CPALadder Spams Wickedfire

[mailinatorm2]

Isn't that the scroller from Neverblue just going in the opposite direction on the bottom of CPALadder's page?

haha yeah. nice find.

 

[eVandals]

I particularly like how the login button at the top of the page gives a 404 error.

These useless "networks" all come to us thanks to HasOffers and their "Got enough change for the bus? Get a network instead!" pricing strategy. While it's great that they're trying to build their business, the side effect of their lower end products are networks run by people who have absolutely no business whatsoever running networks. This leads to:

- inexperienced affiliates losing their money when the network (inevitably) goes tits-up
- a new place for cheaters and unapprovable affiliates to go and deliver their fraud/shit quality leads, dragging down profitability of merchants and as a result CPA rates
- more annoying "Network XXXXX is SCAMM!!" threads here and at other forums

This is the EXACT same thing that happened with incentive sites back in 2007 when ShiftCode made it as easy to start an incentive site as it was to take a shit the morning after a chili-and-booze night. ShiftCode (and its brethren tools FSR and EasyScripts) single handedly decimated the incentive model. Believe it or not, merchants used to be happy to get that kind of traffic. Not so much after 2007 and those scripts.

While I don't expect the impact of HasOffers to be as extreme, I can see similar patterns. I really wish they'd drop their two lower pricing levels and spare everyone the grief. Really, if someone only has $100/month to spend in licencing, they shouldn't be networks.

Good summary. In my view HasOffers business model is in part driven to conduct intelligence throughout the industry and expose to them high volume sources, publishers, so they can later benefit from this intelligence.

That is my take on why they are offering a working tracking platform initially for free, then on extremely cheap terms. It has, and will have a negative impact on the industry on what you listed above particularly "dragging down profitability of merchants and as a result CPA rates".

Ideally as these rouge networks spring up, affiliates' knowledge about the situation would improve and they would be more hesitant to where they send their traffic. However the grim reality is that many many more people are going to be scammed simply by the offering of a tracking script such as hasoffers at the current pricepoints. I am not saying it's a poor quality script. It's the consequences it creates of allowing unfit and borderline retarded people to jump into "running a network".

 

[tacoX]

... I think this guy was messaging me today for offers. Hrm. Not gonna partake in the CPA Ponzi BH traffic BS.

 

[eb8098]

This leads to:

- inexperienced affiliates losing their money when the network (inevitably) goes tits-up
- a new place for cheaters and unapprovable affiliates to go and deliver their fraud/shit quality leads, dragging down profitability of merchants and as a result CPA rates
- more annoying "Network XXXXX is SCAMM!!" threads here and at other forums

...plz add 'identity theft' to that list. don't know how often this is thought about , but with all of the info that these fly-by-night networks can get from an application, it can easily become a case of stolen ID (i.e. full name, address, phone#, SS#, username/password, bank acct./ach/paypal info, etc.).

 

[Roundabout]

I understand, you're merely a good samaritan letting us all know about a great opportunity.

Sorry but this quote deserves this pic: