[ASK] Is ReadBud a scam?

I think some of you might have been aware of this site called ReadBud dot com. It says that it will pay you for simply reading articles. The payment varies based on the length of the article you read. I have joined the program just out of curiosity and I can earn a buck or two per day with it. It also comes with a referral program that pays you $5 per sign-ups.

The payment will be made via Paypal and the minimum limit is $50.

Now, what makes me think that this program might be a scam is that the fact I just could not find a logical reason for them to make any money.

First, I thought that the articles I read must have come from advertisers. But after reading at least 100 articles, I have yet to find a single one that has an outbound link to an advertiser site nor ask me for a sign up.

The only money resource I find for them are the Google Adsense ads in every single article, and everytime I finish reading an article, a request pop-up for me to click on the "sponsored listings" if I am interested.

Now, I understand that the Adsense TOS strictly forbid you from requesting your visitors to click on ads, so I guess that ReadBud will say goodbye to Adsense sooner or later.

So, with all that being said, I just wondering has any of you joined in this program and have you got paid?

I probably gonna give it a shot for at least a month or so to see the logic behind this Readbud business, is it scam or not...

 

I have joined for two weeks or so, having in my account $28, so I did not have been paid by them.I have heard that some where paid, but nobody showed some payment proof, so still unsure about their legacy.let's hope it will be good

 

Hey, I just signed up a couple of days ago so I've only got $11 in my account so can't verify if they are legit. They have a Facebook fan page and someone there claims he's been paid.

facebook dot com/pages/ReadBudcom/111569645533094

 

hello friend,readbud in not scam site.it is a legit.it pay properly.but 50$ min balance required.

 

Nice ill try it out thanks for the info guys great post

 

do you have any payment proof?i would really want to see one.please show one if you have or the link for some one who have one.I have a lot of friends who wait for this one.thank you very much!

 

seems we hv a payment proof in this comm itself...chkout the link below..

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1767297&highlight=readbud



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HI NIgen, thanks for your proof, but I have some doubts about it being originals.1) they paid in CAD, how's that, they should pay in $, US, right?Then they are australians and paying in CAD-canadian dollars?Odd don't you think?Then I have looked at the ID which is younger there then me, and I still have $15 to go, and judging on the id I should be getting the cashout long time ago, and i did not, even I am rating everyday.
strange, I don't know what to think?I will be sorry if I go on with the site and discover it is a scam!Hmm.

 

Readbud typically pays an average of $0.05 per article read and delivers approximately 25 articles per day. After two days use there is no way you can have earned $11.

 

I am sure he meant to say several days not couple=2.maybe we was signed up for a week or so.The problem is, as I see it , when you are at $30-35 they don't deliver so many articles a day like in the beginning.There were days when I had even 50 articles a day=$2.45 in a single day, now I bearly make .50-.60.it is odd don't you think?

 

nice findings though, even iam in a spree to find out whether if its legit or scam, since it being a new programme there is no much information regarding its genuineness too, lets wait n watch



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Seems to be a great site, thanks for the info. I have joined it now and my balance shows around $11.00. I hope I can get to that $50 figure so will know if they really pay the money.

 

Hi,

I'm not a member but from what I've seen/read elsewhere the reason there's no outbound links etc is because at least some of those articles have come from places like articlesnatch and ezine articles etc. but they've removed the author resource box.

So not only do they apparently violate adsense terms they're also messing with some article directories TOS as well.

 

This site is rather serious website - I'm going to check it as soon as I have some spare time.

 

It is a big scam i already had 50 $ and the site went down

 

Apparently the site was down for a while? But at least it's working now.

 

It's online now, got paid?

 

Any luck with the payout? The site has been online again for few weeks after you wrote this.

 

I would also like to know if people have been paid out after reaching the $50 earnings - thats a lot of time and effort to get there.

The site also says it has like 6,000-10,000 there at any one time yet there is surprisingly not much posted proof available from members who have been paig their earnings???? Weird, the site looks and seems legit but there is that doubt....................

 

Well, i got paid by them... I just used a bot i got from http://readbudbot.com ..The down side is that, that site has cpa lock upon it. I tried to bypass it by removing the javascript but no luck...it has postback from cpalead... i filled up the survey to get what i needed.. I can say it is well worth it...they update the bot quite regularly