What is your experience with bubblews?

by jking1
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According to members, this site is a legit site ideal for writers and those who are building links. I heard some negative reviews about bubblews such as this is another site like expertscolumn that no longer share their revenues. What is your experience with bubblews? Share it here with us.
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  • Profile picture of the author rich8169
    I am with Bubblews since Sep 2013. So far I have been paid 4 times (about $25 each) without problem. My view is that as long as we play with the rules and not hanky panky...we will get paid.

    It is a legit site for me...
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  • Profile picture of the author BartsTreasures
    Bubblews has really gone south and turned into rip off artists. (The following isn't to bum you out but for warning purposes...)

    Bubblews USED to pay really well (and USED to be honest!). Now they have decided to scam people unfortunately.

    Here is the screen shot of my last 'redeemed' Bubblews payment...
    Screenshot_paymentredeemedNov122014_zps6868d0ce.pn g Photo by bartstreasures | Photobucket

    Prior to this I had earned several hundred dollars in less than 60 days from Bubblews writing very part time for them. They typically took 30 days to pay.

    On this last redemption, I had to wait TWO MONTHS to get paid and they seriously shorted the payment actually paying only $31.65
    I sent them an email asking why I was shorted on my earnings and here's the insane reply I received...

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    On Jan 7, 2015 at 6:23 PM Val <tickets@bubblews.uservoice.com> wrote:


    Bubblews recently changed its compensation policy to a flexible model to match our advertising revenue. Instead of the previous fixed rate, Bubblews now pays a variable amount, depending on local advertising rates in your country. This ensures that the site remains sustainable, and may allow us to process redemptions more quickly.
    Unfortunately, due to extremely high levels of manipulation and fraudulent activity, Bubblews will not honor redemptions made before November 11, 2014.

    Furthermore, all redemption requests submitted after November 11, 2014 will be processed according to the new compensation model.

    We apologize to the Bubblews community for any inconvenience these changes may cause.
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    In other words, the money was ALREADY EARNED, ALREADY REDEEMED and simply awaiting payment and Bubblews decided they could simpply NOT pay and that they could call their "theft" a "policy change".

    I wrote them a second time explaining that although it is their prerogative to change policy for future payments, changing payment policy for past payments (payments ALREADY EARNED) was reneging on their end of a business deal.

    I also pointed out that the ONLY WAY they were able to make this "after the fact policy change" is because they delayed paying the monies earned for so long.

    Here was their second "single sentence" reply...

    While I understand your frustration these are the new policies and we will be sticking to them, the adjusted amount is the finalized redemption amount.

    In other words Bubblews is saying, "Even though you did the work, and even though you did the work properly and honestly and to our specifications, we have decided to rip you off...We hope you are stupid enough to not realize that you are being stolen from because we use words like "policy change" and "new payment structure" in place of the words like "theft" and "we're ripping you off".

    Because we over estimated our advertising revenue, we're stealing YOUR money to make up for our loss...As to our website saying you earned more than what we paid you?....Our website LIES....Just like we do!...And your frustration at being robbed, stolen from, lied to and scammed is understandable but we are still going to rob you, steal, lie and scam you...because after all...that IS our new policy!"

    Now I have to ask a really dumb question (rhetorical) - Why would anyone write to "earn" from a site that refuses to show you to see their payment structure? And who's website reporting of earnings has nothing to do with what you actually get paid?

    Hope this helps.
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