The day I heard about Bubblews, I mentioned it to a friend of mine who did his research and said…
“This is an unsustainable Business Model…” (he went on to explain in complex terms).
“If the owners of this site were (he went on to describe double digit I.Q.s in not so nice language) but they are highly educated.” (Then went on to elaborate)
I knew, before I joined, that the site was 99,9999% likely to be a scam and that a lot of people were going to be ripped off.
Living in Jamaica, knowing about scams and Ponzi schemes, I knew how the ‘game’ was played.
Cash Plus was a famous scam. You’d invest your money, and get back double, then reinvest and lose it all. When the Government went to close it, hundreds of people defended the owner…”We’ve Always Been Paid!” they shouted.
Forget the Thousands who hadn’t been paid…there were a few hundred who believed in the owner absolutely.
Of course Cash Plus closed and everyone lost their money and the owner was arrested…it was a Ponzi. Always had been.
It was fresh in my mind when I joined the Bub. I knew I’d get paid the first time so didn’t sweat it. Rushed up to the $25 payout, put in, got it.
There were a lot of people who were now complaining that they didn’t get their second pay out. I listened to them, and also the Shills who attacked them.
I read the items on Scamadviser and other sites to protect users which clearly listed Bub as a scam.
I had a few dollars over the limit and let them ‘grow interest’ as, according to my friend, they would, at some point, raise the redemption level.
So I went around, liking, commenting, stuff like that, and would post a bit here a bit there.
When the level was raised to $50, I assumed that it would make that first payment.
I went on, posted this and that, reached $50 put in and sat back.
From the day I joined, until the day I sat back and saw Bub go down, I’d warned, I’d posted, I’d testified…
but all the Shills shouted me down..
“I always got paid!” They screamed. After all, if Bub has 1 Million users and 900,000 are ripped off, as long as you are not… Who Cares?
Now the fact was, knowing it was a scam before I joined, I published shards of other items.
For example, if I wrote 1k words on Hub Pages about Columbus, I would chip it to 6 items, adding lots of adjectives and adverbs and repetition to make 6 items on the Bub.
I would run around the site randomly liking, commenting… stuff like that.
Each day I’d spend about ten minutes on Bub; uploading my shard, and running around.
I got my $25. I sat and did little save 1x or 2x a week I would pop on for a couple of minutes, liking and commenting, and every so often posting a shards.
When the Threshold changed to $50 I had about $35 waiting, (had NOT put in for my 2nd payout).
Everyone was screaming on all the sites, and jamming Scam Advisor and other complaint boxes about the Bub.
I put in for my 2nd redemption, got my $50 and didn’t do another thing. I watched.
I watched the Shills insult the people who were ripped off…”I always got paid! You broke the rules!”
Until the site went down, taking the ‘money’ the Shills ‘earned’ with it.
No. Bub didn’t owe me anything. In fact, I got $75 from them by scam.
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I got quite a bit of money from them back in the day, before they stopped paying out.
They tossed the money to attract more users and ripped off a lot... there were complaints all over the place. People had put in for many redemptions and never got them.
Bubblews was generous when it came to paying their members. They did not manage well and did not notice what was coming that ruined them. My only regret was that they selected whom to listen to. There was one member in whom they had great trust. Whoever that member reported they acted on without checking.
I believe may be Arvind had good intentions but he and his team was not mature enough and may be could not cope with criticism.
It was created to be a scam.
As I wrote; it was an unsustainable model. The owners knew what they were doing. They have degrees from prestigious universities. They've now moved to another trick site.
I hate Bubblews. I don't like discrimination from them. They do pay out huge. But there are signs that the site cannot sustain the fame in a short span. Why? They consistently changed their payment scheme and then, prioritizing who will pay first based on members territory. When they stopped paying, I rather moved out from the site.
There are people in my country who are very bad people. They are nice to me. So I usually preface a remark with 'that they were nice to me' so as not to give the impression that they are nice people. They are not.
Too many people give Bub the 'benefit' of the doubt. They think... Oh they are good people, they really tried, they wanted to pay... and refuse to look at reality.
Bub was created to scam.
Unsustainable Business Model coupled with raising users' expectations unrealistically was the reason of Bubblews' downfall. What I hated was the way the owner of Bubblews - Arvind neglected the users in the end, and hardly shared the bad updates.
When I was in High School, we had a prank. And people believed the prank. And we ended it. Cause it was a prank. A people continued to defend it. And even when we told them it was a prank, then refused to believe it.
Arvind created a scam. He knew it from day one. He wasn't prepared for how big it would get. He expected to double the money he'd invested, pay back Jason's father and have a nest egg.
But Bub got bigger and bigger, and he saw $$ coming in. Instead of shutting it, he dragged out the payment, he changed the payment, etc.
I am sure if Dixit stood up and said..."Bub was a scam," a swell of people wouldn't believe him.
Yes I remember Bubblews it was one of the highest paying writing sites online with some users making as much as $300 U.S. Dollars a month. I didn't make as much money as some others but I was there when the changes started happening. The site was very popular and gained tons of traffic. I was surprised when I heard they were closing down. I have no idea why this would happen. Since then I have seen other writing sites come and go, crash and burn. I don't know if originally Bubblews realized how quickly they would grow and so they weren't prepared and that is why they slowly stopped paying its members. Which I think was due to lack of funds. I would have stayed even if they didn't pay because I wanted to be part of a social community. I am glad I was invited to join literacybase simply because of all the familiar avatars of writers who have migrated together, although the internet is constantly changing. My advice would be that if a site is going to survive, they should not depend on google adsense, because as soon as Google makes an update or they don't like the backlinks on a site it becomes doomed. Diversifying advertising is the key in my opinion of future success for content writing sites.
Yes, diverse advertisement is very important. Adsense is not reliable.
I used to earn 100-150$ per month from bubblews but I lost 600$ worth payments when it stopped paying.
They knew what they were doing. They got your items and who knows what they did with them? There could be a site in India where your items are published... translated into Hindi...
I am not sure how the poster reached to this conclusion but I was paid for almost 4-5 times a month for almost 2 and a half years. My total earning from Bubblews was close to $4500 although I lost 3-400 in between.
You did not break any rule but if you redeemed at 25 or 50 you stood no chance of getting paid by that site because your bank showed 25 or 50 but in fact you were short of that amount on back end due to deleted accounts and comments on your work. I always kept a margin of $5 to $20 and never missed my redemption. That was the catch and I learned it through learned sources.
People say 'you broke the rules' as a talisman to protect themselves. They feel if the tongue clean the toes of Massa they'll be safe. They had no idea why anyone wasn't paid. The reason many people weren't was because they didn't live in the US. They didn't have an Attorney General or an FBI which would investigate.
You should do a search of bubblews+rip off or bubblews+scam and see how many hundreds of people were ripped off. Put yourself oneside and look at the plight of other people... people who wrote and believed they would be paid... and weren't. People who lived in non western countries where the $ was important.
Bubblews is so unfair. It shut down without paying its members. I think the admin of BB is just using the artles by the writers for their personal use, or recycle those published articles and sold them to a magazine.
That is exactly what happened. Bub wasn't the first. Factoidz would take your items, get a lot of hits because they were considered a very academic site. They had a lot of first rate ads. They would let a good writer go about 100 items, paying very well. Then, lock out the writer and collect the revenue.
Bub didn't have that high quality where thousands of people would go to read a page. (I am not exaggerating. Getting 16k views on one of your pages was nothing to brag about).