RedVirus

Hi Guys,

We all know that WidgetBucks right now is every where on the Web with its flash loading ads, But I can prove that It is a big scam.

Here is a story of my friend with WB.

I've been suspended 2 times from WidgetBucks with no right reason, The first time I've been accused of doing fraud clicks - Got my account back, The second time, They added a new 'rule' to their TOS (Which i've never seen before) which do not allow you to place Widgets on non-english sites, Then they banned my Account once again with no right reason, Deleted 22 active referrals, and nearly 500$.

Ofcourse I Emailed them, But they never really answer my question:
"Why did you suspend an account with 22 Active referrals with only 6 hours warning (Which I never saw) for placing Widgets on non-english site Which is a new rule?"

They never really answer that question, I even offered them to take all my income (Delete the 500$) and just leave me with my referrals, But what do you think? they care? they don't want me to earn 10% commissions for each of my Active referrals because it will cost them.
So they just rely on their new rule and tell me that they can't retrieve my account because I broke one of their TOS rules (Which wasn't there when I signed up - remember).

Now please let me show you what I mean:
This is a Mail that they sended to me , Read closely, The red words are my comments:

Hi Eliran

We've looked at your account. We see that a significant portion of your
clicks have been rejected as invalid in the regular audits of all
accounts (ok I'll agree with that).

[b]We did give you several hours warning [/B](While I was asleep) before suspending your account,
rather than suspending it immediately, because we wanted you to have
time to adjust your sites (Yeah right). We also have to balance our responsibilities
to our merchants for deliverying quality traffic to them, and quickly
shutting off traffic that does not comply with our terms (Ofcourse... It's all about your merchants, It has nothing to do with you and that you don't wanna pay).

Our terms of service, related to sites that are not primarily English
languages, have not changed since our launch (Pure lie). The relevant section is
Exhibit A, WidgetBucks Program Policies, under the heading "Language".
It says: "The Widget code may be placed on pages with content primarily
in English. Widgets must not be displayed on any page with content
primarily in an unsupported language, without prior written consent from
Mpire.". Please refer to our terms of service at:
WidgetBucks - Terms of Use.

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As you can see, They put it all on their new rule.
Now look what a big douche bags (excuse me for the word) they are,
This is what they wrote on their blog a few days ago:

As we've continued to evaluate impression, click and conversion data during WidgetBucks' first 3+ weeks, we've observed that a majority of non-English language sites are delivering a consistently low conversion rate. With our merchants and advertisers predominantly based in the U.S., this is not a surprising phenomenon. And as an advertising network, we have a responsibility to our merchants to deliver quality traffic that has the highest likelihood of conversion to sale.

As a result, we've updated our program policies to no longer approve or accept non-English language sites into the WidgetBucks ad network. See our Program Policies here.

This policy change enables us to consistently provide high-quality clicks and traffic to our merchants, and in turn, continue offering our competitive revenue-per-click (RPC) to our publishers.

Thank you for your continued efforts and input.

- Dean

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Look closely what he sais:
"We have UPDATED our program policies"
Didn't they say in my mail that their TOS havn't changed since the launch?
I smell some crap in the air.

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Also, From some unmentioned reason, WidgetBucks are deleted from Google search, No one really knows the reason for it, But I really wonder why.

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Conclusion:
WidgetBucks Will pay you, If you'll survive all their suspensions and false accuse.

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If I won't get my account back by sunday, I am going to legaly sue mpire.com for being a Fraud site, False accusing and abuse of innocence people in their program.

So look forward Mpire, Because this time you messed with the wrong guy, And Believe me I'll invest a lot of money for taking you down.

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I'll be happy to hear any comment about this review either here or in PM and will be happy to answer it.

Regards, Eliran.