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Originally Posted by pornmasta
so invoice sent. Let's wait...
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Originally Posted by gamelinkjeff
We do not require an invoice and no one from our company (that I am aware of) has ever asked anyone to provide an invoice for payment.
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Uh, oh, Pormasta. I looks like you may have just gotten scammed out of your basic business information and some details of the business you've been doing with Gamelink. It's hard to seee how that info would be worth the scam effort; I hope the scammer doesn't have some clever way to hurt you with it.
Unfortunately this kind of scam will get easier in future, because there does seem to be a developing trend of a few programs trying to use invoices and paperwork demands to slow down the velocity of their affiliate payments (thus giving themselves interest-free loans on the float) and suck up free money from all the low-attention affiliates who aren't aware of the new payment requirements, especially if they aren't communicated clearly by affiliate email. DDFcash took quite a bit of flack (full disclosure, some of it from me) earlier in the month for doing this with a particularly confused (and never clarified) email to affiliates:
Hey DDF, go fuck yourself!
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Originally Posted by gamelinkjeff
In the future please contact me directly with any issues or concerns. It is usually faster and doesnt lend to the spread of misinformation.
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Meaning no offense to Jeff, who sounds very professional and helpful, this is what programs frequently say when questioned on industry forums. And it makes perfect sense
for them. They have nothing to gain from answering questions in public, especially when (as appears to be the case here) whatever has happened had nothing to do with them.
However, it does not always make the same kind of sense for affiliates. Here, it would have made sense; I always try to confirm a problem before I start shit in public, and when I've got something bad to say about a program here on GFY, it's because of their behavior here on GFY or because I have failed at resolving it through channels. But I can't tell you how many times (especially "back in the day" when companies were a lot more worried about the good opinion of the affiliate community) a company that's been trying to baffle me with bullshit in private has gotten a lot more helpful once their behavior has become a matter for public discussion. This isn't the powerful tool it used to be (see the DDF link for a fairly common in 2015 "affiliates can just go fuck themselves" attitude) but it still has a place. And if the invoice request pornmasta had gotten had been real, disclosing and complaining about it on the forums would have been (IMO) a perfectly legitimate thing to do. Sorry, Jeff!