Adult FriendFinder is Commission Shaving
Written by Rosalind Gardner on October 16, 2006 · Comments (4)
Filed Under Affiliate Marketing, Scams & Scumbags ·
A friend sent me the following screen capture the other day and I’m SERIOUSLY pissed off.
As if any affiliate would be so stupid as to pop OVER their main site with just ONE of their merchant’s offerings, when they offer 30+ products.
Their site pops over mine for when anyone who has Zango software installed on their computer visits my site.
By Zango’s own account, they have 20 million users. They in fact have many more when you include everyone who downloaded their toolbar through MySpace.
So that finally accounts for the loss in dating service revenues I took last year from Sage-Hearts.com compared to the previous year.
More to come…
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4 Responses to “Adult FriendFinder is Commission Shaving”
John Russo on December 19th, 2006 6:43 am
Unfortunately greed has spawned deceptive and illegal buisness practices. The legitimate competitor is often forced to go along with deceptive companies to survive. Companies don’t always care where there profits come from or who gets the comission, if they pay it. Are there any answers to this? I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for government intervemtion. Instead we could use a site that would blacklist every company using deceptive practices to forewarn all possible consumers and affiliates. Lets just call it consumer education and protection. The best way to fight back is to hurt their pockets. Do they have a ppc campaign? How much would it cost them if they had to pay out for thousands of extra clicks per day with no results? Written compaints are good but affirmative actiob with results — PRICELESS.
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Jon on January 17th, 2007 16:10 pm
Ros this is happening more and more in the affiliate world.. we both encounter merchants who are assholes.. friendfinder had stopped paying me at one point.. why? because according to them most of my sales came from women and not men..
I said well maybe my site appeals to women more.. anyway i told them they better pay me or I would take legal action.. that soon got their ass in gear..
I dont trust them
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» AdultFriendFinder.com and the FTC on December 7th, 2007 10:23 am
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Alana on February 7th, 2008 0:52 am
Adult friend finder really upset me when they put my face on one of their ads that said — “Need sex tonight?” Click here……Someone I knew saw it and I was pretty embarrassed. I wrote them a letter about it and they did not reply.
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