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March 3, 2008

AgeBux account suspended!

Since our last update the Agebux's website has gone down and the hosting account seem to be suspended. Did someone forget to pay the monthly bill to the webhost or is this another scam? Right now it looks like another PT sites bites the dust; the site has been down since February 21.

AgeBux's rating is hereby removed and even if the site comes back up the admin will have to prove the site being more stable and reliable than this.

 

Feb 21, 2008

Agebux.com update

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Method: PTC

 

Some new useful updates have been implemented at Agebux.com such as the ability to now convert your earnings into referrals. The system works in a very simple way but just deducting the price off your current earnings for how ever many referrals you requested. This is a great feature as it means no money needs to come out of your own pocket to purchase referrals here and you can even convert these to referrals before you reach payout.

This means you will be able to take one step back and two steps forward to speak in terms of how much you can earn here. Another improvement to the site is their recent change of host which seems to have sped up the overall performance of the website itself. The script in use however could do with some 3rd party help from a coder to make the script more secure.

It’s not hidden that this site is from YourOwnBux.com and all the scripts from there are really sold as a basic kit meaning they come with a lot of vulnerabilities that make it easy for people to hack into the administration and steal money and change almost anything written on the site. We have seen this happen with scripts from here before such as SpedBux.com which still has problems to this day as result.

The design of the site is still a little indifferent from its original state which is how most of these scripts come. This is all part of the kit script process however as you may not only need a coder to tighten up the cracks but a graphic designer to radically change the look of the site to look less like a template and more like a professional unique PTC site.

 

Performance

Performance is still very high here and well worth a sign up. There are no cut backs on down line performance as our 3 referrals have done 51 visits giving us a total of £0.51 which means you are getting $0.01 each time they click I.E 100% down line. On top of the $0.01 ads for yourself and your down line is the fact that the minimum payout is only $3.00 which is great while the site is new but they better take on new staff to help keep up with payments before they get really big. £3.00 payout isn’t such a tall order for a new PTC site but once you have around 600.000 members that will become a problem.

 

Conclusion

There is still a lot of potential here and very little that needs to be improved. The script security however is a paramount issue they should look into before some selfish hacker tries to wreck their progress. They may have already sorted out the code but it’s hard to tell while the site still looks like its original template. There is no denying they have the performance to become a big PTC site and provided they stick at it throughout the year it will become highly profitable for the owners too.

We are moving this site up one from a +3 rating to a +4 for useful improvements and continued high performance.

 

Agebux.com

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Method: PTC

 

Agebux.com is a simple PTC that has observed the industry standards as the New Year has started. By doing their market research correctly they have including a forum and proof of payment section to back up their site stats. The proof of payments here are plentiful and show a good degree of legitimate work from the administrators as this site has progressed.

Like with many PTC sites recently they have been slightly hindered from reaching payment deadlines through PayPal issues and large increases of members which cause a back log of work. After seeing bux.to struggle to cope with so many members back in October many sites have decided to take on new staff early but of course some still remain small businesses until they really need to expand.

The sites design is a little out of practice for a business site simply because they have used a repeating background and an out of sync banner. There are no big problems however but it would be wise of the owners to play around with the design a little more and try to produce something a little more clean cut.

The script in use is fine however with no predictable flaws excluding the classic unethical TOS page which comes with most PTC templates. The sites stats feature is very useful here and tells us that they currently have around 6620 members with $222 paid out so far. There have been a few sites that have rushed their reviews of Agebux.com and dumped them into black lists which aren’t right because this site is clearly doing something right.

The current member to pay out ratio is not bad and for along while before PayPal went dead on this industry Agebux.com happened to be one of the faster paying sites. Because payments have been slightly late here inevitably some of their members panicked and reported them as scam but this site isn’t a scam because they do intend to pay their members regardless of how late the payments are. It’s important that the definition of scam is corrected and people realise that it’s only a scam if they are intending not to pay you.

The advertising prices here do not appear as the cheapest around however this site hasn’t just come out of the box. It’s arguable that a slight reduction wouldn’t be such a bad idea however. The rate for 1000 ads is $19.20 and $39.50. Down $5.00 on each of these and they will probably get the balance right.

The price of referrals isn’t too bad with standard rates for most of the options. The higher the packages the better the deals get here which is good for those who regularly use PTC sites and are fine with purchasing many referrals.  35 referrals here cost only $33.00 which is without question a good rate for that many.

 

Performance

 

We found a good 5 ads worth $0.01 with a standard membership here. It’s a very common performance for a PTC these days which may not be so unique but it still argues the point why not give this site a go? Looking at the sites stats again we do find something that makes this performance have an edge and that is the minimum payout is only $3.00 which is pretty easy to make with their referral packages.

 

Conclusion

 

The basic question regarding this site as the moment is “is it scam” it’s a simple no for the answer and a waist of time to try and complain about them. We have all seen how some sites that could do the industry a lot of good be tossed away and wrongly called scam just because of a few hiccups. Of course any PTC site can turn into a scam at any moment as it all depends on the intentions of the owner but most of the smart PTC owners know that scams don’t pay in the PTC industry. The ones that stay legit are the ones that make the most money and give people the opportunity to live off their own business. But simply because sites can turn bad we have a state of paranoia in the industry.

For example after trying to promote UrOnlineBiz.com on some PT related forums we ourselves have seen messages like “what’s the pay out, its probably just scam” as laughable as that is since we are not even a PT site or have any means to scam people it shows a side of people that are just too on guard about what site they should trust and also how quick people are too black list sites.

After checking the facts from a proper investigation we see no foul play at Agebux.com and see it as a classic example of sites that become victim to “scam paranoia”. We give this site the rating of +3 for high performance with low minimum payout. The only negative aspects we have seen are the high advertising prices.

 

 
 
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