Widgetbucks is Widgetbucks No More

Posted on March 6, 2010
Filed Under Blogging, Make Money Online

I received an email today from Widgetbucks saying that they will no longer be doing advertising… or something like that. What I know stuck to mind is that I’ll never be paid! *Sad*

I checked my account in Widgetbucks and found out that I still have earnings of $27! Too bad I didn’t reached the $50 minimum payment threshold.

Here’s what the Mpire people said in their email:

Dear Widgetbucks Publisher,

This email is to inform you that Mpire Corporation, the parent company
of Widgetbucks, has made the decision to refocus resources outside of
the advertising network space. As such, the company will be
discontinuing support of the Widgetbucks publisher network.  All
existing publisher accounts will be turned off effective Thursday, March
10, 2010.

Once your account is deactivated, you will no longer be able to access
your account statistics via the Widgetbucks.com portal. According to
section 6 (b) of the terms of service, located at
http://www.widgetbucks.com/terms.page, Mpire will pay Publisher Payment,
subject to a minimum of U.S. $50.00.  Account balances below the minimum
threshold of $50 are forfeited in accordance with Section 8;
Termination; of the terms of service.

All publishers with outstanding balances greater than $50.00 USD as of
March 10, 2010 will be paid out in full on March 15. Publishers with
balances less than $50 will forfeit the balance of their accounts.

We will follow up with an email with the balance of your account as of
closing of your account so that you are aware of the balance that will
be paid to you on March 15.

We truly appreciate you having been a member of the Widgetbucks Network
and wish you the best of luck in future endeavors.

Sincerely,

Widgetbucks Publisher Team

But looking at the more shiny side of things, at least I got paid several times before this ‘closing down of service’ thing

12/15/2008 WB Payment_Oct 2008 - ($58.42)
4/15/2009 Feb 2009 WB Earnings Pymt - ($63.72)
5/15/2009 Mar 2009 WB Earnings Pymt - ($50.47)
7/15/2009 WB Earnings May 2009 - ($61.40)

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