Reasonable WidgetBucks suspicions

Afternoon all, today I spent a bit of time researching and looking up WB information, and here's the list of what i've found to be suspicious of the program overall.

• Complete removal of people's earnings. - There have been many recent reports that all of a sudden WidgetBucks users (mostly ones earning a substantial amount of money) will find past days, or individual Widgets at 0 dollars. I am not speaking of the October earnings, which WB$ kindly fixed on the 11th, this is completely different. Hopefully it will be addressed, hopefully it's just another kink the admins need to work out.
  

• Earnings being reduced drastically even after turning black. - WidgetBuck's current system of determining CPC is giving a rough estimate based on the Widget niche first (red) and once they actually check the site it is being used on the price is modified, sometimes for good but most times reducing. This is reasonable though and honestly useful, it's good to see near-realtime results..accurate or not. Those complaining about such rates need to understand that they cannot pay a lot of money per Widget click to people who are promoting s*!^$ like diamonds & jewlery on an arcade website. All of this aside, the problem is that after the earnings are cleared (black), they are still being drastically reduced for some people without any messages or notice from WidgetBucks. So basically if you had 500 clicks at .35 cents and they changed your rate for that day to .10 cents, you'd be losing $125. It's a problem.
  

• Why does the WidgetBucks' blog have a referral link to their site? - On the WB$ blog, found at www.widgetbucks.blogspot.com there is a signup image link on the side. Which normally would be fine if you're promoting your own site, but it sends to a referral link. To me something like this sounds like you're taking money out of your left pocket just to put it back into your right. Doesn't make any sense.
  
  
• Banning users once they reach a high amount. - A couple of the bans with WidgetBucks have been because of a change in their policy forbidding any foreign sites that aren't in English. Reasonable, but the majority of bans have been because of "invalid clicks"...not the former. Invalid clicks is what they're putting out and suspending people for, but is that the real reason? I beg to differ - in my opinion the reason is that the user isn't getting enough turnaround and for WidgetBucks. WB$ basically runs through referrals, or at least their sponsors pay them for it. They pay you for clicks hoping that someone will go ahead and buy that product. I believe that if they notice you are making a lot of money but haven't produced any product sales for them, they'll ban you before you can dig deeper holes in their pocket. Of course this is simply speculation, but certainly plausible IMO.

• Customer support line - Have you ever tried to call the phone support for WidgetBucks? Don't bother. I have many times, and each time I get an automated unprofessional answering machine asking me for an extension, or to FWD it to an operator. Any company i've ever dealt with either has an original automated machine (helps with support, problems, etc) or just automatically sends to a available agent who can help. So each and every time it forwards to the operator, I get a guy's answering machine named "Peter" with some drone recording that has nothing to do with WidgetBucks at all, or Mpire for that matter. By the way, this is the company that claims to be backed with 10,000,000 dollars, and if that is the case you'd think they could get some damn support right? Wrong.

Oh, funny thing - yesterday the WB$ team posted on my blog saying that criticism of their program is unacceptable and that my account will be terminated ASAP. No word on that ban yet, but I await the corruption, my dear friends at Mpire!