A few days after joining PKM (my first month running CPA offers) I ran a test campaign for one of the many email submits on his network.
It went down like this:
I logged in -> email submits -> view offers.
Then I went through all of the email subs that were active (green fucking light, *live*) -> selected one, added it to my account.
Went to the offer landing page, all looked good. Set up a FB campaign, set the budget to $200 and went to bed (don't care for the $200, just wanted to do some testing, see how things work, etc)
Check the stats next morning (UK): 1400 clicks, 0 conversions, $200 spent on FB.
I msg the network owner on AIM, and here's what he said:
"Oh yeah, that offer is dead, it's been dead since last week, I sent out an email, let me pause it for you, it shouldn't be in your account".
I tell him that it said "live" just like any other offer. I joined about 6 days ago, so obviously never got the email he sent out a good week ago.
Then I ask him if I could get credit for the clicks, and he says:
"no sorry bro, if it was down I would credit you, but the offer was dead, so no can do. Let's work on recovering that $200 loss through more traffic, shall we?"
I hope his business fails, because he is a massive douche.
EDIT: I should have done a "test" submit or two, but as I said it was my first month, kinda all over the place...