Frequently Asked Questions

Buxr.com is a social bargain hunting site where community members gather to share hot shopping deals. All of the deals on Buxr are shared, rated, and vetted by our community.

Buxr members search for hot deals and share what they find on-line at Buxr.com. The deals are then voted on by the community based on their hotness. These votes are used by shoppers to make buying decisions, and also for determining the results of the daily and monthly deal contests.

Simply sign up for an account on Buxr and you can begin submitting deals immediately. Submitted deals are then put into a moderation queue for verification by other Buxr community members and moderators. Once your deal is approved, it gets published on the Buxr deals page.

No, Buxr.com does not actually sell any of the products listed on the deals site or the widget. Buxr.com and the Buxr Widget were created to aggregate hot deals and coupons from various merchants around the net into one convenient location. Anytime you click a link on the deal site or widget, you are leaving Buxr.com and are redirected to the merchant supplying the deal.

Buxr.com handles expired deals by setting individual expiration dates on each deal when a date is provided by the merchant. In addition our moderators and users do routine deal sweeps for accuracy. Expired deals are flagged and eventually verified and removed from the active deals list. Note, due to the amount of deals and the fact that deals expire without notice, some deals may not be flagged.

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The Contest FAQ

There are three ways you can win prizes:

1. Submit the best deal of the day and win our Daily Deal contest.
2. Collect the most points by guessing the best and the worst deals each day and win our Monthly Deal contest.
3. Refer the most friends to Buxr and win our monthly Refer a Friend contest

We will award 3 to 5 members every day (depending the total amount of submissions and votes) for submitting the top voted deal.

• All deals submitted and approved by a moderator or Buxr member qualify for the contest.
• Once a deal is on our deals page, Buxr community will be given 24 hours to vote on the quality of the deal
• Buxr staff will then select the best deals based on the community votes.
• Winners of the Buxr deal submission contest will be posted daily on the Daily Contest winners board and also notified by email.
• In addition to the daily prize, the winners will receive 5 points each towards the current Monthly Contest.

• We award a $10 prize for a top voted daily deal which is an online coupon, product, or sale.
• We award a $5 prize for a top voted freebie, printable coupon or in-store only deal without a matching online offer.

A deal typically has a cost associated with it, where a freebie is completely free. We classify freebies as product samples, promotional items, free magazines, etc. Products that are free after rebate and printable coupons that come with an online discount code will be treated as deals.

If a daily prize winner accumulates the most overall points during the contest period, we will add a $5 bonus to that submitter's daily prize.

You can submit any kind of shopping deals you want, but please try to make sure it fits the following criteria:

1. It is available nationally. Popular product categories are preferred, such as iPods, GPS, Laptops, etc!
2. It is a "good deal." We know this is subjective, but please use your best judgement.
3. Please make sure the details are accurate! This is essential for success in the contest and the community.
4. The deal is NOT self-promotion. Deals with referral codes will be edited or removed.
5. If you are a merchant interested in submitting deals, please contact us to set up a special Store Rep. account.

Your deal may not being displayed for the following reasons:

1. It is still in the moderation queue. Please be patient, we verify all deals for quality.
2. Your deal has been removed because it was duplicate, inaccurate, expired, local only offer, spam, adult content, etc...
3. Moderators have deemed it inappropriate for the site.

1. You must be a registered Buxr user, with a current account.
2. You must have an active and valid PayPal account (make sure it is selected on the Payee page of your Buxr account).
3. If you have selected Gift Card as your payment preference, an Amazon Gift Card equal in value to your prize will be sent to the email address on record in your account.
4. Payment is sent within 7 days of the winning announcement.

You can win 1 prize every day.

In general, we give out as many as 5 prizes per day. However, we only award one freebie prize because free offers do not make money for the site.

We realize that not everyone wants to submit deals, so we've created another way to participate and win! Just vote up good deals and vote down bad deals. At the end of the day we will announce the winners and losers. If your picks match ours you win points good towards our monthly grand prize! Here are some useful tips:

1. Be thoughtful. You can only vote once for a deal and your vote is final.
2. Be selective. You will lose points if you give a positive vote to a deal that ends up selected as the worst for the day. The same is true if you vote negative for the best deal of the day.
3. Be modest. Do not vote for the deals you yourself submit. :-)

The winner of the monthly grand prize will be announced on the 1st of the following month on the Monthly Contest winners board and also in our e-mail newsletter.

Monthly contest winners are determined by the amount of points accumulated at the end of the month.

1. Refer a friend with a Buxr referer link (see referral options below).
2. Your friend signs up using the link.
3. Your account is credited with a pending referral
4. You must refer at least 5 friends during the contest month to qualify for a prize.
5. At the end of the month, we tally eligible referrals and display the winners on the contest page.

As you know, not all friends are created equal. The same rule applies at Buxr.com. We consider your friend a "Good Friend" if he/she meets the following criteria:

• Your friend is a US resident.
• Your friend is a new Buxr member
• Your friend does not live in the same household with you or another Buxr member

Pending friends are friends who have been referred but have not yet been verified by us to count as a contest referral. Any pending friends who do not meet the above requirements within the contest month, will become "Bad Friends." These friends are NOT eligible for the contest credit. Referrals can also become "Bad Friends" if they are disqualified by moderators.

We reserve the right to disqualify members/friends for attempting to tamper with the contest results.

At Buxr we give you 3 easy ways to make "Good Friends"

1. Send an email to a friend through a "Share this Deal" link available on each deal page (visible when you are signed in).
2. Add a Buxr Badge or Text Link to your web page (MySpace, Blog, etc). You can get these from the Affiliate Page.
3. Add the Buxr Widget to your website. The link in the widget has your referral id.

Go to the Refer a Friend Contest Page to find the current contest standings. You can check what friends each member referred by clicking the "+" sign next to the member stats.

Simply accumulate the most eligible ("Good") friends by the end of the month (a minimum of 5 friends is required) and you will win the contest

The Buxr Widget FAQ

The Buxr Widget is a tool that enables publishers (bloggers/webmasters) to share the bargains we post on Buxr.com and earn a commission when their visitors shop using the widget.

You will earn a commission when a visitor buys a product via a link on the Buxr Widget.

The commissions you earn can vary greatly depending on your sites content, traffic, and position of the Buxr Widget. Commission rates vary by merchant and can be as high as 10% or as low as 0.5%. As a rule of thumb though we promise that we will share with you at least half and sometimes more of what the merchants pay to us.

Payments are made when your Buxr commissions exceed $20 and commission has moved from Pending to Available status. Pending commissions typically take 30 to 60 days after the purchase date to move to available. This time is allotted for product returns, refunds and fraud protection. Payments will be made monthly by check or via PayPal.

Getting started with the Buxr Widget is easy by following these steps:

• Click here to register for an account.
• Configure a widget to your preferences.
• Copy and paste the widget code to your website or blog templates.

Of course we do! Clicks and impressions are tracked in real time and reported with one hour delay. Commissions are tracked and reported nightly after we receive reporting for the merchants. Some commissions may take longer to appear if the merchant reporting is delayed.

Yes, any publisher referral generated through the Buxr Widget will entitle you to 10% of the revenue generated by the publisher you refer for the following 12 months! And the best part is that you don't need to do anything. The "Deals by Buxr" link in your widget already has your affiliate code. A publisher signup is considered a referral if he/she creates a Buxr account within 30 days of clicking on the link in your widget. The same browser must be used and browser cookies bust be enabled.

No there is no limit to how many widgets you can run on your site.

Buxr will work with just about any platform such as Typepad, Blogger, Wordpress.com, Drupal, etc.

Yes, you can absolutely run the Buxr Widget with Adsense. Google allows other advertising as long as they are not contextual.

We can not pay you until you complete the payee form. Login to your account, go to payee information and complete the form.

Please contact us using this form and we will more than happy to review your account and installation.

No. All of the merchants we currently use do not ship outside the US. So placing the widget on a site outside the US would not likely result in sales. Sites that have US traffic but running outside the US might consider using the Buxr Widget to monetize that traffic.

It is OK to run the Buxr Widget on most sites with a few exceptions. You can not run the Buxr Widget on adult or pornographic sites, gambling and pharmaceuticals. Additionally, Buxr reserves the right to disable widget ads running on sites with material that we deem inappropriate.