11 Proven Reasons Why Widget Bucks isn't a Scam

Hey Guys,

After all the rumours and crap about Widget Bucks I wanted to throw in some reasons why we can trust them, here's 11 of the best reasons why they're not a scam, look at the people involved, now these are proven facts and not some BS made up or spread by people :

The People Behind Widget Bucks and Their Roles within.

Management Team

Matt Hulett, Chairman & CEO
Matt Hulett is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Mpire. Before Mpire, Matt was President of the corporate travel division of Expedia, Inc., the world's largest online travel company.

Greg Harrison, Co-Founder & CTO
Prior to Mpire Greg served as CTO and VP of Engineering of Vidiator, a Hutchison Whampoa Limited company responsible for deploying all of Hutchison's 14 global third-generation wireless carrier infrastructure.

Sean Crotty, Vice President, Product Marketing
Sean Crotty is the Vice President of Product Marketing at Mpire. Prior to Mpire, Sean ran the affiliate programs for major internet retail sites Art.com and AllPosters.com. Before Art.com, Sean managed eBay's Affiliate Platform, launching new web services for eBay's API and leading the development of widgets.

Board of Directors/Investors

Richard Tong, Managing Partner, Ignition Partners
Rich Tong is a founding partner of Ignition Partners. He specializes in the telecommunications and wireless industries as well as end-user/consumer-facing companies. Prior to joining Ignition, Rich spent 12 years at Microsoft where he most recently served as Vice President of Marketing for MS Office and BackOffice.

Michelle Goldberg, Principal, Ignition Partners
Michelle Goldberg is a principal at Ignition Partners, investing in consumer facing companies. Michelle also represents Ignition as director on the boards of DocuSign and Entellium. Prior to joining Ignition, Michelle worked as an independent consultant at Microsoft where she developed the initial business plans for products in the enterprise server space.

J. Richard Rock, Investor
J. Richard Rock, founder of Caprock Group, Inc.
Rock previously served as the Senior Director of Business Development at eBay, where he was responsible for establishing hundreds of strategic business relationships that accelerated customer acquisition at a declining cost with companies such as AOL Time Warner, Yahoo!, Microsoft, and The Walt Disney Company.

Company Advisors

Philip Rosedale, Founder and CEO, Linden Labs
Philip Rosedale has an extensive background in the development and pioneering of streaming technology, having built his first computer in 4th grade, and started his first computer software company while still in high school. In 1995 he developed FreeVue, a low-bitrate video conferencing system for Internet-connected PC's, resulting in the acquisition of his company in early 1996 by RealNetworks.

Sujal Patel, Founder and CTO, Isilon Systems
Sujal holds a number of patents and pending patents, including those for the Isilon OneFS distributed file system and for the RealNetworks network adaptive SureStream technology. Sujal holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Maryland at College Park.

Evan Kaplan, Founder, President & CEO, Aventail Corporation
Evan Kaplan is president, chief executive officer, and chairman of the board for Aventail Corporation. He co-founded the company in 1996 and pioneered the first commercial implementation of SSL based Virtual Private Network (SSL VPN) and the industry's first Managed Extranet service. Today, Aventail is the market's leading SSL VPN technology company, and Kaplan continues to focus the company on providing enterprise secure communications solutions.

Laurence Toney, VP of Marketplace Operations, Art.com
Laurence was the Director and General Manager of eBay’s Collectibles Business Unit (CBU) where he managed the P&L and team for $3 billion in annual transactions, which was more than 12% of the U.S. transaction volume of the eBay marketplace.

Jon Zimmerman, Ph.D candidate University of Washington.
Jon Zimmerman helps leading companies optimize price and revenue. For more than fourteen years, John has worked within a variety of industries including wireless communications, travel and leisure, and e-commerce. Most recently, John was the Director of Strategic Pricing for T-Mobile USA.

Sources :
Mpire About

Final Note :

Investors: Mpire has raised a total of $10M in funding via Series A and Series B investments. Investors include Ignition Partners and former eBay executive and Pay Pal angel investor Richard Rock. - Source

 

The most important one is when they start making payments. That will show if site is as good as everyone hopes.

 

And another reason >>> Widgetbucks.com has a traffic rank of: 3547

 

Ok.Then all people have been banned for a reason ?

 

Great info for those that have not been banned.

 

I got $200 for in 5 days with WidgetBucks. Signup for widget bucks, Get $25 Free

 

Okey,
My Question is: Anyone got your payment?

 

they would issue payments after december 15...Also they are banning publishers who r showing widgets bollywood,warez sites - so many get banned n complain..it's in their TOS

 

According to their site:

but I've been getting 2 cents per click. Lowest of any ppc I've ever used. And CPM is $0.07

 

Well that may be partly the case, atm their team is small - the above are on the records, but there's two more that they haven't mentioned, maybe those two are for public relations ie.Replying to email. Several of the above are also just investors. So the hands on team may be quite smaller.

QQWERT nice affiliate links bud.

Yeah my Merchsense were low at about 13-17cents, games, dvds and cds get the lowest that I know and that's about 2-7 cents. I try to stick to iPods, Mobiles and PDAs.

 

Ditto. I have had some nice luck with those on my proxy.

 

Oh and another MYth shot down - earnings have been updated and affiliate earnings also.

 

nice list..

But wen they start paying...... dat wud be huge practical proof dat they r not a scam..

 

This is a reason for getting a few red blobs added to your name..so quit while you are ahead.

 

How did everyones affiliates go ? anyone get some returns ? My two earned me a total 11cents for last month, with bonus and my earnings about 120+ for the week - that I started in.

 

Let's just wait for the first payment cycle and then we will know for sure ..

 

420$ in widgetbucks.i think they will pay before january.

 

I do not want debate with you because WB give you high rate which blind all of you. But when I have time I will post my opinion and details when I have time, I have working very hard to update and develope my sites over 12h per day.
I just give some point of view:
1- Google ban WB
2- They cheat on clicks, impressions.
3- Their flash banner error and disturb most visitor who uses IE browsing. If you hate your visitors just run WB. Moreover their banner loads very hard and slow.
4- They just update their ploicy and start suspend lot of account for no reason. They can do it with you in future and take all your work's money.
5- Their domain is sucks !
6- Business is business, don't hope they will pay you that higher than they earn. They will close your account if your visitors don' give their money.

 

Guys,
How have you made so much, what is their pay per click? $500 in such less time is really amazing. Let me know so that I may also give it a try but when I listen of account blocking with out any proper reasons. I can't afford to give them a profitable place on my site?
What you people suggest form?

 

Probably because they cheated. Cheats, by virtue of their dishonesty, are unlikely to come here to DP and say "I clicked my ads and they banned me".

Edit: If you look at the 'Your Bucks' section of your account now you should see last month's earnings (including referrals) have now been confirmed.