Indeed, ask about payments and sales disappear :disgust

i say keep bumping it till they pay up...

not good, not good at all :(

If everyone would turn off the water....so to speak, they may get their shit together. If I was an affiliate going through what you guys have gone through, listening to bullshit excuses, not getting paid.....I would have dumped them long ago.

Leaving links active only makes them more money and you less. Why not switch to another program where your hard work is paid for? And you get paid on time!

Bottom line, no one works for free and they are feeding off every affiliate?s hard work that is still promoting them. :disgust

I've been getting bullshit excuse after bullshit excuse for months now, everytime I call or contact them I hear the same things...empty promises that I'm going to get paid that day, the next day, whenever they tell me -- each time that date goes by and no payments are made. I could probably list 20 excuses I've heard the past 2.5 months.

Broke? lol Joe makes like $30mil a year

Excuses the past couple months

- someone quit from account and things are behind, will be back to normal next week.
- accounting department was overhauled, will be back to normal shortly.
- you will be paid Monday, then Monday comes...you will be paid Friday...and repeats.
- Joe needs to sign off on the payments (heard this a couple times, over the course of 2.5 months)
- accounting guy (Robert) isn't in, will be next week.
- was told by Sylvia that payments were going out for sure between the 11th - 15th of August, no payments made.
- Robert had to have his gallbladder removed won't be in until next week.
- sent my epassporte to my GGW login username instead of my epassporte username on the account (this happened once in May and was reversed). Last I talked to them a few days ago they used this excuse again, however...nothing has shown up in my epassporte account since they said it was reversed again.
- couple weeks ago someone new started in accounting, again promised me payments were going out that day and nothing...then said by the end of the week...and of course nothing.

That's no good.

It sounds like they are feeding every one a pile of horse shit and window dressing with all these excuses.

Wasn't there another excuse that they were switching banks or something like that?

They know exactly what is going on and you as an affiliate will be the last to know. I mentioned before, shut off the money train and see how quick they come back with more apologetic excuses...asking for more time and for all affiliates to be patient.

I have a feeling the check in the mail is nothing more than a stall tactic, besides that, their excuses are lame and unprofessional. Even if they paid up, would you still be willing to deal with a company that treats its affiliates in this manner???

I wish you all the best of luck getting paid, but I would not hold my breath waiting on them to come through.....sad, but true :disgust

yeah, i got the switching bank excuse back in June and then again about a week ago...it's funny, cause all the time on the phone I'll remind them and be like "oh yeah, you used that excuse 2 months ago"...and then they'll feed me some other bullshit.

As far as using them again, I wouldn't as my main sponsor right away...but would send them some traffic just to see if they got their shit together and started paying out on time. The conversions are too good not to use them, if they pay on time.

Bump for you guys :thumbsup

It doesn't surprise me at all that a rep from GGW has not posted in this thread to explain the excuses given to their loyal affiliates.......

Now, they aren't answering e-mails at all, probably runned out of bs excuses

Damn that sucks. Webquest's name being on it was the only reason I was willing to send them traffic in the first place.

Companies that were big in other areas (print, dvd, etc) and then moved to the web usually failed miserably (penthouse) and/or screwed over affiliates pretty bad (vivid)

So the only time I'm willing to promote guys like that is if they've partnered up with a name I do know and trust (playboy with Lensman for instance)


FWIW, almost all big sponsor programs have a "drunk girl" "party girl" "spring break" style site in the GGW vein. I would suggest that people switch their links out to those sites so you'll at least make something off of the residual traffic.

I'd also like to point out that I see GGWcash is still a top banner sponsor here at GFY.

So maybe someone can point out to the mods that GFY is endorsing a sponsor that isn't paying it's affiliates.
That's not gonna make the other banner sponsors happy.

Yes because gfy listens to members.............

lol. Im still getting bullshit excuses from them. Im about ready to get my attorney on this and sue them not only for the money owed, but my time, bandwidth, and punative damages resulting from them not living up to the agreement that THEY designed and I agreed to.

I send sales, they pay me. Not happening. This is the last thing Joe needs on top oif his already troubling legal battles. My links were pulled long ago, but unfortunately the tally is too high to forget about.

They have exactly 30 days from date of this post to get me my cash. I will never send them a single solitary hit ever again and will do my best to make sure that nobody ever sends them traffic. Now it doesn't even matter if they pay me, because they will never be "stand up" in my book.

And poor Sylvia. Her name is now on the blacklist too. I don't care if she is just an employee or "she has no control over it..."

Someone is paying her, she is accepting checks from a scumbag company. I wonder if her's are bouncing or not showing up? I doubt it. It's called a SCAM.

And yes, they are a top sponsor here at GFY. Im not sure if they prepaid for the spot months ago or if GFY just doesn't look at whose paid them and who hasn't and just keep the banner in rotation.

Pay us our fucking money you cocksucking douchebags. :2 cents:

Yeah, just did this recently. If you are looking for ggw alternatives I started a thread on this: http://www.gfy.com/fucking-around-and-business-discussion/849204-ggw-alternatives-spam-post14636276.html might be helpful

They probably won't do anything, what sucks because new webmasters might be signing up for a scam right now :2 cents:

Bump for the affiliates that should be paid for their work :thumbsup

Fuck, I got a $300 check I haven't cashed.

He MrPinks was it a check with their new bank on it "Washington Mutual Bank"? Don't want to even try to cash the one check I've got in the past 3 months if it's going to bounce. It is dated 7/31/08.

bumped for some answers from ggw

I am now missing four payments for these periods
08/01/2008 - 08/15/2008
07/16/2008 - 07/31/2008
07/01/2008 - 07/15/2008
06/16/2008 - 06/30/2008

I email and ICQ GirlsGoneWildCash weekly. During this stretch of no payments, my emails started on July 22nd and I've been told payments would be made a few times. Now I get the same replies along the lines of - Our online accounting dept is working to get this payment issue resolved as soon as possible which isn't promising.

2 Fucking checks from these guys bounced. Then my bank hit me with a fine, so it was actually costing me money!

Back when the checks were from "mantra" everything went fine, the onle 2 "sands media" checks I got bounced.

BEWARE OF CASHING THEM!

fuckers owe me close to 2k!

It was a "Sands Media" check. Hope that helps.

They has been riping off there customers for years and you guys helped. Now you get ripped off and you act all surprised.

just got a check for first period of July.

any bounced checks more?

Some scaryyyy shit..

Just went to the bank to find out my check bounced too. why they bother sending checks when they cant pay for them?

Sounds like it's time to pull all links down.

I had a feeling about these guys a while back....
Writing bad checks is a crime and maybe ole Joe will get slapped with this too, beings it is his company.

Real class act program. I am sure affiliates will be given another excuse.

:321GFY:321GFY:321GFY GGW!

I GUESS IT'S TIME TO KEEP THIS BUMPED TO THE TOP SO OTHERS WILL GET THIS INFORMATION!

Bump for affiliates that are being burned.

I just received an ePassporte payment from them for an amount that I wasn't expecting.

For which period?

They can't pay affiliates because they have to pay for their advertising on gfy. Their banners here attract new webmasters to generate new sales so they can pay for more advertising on gfy to bring in more naive webmasters, its a vicious circle.

Just got an ePass payment too!

This email is to inform you of a transfer of $2182.95 to your account from ePassporte Account Holder SandsMedia.
Description: mantra 6/16

I was just paid today for 08/01/2008 - 08/15/2008

I am now missing three payments for these periods
07/16/2008 - 07/31/2008
07/01/2008 - 07/15/2008
06/16/2008 - 06/30/2008

I don't know, the description field is empty :(