Bad Affiliate Programs

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I'll add two to the list...


1- CommissionJunction - Owes me over $140,000 in commissions from 2005-2006 from mortgage lead merchants that claimed "fraud" leads 30 days AFTER they were submitted.

2- PartnerWeekly - Owes me over $45,000 from just last month. Very long story, but in short, they were only willing to pay me a shitty $200 to recoup my costs (which were around $16,000 total), and then tried to recruit me away from the ad network I went through, which is a shady thing to do too. Not to mention they wanted me to promote a different site for them after I was told I wouldn't be getting paid from them. This is only for their Cash Advance/Payday Loan vertical. Their mortgage network is actually very good.

Just goes to show you, that no matter how big or small of an affiliate you are, there is always room to be fucked over. The bigger you are, the harder of a hit you are going to take. Ah well. This is the game we play. This is also why I am creating a service for affiliates to band together so that if and when a network or merchant tries to fuck someone over, they will be boycotted until the affiliate is paid out -- but only if the affiliate is not at fault.


um... how can you lose money if you retired from affiliate marketing?
 


Hey...

Dataracks.net just hosted FreeHostInn.com, in no way did we have anything to do with the affiliate program, just the maintainance of the servers, keeping them online. Our website was not live at the time of FreeHostInn.com, so we could derive no referral benefit.
 
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jon thats extremely homosexual but you knew just like all the rest of us how extremely homosexual CJ is. thos fucking pieces of shit i hope you werent running ppc for your leads. Fuck clickbooth being banned from WF CJ should be banned i spose they already are tho, since ive never seen a CJ rep in here fuckin snake motherfuckers
 
jon thats extremely homosexual but you knew just like all the rest of us how extremely homosexual CJ is. thos fucking pieces of shit i hope you werent running ppc for your leads. Fuck clickbooth being banned from WF CJ should be banned i spose they already are tho, since ive never seen a CJ rep in here fuckin snake motherfuckers

CJ is banned.
 
long story with VC, nothing personal, I spoke to you earlier.

As far as Incenta, besides hundreds of stories I've heard about them, they don't conduct business in a fashion that I approve of.
 
1) Questseek (questseek.com) owes me over $100 and has not paid me even though I made the money months ago. The emails I sent on numerous occasions all bounced back. Questseeks's email addresses do not exist. Questseek is a scam.

Yep, I can also confirm that this pay per click site is a scam. I will be very shocked if this site has actually paid 1 affiliate. It seems this site was set up to just make money from ppc xml feeds. The way it would do it is for their affiliates to do all the work and they will earn from that and not pay the affiliates making them have even more money.

This site has been going for well over 2 years. I think people should find out what ppc xml feeds they are using and then report it to the xml feeds provider. This site has scammed hundreds of people and laughing all the way to the bank while others are probably relying on this money to put their next meal on the table of their family.
 
Has anyone had any good results with Link Synergy? I had over 3,000 clicks between two different very targeted programs and not a single sale. I've started using Copeac and CJ along with more AdSense. Copeac seems to convert very well for me in the 20% range so far. If I could just get some more traffic!!
 
Thanks for all this information guys. Anyone have any input on LavaPlace affiliate program? I'm waiting on my $500+ payment from them from last month. I'll post if I actually get it.
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Ooh, I have one...

Zango (formally known as 180solutions).
From cookie stealing to highly dodgey Adware stuff, to collecting user information (including CC info and other personal info) they are so not cool.
 
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