14 October 2008

Neobux Review #3 - How's it going after 6 months?


I have written 2 NeoBux reviews so far. (1 & 2) Now it's been 6 months after those and NeoBux jumped to the 1st place among PTC sites. Since too many things changed in this 6 months, I think it's time to write a new review now.

Reliability: (5/5)

Extraordinary design, continuous innovation, incredible support, instant payment... All the features I will discuss below are signs of reliability. The fact that they don't even paused instant payments, when Paypal froze 72% of their accounts, can be considered as a proof for 100% reliability. NeoBux is absolutely the most trusted PTC now, by far!

Ads for clickers: (3/5)
Number of ads are at least 4 per day. If you check very frequently, you can find 10-15 ads daily, because ads are shown at the exact time the advertiser wants.
There are 2 types of ads:
30 second ads are 1 cent, ref. earnings 0.5 cent (50%).
60 second ads are 1.5 cent, ref. earnings 1 cent (67%). But these are VERY hard to catch.

Referrals: (4.5/5)
You get 50% for 30 second ads and 67% for 60 second ads. Referrals are not sold, they are rented. A feature invented, and started to copy by SandraClicks, ARAbux, and many others.
Prices are $0.20/per referral/per month for golden members and $0.30/per referral/per month for standard members. But if you have too many referrals, the price will increase. If you have more than 1750 referrals, the price will be $0.27/$0.37. All referrals given to you are clicked at least 10 ads in the last 5 days.
You can choose which referrals to keep 30 days more and pay for them for another month, anytime you want. You can also recycle any referral you want for a price of $0.08. Moreover, inactive referrals are replaced auromatically after 15 days of inactivity.
A unique rule (which is copied by BuxOut and SandraClicks now) in NeoBux referral system is, "Maximum_Referral_Clicks_Today = (Your_Clicks_Yesterday * Number_of_Referrals)". This means, for example, if you clicked 5 ads yesterday, and have 100 referrals, your maximum referral earnigs today is 5*500=500 clicks. So you get the money for the first 500 clicks only, for today. This will prevent users to buy/rent/refer many members and than leave the site for weeks. Everybody must click!

Payments: (5/5)
This is the best part. Payments are INSTANT. You request your payment and in 5 seconds, it's in your Alertpay account! If anything happens, they guarantee to pay within 48 hours.
Minimum payout is $2 for 1st payout, $3 for 2nd, $4 for 3rd and so on until $10. Minimum payouts after your 9th payout is $10.
You have to wait 4 days before requesting another payout though. Not much of a problem.

Ads for Advertisers: (4.5/5)
30 second views: 200 ads for $5, 500 ads for $11, 1000 ads for $18, 2000 ads for $34, 5000 ads for $80, 10000 ads for $155
60 second views: 200 ads for $9, 500 ads for $21, 1000 ads for $34, 2000 ads for $65, 5000 ads for $155, 10000 ads for $295
The prices are the average of the industry, but as far as I know, NeoBux has the most successfull cheat-proof system, so you will get REAL humans to your site.
You buy credits and then can distribute them among your advertisements. And there is a demographic filter. You can choose up to 20 countries to show the ad, or just show it to all members.

Sustainability: (5/5)
Absolutely sustainable! Why?
1. Referral earnings are 50%, many sites changed their 100% ref. earnings because of its unsustainability. NeoBux was was one of the first who saw this.
2. All ads on NeoBux are from real advertisers.
3. Referral renting, which also NeoBux invented and now copied by many sites.
4. Jackpots. At least 50% of Jackpots are pure profit for NeoBux.
5. All prices are fairly determined to make the site sustainable.
Moreover, when Paypal froze 72% of the accounts, NeoBux continued to pay even instantly. So, even without its 72% of funds, they could run the site without big problems. As this problem is over now, the site will continue to run smoothly.

Design: (5/5)
They designed the site from scratch, therefore it doesn't look like any other site around. (There are some copycats now though.) It's unique. Admin knows programming and adds many features to the site now and then.

Customer Support: (5/5)
Very good support! The admin is almost all day long on the forum, aswering questions and even asking users their opinions about new features for the site, by placing polls mostly. The site goes in the direction which most users want.
Support tickets are answered very fast too.

Premium Membership: (4.5/5)
It's called Golden Membership, costs $90 for 1 year and processed immediately when you request. You get still 1 cent from your 30 sec. ad clicks, but 60 sec. ad clicks are now 2 cents instead of 1.5. You also get a minimum of 9 ads/day. (instead of 4)
But the main advantage of getting golden membership is, you get 1 cent (instead of 0.5) from referrals' clicks to 30 sec ads, and 2 cents (instead of 1 cent) to 60 sec ads.
So, it increases your referral earings by 100%. You can also see your referral's graphs. There is a downside though, referral packs for golden expire too fast, and getting referrals is hard. (That's why I deducted 0.5 points.) I suggest you get ~500 referrals before getting golden.
There are also advanced golden packs.

Overall (4.7/5)
NeoBux is an unique and innovative PTC. No other PTC could give the automated system for purchases and even PAYOUTS when NeoBux established. Now, 7 months after its launch, with more than 1 million members, they are still providing the same support and payment services as before, developing every day. And now there are new sites like BuxOut and SandraClicks, following NeoBux' steps.
NeoBux is definitely the best PTC at the moment, and if they can survive the PayPal issue, I have a feeling that they will stay that way for a loong time.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

i'm standard member in neobux and sandraclicks.now i want to rent 50 refferals in any one of these two sites.i don't know in which site i can profit more.
please suggest me.

jörmungand said...

In the short term, Sandraclicks may be more profitable. But Neobux is much more reliable and trusted for now, because Sandra is just a copy of Neobux and it's very young. Besides, when you get golden in Neobux you get 1 cent/ref click, in Sandra you get 0.75/ref click. So if you plan for a long term, you should definitely pick Neobux.