Daily Clicks - An Unfortunate Experience

Like many others these days, I was searching for a way to earn a few extra dollars on the Internet and found a referral for Daily Clicks at a web site, it being touted as one of the top paid to click sites among a list of others. Not stopping there, I researched further and found more good claims about it. I then visited Daily Clicks and saw a long list of ads for their members so I joined, as did a friend of mine. For those who might not be in the know, a person is supposed to be paid for viewing advertisements for 30 seconds each.

I was satisfied with the site as it seemed there was a consistent supply of ads, so I paid the $12 they asked for a lifetime premium membership, doubling the amount paid to look at their advertisements. It was a special they were offering for the month of January, and they stated the cost of premium membership would more than double after the deadline.

As luck would have it, the very day I paid them the fee, the site became inaccessible. All that appeared on the screen were error messages. My friend was having the same problem of course, so I wrote a polite note to Daily Clicks staff, even apologizing for bothering them if they were already aware of the problem. A very terse note was sent back to me, asking if I hadn't already received their message that they were going to be taking care of the issue. No, I hadn't, nor had my friend. Then after a few more minutes, a short letter was sent out to members explaining what was going on with the site. I began wondering then.

Within a few days Daily Clicks had upgraded to a better server and all was well. The error messages were gone, and everything was running smoothly. My friend and I, and two others who had joined with me, were happily clicking ads again.

Then Daily Clicks started a raffle. They offered chances for members to win down line from the list of people who had joined without being referred by others. 'Tickets' cost one dollar each, and the staff said they'd close the raffle once 300 had been sold. Somehow to me, a red flag had just popped up. Could Daily Clicks be facing financial problems? But then I reminded myself that I am somewhat of a skeptic with these money making sites, and forged on.

The next odd thing that happened was a change in the Daily Clicks site. A listing of five pages appeared across the bottom of the screen. I checked them out and found each and every one was advertising another click site, Closet-Clickers, the same site on all five pages. Again, that struck me as strange, but my friend and I continued to click ads, watching our earnings slowly grow.

The next red flag came in the form of a letter from the Daily Clicks staff stating they were changing the rules of payment. Free members would not be allowed to cash out until they'd reached a minimum of $20, where it had been $10 before, and we premium members would not be able to request payment at the promised $5, but would have to wait until we had $10 in our account. They also stipulated two days per month when members could request their earnings, the free members being served the day before the premium ones. And yet another letter came shortly afterwards, saying that the former payment method had been reinstated, and in it, a warning that returning to the old policy would cause delay in payments.

Then one evening I went to the computer to start my usual routine of clicking ads on Daily Clicks. I brought up my stats page to show my husband that we'd finally recouped the $12 fee and actually had $2 profit, but what did I find? My account reflected earnings of only 55 cents, and my listing as a "premium member" had been reduced back down to "free member"! I later learned the latter was the case with my friend, also. She, too, had lost her earnings of $22 and her premium membership.

Not long later, I checked my e-mail and found another Daily Clicks letter. (Please note that as far as my friend or I were aware, there had been no mention before of Daily Clicks' difficulties with PayPal. This news was a "bolt out of the blue" to us both, though it did perhaps help explain why Daily Clicks was trying to change their payment policy earlier.) Their letter was as follows:

"admin@dailyclicks.biz wrote:

Hello,

As most of you already know, as of Saturday, Paypal had limited our account.

We received an email from them tonight,
stating that they can no longer accept us...
and we must stop using them, even without
seeing our documentation.

They have locked us out of our account and
stopped us from sending or receiving money.

They have basically got our hands tied.
Unfortunately there is not much we can do about it.

All accounts have been reset, and anyone
wishing to continue with DailyClicks,
will need to start over with our new processors.

We will still be reconstructing the cashout
procedures for the new processors.

Anyone wishing to continue, plz update
your profile.

We understand your frustration, but there
is absolutely nothing we can do.

You can take it up with paypal if you want,
but we dont have access to the funds their.

Thank you for your time,
DC Staff"

After receiving the above letter, I returned to Daily Clicks to delete my account. There came a message stating that to complete that action there would be a confirmation e-mail from them. Though I've tried twice now, it's never come, so they can still count me as part of their claim of having somewhere in the range of 50,000 members. Be it known here, that should you find their ad and see their latest member stats, you are to subtract one.

In all fairness, I must say in Daily Clicks' defense, that I have heard of others with PayPal woes, and it is because of those claims I was slow to open an account with the latter. I once sold crochets and other handmade items online, and asked customers to please send personal checks or money orders in payment. While I didn't like inconveniencing them, it worked out well. I was paid, people received their orders, and we all were happy.

By cutting out the middle man - PayPal or similar sites - the chance difficulties Daily Clicks and others have complained of were eliminated. It is my advice to please approach any and all monetary sites with caution be they "paid to" sites, those such as PayPal, or others.

Post Script:

The latest buzz is that PayPal is indeed part of Daily Clicks' problem. It has been rumored that PayPal is beginning to refuse to service paid to click sites as they fear fraudulent activities among them. Sadly, their actions may hurt the honest sites along with less upstanding ones.