Upgrades on Bux.To

The Upgrades I am referring to (in the title), are not exactly upgrades to Bux.to: but rather upgrades to MY account on Bux.to. With yesterday being the first of the month, I receive my military disability pay (not much...that is why I still have to work). So I completed my desire to upgrade my account to a premium member status. The cost of this is $59 for one year. The two main benefits of this program; and the reason I decided to go with it: is because you get more ads to read; and you get paid more per ad. As a basic member, I was getting only about 3-10 ads per day (closer to 3 ads the past week or so). But now you are guaranteed at least 20 ads.

The other benefit is that you get paid more. Basic members get paid 1 cent per ad; where as premium members get paid 1 1/4 cents per ad. Now that might not sound like a big difference...but I don't really make my money from the ads that I read. I make the money from the ads that my referrals read. And that leads to the other upgrade that I purchased. I bought an additional 100 referrals: with my total now being 235 referrals. So I get 1 1/4 cents for each ad that I read, as well as for each that my referrals read. If the referrals read an average of 5 ads a day; 7 days a week: then I could earn around $440 extra per month - and that doesn't include what I am reading.

Of course these numbers assume that everyone would be reading the ads. In real life, that is not true. But still, it can be pretty good anyways. And this is not going to be a full time income...but it can be enough to go out to the movies more, or out to eat...or even both, a little more than I do already. So I guess the whole point is that I am happy that the folks at Bux.to were so speedy in getting my upgrades processed (within one business day).

Oh, and the ads that I got today: I had about 30 ads to read. The only problem, is that a few of the ads, for some reason, just didn't work. Either they were expired ads; or the ads link was bad. But still, only about 4 of the ads fell into these categories; which means that I was paid for 26 ads: above the promised 20 ad guarantee. I will monitor this, and see if I will still get this high level of ads.

And I will also be requesting another payout. My last payout on 10/22/07 was for 51.76; and I can request another payout in the amount of $22.22. Actually, Bux.to allows you to request a payout anytime your account reaches $10. And with my two purchases of 100 referrals each: I received a cash back incentive of $5.00 each time - for a total of $10.00 My total earned (including all incentives) has been $73.98; and the total that I have spent has been $289.95. I expect to recoup my current expenses by the end of this year...if all goes well. And I also plan on making additional purchases for referrals. I have seen (through the bux.to forum) some people saying that they had thousands of referrals. Perhaps I will get to that point to...but I will start out slowly for right now, and we will see where this goes.

John ~ Webmaster