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So the inevitable comes!
The infamous Bubblews closes down abruptly keeping up to its notorious ways of operations. It was not kind to its users even while shutting down. The users are complaining of the close-down message appearing all of a sudden in the landing page!No matter what, Bubblews was a site that made a lot of people smile. It was a site that realized the dreams of many who wanted to earn online. There has been enough discussions about all the bad things about bubblews, we all know that.
Since it’s closed down now, let’s say RIP, and reminisce our time on Bubblews. Let’s share the good experiences, learnings, or anything memorable about Bubblews.
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So finally the site closed down. Bubblews was the first site which introduced me to online earning. It was a good experience and I made many friends there with whom I am still in touch on facebook.
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@shaloowalia
It wasn’t my first earning site, but it was the first site where I earned big amounts..Unfortunately, I couldn’t make good friends there, as most of them were leaving the site all through its life! -
The time from June to Oct 2013 was a good time for me on Bubblews. In fact I had good interactions with so many guys there- some like @laksh, @deepam etc are here also. At times, the discussions over comments was so enchanting that I used to devote 5 to 6 hours at a stretch on the site. And those $25 payouts per month did help me at that time.
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@laksh…I had the same experience! I think by the time I rocked up, friendships had already been made and not many people were happy anyway. I guess the last thing on their minds was welcoming newbies and befriending them LOL
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@angie10 hehe 😀 true that.. but what surprised me was there were still a lot of people active there hoping to get paid!
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@laksh bubblews was quite good in terms of earnings. no other site has ever come close in terms of payments.
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@shaloowalia…and many people have cited this as possibly being one of the things that ultimately brought it to its knees, sadly!
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I still feel sad. I have this bitterness about the site, I have mixed feelings right now, but I think I will make a blog about this.
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@grecy095 heheehe 😀 I know there will be at least 20 blog posts here about Bubblews today 😀
yes, I too have mixed feelings.. no matter how pissed off I am about the site, it’s a fact that it has paid me good money! -
@laksh, even I am planning a blog post on Bubblews- perhaps this can get me good hits too 🙂
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So surprising then..let us hope Blgojob stays for good for many years..
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@laksh, hehehe, you’re funny friend.but the way the dealt with writers very clear sooner they’ll shut down,,and now the evidence is here. I hadn’t claim my $28 dollars. Let us do good here at Blog Job.
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@laksh I just made mine. they owe me $700+, what I will be missing are the memories. I will miss the site, the memories, some of the people , but not the staff.
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@grecy095
You are soooo fast, just like @iamshane487 .
Could you just share one or two good memories in short? -
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Despite anything that it has done like not keeping its promises, it saddened me. The reason is, it has paid me nearly $2k in just 9 months. I also learned how to write articles there.
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@iyanpol12
$2k is really a big amount!
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@iyanpol12…wow, you really made a pretty penny from Bubblews! Well done, my friend 🙂
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It wasn’t hard to do back then, @angie10. I was originally getting about $25 two or three times a week, for several months. I know one person who cashed out daily.
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Wow, kudos to you, @rextrulove! You did really well out of it 🙂
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@angie10, it did take effort. I was writing 5-8 high SEO informative articles on the site every day, and spending at least 2-3 hours commenting and interacting, daily.
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@rextrulove, that was a lot of work and its sad you were not paid fully for that.
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Yes, @ptrk12. That $170 represents about 40 articles, plus all the time spent interacting. But again, I would have written anyhow and I enjoy interacting when I have time.
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@laksh I will blog about it, I will dedicate this day as a bubblews day. But anyway, my memories about Bubblews is when I was so depressed and alone. I posted what I feel on one of the post and I never thought I will received a more than 100 response. I could not even read it all. I thought I was alone but then again, I was not. That is the reason I fell in love with the people there.
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@grecy095 Great! That’s all I asked for 🙂 It’s such instances that make us reminisce a site, place or people..You can blog about it in detail though 🙂
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@laksh I will my friend. I am doing it now actually. Hope you read one.
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@grecy095
okay, super-fast, super-active and super-cute Grecy 🙂 -
thank you for that super sweet friend @laksh have a great day my friend.
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@laksh, it closed forever OR simply temporarily.
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@laksh, are you serious?
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When I received my first payment of $25 from bubblews, besides being the first payment I ever received from online work, it also made me feel that bubblews would be the next big thing online forrever. Even with the endless nonpayment issues, many still hanged on hopes that things will get better until the latest news. Anyway, the last time i was there, the site admin was preparing to launge the app called sweeble. Does anyone here has experience with the app?
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Bubblews used to be a favorite writing site. I never imagined Bubblews would shut down without intimating its users, but it’s happened. Thankfully, I have made a backup folder of all my articles posted there.
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@realityspeaks/ lucky you, I still have hundreds articles there not yet copy, my fault
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@peachpurple I have some which are not copied yet but gladfully i wrote mostly on my Words before transferring my posts to Bubblews. It was a good time there and I have found friends. RIP to Bubblews!!!
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So sorry to hear about that, @peachpurple! Is there no hope whatsoever of ever retrieving your material?!
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@fifileigh WE CAN PUBLISH them here, if they no longer are indexed in search engines..
@rextrulove unique content, in general, means it should not exist anywhere else.. if they have been de-indexed from search engines, they can be used for sure.. Sheridan has made it clear here https://blogjob.com/forums/topic/reblogging-from-sites-that-are-no-longer-running-e-g-bubblews/#post-46863 even otherwise, that’s the general rule, unless specified otherwise. -
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@nana/ yup goodbye to them but we should welcome them here
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@peachpurple I’m really sorry that you’ve lost so many articles. When I first started having problems getting paid there I went back through my archive and made sure that I had copies of everything. I wasn’t thinking about the possibility of the site closing back then, I was just concerned about the possibility that they’d delete my account if I complained too much. Since then I keep copies of every article I publish on any site I use.
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@jasgal142/ OIC, that caused them to shut down. They still owe me USD$400
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@henry/ heard of it, but not going to try it. If they had been paying all writers, they would going strong now. They cheated my money!!
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@maricel/ that is my 3rd writing site
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@deepam/ isn’t blogjob better than bubblews?
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I like that Blogjob is trying to cap payouts so that they don’t promise people too much and then have to cut payments or fall behind on making them. I like that Blogjob has both social forums and full-length blogs. I think the site’s a bit slower…and the people are, to a considerable degree, the same people!
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@priscillaking
in almost all the earning sites, it’s the same people hehe 😀 Yes, I think blogjob is doing a great job on that front.. it’s not getting over ambitious, and taking things slow and steady..and since it has many elements in it, rather than just post and like and like and like, it’s more rewarding and exciting here.. I’ve almost stopped logging in to facebook!
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@shaloowalia/ it was the first and only site that gave me the huge earning in my lifetime but was the only site that had cheated my $400 which was huge loss to me too
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They could have given us warning because I didn’t get to take all of my articles from there yet. Grrr, they make me so mad. They strung people along for months and months.
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@anne123farmer Well we all knew its fate a year ago.. you should’ve taken down everything 🙁
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I made a great deal more at Helium, but I did make a tidy sum at Bubblews, up to the time they withheld the payment to so many people they owed money to and changed the rules, which affected so many others. I can’t say that this surprises me, with all the class action lawsuits that have been brought against them and the black-listing by the Better Business Bureau, a year ago or so.
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@rextrulove True.. Those who left back when they first sensed something fishy are the lucky ones.. But your experience with Helium and Bubblews only shows that all these sites last only for a short term, and that we need to be on our toes all the time!
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Helium still exists, just not as a pure writer’s site like it was. Being owned by one of the biggest publishers in the world (RR Donnelly) insures that it keeps going. Such is business, though. Poor economy translates to business failures. If a business lasts 5 years any more, they are doing pretty good.
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Right. Sorry if it bothers anybody that so many bad memories from Bubblews bubble up when I think about that site. I did e-meet several nice people there…and am glad to see so many of them here!
I don’t think we should ever sweep what Bubblews did under an emotional rug, even just for the sake of one feel-good page. I think we should use the angry energy we all feel and demand laws that are much, much tougher on scammers like Arvind & Jason. It’s theoretically possible that when people set up a web site, call for material, and promise payment, the FCC could require the site to be set up so that all payments would be automatically forwarded to the contributors before the site manager could even see how much had come in that day. We in the U.S. owe that to countries where US$700 would go so far that intelligent adults would ever even consider going on writing while a site like Bubblews owed them US$700. People like @grecy095 should have been paid, promptly and automatically–let Arvind & Jason wonder whether *they* were ever going to see an actual dime out of all the advertising money. And we *can* demand that that happen.
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@priscillaking It’s okay.. I understand.. it’s evident that we have the bad memories more than the good ones related to that site.
Well it’s theoretically possible, but technically a bit difficult.. But what we could do now is to rip them off by crashing down their new venture (the sweeble app, NOT sweeble.com). That is also, obviously, a scam..why? because it says “You must not post violent, nude, partially nude, discriminatory, unlawful, infringing, hateful, pornographic, or sexually suggestive photos or other content via the Service.”
And yet you see such photos on the homepage of the site! And they kept the loyal bubblews users, who were with the site until the last minute, in the dark about their new venture.. obviously because they didn’t want anybody from bubblews to ruin their new site.. So LET US DO THAT!!! -
Sounds good @laksh …I don’t do “apps,” but wish success to anyone attacking or sabotaging any subsequent ventures by the Bubblews Scam Gang.
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I was paid 7 times from the get go and experienced the bad times when my balance was not paid. I still wanted to thank Bubblews for sending me money when I needed it the most. To all my friends out there who still stayed until it closed down, I will miss you. I hope to find ways to talk to them again.
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yeah, we should create a Bubblews funeral post on here, so we all can give Bubblews a proper internet burial and lay it to rest. it will help us move on to better blogging career ahead, now that one chapter of our life is finished and we are ready to start a new chapter.
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@fifileigh It’s better to have a separate place for our serious blogging instead of depending on third party sites..After all this, I decided to have my own blog site on wordpress.. I even purchased a domain name.
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@peachpurple i had also lost payments worth 600$
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Has it really closed down? Sad! In spite of many non payments, Bubblews was the site where I got most of my online earning. I had over 900 blogs there.
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@xavierbage That’s true.. it’s the only site I’ve been able to earn significant amount till now.. but it’s also true that it ripped off almost everyone!
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I just went on Google to google old posts that i had written on sites that i am not on anymore, and those old posts no longer exists. i even tried to find my old bubblews posts on the internet, and it takes me to a page which notes Bubblews no longer exists. so, i dont think any of our posts from bubblews exists anymore. they are probably all deleted or something. i can’t even find old posts from allvoices, in which i used to be on between 2008 to 2012. so, i might also use old posts from allvoices as well on this blogjob.
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I have no feelings anymore about Bubblews. I saw it coming and seldom visited it. I never counted how much I earned from that site and how much I lost. I put the time of Bubblews into a close box of experiences though I miss my friends there and I hope to find them again online.
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@thelme55 A lot of former Bubblews members are now at myLot.
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That would’ve been true for me, too, if they’d actually mailed payments after asking where to mail them to. I was the one who commuted 30 miles a day to post fundraisers on behalf of a needy family, and asked that they send the $50 to the church fund. They never did. Even before they started ripping other people off, while everyone else seemed to be earning as promised, Bubblews ripped off that family who’d been threatened with being put out on the street on Christmas Day.
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@barbrad Exactly! All the good bloggers say the same 🙂 But I wasn’t able to take up a niche, as I felt I couldn’t do it.. It’s a broad site now, but at least I know that I won’t lose my articles and I don’t have to carry them and hop from one site to another!! I will soon be sharing my site with you for your advice 🙂
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@barbrad I had read the article some time back, but I will have to read it again for this particular info.. Thanks for reminding 🙂
@barbrad I just read it again.. and amazingly that’s what I had in mind.. I have already approached a few writers whom I’ve known for some time now.. In fact, I had you also in mind 😛 hehe 😛 Those sites look really good, don’t they?
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@angie10, actually the site didn’t previously exist until about September. So it isn’t revived, it is relatively new.
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Thanks for the response, @rextrulove 🙂 I guess maybe I should rephrase; what I meant to say is, is this the new site that replaces EliteVisitors, or is it a completely new venture complete with new management? TIA 🙂
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@angie10, I could go into great detail about the differences, but EV is dead and buried. The person who owned the domain name, had the server in his name and who had the host account is gone. I have no idea where he is and don’t particularly care. We own the domain name, my partner actually purchased the server and the host is totally different. The Elite Writers focuses on good SEO practices, EV never did. The theme for the site is different, too.
In other words, Elite Writers was built from the ground up, in September.
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