TaskBucks, though a good App for Indians to earn for downloading and filling forms, is a half-scam if you ask me. They have resorted to many unfair means to avoid paying the users. The result is, you lose your mobile data for the downloads and also you are not paid for it! When you express this as a review on Play Store, they ask you to send them an e-mail. When you do send the e-mail, you will never get a response, which shows that there is something fishy out there!
In my previous post, I gave a brief account of what TaskBucks is and how it works. In this post, I will be taking you through some of their ugly means of fooling you.
You download an app from the list. It says you would be paid a certain amount today and then a certain amount for keeping it for 7 days. As soon as you download, the particular app vanishes from the list of apps in your taskbucks account. You are neither paid for the download nor for keeping it for 7 days!
Sometimes, luckily for you, the app doesn’t vanish. With the hope of being paid, you keep the app for 7-10 days. You are neither paid for the download nor for keeping it!
The third scenario is a twist! Sometimes it so happens that you are either paid or not paid for a download, and the app disappears from the list. All of a sudden, after MANY days, it reappears and says it would pay you if you keep it for 7 more days! Isn’t it a good trick to make users keep an app for more days at a lower cost?
There are many apps for which I wasn’t paid. They were all fresh downloads onto my phone. I even sent them a mail with the list of apps for which I was not paid, but in vain. Nobody cared to reply.
So, in a nutshell, if you just want to try it out, and if you have unlimited mobile data or WiFi, you can go for it. But be prepared to give up on missing payments!