i think you need to get paid. Your rebills are still coming in, so i am guessing they are taking your hard earned money.

If we based the verdict through reasoning the accused (affiliate) won the case, a big company who uses copy and paste support is useless and they cannot be called as big company.

Risk Management department MUST contact you if there is an investigation happened and not the support with copy paste we might not know if they are real or not.

AWE should pay you including amount which is not credited to your account.

sue them.

If they are showing no proof that you did anything wrong, and considering your story is exactly like you tell us, THEN they should pay you...

Otherwise this is setting a very shitty precedent over here.

This is how adult works now....

By the way he is not unknow or new, he is well known on the gay boards and owns some paysites. Think he is just new at GFY. If it is who I think it is, and he is not at all known as a scammer. Not all people live on GFY esspecially these days there is little reason to come here.

They did the same thing to me:

https://gfy.com/showthread.php?t=998027

... that thing about how people that get bad service tell at least 20 people? It's true.

My advice, sign up for Chaturbate Whitelabels, I'm making more money there then I ever did with AWE and it will surpass even VideoSecrets, which is a good company I just don't think they've kept their whitelabel templates up... my money with Chaturbate is has been snowballing. Sign up under my affiliate link please.

Of course

best of luck mate.

Cliff notes?

Since when is this:

Your account has been terminated for violating our Terms of Service.
It has been reviewed by our Risk Management Department and your account is considered to be fraudulent.
Therefore and according to our Terms of Service your payments will be withheld.

a FUCKING explanation???

Closing an account without proper explanation sounds pretty fraudulent to me.

If OP's version of the story is honest and accurate - this is not good for AWE.

Cheaters never win.

so not only are they now screwing over their models lately, but also their affiliates...big fucking EL OH EL

^^^^this

I don't understand why a sponsor wouldn't inform the affiliate as to what specific practice allegedly violated the ToS. I can understand a sponsor not wanting to reveal how they discovered a violation (why make it easier for scammers to cover their tracks in the future), but if the affiliate was violating the ToS the company wouldn't be revealing any sensitive info by simply naming the specific violation. If the affiliate was scamming he would already have that information.

It seems wrong to me that a company could close an account and withold funds without even giving a concrete reason as to why. If the OP is being truthful, he's being accused of something that he can't defend because he doesn't know what he's accused of doing.

"Dear Affiliate,

As a result of this you will receive an additional $5.798.

Thank you for your understanding. If there is anything that we can do for you please let us know."

This showed me that I AM a respected webmaster

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AWE is not showing anyone anything that comes close to any sort of qualification or gratification. If it was only possible to buy for 5 Bucks some sort of AWE guarantee you`ll never get Ducked in the @s$ . I bet every webmaster would buy one.

AWE support piracy, so do you expect them to play fair with you ?

Many big piracy sites like Planet Suzy have their AWE banners and popups intact.

Promote something more reputable. Just because AWE are big doesn't mean that they're reliable or honest.

I don't know details of this specific case and din't read thread details, but,

I am the guy who write these "you do fraud, you not paid" emails for my program, and I can tell that if you don't write why it is considered fraud, even when it is actually a fraud (and the affiliate knows it)... most will simply reaply threating to write bad review in forums, and some will write actually (more likely in russian or black hat forums, than in GFY, but here too). So I find it especially silly not to write some cause or details, to at least have a base over which the affiliate could reply you rather than go start boicott campaigns on internet.
I am talking of actual fraud affiliates, who know they breach your TOS: they want you to tell how you caught them. Perhaps, so next time they will do better cheating and not be caught. In fact, at times here in GFY I told some of the fraud methods, and a cam site owner wrote me private email, suggesting not to help fraudsters with information how we catch fake signups and such, or they may evolve into less detectable frauds.
So one reason for a program not to give details, it could be to safeguard their way to catch the fraud, and not to teach fraudster how he is being caught - still this is the details, and a program could still give a minimal detail enough for fraudster to get the message that his trick is identified, but, not exactly how.

Of course I am not considering the option that a program is not honest and will want to save money by avoid paying affiliates who deserve it - mine post only states that (wheter it was a real breach or not, and the program is honest or not) it is silly not to specify what term was in breach, either real or an excuse. As generic "you made but, I will not even tell you what" messages, simply will cause anger.

Maybe you should work with a more reliable network :)

**hint hint**

All sponsors support piracy when they receive sales from such traffic.

Not true. Check your facts....

Pirate sites would remove AWE adverts if AWE did not paid. If you see AWE in sites it means that was paid. Anyway - most of the bigger sites AWWE ads and popunders it is direct prepaid deals, media buy of ad spots, not really affiliate material.

I wouldnt make a whitelabel because you don't even have to conferm email. When customer sees chaturbate all over a girls profile, hears them talking about it ect they going to go signup to chaturbate and you loose money.

any updates? i promote awe currently, but this thread (and other linked one, and the few others I've now found after searching for them..) makes me uneasy about them.

AWE are shady. I used to use them a long time ago on pre-paid deals. That's the ONLY way you should use them. If you sign with them as an affiliate then expect to get ripped off.

I had a few chargeback from another program and i was informed via email, they never closed my account. I have been promoting Awe in past with whitelabels etc, now i have not used their banners in over a year. A few weeks a go i got an email where they asked "where are you" LOL... I am here and no i am not going to add banners from your program on my sites.. :1orglaugh

This is cute anyway.

free bump for drama

http://i.imgur.com/3t63g.gif

Almost 4 days passed since I posted this, but AWE did not bother to reply. I did not even get a fucking answer to my email when I sent them the link to this post. Lesson learned?
Indeed.

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I doubt you will. Best you can probably do, is follow through on your threat to sue, and see where that leads you.

hope this gets resolved :2 cents:

I just don't get why AWE treat their affiliates with such disrespect.
A lot of affiliate programs bend over backwards to help you out. iFriends, Webcams.com, Pussyca$h, their affiliate managers work their asses off to help you make more money.

But not AWE, oh no, they would rather ignore you and hope you go away or threaten to ban you if you do something they don't like.

For a program that pays so well, it stinks.

they don't care, just pull your links

You respect all terms of the AWE ?Are you very sure ?

Well, this one is one of most shady ones ever, I remember times back in the second half of 2000s I sent them some nice chunk of good traffic, don't remember exactly how much (because I have not logged in to my account for years) but 7k-10k uniques for sure and I have never made a broken penny with it from that point I would never promote it again.

Sorry to say this but anyone who works in Fraud will tell you that you NEVER EVER tell the webmaster how you caught them.

Never.

If you do, you are helping them improve their game.

I am not saying the OP did something wrong and I have seen a LOT of accounts get canned because the program did not understand how the person was getting the sales/traffic and or ratios they were getting.

And for who ever said that no one gets 1/100 or under? Sadly to say I know people that average 1/12 or just above.

Depends on what you do and how you do it.

just wanted to comment on the irony here:
many sponsors will still claim they're doing these numbers when they try to get you as an affiliate, but when someone achieves this, they don't trust it :1orglaugh

This :2 cents:

I hope you will get paid. Best of luck.