See Earn3 rating chart
 

HOME

July 9, 2008

earn3.com Update

Go to site

Method: PTC

Article by: Phil

Improvements

Like many PTC sites at the moment earn3 has just finished quite an overhaul. The site now has brand new script with a nice new design. The design works well as a futurist version of the previous original design keeping the same colour scheme and corporate ID. Perhaps one of the biggest improvements to the site is that payments have been dramatically sped up.

The new script was installed just a few days ago. Once it was up and running I had to request my payment again. Having already waited some time and now having a larger amount to request it seemed it would take longer but how wrong I was. Today I received my second payments off this site with $18.87 via AlertPay

I have now received a total of £29.49 from earn3 which just goes to show how reliable this site is.

What has been sustained?

The reputation of this site has sustained itself well. The owner of this site is quite well known in the PTC community and seems to have a lot of experience from also running the site Clicksia which has been in the industry for a long time. The high performance at earn3 is very much still there with plenty of ads.

What still needs to improve?

Despite being quite vocal on PTC communities and doing well with the site the owner has hidden a lot of details from whois.is. We also tried to get hold of the owner for an interview to find out more about the site but it was refused by the owner who gave reason that he didn’t want too much attention.

Could this shy or cautious behaviour be a little unnecessary here? Real business never needs to hide and when your product is top notch you should be doing all you can to get that message out.

The TOS still contains the error regarding terminating accounts for any reason which comes with the template. Rather frustratingly this is the one thing that prevents us from giving earn3 our seal of approval. This is necessary for a crack down on this error which needs to be whipped out of the industry. All it requires is adding the word “valid” before the word “reason”. 

Conclusion

The TOS has a lot of delay insurance stating that standard members may have to wait for as long as 60 days to receive payment. Clearly at the moment they are closer to 1 week rather than 60 days as I use the standard membership here. I have been watching this site from the start and have seen its reputation and traffic do nothing but improve. The advertising here is quality with this high traffic and the prices right across the site are right on track. Hopefully the owner can fix the issue with the TOS in the near future so we can issue the site with a seal of approval.

Go to site

 

May 7, 2008

earn3.com Update

Go to site 

Method: PTC

Looking around at the current most promising PTC sites in the industry you will probably come across earn3.com. The site has been doing well largely thanks to the experience of the owner who is no stranger to the PTC industry which has given earn3 the advantage of starting from what lessons the owner has previous learned about PT sites.

The script here is clearly a Paid.vg clone as the design and colour scheme hasn’t changed since the script was purchased. Along with the design nothing much else has changed at the site since it was last reviewed apart from the odd security upgrade. Evidently change isn’t necessarily a big need at this site as it is still progressing well.

Checking the Alexa history of this site we can see that it is one of the fastest growing in terms of popularity with a consistent steep rise in traffic.

Much of the progress is due to a combination of the owners past reputation, the fast payments, $0.05 sign up bonus, 100% down line and most of all the low minimum payout which just $3.00. That is a long list of high performance PTC attributes which would make you worry that it isn’t sustainable. Usually it wouldn’t work to have this set up but here it has happened at the right time and the high traffic is keeping the system working.

Earn3 has a great self advertising presence in the industry which involves a lot of non-referral earn3 banners and promos which keeps the sites referral shop stocked. The owner is also quite vocal and can be found on most PTC community forums such as PTCtalk and is generally always there to keep the facts straight about the site. 

Conclusion

This site simply has the right mix with great prices and high performance which makes it a great place to earn from at the moment. Since the site hit the Alexa chart it hasn’t decreased its rapid progress much which makes for an exciting thought as to where this site will be in another month or so. The reputation is good here but there is nothing new for a ratings change. Hopefully the site will correct the TOS fault to gain some extra points next time round.

 

April 17, 2008

earn3.com

Go to site

Method: PTC

 

Brief history

In the short time earn3 has been around it has gained over 12932 users and served a high click rate of around 358313 clicks to date. The owner of this site has quite some experience in the running of PTC sites and owns such sites as Incentria.com and Clicksia.com. Because of this past experience and pre-built reputation earn3.com has been able to rise up the Alexa chart with a quick steep climb.

Design

The design of this site is almost identical to Paid.vg as it is clearly the same type of script. There is however a somewhat unique corporate ID with the logo in use. The layout of this script is very similar to the bux clone script and that’s fine as it’s a very functional layout that isn’t too squashed together. This gives the owner a lot more space to work with to provide a cleaner design.

 

Advertising

Some good results can come of advertising here thanks to the current rate of high traffic here. The current traffic ranking for this site is 1587676,134 and rising. Prices are a fairly reasonable for this level of traffic with 1000 ad views worth $14.00 and 2000 for $28.00. This value for money seems to be becoming the industry standard for sites around this traffic level. If this site can keep the level of progress it is making there should be room for them to ask more for their advertising space in say another 2 months.

 

Referral System

There are 3 referral pack options here which are 10 referrals for just $9.95, the popular 35 referrals for a cheap $32.95 and lastly 100 for $89.95. These prices are quite smart and provide some visuals that the site is run by an experienced PTC owner. The prices are set so that the higher packages are of better value than the lower packages which means the biggest packages are more seductive. This should mean that earn3 will have no problem attaining a profit to keep the site running. The down line is 100% here making it a high performance referral system.

 

Upgrades

Like many PTC sites at the moment this one is doing a “limited time” price reduction at $39.95. This package is a year’s membership offer. Currently this packages is only advertised as containing the ability to earn $0.015 each click and $0.0125 each click from your referrals. Priority payments are the only other benefit but it is not listed as to what the actual priority wait is. Currently not installed but to be added to this offer is the ability to contact your own referrals… just to make sure they aren’t asleep on the job!

 

Performance

One of the great things about this site is that the minimum payout is only $3.00 which can be a challenge to work with when you are rapidly gaining members. There is no question this site has high performance thanks to that essential 100% referral system combined with their 8 $0.01 ads found on the day of testing. The performance holds all that people would expect from a PTC site and more because of the low payout.

 

Conclusion

It will be interesting to see what this sites traffic rank will be in another 2 months and if they will be able to sustain the very low minimum payout. What ever the case they have it in place now so it couldn’t be a better time to use this site. It is largely thanks to the prices that this site should be able to sustain itself because they are suited to help the site keep on track with profits. Its common knowledge that if a site doesn’t sell many referrals or upgrades due to unrealistic prices they often fold pretty quickly because the purchase areas of a PTC site is what keeps the site running and able to payout to the members.

The PTC business model has recently come under scrutiny from a minority of bloggers because so many disappear or fail to pay the members. It is not the business model that is the issue it all depends on weather the prices are uniform to what they should be.

Checking there TOS we find a good line that reads

Advertising fees are to be paid via Alertpay. We do not give refunds for any purchase, wether it be an advertising/referral/upgrade, refunds are not given under any condition. Legal actions may be taken against those who charge back.

Because PayPal seem to defend cheaters by locking the accounts of any PTC site that bans a cheater we feel PTC sites that use AlertPay are smart to pre-defend against any future disputes that AlertPay itself may one day take action on. As our very own UrOnlineBux PayPal account has suffered such an illogical action thanks to a cheater we feel PTC sites are well within their rights to suit their TOS pages to defend against such action – Not that PayPal took any notice of ours of course.

We say PayPals actions are illogical because all the cheater achieved was stopped the rest of the legitimate members from using the PayPal service which means nations get whipped out of participation. When cheaters file a selfish dispute the real victims become the sites other members.

Here at earn3 the experienced owner has made the write choice to defend the site from illogical disputes within the TOS for AlertPay as they seem to be slowly following in PayPals footsteps on many other issues.

 
 
 
©2007 URONLINEBIZ.COM. All right reserved.