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Vacation mode

noreply@blogger.com (Dav7) — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:55:00 +0000

If you have a golden pack your pack has the vacation mode, you can use it right away.

How does it work?
Very simple: The day(s) you choose, won't count for TOS 3.7

Imagine that on the 29th of October you won't be able to use NeoBux.
All you need to do is add the 29th of October and, on the 30th of October you'll receive all clicks from your referrals the same way as you've clicked in the 29th.

You'll be able to schedule your pack's amount of days always from the next day to the end of your pack.

You'll be able to delete a scheduled day if that day hasn't come yet.

Have fun.

EDIT: Rented referrals on vacation will be marked on the listing and they won't be automatically replaced for inactivity if they are on vacation.

13th payment from Neobux, this time via PayPal

noreply@blogger.com (Dav7) — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:29:00 +0000

Total earned with this site: $ 836.58

After the excellent news that we had last week, admin announced today that payments via PayPal are open again!

It was something I was expecting and the motive to postpone my 13^th payment request to finally be able to receive it via PayPal.

In addition to the payments using PayPal purchases also were reopened.

Transaction Details

Web Accept Payment Received (ID #confidential)

Name: NeoBux
Email: paypal@neobux.com
Payment Sent to: (confidential)

Business Contact Information

Customer Service URL: http://neobux.com
Customer Service Email: support@neobux.com

Amount received: $109.09 USD
Fee: $0.00 USD
Total: $109.09 USD

Date: Oct. 22, 2008
Time: 21:57:33 WEST
Status: Completed

Subject: NeoBux has sent you money!
Custom Note: NeoBux payment
Shipping Address: No Address Provided

Payment Type: Instant

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Regarding PayPal

noreply@blogger.com (Dav7) — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:42:00 +0000

We have re-enabled purchases through PayPal.
They may be disabled at any time and without notice.
Consider this a test. It may last as it may not.

Regarding cashouts through PayPal, new rules have to be defined.
This means that no cashouts will be available using PayPal right now.
When will they be available?

Rental Queue

noreply@blogger.com (Dav7) — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:14:00 +0000

If you have a Golden pack that has the rental queue, you can start using right away.

You can find the rental queue in "Golden Pack" under "Settings" in your account's menu.

You need to be able to rent (below the limit of referrals and renting days wait)
You need to have available funds in your rental balance

There are two options you can choose from:

NORMAL QUEUE: It will queue your referrals and you'll get them in the queue's order
EXPRESS QUEUE: You'll get your referrals 24 hours after you order them independently of the current queue.

It will cost you twice for the rental but the monthly fees will be the same.

As soon as you click one of these buttons, the relative amount will be taken from your rental balance and the pre-defined pack of referrals (depending on your Golden pack) will be added to the queue.

Before ordering your referrals you'll be able to see how many hours you have to wait and while you wait for your pack you'll be able to see how many hours still left for it to be yours.
Please remember that these hours are approximate.

Have fun

Neobux already have PayPal's response

noreply@blogger.com (Dav7) — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:57:00 +0000

The unexpected happened and today we had a great update about PayPal vs. Neobux, read the exciting announcement of the admin:

""You do good things and good things happen"... that's Karma.

We've asked your help in terms of donations after the incident with PayPal.
You've showed me and the world that NeoBux has the most friendly and helpful community anyone could ever ask for.
Many donated, others helped with petitions, but most of all you believed us and stayed here giving us all of your support.

This morning I had a surprise call from a very friendly lady from PayPal.
It seems that everything you've done for NeoBux reached PayPal's hears and conscience.
Not only our account's limit has been lifted as we'll be now treated as a valuable customer with every good things that come with that.

Back to Karma...
Everyone that donated without expecting anything in return will have their help recognized.
During this week, I'll update each donator's account with referrals according to how much they've donated.
You only donated $0.10? Don't worry, you'll get one referral at least.
Since referrals don't grow on trees, give me time to get them until the end of the week, ok?

I just have to say that I'm very emotional with the help from all of you.
You've proved NeoBux is strong and has you as our greatest value.

Having PayPal back after being a valuable customer with dedicated support?... I'll think it through and let you know my decision.
Don't ask!

Once again, my humble thank you for everyone's help.

I only want to add my point of view: while other site were closed because of this situation, Neobux stays online, while other sites suspend payments, the instant payments continued on Neobux, while other admins would surrender to the problems, the Neobux admin maintained his calm and will continue forward with THE BEST PTC OF THE WORLD.

Golden Pack User Guide

noreply@blogger.com (Dav7) — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:30:00 +0000

Rental Queue
The rental queue allows you to rent referrals by ordering them.
If your Golden Pack has the rental queue feature, you'll be able to order 50, 100, 200 referral depending on the pack.
You still have to respect the waiting days between rentals.
You can only choose this option after the minimum days between rentals have passed.
You'll be able to see how many days it will for your pack to arrive so that you can decide if you want to order the pack or try the normal way.
As soon as you order a pack, you'll only be able to rent or order another pack after you receive the ordered pack and the limit of days end after that.

Referrals per Page
Standard and Golden members (without packs) can view 100 referrals per page.
Depending on your pack, if available, you can view 150, 200 or 300 referrals per page.

Jackpot Tickets Discount
If your pack has this feature, you'll have a discount on each ticket you purchase at any jackpot (including MegaJackpot).
All ticket purchases using AlertPay will still be in multiples of $5.00 as the discount will be applied when you actually purchase the tickets.
Depending on the pack, if available, the discount will be 5%, 10% or even 15% of the ticket price.

Inactivity Days Free Replacement
Some packs will allow your inactive referrals to be replaced for free before the usual 14 days.
Depending on your pack, if this feature is available, it can be 12, 10 or even 7 days.

Vacation Mode
Depending on your pack, you will be able to have a vacation mode of 7, 15 or even 30 days.
On the days you choose, TOS 3.7 limitation won't exist. This means that you'll earn from your referrals on the days you'll be away.
You can only set the maximum of days available within the year of pack.
You'll be able to set one day at the time or several at once.
You can only set vacation days after 48 hours from the current time and you'll be able to cancel them if they're 48 hours before that date.
On the days you've chosen, your account will be unavailable. You'll be able to login but the account will remain fully locked until the day(s) end. This will prevent anyone from trying to login to your account while you're away.
Remember that this won't automatically pay for your referrals or recycle them so please make sure you check your referrals before long vacations.

Recycle Discount per Referral
Depending on your pack and if this feature is available,you'll have a discount over the current price when you recycle your referrals either individually or in group.
The discount can be $0.01 up to $0.03 per referral.

Days between cashouts
This will allow to skip the pre-estabilished 4 days limit between cashouts.
Depending on the pack and if this feature is available, the waiting days can be 3, 2 and even 1.

Maximum Referral Package Available
This will be the biggest pack of referrals you can choose to rent.
Certain golden packs will allow you to go beyond the current 100 referral's pack to packs with 150, 200 or even 300 referrals.

AutoPay Minimum Days Limit
While the current AutoPay rule only allows AutoPay to be triggered on referrals with 20 or more days up to their due date, some packs will allow AutoPay to work on referrals with less days to their due date.
Depending on the pack, it can be 18, 14 or even 10 days until the referrals due date.

Maximum Limit to Rent Referrals
Currently there is a limit of 2000 referrals that can be rented.
Once you reach that limit (either from renting or from the Referral Jackpot), you won't be able to rent anymore.
Certain packs will allow you to override that limit allowing you to rent below 2500, 3000 and even 4000 referrals.

Monthly Payment Discount (above $0.20)
If your pack has this feature, all payments you make for another month on your referrals, including AutoPay, will have a pre-determined discount depending on the pack.
The discount can be $0.01, $0.02 and even $0.03 per referral.
Please be aware that if the referral's next monthly payment value minus the discount is less than $0.20, it will revert to $0.20 as this is the minimum price limit.
This is a discount for monthly payments (including AutoPay) and not for the first rent.

Available Advertisements
Depending on your pack, you can have a minimum of 10, 12 or even 15 advertisements.
While you'll have more advertisements, you'll still be a Golden member. This means that the minimum amount of advertisements you have to visualize to follow TOS 3.7 will still be 9.

Your Standard Advertisement Clicks Value
Depending on your pack, you'll earn more from your own clicks on standard view advertisements.
You can $0.012, $0.015 or even $0.020 more.
Extended view advertisement's clicks and your referral's clicks will still be credited to you with the usual value.

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How to buy or upgrade Packs
Golden Packs can only be bought by Golden members with 500 clicks made or more.
To purchase or upgrade a pack, you need to transfer the necessary amount to your Golden Pack Balance.
You can transfer it all at once or little by little as you see fit.

Ultimate Pack benefits
Besides being the best value for money, you'll also get your current Golden membership extended to the end of the Ultimate Pack's year.
This offer is only for Ultimate Packs.

Upgrades
Upgrades can be made from and to the packs specified on the Packs page only.
The upgrade will cancel all benefits from the current pack you have that will be replaced by the pack you'll upgrade to.
Upgrading won't extend your pack's due date.

Golden Pack beta phase begun

noreply@blogger.com (Dav7) — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:29:00 +0000

Since I'm bored, the Golden Pack beta phase has already began 2 hours before the time.

There are just a couple things I need to tell you at this point.

- You cannot upgrade from the pack you choose now until the beta phase end (I don't see why you would actually).

- You'll be given a full year of the chosen pack now and it will be reset from the moment it goes live.

- On the Ultimate pack, your current golden membership won't be extended now. It will be extended as soon as the beta phase ends (along with the pack's year reset).

- This beta phase is "free" since the year will be reset after it ends. However, everything that is functional can be used for your benefit / earnings. Everything you earn or save in the beta phase won't be reset.

- Due to the last week events, there are only two features missing: "Rental Queue" and "Vacation Mode".

Important:
Please post any bug you may find (or any doubt) while using your select pack on this thread.
Do not create separate threads, please.

To choose your pack just go to your Golden Pack balance page

Enjoy!

Golden Pack Pre-Order Extension

noreply@blogger.com (Dav7) — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:11:00 +0000

Due to the recent event regarding PayPal, the Golden Pack Pre-Order will be extended from October 13th 18:00 to October 25th 12:00 (server time).

That's (almost) 12 more days extended beyond the previously set limit.

The pack selection will still begin at 18:00 October 13th (server's time).
You will be able to select your pack from this time until the end of the pre-order.

When you pick your pack, you'll have for 1 year.
Since this is an experimental phase, the time for your pack will be reset to a full year when the packs are ready for normal purchase.

After the pre-order ends and until the normal purchase begins, no one can select a pack.

Due to all the setbacks of the recent events, probably not all features will be available on October 13th but I'll try my best.

This is an exceptional extension and it won't be repeated.

Thank you.

12th payment from Neobux

noreply@blogger.com (Dav7) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:12:00 +0000

Total earned with this site: $ 727.49

And again received through AlertPay....

Unfortunately we have bad news regarding PayPal, according to the Neobux admin announcement, PayPal decided to put a permanent limit to his account where he had deposited 72% of the site funds, preventing its use to make and receive payments.

The only explanation given so far was that this decision was taken due to the high volume of transactions already made and because the balance is also very high, what by the logic would be good for any other type of bank.

But Neobux admin will not use this excuse to suspend the site or any payout requests made from any member, in contrast to the attitudes that some PTC took in early 2008, and as proof I have this instant payment that was requested today at dawn.

The only thing that is required is for members to help the site by donating some money (even if it is just $0.01) through the donations page created for that purpose (I already made a donation and will do more later this week).

Meanwhile it was also created an online petition which I ask all my readers to subscribe in order to make some pressure against the attitude of PayPal, just click on banner:

Transaction Details

Date 10/8/2008 5:07:45 PM
Reference No: (confidential)
Transaction Type: Transfer received from
Method: NeoBux payments@neobux.com
Current Status: Completed
Amount: $152.72 USD
Purchase Type: Service
Note: NeoBux Payment

Click to see the proof

Bad news related to PayPal and Neobux

noreply@blogger.com (Dav7) — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:59:00 +0000

I have bad news.
PayPal "decided" to put a permanent limit to our account.
As soon as I noticed that, I had to stop PayPal services at our site until I could give them a call this morning.
I called them and, besides being treated like some criminal, the only valid explanation I got was that we had too many transactions and a big balance.
Although anyone's bank would love that, it seems that PayPal considers a good business a risk and there's nothing that can be done about it as we've agreed to a "do whatever you want with our account" agreement.

The worst part is that 72% of our funds are now frozen.
We wont take this as an "excuse" as some did and we'll continue with our instant payment policy.
There won't be any price raise, there won't be any delayed payments.

The only thing we ask is for your help.
As you may understand, this is a big hit and something has to be done to restore financial stability.

I will put up a donate link soon and every donation you can do will help us get through this.
I never asked for this but this time it's the only alternative to continue strong.
No one will be forced to do this nor a fixed amount will be set. You'll donate only if you want to and with the amount you want to.

Everything will remain the same (instant cashouts to AlertPay, prices, etc).
The only thing that will be gone is really PayPal (both purchases and cashouts).
We're still NeoBux and it won't be this that will destroy us. It just makes me sad.

Thank you and sorry for all the inconveniences this may cause you.

Golden Pack Pre-Order

noreply@blogger.com (Dav7) — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:32:00 +0000

If you have what's needed, you should see a message right below the NeoBux logo.

Just follow the instructions.

Evolution

noreply@blogger.com (Dav7) — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:46:00 +0000

It's my pleasure to present you the Golden Packs.

We've gathered many of the most requested features into 5 distinct packs to enhance the functionality and earnings of Golden members.

Take a look:

So, how will this work?
Quite simple, actually.

First let me tell you that they will be available on a limited number and only for Golden members with more than 500 clicks.

You can only buy a single pack.
You can later upgrade to a larger one with a price to be determined soon.

These prices are for a full year of advantages.

Each pack will have it's own set of functionalities and features.
The Ultimate Pack will have all of the other pack's functionalities and features along with a much higher benefit.

This is still under development but it will soon be ready to deliver.

We will conduct a limited pre-order at a special price soon.
This pre-order will allow the lucky members who get it to test it and earn from it at the same time. After completion, all who pre-ordered will get the full year set after the completion's date.

Please don't ask to be in the pre-order list as it will only be available when the pre-order process begins.

Also, after completion, all limited orders will be treated with a certain rule to be announced.

New smaller referral package.

noreply@blogger.com (Dav7) — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:19:00 +0000

A new referral package with 3 referrals has been added.
This pack is available for all memberships but will benefit standard users the most as they will be able to rent their first pack with only $0.90 ($1.00 transferred to the rental balance).

Special days of week for renting

noreply@blogger.com (Dav7) — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:31:00 +0000

As proposed earlier, there will be special days of the week dedicated for some users to rent referrals.

This will only apply for Golden members since other members still rent a small portion of their quota.

This will work the following way:

Sunday: Only users without rented referrals can try to rent on this day.
Monday: Only users with less than 201 referrals can try to rent on this day.
Tuesday: Only users with less than 501 referrals can try to rent on this day.
The rest of the week: Everyone (including the mentioned above) can try to rent referrals.

So, here's the days of week you can rent depending on the rented referrals you have:

No referrals: You can try to rent everyday.
Less than 201 referrals: You can try to rent from Monday to Saturday.
Less than 501 referrals: You can try to rent from Tuesday to Saturday.
More than 500 referrals: You can try to rent from Wednesday to Saturday.

And I ask all of you that have lost one, two or three days per week to try to rent referrals to understand that those with none or less referrals than you also deserve a chance.

All previous limits are still in place: You can rent once each 7 days with a maximum of 2000 referrals.

For those granted the special days, don't forget that this is to help you have much more chances to rent. It won't be a miracle but it will certainly help a lot.

This is already in place so that it starts on Sunday.
Don't forget that this is only for Golden members.

Good luck.

The road so far

noreply@blogger.com (Dav7) — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:22:00 +0000

Some of you remember...
NeoBux was launched on March 24th in a pre-registration phase.
So, to me, NeoBux celebrates today the 6th month of existence.

This time I would like to talk about the concept of NeoBux.

NeoBux was developed basically as a proof-of-concept.
It was made to show the PTC world how wrong the previous concept was and where that would lead.
Of course, this wasn't easy.
The first weeks were weeks of pressure from other PTCs.
We were tagged as dead from the start.
Obviously I thought that those tags coming from sites that failed to pay their users, was certainly their only way to get NeoBux of their way.
And I was right.
While this wasn't (and still isn't) a competition, we became their biggest threat.
It's not easy for PTCs that were delaying payments to have another one throw "Instant Payments" to their faces and uncover their plot.

But, instant payments was just the beginning of our transparency and of their headaches.
Obviously instant payments was just one of the things that had to be done to stop the greed that lead to delays.
But, we went one step further... we offered 10% commissions on direct referral's purchases.
"Crazy" they labeled us... "Instant Payments and they're giving money away?"... from "dead from the start" we were given another month of life.

Then, we went to do another "crazy" thing... referral renting.
Now we were really crazy (besides the "dead and buried part)!
Why would we give users lots of referrals with a low cost of acquisition? Because we care about users.
And one thing they never could accept was that we actually had real referrals to offer. Now, that was a stab in the heart of the PTC industry. And today, I still see that many users are so addicted to those "virtual referrals" that forgot everything about the real ones.

Oh... we gave out referral's statistics.
Everything others tried so hard to hide so that you wouldn't be able see what you were not supposed to see, we've shown it to our users.
If we're serious, why should we hide that from you? Should I tell you that the ones that called us crazy didn't like that? They didn't.

Then, we went to PayPal.
Those who got PayPal to shut their doors to PTCs were calling us "crazy" again. And we loved it!
Time after time I've learned that being crazy is was actually a good thing.

So, this is how NeoBux started... as a "walking-dead crazy" PTC on the eyes of Admins of sites that give out every kind of excuse to keep their user's money.
But, I know they we're kidding and they felt exactly the opposite.

What have we achieved from this?
Exactly what we wanted.
We've innovated and we've changed mentalities.
We've uncovered sites that don't pay because they ran out of excuses (while some still try).
Now, every excuse they give is a big "whatever".

We've established a new era on PTCs that separate the old non-profitable model from the new one.

6 months after, I can see some new PTCs trying to follow the same path, slowly emerging and giving their tiny baby-steps.
Sad to have taken so long but I'm happy that some have finally opened their eyes and leave the pre-historical model behind.

So, we're not dead (sorry to all that lost their bets).
We're here now no longer as a proof-of-concept but as a tiny example of what we'll become.
Now that finally we've taught the lesson of how a PTC can be ran without greed (there goes another "crazy"), it's time to move along to the new NeoBux.
Many surprises to come.

Let's just say that we'll be more "crazy" than ever!
I can think of about 10 individuals that will be very upset with our future but millions of others will be happy and that's what makes me happy.

Notice to developers

noreply@blogger.com (Dav7) — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:17:00 +0000

Hello.
The referral listing will suffer a slight change and I just wanted to give you the heads-up in advance.

All dates (Your referral since + Last click) were formated in the following format:

YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS

Now, the new format will simply be:

YYYYMMDD

Basically, the times will be gone and also the dashes in the dates.
This will save bandwidth and prove general speed improvements.

Please update you applications to the new format.
I will update the listings in 24 to 48 hours.

Also, don't make any program to download the listing automatically as it may suspend user's accounts.

Thank you for your comprehension.

Updates from September 22

noreply@blogger.com (Dav7) — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:15:00 +0000

Rental balance
Now, the rental balance appears on the top of the page right next to your main balance.
Only for Golden members.

Your account's menu
The left orange menu in your account has been redesigned to be more user-friendly.

Referral statistics export
It's back but it's different.
In the previous version it saved the file to your default downloads folder.
Now it opens the data in a new window and you must save the page as text/source.
This way is whole lot faster than before so lets give it a try.

Jackpot Link
Now the Jackpot link displays a submenu with all the available Jackpots (except for the MegaJackpot).

Introducing: Mini Referral Jackpot

noreply@blogger.com (Dav7) — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:53:00 +0000

And here it is.

Introducing: Mini Referral Jackpot

This is basically the same as the regular referral jackpot except for the following:

Each ticket costs $0.25
Each prize is 10 referrals paid for one month
You can buy a maximum of 30 tickets per jackpot

This is a trial phase to see if we can keep it or not.

Have fun!

Updates about Recycling and referrals list export

noreply@blogger.com (Dav7) — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:29:00 +0000

Recycling
Recycling is now $0.08
This will help you manage your referrals and get more earnings.
Though it will change the original plan, I think it's a slight and un-harmful change.
Hope it helps you're earnings rise.

Referrals list export
It's still disabled as I'm working on a faster way to do it.
When it's back you'll notice it.

Captcha
Still working on it.

502
This number you keep seeing (and hating) is due to some realtime optimizations I've been doing the last days.
I am really sorry for that but it was better than to shut down the site for 12 hours or more.
The optimizations are still in progress so if you see it, think of me.
This will help the general speed and stability of the site.

11th payout from Neobux

noreply@blogger.com (Dav7) — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:58:00 +0000

Total earned with this site: $ 574.77

Gains of Neobux members are growing, and now with the restructuring of the term 3.7 explained by me in this post, we have the possibility to win the total of our referrals clicks!

Of course for that we too have to be active members and click all daily ads, but did you liked to have referrals that, for having many referrals themselves, stop clicking and making you earn the percentage?

Today was also announced that the admin is replacing all charts with new ones less heavy to the servers.

Finally repair the proof of payment I present (click the image to enlarge) and see how beautiful is AlertPay with the new design relished today!

Transaction Details

Date 9/18/2008 12:58:10 PM
Reference No: (confidential)
Transaction Type: Transfer received from
Method: NeoBux payments@neobux.com
Current Status: Completed
Amount: $126.56 USD
Purchase Type: Service
Note: NeoBux Payment

Click to see the proof

Charts fix

noreply@blogger.com (Dav7) — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:12:00 +0000

As all of your saw, the current charts were not displayed 50% of the time.

So, all charts are being replaced with new ones.

Here's what's different:
1) The daily charts (clicks, autopay, recycle, etc) will now be show in a 15 days span and not 30 to reduce unnecessary load.
2) Smaller size. The old ones were too big and now with the time frame reduced they would seem even bigger.
3) Only Flash charts. This is the only current limitation. The chart setting on you personal settings will later be removed.

Some charts are updated while others aren't. Some are even missing.
Charts will be update one by one and hopefully all will be done in the next 24 hours.

After all the charts being changed I'll work on the captcha.

Thank you for you understanding.

My payment proofs

noreply@blogger.com (Dav7) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:47:00 +0000

Cashout trough PayPal to unverified accounts

noreply@blogger.com (Dav7) — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:30:00 +0000

Great news for those that prefer PayPal to AlertPay (like me):

We like to pay our users...
Sometimes we have to delay payments for an extra second and we're terribly sorry about that.

But, for you to forgive us about those extra second delays, all users can now cashout using PayPal.
Verified and unverified PayPal accounts holders can request cashout.
Please notice that the country limitation from PayPal receiving countries is still there and there's nothing we can do about it.
Also, payments to Mars will have a $10,000,000.00 tax per payment.

Here at NeoBux we don't ask you to pay us but to cashout...
How innovative is that?

P.S.: Purchase are still only to verified PayPal account holders.

Changes on the TOS of Nobux, don´t miss this updates

noreply@blogger.com (Dav7) — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:27:00 +0000

Neobux will suffer many changes, all respecting the requests of thousands of members who write daily in the forum site.

TOS 3.7:

This is the change that deserves more attention and we all expected, the TOS 3.7 will be reformulated and to this:

If we click in all ads fixed daily (4 for standard members, 9 for Golden members) we win all clicks our referrals do;
If we do not click all daily fixed ads we only earn the same amount of clicks for each referral (we click on 2 and we only receive up to 2 of each referral, even if they click more).

This way the lazy members continued to be affected and who really wants to make money also has to click.

Recycling:

This feature is being very exploited by the members that lately recycle profitable referrals but that may have an average of little clicks, putting on "unemployment" many referrals that could be useful to others.
To minimize this situation the current price of recycling will be increased from $0.05 to $0.10.

New Monthly Rental prices:

To relieve the difficult that new members have on renting referrals, the monthly rental prices paid by each referral have been updated, prices are still determined by the type of membership and now will also be determined by the amount of rented referrals the user has.
Although not a big increase in price, it will help new users to rent.

New Price List:

From 0 to 250 referrals: Current Price
From 251 to 500 referrals: current price plus $ 0.01
From 501 to 750 referrals: current price plus $ 0.02
From 751 to 1000 referrals: current price plus $ 0.03
From 1001 to 1250 referrals: current price plus $ 0.04
From 1251 to 1500 referrals: current price plus $ 0.05
From 1501 to 1750 referrals: Current price plus $ 0.06
After 1751 referrals (inclusive): Current Price plus $ 0.07

Referrals renting:

The possibility to choose the time to rent referrals to our taste is still not enough to help the more inexperienced members, that's why were made the following changes:

There will be 3 "special" days of the week;
Day 1: Only users without referrals can try to rent this day.
Day 2: Only users with less than 201 referrals may try to rent this day.
Day 3: Only users with less than 501 referrals may try to rent this day.
The rest of the week: All the people (including the mentioned above) can try to rent referrals

With these changes we will win many more active referrals therefore profitable, but has not yet been implemented.

Many changes to come on Neobux

noreply@blogger.com (Dav7) — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:23:00 +0000

Today was released a large update by admin with all the changes to come in a near future to the Neobux system, here are the words of the admin:

After reading hundreds of posts regarding the current referral's system, here are the new future changes that will help the current renting system and referral's activity:

TOS 3.7
Currently, you can earn a maximum of the double amount of your clicks from your referrals.

The new changes are:

If you click the fixed advertisements available to you (4 for standard/pioneer members and 9 for Golden members), you earn an unlimited amount from your referrals clicks

If you click less than those advertisements, you'll earn only the same amount of clicks for each referral (opposed to the previously double earnings)

Remember that most of your referrals don't have referrals themselves which means that this won't solve the problem but, you requested it and it won't hurt to be changed.
Basically, low clickers with referrals will earn less while active clickers will earn everything.

Recycling
We've come to a stage that recycling is taking away many referrals.
From my current statistics, I can see that at least half of the referrals are recycled based on a strict average which leads them to be recycled while being profitable.
To minimize this, the current recycle price will be raised from $0.05 to $0.10

Monthly rental prices and referrals quantity
New members are finding it hard to rent referrals as they're competing with older and more experienced members.
This leads to having them being demoralized and clicking less or even quit thus reducing your own referrals activity average.
Right now we have a fixed amount for the monthly fees which is only determined by the current user's membership.

The new changes are:

Monthly prices, while still being determined by the user's membership, will also be determined by the amount of rented referrals the user has.

While not a big increase in price, it will slightly help new users to rent.

Here's the new table of prices:
From 0 to 250 referrals: Current price
From 251 to 500 referrals: Current price + $0.01
From 501 to 750 referrals: Current price + $0.02
From 751 to 1000 referrals: Current price + $0.03
From 1001 to 1250 referrals: Current price + $0.04
From 1251 to 1500 referrals: Current price + $0.05
From 1501 to 1750 referrals: Current price + $0.06
After 1751 referrals (inclusive): Current price + $0.07

This will also affect AutoPay which will be relative to the small price upgrade.
This totals are not affected by the total of direct referrals.
The rental limit using standard methods will still be 2000 referrals.
This values are for all user's memberships.

Referral Renting
While being easier and more relaxed to rent referrals at your chosen times, the users with none or little referrals still have a hard time to rent which leads to the situation previously described.
To help these users get their share, the following change will be made:

There will be 3 "special" days of the week:
Day 1: Only users without rented referrals can try to rent on this day.
Day 2: Only users with less than 201 referrals can try to rent on this day.
Day 3: Only users with less than 501 referrals can try to rent on this day.
The rest of the week: Everyone (including the mentioned above) can try to rent referrals.

This won't affect users with more than this limit of referrals since you can only rent once each 7 days.
These days will be determined upon implementation (example: Day 1 on a sunday, Day 2 on a Tuesday, Day 3 on a Friday).

Conclusion
These steps will be made to help users get their first referrals which will help you have more active referrals in return.
Remember that a user with referrals should be an active clicker while a user that gets bored/frustrated/demoralized is more likely to quit or have a very low clicking activity.

This is not a bulletproof solution but it's a step towards a better future.
These changes will be in effect in the next days and they might appear one by one.
I will post an announcement for each new implementation as soon as their effective.

And before you post "I don't like the price change" remember that you'll probably get more active clickers due to this thus increasing your earnings even further.

This was based on all of your suggestions which I appreciated them all (even the funny ones).
There are other suggestions that will probably be included in future revisions but lets keep them for later.
Thank you all for your help on improvements.

Also, new changes are being made to referral's management which you'll certainly like. More on that later, don't ask.

Remember
This is not yet implemented and will be announced as soon as it is.