Sunday, May 17, 2015

Is StealThePixel Legit?

StealThePixel is just another website claiming to give its users free money. Though, technically is true that they give you free money; this claim is far from a simple straight forward procedure. First of all, we need to understand that the free money is not the main thing about this website. This website is about selling cheap advertising space in a rather clever way. At their homepage there is a big 1000x500 ad banner, which actually is a composition of 5000 small 10x10 pixel blocks. Each of these is for sale and it's given for free to the first customer who wants it. A block that is already assigned to an advertiser can be "stolen" by another advertiser. How can it be stolen? It can be done by buying it from us for a price higher than the price payed by the previous purchaser (at least $0.01 higher). 

Hopefully, if you got some blocks and no one will ever steal them, your advertising will be displayed forever. You can decrease the probability of your blocks to be stolen by offering a high amount to get them. Basically, the website is just a pixel shop where every purchased item will be sold again for a higher price. Think of it as a never-ending banner auction.

Now that we know how this site works is easier to understand why it will be quite difficult to get free money from this website. This is simply because they are not in the business of giving money, they are in the business of getting money, and they do this by manipulating people into believing they can make a quick buck. Keep in mind, every time you use this website, you are giving them money, as anything you click will automatically make a pop-up appear. Thus, they use aggressive advertisement in order to generate revenue. 

Also, when you use the free money feature from this website is not as if you can cash-out the money right away. In fact they will give you exactly 0.00154211 USD every half hour, but the minimum you can cash-out is 0.50 USD. This means that it will actually take a considerable amount of time to get a very small amount of money, which, I quite frankly think is not worth it.

Lastly, the website allows you to bet you money in various ways. If you are feeling lucky then feel free to play; however, remember that the longer you hangout in this website the more revenue you are giving them. StealThePixel is not a good website for getting free money nor for advertisers. Though they do have a clever a idea, and they will give you the money once you reach the minimum amount; they do not really provide any real value for anybody. If anything, all they want is high traffic going to their websites in order to get high turnovers from the ad revenues.