With Neo Bux you can earn up to $0.02 (2 cents) per click and up to $0.02 (2 cents) for every ad your referrals click. You also make 10% of every purchase made by your direct referrals. NeoBux lets you access detailed statistics of your clicks,your earnings and even your referral's clicks and activities. First minimum payout is $2, the second $3 and so on until $10 dollars. This is probably the most popular PTC site and and with good reason!
NeoBux is a Bux site, which is a category of PTC sites that's gotten a lot of bad press lately. Bux sites in general have a reputation for making their money and fleeing, usually after paying enough members to get some trust going so that members invest their own money into the site. Bux.to is a current example of this. They also tend to be glorified MLMs (multi-level marketing) schemes, which are not only illegal in the United States but are also unsustainable. In my experience, NeoBux is one of the only honest Bux type sites out there right now, and it is not an MLM.
NeoBux works pretty similarly to other Bux sites. You can click links every day, worth $0.005-$0.015 (0.5-1.5 cents) each, as a standard (free) member. NeoBux guarantees you a minimum of four links at one cent each every day, no matter what part of the world you are in. I average 5-8 one cent links per day plus 1-2 "mini exposure" ads, which are worth 0.5 cent. I usually get an "extended exposure" ad, worth 1.5 cents, every few days.
The minimum payout for your first payment is $2, and then it goes up by $1 for each payment after that until you reach $10. You can request any amount over the minimum, i.e. there is no maximum payment amount. Payments are processed through PayPal or AlertPay.
You can refer others to NeoBux using your referral link, and they then become your direct referrals. (The word "referral" is often shortened to "ref".) As a standard member, when your direct ref clicks a one cent link, you get 0.5 cent. When they click a 1.5 cent link, you get one cent. Direct refs are a great way to supplement your earnings on NeoBux, but they're hard to get nowadays since the site itself has such a huge membership base.
The other way you can make money on NeoBux is by renting referrals. These are people who joined the site on their own and therefore are not anyone's direct referral. A referral will only become available for renting when they have clicked at least ten links in five days. The person may have just joined the site five days ago, or they might have joined a year ago and only recently became active enough to be rented out. They could also have been a rented referral in the past who was not renewed by the person who rented them. The rented referral will not know that you have rented them, unless they have PMs (personal messages) enabled and you actually PM them. Otherwise it is anonymous. (You can choose to mask your screenname as well, so the person renting you will only see a number, not your real username.) Most refs have their username masked and PMs disabled, as those are the default options when you join NeoBux.
As a standard member each rented referral costs 28 cents per month. A month is 28-31 days, and it seems to be random. The prices are cheaper on your first two rentals - just 25 cents each referral for the first month - and for upgraded members. The rental prices for upgraded members go up once you've passed certain amounts of rented refs. Each ref is more expensive when you have 501 rented refs vs 499 rented refs, as an example. Standard members are capped at 400 rented refs. You earn the same amount of money from your rented refs as from your direct refs.
Since this is a rental, your refs expire at the end of the rental period. (Your direct refs only expire if they quit or are inactive for 60 days, in which case their account is closed.) In order to keep your rented ref you must renew the rental before it expires. You can choose to renew for 30, 60, or 90 days. It's best to renew for 90 days if you can, since you get a 20% discount. You get a 10% discount if you renew for 60 days, or if you use the Autopay feature. Autopay will automatically renew a referral for one day each day that the referral clicks. For example, say you just rented 10 new refs today and turned on Autopay. If three of those refs click today then those three refs will each have an additional day tacked on to their rental time, but the other seven will not. The money to pay for the autopayment is taken out of your rental balance if you have enough, or your main balance otherwise. This feature only works as long as the rented referral has at least 20 days left in their rental period.
Just because rented referrals have met the minimum for becoming a rented ref - that is, 10 clicks in five days - that does not mean that they will continue to click like that for you. Sometimes you will rent a ref who will never, not even once, click for you. More often, they start off clicking well but then slowly taper off into nothing. You have to maintain a pretty high average rented ref click rate as a standard in order for your rented refs to be profitiable for you. To pay for the initial renting fee, assuming the rental period was 30 days, the refs must click an average of 1.87 one cent links each day. To pay for a 90 day renewal, with the 20% discount, the rented refs must click an average of 1.49 links every day. Any amount above this will be pure profit to you. However, in my experience, very few refs even maintain that 1.49 figure for long.
There are a few options for getting rid of bad rented referrals. One is to just let them expire when their rental time is up. This is a good option if you have a week or less left in the rental period. A second option is to wait for the system to automatically recycle them, which will happen if the rented ref has not clicked one single link for 14 days. As you can imagine that rarely happens, plus by then you've paid a hefty opportunity cost by wasting 14 days on a dud clicker. The third option is to recycle the ref yourself. This costs 8 cents as a standard member. The rented ref will be replaced by a new ref who meets the 10 links in five days rule, but the new ref will only be rented to you for the remainder of the old ref's rental period. For example, if you recycle a ref who has 21 days left in their rental period, then your replacement ref will also only have 21 days left.
It is very difficult - though by no means impossible - to make money off rented refs as a standard member. It is a fun challenge however, and I enjoy this aspect of the site. Just don't bite off more than you can chew if you choose to try this out. It can become more work than it's worth.
As I mentioned a couple times above, NeoBux offers upgraded memberships. The fee to become a Golden member is $90. The most expensive membership is Ultimate, which costs $890 on top of the $90 Golden membership fee. Some members have a Pioneer membership, which was given out when NeoBux was in pre-launch. It is no longer available. Each level of upgraded membership garners you more benefits, mostly lowered rental fees, more personal ads to click (Goldens are guaranteed nine ads per day), and higher click values (ref clicks are worth one cent for Golden members, vs the 0.5 cent for standards). If you have a lot of referrals - direct or rented - it makes sense to upgrade to Golden, since your ref clicks will be worth twice as much. However it is difficult to rent new refs as a Golden member, so it makes sense to build your number of refs before upgrading.
NeoBux has a great forum that's very active. The admin is also quite active on the forum, and posts updates pretty often. Definitely make a point to read the NeoBux News section of the forum a couple times a week to see what the admin has planned for the site. The forums are also a great place to ask any questions you have, though of course be sure to check out the help page (link at bottom right corner of the site) and FAQ (tiny blue and white question mark at the top right of the site) before asking in the forum.
I've been paid by NeoBux several times, always with no problems, and have also rented referrals. To be frank, I have not found renting referrals to be profitable as a standard member, but I also had the bad luck to rent them during a slow season (late spring and summer). I plan on trying again this fall. There are many strategies for managing your referrals discussed on the forum, and I suggest you read some of those before embarking on the renting journey yourself.
Overall, I enjoy NeoBux and recommend it to others. I wouldn't invest my own money right off the bat to buy referrals, as it's so difficult to make any money off of them as a standard member. However I'm a cautious person and don't like taking risks, so take that with a grain of salt. ; ) NeoBux is a great PTC for those not interested in renting refs, too, with high click values and instant payout.
