WidgetBucks a possible scam?

A lot of fuss is being thrown in WidgetBucks direction the past few days. As many of you probably know, they recently stopped counting clicks from outside of the United States and Canada. Instead any clicks from outside these regions are sent to mpire.com with you getting no credit for the transfer. Since the change on the 15th I haven't seen a single cent from WidgetBucks despite having them located on two of my blogs. My traffic has remained the same over this period, and after looking at my stat tracker, my target audience is still mostly US based. I really am finding myself distrusting WidgetBucks each day that this continues.

I know that I'm not alone in the presumption, there are several key factors to this:

No one has received payment thus far. The first payments are not expected until the beginning of December.

The $25 bonus sign-up reward seems a bit much for me to believe. If 1,000 members sign up and each of them reaches the $50 necessary to check out they would lose $50,000. I'm sure not everyone will reach payout but I'm sure they already have more than 1,000 affiliates aboard.

A large amount of people have reported their accounts banned/suspended with no justification. While I'm sure a large group of these are justified, I can't in good conscious believe that everyone was in the wrong.

With us directing traffic to mpire.com I really believe that we should earn something for the re-direction.

"MerchSense" their "contextual algorithmis" is as accurate as a magic 8-ball.

I can't justify using it if my clicks don't improve drastically soon, otherwise I'll be dumping it after I hit the $50 increment. Has anyone else's WidgetBucks accounts seen a dramatic decrease in profit over the last few days?