In the past few days we have heard about the Blyk model spreading around the world but now it seems that a variant on the Blyk model has been setup to rival this not only in the UK and all over the world as well! Pumbby works on the basis of paying users a small amount for watching ad’s! It is all opt-in and you can leave whenever you wish! In the UK they seem to be offering 44p per ad, and you can choose to receive upto 10 ad’s a day! The website then says you can either transfer the money you have accumulated to your GSM operator directly or to your bank account! Fantastic!
Now I have tried to sign up, and it does not recognize my postcode! I tried to use the test service function and it will not recognize my two UK numbers! I forgot to mention that Pumbby is not a mobile network they simply send the ad’s to your existing number and you will have to pay the data charges (free if on WIFI) to view the ad’s!
In theory if this works then it could be serious competition for Blyk in the UK! The other great thing about Pumbby is that does not seem to be any age restrictions! I have sent their customer services an email to see if they can help my get an account set up! However it would be great to hear from our readers if you set one up successfully or have one! You can either send them directly to Ewan or post them below!
So go ahead and Pumb your GSM (and let us know how you get on!!
Krystal, I managed so sign up.
This is a great service – except for the following
1) it doesn't work – my main account screen says it's coming soon to the UK and the WAP URL I received did nothing
2) most of the site and messages are in French even though I signed up to the UK service
3) they want my BANK ACCOUNT DETAILS before I have even started to use the service
4) the SIXTEEN PAGE PDF “contract” I have to agree to when I use the “service” is entirely in French
Apart from these small issues it's a winner.
Word of advice – don't bother.
I took a look & agree with Andrew it's a complete shambles. I had to use some random digits to get it to take a post code as it doesn't accept the format of UK post codes. The mixture of languages is bizarre. I don't why people bother to launch when they can't even get the basics right. They don't deserve to succeed!
andrew,
It was me who wrote this article! Cheers for the advice. Such a shame because in theory it could potenially work!
Could not get the page to accept my UK post code. . so I ended up using a US zip code and that worked(won't accept letters for some reason).
Once logged on most of the submenus that i click on, there is a message “This service will soon be available on your Pumbby account.”. ..
Hmmmm,. . . got a text message directing me to a wap site. . . . site in french and only 2 lines on the wap site on my phone
“Votre pub est deja validee publicite”. . thats it nothing more
What does that mean and what next?.
Good Idea, but a lot of technical work needed to make this work.
BAck to the drawing board Pummby chaps
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do you work for pumbby rene?
do you work for pumbby rene?
Available in France and Belgium only !!!!
Available in France and Belgium only !!!!