I joined a site called myfreeshares after hearing about it from a friend. At myfreeshares you earn shares for clicking links and joining other GPT programs. The revenue that is generated from the site is then paid out to members according to the share value. Their advertising options are nice and for every dollar you spend you get 2 shares. I've purchased 100 referrals from them in all and spent about $50. That's a pretty good price if you do some price comparison on the web.

The problem with systems like this is that your purchased referrals are only signing up for your program to recieve an incentive, shares in this case. Most recently I purchased 50 shares for $25 dollars for a website called It Pays To Learn (hopefully it does). Out of those 50 referrals so far I've recieved 24. Out of the 24 purchased referrals, only 10 have even bothered to login to the site after registering! Of the 10 people that registered and logged in, I'm estimating only 2-3 are actually active.

Don't get me wrong. Myfreeshares is a great sight. Their customer service is excellent and ranks up there at the top. The concept of purchased referrals where incentive is given to sign up for a site that they probobly have no plans to be active in is where the problem occurs.

On the other hand after 10 days of being registered at ItPaysToLearn, I've already earned $2 and that's not bad for just getting started!

So, Keep an eye out for purchased referral systems where referrals might only be signing up for the incentive. These results are definately going to vary from site to site. Hopefully things will pick up and these referrals will get the ball rolling. I'll be sure to update again with more stats in the future!

Thanks for sharing your story jonesyjones and giving some good advice. I have found very similar experiences with paid referals where the person joining is earning something. At one auto surf site I purchased an upgraded membership to increase my earning rate and to advertise. Along with the membership came 10 free referrals. Of those 10 free referrals only 1 has ever surfed a single site and that 1 referral has earned me 41 credits in 3 months. In otherwords, nothing.

I also used a manual surf program where I spent my earnings on referrals. It seemed to work well as I got 8 or 10 referrals in the first week. Now it is months later and not one of those referrals has been active since the first week they joined and the have not earned me anything worthwhile.

Sometimes the quality of referrals can be much more important the quantity. It is always best to promote a program and try to earn referrals the hard way. You may not get too many referrals that way but most of the ones you do get have a good chance to be active.

some sites give you more if people are VERY inactive...Bux.to has done that before! I know a person with about 3,678 referrals or something around there...he said that he go like 50 people got repaid.