Padbux, Scam or Not?

I was recently referred to Padbux and thought it might be worth giving a try.  The ads claim that you get 15 cents per ad click and the minimum payout is $1.00.  I created my account and jumped in to look around at the site.  The ads provided only pay $0.01 instead of $0.15 as stated.  The minimum payout is $3.00 instead of $1.00 as far as I can see.

My first day I was offered 8 ads and my account had $0.10 in it from registration.  I went through the ads and earned $0.08.  Basically you click on each ad, a new tab opens, after it is open 20 seconds you type a 2 digit verification code, the page closes and you go on to the next ad.  While the 20 seconds is counting down you can be in another tab doing whatever you want.  This is nice because I only spent about 15 seconds actively dealing with the ads.  However, the next day I logged on and only had 5 ads available and earned $0.05.  For logging on to the site twice I have $0.23 in my account that I can withdraw once I reach $3.00.  At $0.08 earned each day, you should earn $2.40 in one month if you logged on every single day.

Is Padbux a scam?  That is a hard question to answer.  You can "rent" referrals and you can "upgrade" your membership, these ideas seem a little scammy to me.  I would declare the site as a definite waste of time, but not a scam just yet.  I will continue to log into the site for a few weeks and see what I can declare after that.

Padbux pays via Liberty Reserve, AlertPay, and PayPal.  They pay you for referrals as well, so as always my referral link is below.

http://www.padbux.com/?ref=ryanlthornton

MinuteWorkers Scam?

Ashley referred me to this site, she wanted to know if it was a scam or not.  It is similar to Amazon's Mechanical Turk, but a much crazier idea.  Instead of having organizations create the jobs, users can create jobs. For anyone trying to make money online this is huge!  Instead of trying to get referrals and the like for other sites you can pay people to do these things.  Pay people to sign up for other sites, like/favorite YouTube videos, or bookmark your blog.  The sky is pretty much the limit.

You can complete these offers to make money, but I found something else that I thought was worth mentioning.  Minute Workers has a forum that includes site related boards as well as general discussion boards.  After 50 posts are made on your account they start to pay, the general payouts are:

New Post: $0.01

New Thread: $0.01

Per reply to your thread: $0.01

If you decide to just cash-out instead of reinvesting your money, Minute Workers has 2 options available.  The standard cash-out minimum is $10 with no fees.  You can also cash-out at $2 for a 10% fee, which is a pretty cool difference with this site.  Minute Workers pays via PayPal and AlertPay.  As far as I know this service is available from any country.

One important thing with this particular site, just like Mechanical Turk, is to only accept jobs that you are able to finish.  Minute Workers has a reputation value assigned to each member and if it dips too low they will delete your account.  The reputation is based on jobs accepted and then compared to jobs completed.  When you join your reputation will be 100%, 75% or above is acceptable.  Reputation rules are not in place until after you complete 10 jobs, a notification will be sent if you dip below 80%. On Minute Workers all jobs are approved within 7 days.  If an employer doesn't approve/deny your proof of the job, Minute Workers will automatically approve the job and credit the money to your account.

As always, this site allow for referrals and will reward you for them.  As far as I know the bonus is $0.05 per signup and $0.10 after they complete a successful job.  I don't think you get further bonuses after the referred person continues working.  My referral link/banner is below, if you liked my review I would appreciate it if you signed up using my link.

minuteworkers.com/register.php?ref=ryanlthornton

Who Is Behind MegaTypers.Com?

I was looking back through some of my blog posts and I am really curious, Who Is Behind MegaTypers.Com?  I can't seem to find anything, but I really want to know.  I have a feeling after doing some research that the pay per 1000 images might be going up due to the rise in popularity of MegaTypers.  If anyone has any info on this site, let me know.  I still think it is a waste of time, but I am really interested in it.

They claim that they offer services to convert scanned papers into editable digital documents.  Why can't I do that, why do I have to do captchas only?  It almost looks like they are doing the captchas for blind people, but I need confirmation on that. Over on ProTypers.Com they say the same thing, but a little more straightforward.

Are we helping the blind avoid captchas?  Or is this just a way to make us feel better about what we are doing?  If this is the truth it will make MegaTypers/ProTypers feel like less of a scam to me.

Sign up for Mega Typers at http://www.megatypers.com/register and use my referral code DDR.

SwagBucks.com: Is it a Scam or Not?

SwagBucks.com Logo

I completely forgot about SwagBucks.com, I had tried them out a few years back and gave up.  I gave up because I moved and didn't have internet for awhile.  This is just like CashCrate or Superpoints in that they give you points for doing certain things.  I received a birthday email containing 50 SwagBucks which reminded me about the site.  I have left the account sit stale and it has 110 offers sitting in my email ready for me to bang out.  I currently have 134 SwagBucks and need 450 to get $5 from Amazon.

As always this site rewards for referrals so I have my referral link below.  I will update you all as I progress.

http://www.swagbucks.com/refer/goober814