Clixsense, Neobux, Crowdflower 2017 Thread

m1kjm

I think I'm sorted - rather than adding the Tango card directly to my Amazon balance, I have to buy an Amazon gift card by email and then apply that to my Amazon balance. What a palaver.
Goodbye Clix Sense!

nickyotron

Just thought I'd post this as I've been mugged for over £4 for withdrawing cash from new Skrill account (money from CS) to my bank

" We apply different fees depending on the method used to withdraw funds, but we always keep fees low:

Skrill Card* ATM withdrawals cost 1.75%.
Bank withdrawals to primary bank accounts cost €5.50.
Bank withdrawals to secondary bank accounts may cost up to €5.50.
•Credit/debit card withdrawals cost 7.5%. "

Kantankrus_Mare

Think I wil stick to my method of transferring to skrill but then withdrawing to neo each time I reach $10. Works at the moment as I can make use of the extra funds in neobux but even when I dont need it there.......its probably more cost effective to still transfer it there and then withdraw to paypal.

Bet clix have lost lots of users due to no longer using paypal. I was recently on holiday for 11 days and got an email from clix to encourage me to go back to them. Never had this before so I guess they are trying to hang onto members.

Kavor

nickyotron wrote: »

Just thought I'd post this as I've been mugged for over £4 for withdrawing cash from new Skrill account (money from CS) to my bank

" We apply different fees depending on the method used to withdraw funds, but we always keep fees low:

Skrill Card* ATM withdrawals cost 1.75%.
Bank withdrawals to primary bank accounts cost €5.50.
Bank withdrawals to secondary bank accounts may cost up to €5.50.
•Credit/debit card withdrawals cost 7.5%. "

The charges are clearly shown on the Skrill website though. Surely you compared the charges for all of the possible providers, before deciding to go with Skrill, so it shouldn't of been a surprise to you.

nickyotron

As you can clearly see I've posted their charges for every one to see. So every one who wants to can judge for themselves if it's for them or not. So surprised? No. Annoyed? Yes. I think it's scandalous what some 'online wallets' charge you.
PayPal was easily the best 'online wallet' Clix Sense dealt with. Unless you have any suggestions that give you better value I will continue looking and testing and sharing. Thanks. :beer:

vampire-girl

Copied from an earlier post
I used Payza and they took 5days to pay.
They charge 2.90% + 30p to receive funds. Then I converted to sterling (there wasn't a fee for this) as I couldn't see anything about withdrawing to paypal. It costs £2.25 to transfer to a bank.

I think it's going to be better now to just cash out less often in clix because of the fees, rather than every week or even every month. Otherwise even just transferring it to payza it's still the fees such as the 30p each time and the 2.90%

You can convert to an exchanger as well but I don't see the need to use that for sites am not familiar with.

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I remember I looked at Payoneer and they wanted a lot of personal info including a driving license or passport copied and full bank details including the 3 digit security number on back of card. So no way was I giving out my passport etc.

purplevamp

Anyone having problems with neobux today? The fixed ads (orange) load but don't seem to complete and then when I refresh the page it says an error has occured.

trix-a-belle

purplevamp wrote: »

Anyone having problems with neobux today? The fixed ads (orange) load but don't seem to complete and then when I refresh the page it says an error has occured.

sorry to hear you're having problems PV, they were working earlier when I did them around 8am

purplevamp

trix-a-belle wrote: »

sorry to hear you're having problems PV, they were working earlier when I did them around 8am

I've managed to do all of them except 2. They're for eToro so it may just be them playing up.

nickyotron

Gutted about this TBH. Ive made a fair whack from it.

"Moving forward with change
1 Jul 2017 03:38 pm
Members, more than 10 years ago we came online strictly as a PTC. As all things go, the ClixSense business model has changed over the years and with the addition of Crowdflower tasks, offers and surveys our core business has shifted. No longer are we just a PTC, but instead ClixSense has grown to be one of the top performing survey networks in the world.

While our survey, task and offer business has grown significantly, the PTC side of our business has been on a downward slide for some time now and more so since the loss of Paypal back in February.

Being in the PTC industry has it's positives and negatives. The positive side of things is that we can provide you with an easy way to earn a little money and for advertisers we can send a large amount of traffic to their websites for a very reasonable price. The negative side of things is a bit more extreme. This caused us to lose our Paypal account (or so they claim), it places us into a high risk category any time we apply for a merchant account or new payment processor. It gives companies a negative feeling about us because this industry is loaded with fraud. What I mean by that is companies who we've approached to partner with us refuse to do so because of our affiliation with PTC. And lastly, from a revenue standpoint, it's not profitable at all.

With the negatives out weighing the positives, and after 10 years in the PTC business, we have decided to move forward without PTC. Beginning July 15th, 2017 PTC ads will be removed from ClixSense. Along with the removal of PTC we have also decided to remove ClixGrid and the premium upgrades, including the corresponding 8-level commission structure. As of today, July 1st we will stop selling upgrades, PTC advertising and ClixGrid. Those of you who have ad credits on your account may still use them until July 15th. Any member who has purchased an upgrade in the last 24 hours will be immediately refunded today. We are stopping the sales so any remaining ad credits or ClixGrid campaigns can expire.

With the removal of upgrades we will no longer have 2 membership types. Instead, all members will have the same policies and options available to them and this includes cashouts. We have decided that we will raise the minimum cashout for all members to $10.00. This is still very reasonable and lower than many other companies in this vertical.

So what does all this mean?
Well, a lot actually. Any member who had purchased an upgrade in the last year will receive a prorated refund for any unused portion of their upgrade. This refund will be credited back to your account balance on or shortly after July 15th. The amount of prorated refund will be credited at 4.5 cents per day remaining on your premium account.

We know with the removal of upgrades and the 8 tier affiliate program that this may have an impact on some members with a large downline. To compensate for this ClixSense will now pay an incredible 20% commission on all direct referral activities. We will offer a single level affiliate program only and this commission is the same for all members as we will no longer have 2 different membership types. This change makes all members equal so everyone will have the same earning potential. This means if you are a standard member now (not upgraded) this change has given you a 200% increase in affiliate commissions (from 5% to 20%). For those members who are premium this is a 100% increase from your current affiliate commissions (from 10% to 20%).

* Please note, the 20% affiliate commission may be adjusted at a later date. We will keep this at 20% for a short time and then we will review our numbers and adjust from there, if necessary. If we end up lowering the commission, it should not be reduced to lower than 15%, which is still more than a premium member was making.

This new higher commission will generate more money for you than what the 8 tier affiliate program did. The reason is more members will do surveys, tasks and offers than those that would purchase an upgrade. In some cases this change can boost a members earnings significantly.

The checklist bonus will now give a possible 10% bonus to all members and the requirement for clicking PTC ads & ClixGrid will be removed.

Daily Checklist Bonus 7.0%
Activity Extra Bonus 2.0%
ClixAddon Extra Bonus 1.0%
Maximum Possible Bonus 10.0%

We realize this may come as a surprise to you but this is a change that had to be done. ClixSense will continue to be the best it can be and move forward because of your support. We are always looking for new ways for you to earn money and will not stop trying to improve our service.

Along with all these changes you will also notice a brand new look for ClixSense. A new website layout with a responsive design (mobilefriendly) that is very pleasing to look at and easy to use.

So to recap:
• PTC ads will be removed.
• ClixGrid will be removed
• Premium upgrades and the corresponding 8-level commission structure, removed
• Minimum cashout for all members is $10.00
• Affiliate commissions upped to 20% for all members
• Checklist bonus will now pay a maximum of 10% if all requirements met.


We appreciate your business and welcome your comments, questions or ideas.

Thank you
The ClixSense Team



Please note - This is not about Paypal and we do not know if we will be getting them back. Paypal was not the driving factor in this decision so please do not write in asking if we are getting them back."