Sending traffic to affiliate programs is not worth it
 

The main reason I started selling traffic over 10 years ago was because of the pain in the ass of actually getting paid for the money I made with a sponsor. Now it's just plain insanity. I only send to a few (mostly dating) sponsors as a affiliate and even these few the chances of actually getting what is MINE is bad. I'm so tired of having to chase sponsors down to get paid. Sick of the excuses, sick of the bullshit.

Whos not paying now?

The list of who is would be much shorter

Ok well who's paying?

I didn't make this post to out people who are not paying, but rather to vent my frustrations. Many sponsors are using the epass situation as a excuse to delay payments.

Yeah, horrible conversions these days even on SE traffic. I have thought about just selling my traffic to a broker or selling the network all together.

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Tom

Funny, you mention this. I just had to send off about my 5th email/icq message to a sponsor who owes me almost $500 for a payment I never received and they just totally fucking ignore me. It's been going on for almost a month now. I'm so fucking tired of this shit.

thanks for changing your avatar btw.

Well tell them to pay you via epass, I am sure they deposited the money they were going to pay affiliates into their wallet right? So why can't they pay you that way?

The only porn site I send to as a affiliate is videosz.com No problem gettng paid by them checks come like clockwork. Dating site conversions are great, actually way up the last three months. Problem is getting fucking paid.

I hear you. Then there are also issues which either outright or "Accidental" leaks and instances where I will not get credit for the sale. All sorts of bullshit. I'd be surprised if I'm really getting credit for at least 25% of all revenue I send in a revshare program at this point in time. It gets worse every year with the little tricks.

Then you have the idiots who switch affiliate backends or processors (i.e. no credit) entirely without even a courtesy note to affiliates. I know of at least 10 personally in the various niches I do and am switching them over this week (PITA). I'd like to track them down and chew them out but instead I'll settle for making sure they never get a single hit again from me.

So many crooks and assholes. What ever happened to a true 50/50 partnership? I make you money and you give me my cut. A simple arrangement. It makes me want to find a handful of sponsors willing to do a prepay deal instead...but even then....as you say, will they pay? I think a lot of it is really that these people don't know how to run a business and are only used to easy money. All marketing flash and scams, no traditional old school values or knowledge. Just grab as much money as you can today and be ready to run like some crooked used car salesman... Call me jaded. <sigh>

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Choker... it's why I sell my traffic too.

If you ever want to test out your traffic for cams, clickcash has paid on time, every week for me for over 10 years, let me know. Not sure how much success you have had with cams, but there is a lot that goes into how you promote it and the promos you use.

make your own paysite. shouldnt be so hard for you.

dumbest thing i've ever read. get off your high horse.

Just send traffic to CCBill programs and get paid directly by the biller. No problem!

Choker let it out! That's what GFY is about.

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Dumbest thread ever, what is this about?!

i was gonna say....ccbill pays, never had an issue with any payout off them, EVER!

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yep, and you are making 50% less cause of the way they scrub, congrats!

I wouldn't use any ccbill sponsor unless they had a backup biller for all the declines & they payout on the backup processor.

Hey Choker, what part of Miami are you in? I'm in the Palmetto Bay area.

fuck yeah ! :Oh crap:disgust:1orglaugh

lets sell traffic

Yes, some sponsors are delaying payments and using Epass as an excuse. I have one that froze my payment because I was using Epass. Well, I changed my payment option to check and sent them 3 emails informing them that I wanted my payment sent by check. All 3 emails were ignored. Bastards.

Same here and I'm about to start naming names.

i am trying every sponsor. and if some sponsor is not paying, i am simply not pushing it doesnt matter how great sites they have. paying sponsors get all my traffic and i am happy with that :2 cents:

how are people paying you for your traffic now that epass is gone?

one bro program sent me two useless epass payments after they told me i was switched to check. i think they are trying to dump their epass on affiliates. douche move for a brogram.

This may sound like a crazy question, but why is that people on this board are generally so hesitant to call out sponsors that are fucking them over?

It used to be well worth it. People used to get watches, video game consoles and all other kind of stuff as bonus...
Programs were throwing money around those days.

Our affiliate program pays on time.. thats the main reason I suse CCbill.. I have enough to worry about with making content, adn managing sites.. its so much easier to just not have to worry about paying affiliates on time and I can use all the traffic I can get. Other sites are closing down, but we are expanding...and it's alot to keep up with. makes it worth it to just pay ccbill their fees and not have to think about it.

Becasue when you call someone out on gfy in a fit of anger, and you are unwilling to share information that you dont think should be public.. and have no proof you get banned. Which makes sense becasue alot of assholes here like to go around the boards making trouble. Unfortunately, when someone does screw you over, and you get pissed and say something, they laugh at you while your banned and theyre screwing other people over, that are laughing with them, at you..
On GFY Ive had 2 deals go very BAD
I got banned once... for posting about it (without POSTING proof)
Which is obviously something that people are not always
ready to hand over because its sensitive information
and really whos the judge?
And in the long run it doesnt fucking matter anyway.
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Gotcha. That all makes good sense.

Only a idiot or someone I banned for cheating, or I hit ignore on icq on, would see this post as me on a "high horse". Which one are you?

Coming from somone who google bitchslapped to page 10 and has no traffic to send a sposnor anyway, yeah I can see how this thread is dumb to you. Idiot. lol

Not every day you see traffic sellers admitting their traffic aint worth it.

Dude swears up and down his site is doing perfectly fine and generating tons of money. :1orglaugh

But it is every day that a idiot like you tries to turn what someone says into something they didn't. Where did I say my traffic is not worth buying numnuts? I said it's not worth sending traffic to a sponsor as a affiliate. You have a reading problem or are you just a manipulative little bitch?

I actually need to update that I moved back to Orlando

You dident write it directly, but that is because you havent understood why the sponsors arent paying you on time. They are most likely not paying you on time, because the sales you are sending them, arent profitable.

Your own words: "I only send to a few (mostly dating) sponsors as a affiliate and even these few the chances of actually getting what is MINE is bad"

If the same thing happens to you over and over again, you should take a look at what the common denominator is - ie: you and your traffic. Or you can continue doing what you are doing now, and blame everyone else for your failures, problems or shortcommings.

It's like repeatedly running head first into a wall, and then blame your headache on the guy that put the wall there.

Bullshit.

Sale's arent profitable? How is a sale not profitable numnuts? It's not charged back, it's not refunded. It's just as profitable as any other signups. Someone paid with their credit card and DIDN"T charge back. How can that be "not profitable" for the sponsor? I'm refering to all the sponsors that have went out of business and not paid affilaites, the sponsors that you have to chase down to get paid, this has nothing to do with signups I send not being profitable. LOL. I'm guessing you are some fuckhead I banned for cheating and have a agenda against me. So lets post a list of sponsors that are delaying or not even sending payouts with the claim that peoples signups are not profitable enough for them to get paid what they are owed. I'm done with you.

Belive whatever the fuck you want. I'm not the one crying about every program cheating me, but wont name any names.

Your statement was just silly. The affiliate sends the sale and that's it. Unless there's fraud you pay all monies owed and then terminate the relationship if you don't like the traffic. To not pay is possibly fraud on your part. And look around, choker isn't the only one having trouble getting paid.

How about you just post a list of your sponsors that dont pay? just to support your claim.

It takes a lot more than one initial signup before the customer becomes a profitable customer. Maybe you should incorporate some business intelligence into your operation. If this is the level you operate on, I dont expect your datingsite to be a success.

Maybe the reason why you and sleazy fought so much, was because you remind eachother of yourself.

In a perfect or faultless world maybe. But when was Adultwebmastering either?

Well I don't think the expectation is unreasonable at all. If someone refuses to pay me with that excuse I'll call them a fraudulent sponsor. Especially considering that I do 95% revshare 5% PPS.

In this case I think your insinuation is even more silly based on the fact that choker, like him or not, isn't some new mystery affiliate who just showed up here a few months ago. Nothing personal and this is all I have to say on the matter.