Ever been scammed?

99% of my LinkShare affiliates haven't paid me!

And an affilate from another service owes me over $2,000 for the November 2000! That one I'll probably get someday (that do pay out eventually) but I'll probably have to make many calls.

I haven't directly experienced any major payment delays so far, but Kevin Soper tells us to "Stay Away From Switchboard.com" .

You can read the full story at http://www.revenews.com/opinion/discuss.cgi?mode=MSG&area=warstories&message=382

In my opinion the best way to keep out of trouble is to join affiliate programs featured by networks like CJ and ClickBank, that will directly issue checks for combined merchants once a month.

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popuptraffic. I waited for my cheque but it never came. Three e-mails later, sill no reply.

I'm not sure if they still in busiiness but SearchTraffic never paid me.

hilarious, there are many that have missed a payment. what's even funnier is how they change their name (aka) to try and get a new image or something. the founders of some of these programs also like starting new networks after the previous one they were associated with stop paying.

eAds

Banner Brokers aka ads360

linkshare

befree

datais aka focusin

websitesponsors aka iboost aka fineclicks (founder of websitesponsors has now founded fineclicks)

getpaid4 aka nickelaclick aka teknosurf aka advertising.com

alladvantage

clicktrade aka microsoft

cyber thrill

i've never had a problem with a standard internet program, although, some of there programs have been mentioned by others here.

IMO, LinkShare (LinkSnare would be a better name!) is the biggest culprit!

Quote: Originally posted by ReVigo
I'm not sure if they still in busiiness but SearchTraffic never paid me.

You might try contacting Standard Internet, the company who runs SearchTraffic. I have gotten payed by them before and consider them pretty decent.

Ok, I just want to clarify a few things here. First of all Fairhousing unfairly made me sound like I scammed people and then tried to change my name to change my image. This is totally untrue.

I did own WebsiteSponsors at one time...and before it got acquired by iBoost I did pay everyone and paid them on time. How iBoost treated the program and its members was beyond my control which was why I resigned my position with the company and left them to eat my dust.

Later on when I got back home to Michigan I then started FineClicks. Myself nor FineClicks has any link to iBoost or has anything to do with them as well as iBoost has no links to FineClicks and has nothing to do with that either.

FineClicks was started in May of '01 and till this day has not missed a payment or has never sent out any payments late.

Anyways, that is my statement. If anyone has any questions please feel free to give me an email.

thanks for the clarification chet (fineclicks), but why didn't u give the affiliates that were owed money a heads up that the ship was sinking before u jumped ship; or did u give a heads up and i just wasn't listening?

It was not my place to say anything. As much as I wanted to tell everyone I was legally not allowed to give any information on the status of iBoosts' financial position.

If your company that you were employed by was having problems would they allow you to go around telling everyone their financial status? I wouldn't think so...

I resigned long before iBoost sank (I left in April). I sent out a resignation email to all affiliates explaining that I was no longer managing WebsiteSponsors or working for iBoost and that I resigned my position. I wasn't allowed to give the exact reason (legally) but I think the fact that I was resigning should have been a pretty good clue.

Thank You

"If your company that you were employed by was having problems would they allow you to go around telling everyone their financial status? I wouldn't think so..."

i agree, u shouldn't tell everyone, just the creditors (members). i mean websitesponsors/iboost/fineclicks and their agents all had/have no problem telling their creditors (members) they pay (it's even in your signature). so why should those companies and their agents have a problem telling their creditors they don't pay?

I see nothing has changed with you. This is a hopeless cause. Think what you want about me Fairhousing I don't really care...so long to you and this forum.

well, i think that fineclicks (chet) will pay its members and even give its members notice that they will be paid, as long as, the biz is viable.

u did a fine job with websitesponsors (ws) before ws and u began an association with iboost.

sorry for any misunderstanding.

what?

FineClicks and fairhousing, I'm sorry, but the type of conversation you two were having is more suited for private communication via e-mail, IM, etc. Thanks.

1. FineClicks is a decent program. They pay affiliates on time, and require good sites before accepting new affiliates. They review every site carefully.
2. whoever mention dat befree didnt pay em: ya should think before speaking. its now befree aka. reporting.net who pays its affiliates. Its the merchants who handle the payment.
If befree dont pay you, its because of an unserious merchant. If u didnt get paid, just mail their support, and im sure it will work out.
3. Alladvantage is dead, just to inform ya
4. linkshare, same. they are also a advertising network, so ya cant really complain so much about their as a advertising network.
5. advertising is currently paying. i've read both that their paying(i know they do), and dat their not paying. im gettin kinda confused.
6. clicktrade is paying, so i dont know what happent with ya.
7. standard internet(si) who runs searchtraffic, bulkclicks, allclicks and some other companies are pretty good, and very serious about their programs. i know they pay for real, and i know they bust cheaters alot. if u didnt get paid, you should contact their support, and/or post a message on their forum.

Nice thread! We get a lot of feedback: 'this sponsor didn't pay me, that sponsor didn't pay me'. In most cases it is very hard to say who is cheating: the sponsor or the webmaster himself! It could also be a competitor who wants to discredit an other sponsor. We don't put a sponsor on the blacklist for not having paid one or two webmasters, that would not be fair. It would help a great deal if the people who are 100% honest and didn't get paid by any sponsor tell us.

Ever been scammed? :batman: Please tell us!

I have seen some comments about LinkShare not paying. Well, they paid me, took a while though, but I have only one affiliate through them and they are a reputable company. I did however just sign up for an affiliate program that is information about how to save money with buying cars called Car Secrets Revealed.
http://www.carsecrets.com
Has anyone had any luck with them?