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Originally Posted by adendreams
You quote a shady business practice then say: "Then when they don't get paid we see a thread like this." SO you accuse me of something and then un-accuse me of it on the next sentence by saying "Not saying that this is the case" Ok man.
Just so its nice and sparkling clear what my biz practice is here is EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED:
(in chronological order)
1. I planned a show (actually series of shows) for broadcast on ImLive.
2. My performers applied for cam model accounts with ImLive. (legal age US citizen, valid ID)
3. I started letting the word out about the upcoming shows and promoting ImLive with my affiliate referral tracking code.
4. Many legitimate members clicked on my referral links and joined ImLive in anticipation of my planned cam model shows.
5. Imlive took much much longer than I anticipated for the performer approval process to go through, the IM live support was non-responsive when asked why it was taking so long. Questions to the ImLive support about rules and regulations went unanswered. - Also at this point in time my ICQ messages to Oren went ignored.
6. Many of my referred members did not spend money on other performers on ImLive because they were waiting for my talents shows to begin (of COURSE they didnt spend their $25 in credits yet - they were waiting for MY SHOWS)- thus causing the ImLive fraud prevention unit to wrongly accuse me of fraud and terminate my account because they didn't use their credits soon enough. The members were then terminated and not issued refunds for their un-spent credits.
7. I get a few words in an email with no explanation or any reasoning and told the decision is final and irreversible.
PC can you dispute any one of those 7 points?
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I was waiting to comment until I found out your promotion methods. You've explained it well and the reason for your member referrals waiting to spend, makes sense according to your scenario. What specific policy did they say you violated?
The main reason I believe you were scrutinized and your sales cancelled is simply because of how ridiculously high their pps payout is. When a cam program offers $200-$300 per sale and they realize that they are losing money on every one of your referrals, suddenly finding a reason to terminate the affiliate and not pay out becomes a necessity. Had you been promoting a program with the standard pps cam payout of $50-75, I would venture to say they would have had zero issues with your referrals.
I've promoted just about every cam program over the last 15 years and learned a long time ago to stay away from any cam program that offers the huge pps promotions. ($200-300/sale) Mainly that's been Cams.com, AWE and Pussycash/Imlive. Every time I moved my traffic to their promotions I always ended up making much less then when the same traffic was going to other programs with a pps much lower.
Anyhow, I don't see how you violated their tos if you did exactly as you say and I think at the very minimum you should at least be paid out money owed.