moneymarketing wrote on 11^th Oct, 2013 at 6:25pm:


Ahh, so that's who's been advertising it at Neobux.

Since you've got quite a lot of shares already, this may not matter that much to you. But for someone who's still in an early stage, the new system of gaining shares is less interesting that the last. My goal was to advertise and gain something on the side, eventually getting almost free ads once enough shares had accumulated. As it stands, it works like any other PTC, where you must recruit referrals in order to earn. Not that I have anything against that. It's just that is lost the difference it had to other sites. A place where one could earn by advertising.

sophieca wrote on 16^th Oct, 2013 at 2:49am:


I think the benefit has shifted more in favor of referring. That is better overall for the site too because it keeps it healthy and growing. Just look at the member numbers. When the reset happened, there were about 6400 members. This is a site that is at least 10 years old. They have added 600 members in 5 days. The benefits for members and cash flow are going to be huge over the long run. Plus you get referrals to 5 levels now, not just one

There comes a point where, if you have enough referrals, you will gain more in daily share earning that you lose in the share 'tax'

I agree with Sophie. While a site directed towards referring can be an oportunity for some people, for others it's becomes a very risky bet.

With the former model, we bought something of value (advertising) and got shares. Here we buy something far less tangible (membership with the possibility of getting referrals) and got shares.
But since now everyone loses shares daily, it's becomes really disadvantageous for people who aren't very strong promoters.
If they at least kept the shares with ad purchases, it could appeal to the casual and heavy advertisers. While I'm agree that promoters before got the short end of the stick, now it's the other way around.

But the share earning rates are so unappealing for that kind of system. Right now, 1 Share = $0.000138 per day
The current amount of PTC ads allows earning ~0.50 shares per day. Since level 1 referrals give 25%, you can earn a daily maximum of 0.125 shares per referral, considering they click all 48 ads.

Promoting isn't exactly free. I find it very hard to get a return on your investment promoting. When working for such small values, I bet many people will give up with time, thus needing a constant flow of new referrals.

But, okay let's say this does work.
The upgrade option is still ridiculous.... For example, $25 for a 1 month membership, where you get 200 shares per month. That's ~2.5 cents per day of earnings. 75 cents per month. There's no increase whatsoever in the referral earning rates. All you get is the chance to get referrals. I never tried that in Donkeymails, but what's the chance of getting referrals through that link insertion thingie?
You also lose 9 shares per month.
If you keep on buying it, you'll eventually reach 6000 shares, at which point the daily earnings compensate the membership cost (assuming earnings per share remains relatively constant). 6000 shares would be $750. In terms of time, it would take 2.5 years.
Yes it would be less using the yearly membership, but it's just to have an idea (I also didn't count the shares lost daily).
That's a pretty big investment in order to start getting some profits, not to mention ROI. And you shouldn't exactly stop halfway, or the daily share loss will eat away at your total share count.

That's a bit of a hardcore upgrade. Since it brings almost nothing of value to active promoters (same referral comissions), I don't see much of a point. It's quite risky if you ask me.

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And yet 1000 shares currently give you $0.138 per day.
Considering you have to spend a good bit of getting those shares AND getting referrals, it doesn't look that sweet of a deal. Unless of course you've already got all those shares, and you "only" need referrals. Which is the tricky part.

That MyFreeShares is a multimedia site itself will help it to grow.