Well this one wasn’t a shock or news to me at all recently launched ppc company Widgetbucks is now having problems with its publishers due to no payments and suspension of accounts based on the reason of invalid clicks and in some cases no reason at all, so far today there was 1 publisher that was suspended by widget bucks with the reason of invalid clicks when he was earning nearly 100$ a day, yea thats a big chunk of change to loose.
As if that wasn’t enough people are deceiving publishers as well by making these landing page sites on domains that are typos of widgetbucks.com with their own affiliate id and promoting it as the original widget buck’s site, thats just wrong in my opinon any marketing move that decieves the audience is morally and ethically wrong.
I guess i can’t defend widgetbucks in this post as well because they are being unfair to their publishers as well.
Guess this is one for the ages, marked as a trend because of the most unique case in ppc that i have seen, ther were times where the publishers were shady, sometimes the company itself was just a scam, but here the company its publishers and most people around it are shady..
November 10th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
I was expecting this to happen with widget bucks. Luckily, I stayed clear of them until I heard some feedback. And for the guy that lost his $100 a day earnings, was it really smart to trust your income to a new company?
November 13th, 2007 at 1:51 am
Check out my blog about Widgetbucks
http://www.widgetsucks.com
sorry that yours didn’t work out well, post a comment on my blog and explain your story!
November 14th, 2007 at 9:35 am
This is true, WidgetBuck is scam company. All they gonna do when you earn something is to close your account, no reason at all. No answer to emails, nothing. Don’t waste your time, they gonna rip you off, and your SSN number will be disposed.
November 25th, 2007 at 10:21 pm
I have an account, but never tried them. I saw some big bloggers promoting them (John Chow etc) so I thought it was OK. but apparently I could be wrong. Thanks for updating.
Olivier.
December 22nd, 2007 at 3:13 pm
I never fell into the hype because I know it is too good to be true. As of the moment they are paying publishers, but with their record who knows for how much longer.
December 22nd, 2007 at 7:29 pm
I never believe in them,it is too good to be true.Anyway thank you for your news
December 22nd, 2007 at 7:49 pm
It was expected, they started with too good to be true deal, that was just obvious that something like that will happen.
February 20th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
everybody should aware of this WidgetBuck spam company it is really horoble because all the webmasters rum web site for money so if they do not get paid and affected by those spam companies its really bad news for all of us.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:37 am
There are still alot of website which are doing spamming over whole internet. And widgetbucks is also not good site for getting payments. I prefere only old search engine site to earn.
May 26th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
I signed up with widgetbucks ans even gave a referal. This was in November It took me 4 months to earn a payment even with the $25.00 sign up bonus. When it came time for them to pay up I was canceled for what they call click fraud. They are a rip off Because they got paid by the advertisers but they don’t pay you.
May 26th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
I almost forgot after they cancelled my account my e-mail address was and still is flooded with junk mail I believe widget bucks spammed me out
April 7th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Oh! O_o
Tha's not gOOd!