Adult FriendFinder is Commission Shaving
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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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.
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
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.
I am Glad that this BLOG exist to WARN the affiliates community about this FRAUDSTERS ! Namely Andrew conru , lars and Company !!
Well i am going to Spread this Message across the Internet to Warn my Fellow affiliates Webmasters Bro and Sis about this Scam by them
I Have been Promoting their Affiliate Programs Since the days even before they merge with Penthouse , i just wanted to warn and offer my advice that these company namely >> AdULTFRIENDFINDER INC and CAMS .COM SHAVES Affiliates Commissions !
I came to know of one of their Ex Programmer who used to work for them through my cousin who was in the Corporate IT industry , what he told me about the dirty Secrets which had been going on literally SHOCK ME !
I was like FUCK ! all my hours Spend Promoting their Sites earns me PEANUTS already and these LOW LIFE actually SHAVES our commission further DOWN !!
So we actually EARNS an atom of PEANUTS !!! THATS is SCAM !I was pissed off from then on and had stop PROMOTING THEIR SITES , they like to entice you with their PAYOUT and competition Awards ! But actually they shaves Further to use that pool of money to be given as prize to other NEWBIE Potential Affiliates !
ALL in ALL – Dun waste your time promoting these SCUMBAGS ! You will regret it eventually
WHY not Give them a TRY NOW and Promote them to see if what i say is True ! i cAN ASSURE you that your affiliate commission would be SHAVED even though you promote them like crazy with your hardworking hours !
FOR THE GOOD of HUMANITY PLEASE SPREAD THIS MESSAGE ACROSS and HELP OUR FELLOW WEBMASTER AND ASPIRING NEWBIES FROM BEING SCAM and CON BY THIS SCUMBAGS >> ADULTFRIENDFINDER INC and CAMS .COM
Although I work in a different industry this sort of thing affects my commissions too. I remember back in the day doing battle with Gator – at the time many gambling affiliates got together and challenged the legality of Gator – and we did get a a resolution in that they couldnt target personal websites anymore. Facebook addons seem to spawn a number of nasty insidious toolbars, adbars and redirects. With Facebook being almost universal this is reaching epidemic propertions and it does have a serious impact on the money we make