as long as it actually makes more than it costs to participate....

hehe after the first check arrives, figure out how many hours it took to get an hourly wage, then offer him 'double' that wage for the mowing/car washing/etc...
 
And i agree as well Bob! The problem is that in order to do so, he has to get his paypal account "verified", and that entails attaching a bank account to the paypal acct. He has a savings account with very little money in it, and really hate to see him blow all of it with high expectations of making all of this money. But you know, sometimes those are the best learning lessons for kids to make.
 
I don't think I'd let my son have a paypal account to do something like this. I might let him use mine though. He just pays me the money he'd send them, and I'd send it to them using my own pay pal account.

Frankly, my main fear would be that he gets some money (although it looks like not much), then spends it on something, only to find out the funds are held up. It gives him a black eye even though he did nothing wrong. Plus, I'd hate to see him pay them something and it come out of his account without you knowing. If you used your Pay Pal account, then he's always have to check with you before he did any transactions.
 
seamus7227 said:
really hate to see him blow all of it with high expectations of making all of this money. But you know, sometimes those are the best learning lessons for kids to make.
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You know though it would be a good lesson to learn, IT would be not the wise choice. With the potential of ID Theft and at his age, it would be smarter to sit down with him and give him the talk! The talk about Credit and Identity to protect it. Credit ratings will follow him for the rest of his life. and even a glitch at 15 can cost him a potential job when he is 30.
 
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