Date Boycotted: 05-06-2008 URL: http://www.mybizs.com
MyBizs is a paid e-mail site offering e-mails worth 0.5-2 cents and a low $5 payout minimum for free members. The site also proudly boasts that payments are made to free members "monthly" and to upgraded members "within 72 hours", though the complaints which follow show this not to be the case.
The reason that MyBizs is on the boycott list is the non-payment of members. The complaints below detail how members who have reached the minimum payout amount are not being paid according to the site's own Terms of Service. Some of those members have had their accounts deleted. Support e-mails have not been responded to, members have not been paid, and so this program rightly belongs on the boycott list.
Other Sites with the Same Owner
After examining WHOIS records and other information, it is believed that the owner of MyBizs also owns BizBizs, Ubizs and Ugains.
For the reasons above, and the complaints listed below, MyBizs has been boycotted!
Name: Tony Walters Date: March 6, 2006 Comments: I recently joined this site which has Payout of $2 and each link is 1-2 cents in value. I was getting about 30 e-mails a day. Yesterday I could not long is so I checked with the PO and was told I had clicked a cheat link. I knew this was not possible because I had read each e-mail. Just to be sure I went back and double checked the previous couple of days e-mails because I had not deleted them yet. NO Cheat Link. Looks like another scam site.
Name: lorraine Date: March 20, 2006 Comments: I was only 4c away from payout and I have been deleted from the site (I had been paid twice before from them)
Name: Hilary Siders Date: April 3, 2006 Comments: This is the same webmaster who runs Lucky Bizs and Merry Bizs, both of which are on the Watchlist. Every paid email from this program is a search email, and if you do not do enough searches through the tracking links, you are taken off the "active" list, and hence receive no (or very few) emails.
Name: neatha Date: June 5, 2008 Comments: They deleted my membership also and i had put a good bit in for upgrades since I had been there. Not just this one but every site they own. All upgraded to a high level and deleted from all of them
Name: Stephanie Overholt Date: February 22, 2008 Comments: I requested payout on Jan 10th, TOS states 48 hours. I have sent the required e-mail in the required format if you have not been paid in 4 days, but still have not received anything. Beware of this site...
Name: A. Elliott Date: March 23, 2007 Comments: Requested payout 3rd February 2007, no payment and no reply to several emails, no Admin message to members telling us what's going on. Mails continue being sent out.
Name: Jeanne Date: March 30, 2007 Comments: This is one of four sister sites that has stopped paying. The other three are Ubizs.com Bizbizs.com and Ugains.com. The latter is the latest and newest. None of them are paying now and are ignoring all requests for help. They used to pay asap but suddenly everything changed and for the bad.
Name: Brenda Latevola Date: June 11, 2007 Comments: I requested payout on May 22, 2007. They have a separate email for non-payment complaints. I have emailed them twice at that email in the past week with no response. And still no payment. TOS state thay pay withing 48 hours and their home page says withing 24 hours.
Name: ladyinky Date: November 5, 2007 Comments: No payment and won't answer emails. Been waiting since April. [Update 2007-10-28]: Requested $4.00 payout on April 7, 2007. No payment and no response.
Name: Amanda Date: July 24, 2007 Comments: Used to pay but now doesn't.
Name: marnie skinner Date: February 25, 2008 Comments: suspended my account when waiting for payment,, emailed serveral times, no response, now sister site ubiz.com has done the same thing suspened me for no reason,I am very active spending 5-8 hours a week being active with their sites and this happens, owes me over $20 between sites
Name: Wanda ILami Date: November 22, 2007 Comments: I requested a payout from this site on 10/02/2007, and still have not been paid, although the amount has been deducted from my earnings stats. I have written numerous contact emails trying to see what is going on, and have never received a response. I am very disappointed at the amount of time I have spent clicking for this site, and no payment. I am beginning to think it is a scam site. Please let me know if they are boycotted and also if this webmaster owns other sites, that I might possibly belong to. Thank you for monitoring and trying to keep ptr honest.
Wanda ILami
Name: Jo Tucker Date: February 23, 2008 Comments: I cashedout on mybizs on the 10th of feb. It even shows it on my earnings page. The homepage says payments sent in 48hrs. But it is now, 22nd of feb and I have not received my payment thru paypal from mybizs. Nor have I received a response to my emails to them, and I used the specific email they say to use for payments. I do have a screenshot of it but I guess it is too big for here.
Name: Donald McMillion Date: February 28, 2008 Comments: I requested payment in the second week of January. I can't say the exact day because he reset all of my request to 01/21/08 09:35. I have sent email after email I receive no payment or response. [Update 2008-06-04]: I have been waiting for payment since 10/12/2008. I have email them overe and over about my money. I even done it the way they said to do it and still no payment.
Name: Valerie Vecente Date: March 1, 2008 Comments: I requested payment early January, and still have not received any payment. I have sent numerous emails, and have received no responses.
Name: jon gallagher Date: March 18, 2008 Comments: I've requested payment several times but have only been ignored.
Name: william Date: April 17, 2008 Comments: Requested pay on 1-15-08 & have not been paid.
Name: Mary Clemens Date: May 18, 2008 Comments: Did not pay me from April 2007 and will not answer emails.
Name: Suzee Date: June 5, 2008 Comments: Recently I started noticing that the way this site "person" worded everything was just like the "person" who sent StrongPTR, Catch-Cash, and Studio Mail. Also, I have $30 (right!!!) in my so-called acc't. but have never receivd a response to any emails. Good Bye to Biz-Bizs!!!!!
Name: Frank Summers Date: July 5, 2008 Comments: Copy of my eMail to mybizs.com on 06Jul08: "For the Second time in 2 days, you have reduced my earnings. The first time I noticed the eMail where it occurred, and that eMail was *NOT* marked as a test/penalty eMail, and I sent copy to you. Today you deducted second lot, and I saw no reason for you to do this. I am sending a copy of this eMail to GPTboycott.com, and joining the people who say your site should be boycotted, although previously I had sent 2 eMails to them trying to defend your site. Taking 20c. from my earnings is taking 2 days of of my time and effort clicking on your site. You have not answered my eMails. I can only think that you are setting me up and forcing me to withdraw so that you do not have to pay out."
Name: richard Date: August 22, 2008 Comments: have not been paid for a long, long time; this was a good PTC program until the change of the owner; now they are just collecting money.
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