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I'm just wondering I cannot see a valid proof of cashout from PRESEARCH I have a friend who's been here for almost 7 months and have reached 1000 points the threshold points to cash out but until now he hasn't received an email about his cashout

This is what their bot says whenever you inquire about cashout in their telegram channel

I didn't use nor joined that presearch but that email tells you that your friend shouldn't expect anything from the presearch team. Look at those points that presearch gives the reason if something goes wrong with the claim.

Tell your friend that he should stop wasting his time with presearch. You already knew it that you haven't seen any valid proof of cashout to it, I'm very sorry if your friend took a lot of months to stay there and got nothing.

I'm using this now and might take it off since I am not seeing positive reviews on their telegram channel all I see are complaints I am just attracted on the price on the market https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/presearch/

Jajajaja I guess if this is an interesting thing to see when a team takes care so much about $30 airdrop or whatever he called that. So many complaints and that indicates the credibility of the team.
https://icodrops.com/presearch/
0.18x return in usd terms from the ico price. If Im a part of investors and i will feel the same with those are complaining in the telegram channel  :D

I think that everything will be fine with this cryptocurrency and everyone will manage to withdraw their savings. I believe in this project!

I hope so but judging from the complaints in their telegram and how they kicked people asking valid questions it seems this project is fast losing its credibility, they said they have over 600,000 users how many have withdrawn their earnings and how come users are not receiving emails if they have a violation or ready to cashout.

There was a time I do claim the Presearch token then around May of last year. I stopped along the line when it was looking like the withdrawal portal will be open soon and seems the worth was low to my own expectation then. I will search for my account login details and try to withdraw if it will be successful.

I see! so they are rank 344 currently on coinmarketcap.com but having too many complains makes your friend still stay and hope that he's going to get the amount he should receive.

Basically if there are numerous complains and there's no sign of solution to it, how can you think something positive about that. As mentioned, the credibility of the team lost already so don't think that it's still worth to stay there.

This is their official thread not much info they launch their token sale here but based on some users experience in their channel, this will eventually will fade because they are boasting that they are the first search engine in blockchain that pays their users, but they are only paying few if indeed they are paying.

 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1967343.0

I am also doing the task of Presearch to gain 1000 point and it takes so much time. Now, when I read your topic , maybe I will stop this. Lose much faith with long campaigns

I also lost interest in this extension after reading users post in their channel, wow they have  say 5 digit numbers of users and can't provide a links or even a thread of people getting paid I even saw one post of one guy waiting for ten months, wow that is too much better forget this extension it's a waste of time now back with Google for me.

Hey everyone,

I'm the founder of Presearch (Colin Pape).

Thanks for your interest in the project. And also for your patience while we improve the withdrawal process.

We've paid hundreds of people already, and there are about 600 in the queue that have legitimately reached 1,000 tokens (without trying to game the system).

We're very close to rolling out a new anti-abuse platform that will significantly improve communication, speed up the process and enable automated withdrawals.

In the meantime, we have more than 800k registered users, more than 200k daily active users, and thousands of people who've tried to game the system during our beta.

Withdrawals have been handled manually, and there is much confusion amongst those who do not understand that just clicking the search button with a random character in it does not constitute a legitimate search according to the terms of service. This has caused a backlog for those who have been using Presearch legitimately.

I'm really excited for us to roll out this new reward verification system, as well as the new ad platform and token marketplace we are developing.

We have become an on ramp to cryptocurrency for many people, and have more usage than many projects in the space - all despite the issues some of you have highlighted, and the complaints of many 'token collectors' who are just click, click, clicking and then complaining online.

Once these new systems are in place (scheduled for January/February), we will be in full growth mode and are shooting for 10m members by the end of 2019.

The Presearch ad platform and token marketplace will really close the loop on the token economy and we will be one of the first projects to really do so.

Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.

And feel free to message me on Telegram using @colinpape if you're waiting for a withdrawal. I'll see what I can do to expedite things.

Thanks again for your support!

Colin

Thanks for your support! We won't let you down!

I am also not part of this project Presearch. However if the project decide not to pay, they dont pay whatever their status is. Check projects like GONetwork. They are continuously postpoing the payment for all the bounty hunters.

Does presearch make any sense when we can use Brave browser and receive BAT tokens? BAT tokens are supposed to rise in the future, while Presearch probably will die soon bacause they simply can´t competite with Brave.

I would like to know also if someone got paid and I'm using presearch for 3 months now and it will take another 9 months to make the minimum threshold. Cause if anyone are not getting paid i might stop using it. Although presearch is good project and it's purpose if it's not paying then it just a waste of my time.

You can use Presearch within Brave. The two projects are highly-complementary.

Someone involved in their marketing strategy actually contacted us last week about potentially advertising Brave on Presearch.

Our onboarding process is significantly easier as you don't need to switch browsers, and because our sponsored products are focused around search, the transactional intent of users is highly valuable.

There's plenty of room for both projects to succeed.

Presearch values its legitimate users highly. Unfortunately, there are many people who are just trying to game the system and collect tokens, which adds a layer of complexity to what may seem like an otherwise simple process.

We are close to releasing a new anti-abuse platform that will significantly improve communication with members and automate the anti-fraud and withdrawal process.

Thanks for using Presearch and for your patience while we've developed the systems required to close the loop on our token economy.

Is that a beta testing or some sort of? Preresearch? I just don't completely understand what that means but I guess depends on them if they will going to pay you for your comments.

We have been in beta testing, yes. The new system we are preparing to roll out contains all of the learnings and anti-abuse mechanisms developed during that time.

I was restricted in their channel almost a ban I never post links I'm just asking legit questions for the benefit of the community I'm asking when to get paid how many months and links of people who get paid these are valid questions based on my experienced if you are restricted or ban from asking valid questions you are dealing with scammers, so what's your take on this.

It is  a valid question and should be answer properly, if the team is more concerned about their business they needed to give good response in majority instead of restricting a member, else, this can be used for them being not good handling people who's checking the trust of thier teams they should be ready to provide even if it's been ask previously.

You are very persistent when participating in this program for 7 months. I gave up immediately when I knew, that we need to accumulate 1000 tokens to withdraw. I know, that there are a lot of cheater participating in this program. So if their team give out enough to the participants, it will certainly take a long time

They are not transparent they are using a robot to answer in their telegram channel so you will not really get a good answer but a generic one the robot has been posting the same links over and over it seems they do not employ a real human to answer those basic questions.

Its time to move on and find another coin that is worth it of our time. I also didn't got the payment of presearch, and after so much anxiety due to always thinking about that, I motivate myself that I can find a better one.

If this project cannot show payment and delaying payout for months or even years then this thread should be move in the scam section, no use defending this project, when nobody got paid here I'm surprised that there is no complaint in the scam section about this.

wrote to the telegram @colinpape a letter with the following content: Hello. I read your post on bitcointalk (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5097599.msg49337061#msg49337061) and decided to ask.
This is normal?
For 6 months, you’re not paying "ALREADY" to hundreds of people, but "TOTAL". The keyword "TOTAL". Check out projects within a few days.
Have you been a couple of people? You will not receive any awards. It will stop you.
I’ve reached a letter from you.
I’ve been sticking to presearch, because I’m in you fell.
If I am waiting for a withdrawal. I have been waiting for him since last year. See what you can do. My email address is *****

a couple of hours later I received the answer:

Hi there,

Thanks for taking the time to write. Your account has been approved for withdrawal.

And yes, I realize that the way this has been handled isn’t ideal.

We are close to entering a new phase for the project and should have a resolution for most who are upset shortly.

If we paid like you suggest, we’d have 10 or 20m users by now, and we just haven’t been ready for that with a complete token ecosystem and we’d be ‘out’ of house reward tokens.

We’ve been trying to put the brakes on this and yet still 3-4,000 sign up every single day. When we did our largest batch of payments in August, it ballooned to 12-15,000 per day.

Feeling pretty confident that when we release the new platforms in the next 2-3 weeks that this will still blow up like crazy.

Hopefully we’ll be able to make it up to those who we’ve rubbed the wrong way.

Thanks for your patience and support!

Colin

1000PRE transferred after 2 days

If the statistics are true one average user will have to wait a year or two to cash out and chances are people are going to complain because of stalled payment, this is not a huge company maybe they only have 3 to 7 staff to do the checking, they should have automated thins and please hire a human not a bot in your telegram channel you are hiding behind a bot because you not face the avalanche of complaints

the job just seems to be wasting the time you have, it's better that you do other activities so that you can be more productive than just using the presearch method. but if you want to use it for side jobs then it's up to you.

I will not join that one as once you have the 1,000 rewards ponts you will be check before having the prize or be nothing because of the glitch.
It must be done on the process while getting the 1,000 milestone, this could be another way of scam.

everything is the same, delayed. almost all the rewards earned in 2018 from bot can cash out in mid 2019, that's the admin statement in the telegram group. so I think you can forget it and just focus on the bounty.

Hi Robelneo - sorry that you got banned. I am not sure what happened there as the Telegram channel is run by community members.

Could you please DM me on Telegram via @colinpape and I'll ask the admins to look into it.

There was one admin that was way too trigger happy with banning people who is no longer in the channel. Overall, there are very, very few people who are banned and it's a very tolerant channel. We recognize that we can't be banning people while still claiming to be pro-freedom.

I apologize if we've let you down there and hope we can make it up to you.

Thanks,

Colin

Yes, we should not be restricting people unless they are totally belligerent and do not cease to be after being warned. That's generally how it is. Not sure what happened there.

We have a new automated system coming out shortly that should provide everyone with a lot more clarity about withdrawals and acceptable behaviour, etc.

Presearch is not designed for bounty hunters or token accumulators.

We need real searchers, otherwise the quality of our traffic goes down.

So we're trying to walk a fine line between rewarding people and not incentivizing them to just click, click, click.

Any incentivized reward platform in the token space is going to have to deal with the same issues.

Assuming our new system works as it has in testing, this will be a huge breakthrough and key asset for the project.

Thanks for your patience as we get our ducks in a row.

Colin

Our admins got burned out answering the same question over and over and over and over and over and over again, and it almost killed the awesome community we had in our main telegram channel (t.me/presearch), so we set up another one to handle those who are solely focused on collecting tokens.

This wasn't ideal, but it was the best solution we could come up with.

If you want to talk with real humans, best is to use the main telegram group.

Thanks for your patience and support,

Colin

Sorry that you feel that way. If you are literally just clicking the button to accumulate tokens, then yes, it may be better to try another project.

We are looking for real searchers who use Presearch like they would Google.

If that isn't you, and you for some reason are not getting value from the ability to easily search multiple engines, then please jump into the main Telegram channel - https://t.me/telegram and ask questions about ways others are using it.

Our long-time members who want a community-driven alternative to Google are in there and can tell you about how when the vision is ultimately realized, it'll be a game changer for the internet.

There are no complaints because this isn't a scam. We have had some communication challenges for sure, but this is a legit project put on by real people based in Canada, and the overall model actually works. We are very close to closing the loop on our token ecosystem and will be a project that will truly demonstrate the potential of utility tokens.

We have tens of thousands of people trying to abuse the reward mechanism, but we are days away from rolling out a new system that should mitigate the issue.

There is plenty of proof on telegram if you search for 'withdrawalproof' in the telegram channel.

We are rolling out a new automated system that will improve communication and speed things up.

Honestly, we got burned out replying to people who only care about tokens when we are actually trying to change the world of search.

We were probably a little naive about how many people would just care about the tokens and have had to change our approach to address it.

Our Telegram channel had 4k people in May, by the end of June it was over 10,000 and they were all asking when they could get tokens. Our long-time community members who actually do want to change the face of search were getting disheartened, so it was suggested to set up a separate channel to funnel them into and use a bot.

That channel has thousands of members. That's how many people are using Presearch.

We are at more than 850k registered members so far, and more than 200k daily active users.

The growth has really exceeded our expectations. By the end of February everyone will see a much different and better Presearch, and most of these issues should be in the rear view mirror.

Thanks for your patience and support in the meantime.

Colin

Presearch really isn't a job. It's a tool to provide you with more control over your searches, and to provide an alternative to Google that is community-driven, and which values you making the switch, so it rewards you with tokens.

It'll soon get easier to use with new browser extensions and a mobile app, but for now is a little difficult, which is why we are rewarding people at the level we are. The rewards will be reduced in the future.

Thanks for taking the time to write here!

Colin

There is a new system that will be out soon. When you can withdraw is based on your individual activity - there is no global date for withdrawal. People have been withdrawing already, but this will increase in the near future as we roll out the anti-abuse system, a new sponsorship platform, a token marketplace for buying and selling and new browser extensions to make it easier to search from the address bar.

Thanks for your patience in the meantime!

Colin

I signed up only today and actually enjoying the Google Chrome extension. It just automatically works. I forget it's on sometimes and it surprises me the way it behaves, but it's not intrusive and doesn't slow down my search, so I'm fine with it.

I don't see how anyone could use it to try to get a lot of money. They should do other things for money. I'm just going to use Presearch as the extension and forget about it as it does it's thing when I'm actually wanting to search for something. If it pays out a little something months from now, then great, but not a big deal.

I understand your goals with this project and wish you much success!

I installed Presearch in my Internet browser which is Google Chrome and I added their search engine as my default one.. I didn't reach 1000 PRE yet but they seem to be paying other members.. I don't know whether they are trusted or not.. I don't really know about that.

Well i tried some last year, after i install on my pc and use it, but i didn't reach 1000 points and i don't know if they really pay or is a scam and no one will get paid.

Yes, i have seen someone that got paid from the Presearch but it is really hard to reach 1000 points and get paid. Also they reduced the payments 1/2 in 5 months ago. I think this is really annoying because 1000 points limit is too high! They just like they don't want to pay to anyone, their idea is about not to pay.  When you check BitTube application they are paying daily.. Shame on them..

Believing is not enough to get the cash out and to get the payment from presearch, I wonder if their cash out feature is automatic or manual? If so, they should always notify the team if ever their cash out feature is not automatic. With lots of load and transaction list, some gets put into oblivion.

Is it still working? anyone paid out?

It is a total scam.
Slow search engine, tons of ads, and they are stealing data.
Also 100% premined Token.
Scammer Colin Pape first ripped you off with his Shitcoin and now he is selling ads and userdata.
Don´t waste your time or even money to make this guy rich.

I will give them the benefit of the doubt. Im almost at 1000 and im glad they look into each case for abuse. I was worried about that. It's taking too long though. I mean its been months. Has it even been worth it? Will my tokens be worth a decent amount? Who knows?


I hear your points but how so you know its a scam though?

1. He does not pay out a lot of people. Promise people to pay them and do not : SCAM
    Telling the people you ripp off it is their fault because their searches are not legit: SCUM
2. Project has nothing to do with Blockchain/Crypto. It is just a simple Webpage with multiple search engines, you can do the same with the searchbar in your browser, without fullscreen ads. BLABLA LIAR
3. Token is 100% centralized and premined and has no use at all. Only reason it exists is ripping people off and traffic for his shitty homepage, to sell ads. SHITCOIN
4. Only traded on known scam exchanges like Yobit and HitBTC.

Don´t waste your time and/or money here. Invest in real projects. DYOR
If you already have it keep it until next crypto hype, sell when pumped and don´t look back.

Please have a clearer question, so that the people here can give the right answer,
try to be clear about what still works? and what things pay for?

I'm using presearch so far I only have 500 qualified token put of 1000 Presearch token, I stopped for 8 months here because of their support, but after I saw that they counted my credits I become active again and now working will let you know if they are really paying soon but that would be a couple of months more.

This month of december you meant to get double the tokns per search. Thy make a big deal of ot and mention it every time you search bit im still getting 0.25 per search and not 0.50. I was thinking maybe they give me 2x 0.25 bit not.

I am almost at 1000 tokens so lets see what happens. They say they need to manually check your searches for cheating.

I stopped using Presearch because a lot of work for very low reward and it takes almost one year to see your reward. I think that freebitcoin website is much more protitable than this one.

when Presearch was just created it became interesting to me and I even downloaded this browser and tried to make some money there, but with the release of brave, I was not interested. in general, this kind of earnings is very low and takes a lot of time. they are relevant only if you use some kind of automatic surfing services on sites

I worked for more than a month. It's very hard to get their withdraw limits without any refer. So I stop working. But some of my group members said they got their payments. But I saw the price is very low so I uninstall that extension.

Well, I never got interested in the project and as such didn't do any research on it. My opinion is that if no one has been able to give a reasonable evidence of cash out, then you need to advise your friend to move on. I am sure there are still other opportunities out there if one does research.

You cannot possibly assume a project is scam because its primined or based on your personal alignment. Also the accusation that they sell data is serious one I might ask for proof if you don't mind because I wouldn't like to participate in a project that will farm my data and make money of it

I have participated in their airdrop and I don't think there was a good outcome . Though the foundation seems to be strong they have all it takes to build a strong community in crypto space. But in the end I can say more about that now. I wouldn't tag it a scam, it's best you do more research on them.

Hello,

Colin here. Just found out about this thread as we've been slammed rolling out our new keyword staking platform.

https://medium.com/@presearch/presearch-launches-keyword-staking-35c6cced5733

Regarding your comments:

1. We have paid out thousands of people. No, we do not pay out those who are trying to game the system. It is fully-automated from an abuse standpoint, with transparent levels that are provided to all users.

2. Rewards are blockchain-based. Keyword staking is blockchain based. Our plan is to start fairly centralized and then decentralize the platform as we gain adoption. This is all spelled out pretty clearly in our white paper if you'd like to take a look. https://www.presearch.io/uploads/WhitePaper.pdf

We are working on a revised version now as this version is currently more than two years old.

3. You're entitled to your opinion, but we have actual users, actual traffic, and are probably more focused on conferring value to our token and most projects.

Please feel free to view our blog posts containing lots of updates on the project:

https://medium.com/@presearch

4. PRE is available on HitBTC and Probit currently. Working on new venues and will have some updates this quarter.

Feel free to message me on Telegram @colinpape or email me via colin@presearch.io at any time.

I'll try to keep a closer eye on this thread.

All the best,

Colin

Hi Lauren,

Thanks for using Presearch! In order to get 0.5 PRE per search, you need to switch from Google to our search engine, Dsearch.

You can do so by clicking here:

https://www.presearch.org/account/switch-to-dsearch

We don't manually check anymore as we released an automated platform last February that's been working really well.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks again for your support!

Colin

Hi istiak2277,

Thanks for using Presearch. Please do not consider using the service as a job though. If you are not searching for information when you need it, it's possible that your account will get flagged or your level decreased.

FYI, the price was at a low toward the end of 2019, but is up a lot since then, now that we've closed the demand side of our token economy.

All the best,

Colin

You're entitled to your opinion, but you are not correct in your assertions.

You can search many search engines through Presearch. Our own, or others such as DuckDuckGo.

Yes, sorry, it is premined. Tokens are issued as rewards and bought by advertisers to stake against terms to have their ads displayed.

You're about the only person to have called me a scammer, personally, and I don't appreciate it. I'm super accessible on Telegram, Twitter, email, etc. and anytime someone has had a real issue, I've been able to resolve it with them.

Those who call names are generally the same ones who just like to trash people and aren't looking for actual solutions.

We are DEFINITELY not selling user data, I can guarantee you that. We don't store search terms, and take privacy very seriously.

Not trying to get rich, man. I want to change the world. Google is too powerful. We've experienced it first hand.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-11-14/google-is-shopcity-target-for-federal-trade-commission-complaint

All the best,

Colin

About 6 months ago, I tried the Presearch platform. At first, it was enjoyable to search for things on the internet and get paid. But the outcome was horribly low! So, I stopped and never go back to try it. Maybe you should contact the admin directly, they have an active telegram group, I hope you will find the solution there!

I already reach minimum 1000 and request a withdraw but it's already day 5 still I didn't got paid. They said they will pay in 3 days.
I will wait for a week if still not got paid I will mark this program/project scam or I need to wait longer? Hmmm

In the year 2020 I was able to reach 1,000 PRE and I was able to withdraw and exchange them for ETH without problems. BUT, this year 13 days ago when I tried to withdraw 1,000 PRE, I noticed a warning that due to the high transfer fees it would take a long time to send withdrawals. And they put an alternative to send them money to pay for speeding up the transfer, one option is through PayPal and the other is through a direct ETH shipment.

When I saw that the value of PRE rose too much, I considered that it was a good investment to accelerate the withdrawal, so I sent money through PayPal, and as indicated in the instructions provided, I sent them a screenshot of the payments made. Hours later they answered me and thanked me for sending the money to speed up the process, and said that it had already been processed and that soon I would see the PRE in my portfolio address.

It has been 11 days since then, and there is not even the transfer waiting in the queue (in pending state). I have already sent them several emails to ask for an explanation, and they just ignore me and don't answer any emails.

According to the email that arrives from an automatic response when requesting information to accelerate withdrawals, it says that they are given 12 hours to process accelerated withdrawals, and after that time they can be contacted to clarify doubts or solve possible problems. It is obvious that PRESEARCH is not delivering what it promises and is acting very suspiciously.

In the instructions of the email, it indicates that deposits via PayPal must be made by choosing the "Family and Friends" mode, which suggests that they want to prevent disputes from being opened in PayPal, although the other option that seemed to me the most viable was that they asked it to be like that to perhaps avoid the collection of commissions from PayPal, but seeing how my situation has progressed, I doubt that this indication of deposits via PayPal was only with the intention of avoiding commissions.

I ordred a payment about a month ago, but they said it`s impossible to send tokens now, because of the high ethereum gas price, so I still haven`t received my coins and I don`t think I will get them anytime. Unfortunately, Presearch team disappointed me

same here almost 3 month but still not get the payments.

I heard that they have the ability to launch a node, but they need 1000 tokens. Maybe you can study this topic, I now want to save up and try. As I understand it, there is an opportunity to make money on key words.