DeluxePass will be closing on November 1st 2010
 

Hello,

Today is a day we have tried to prevent for quite some time. As you know, DeluxePass launched in 2000. It quickly became a mainstay for affiliate webmasters and adult film fans alike. Over the years we have worked with some wonderful people, including you, and we are very thankful for all the work you have done over the years with us.

Unfortunately, times are changing and the business model that used to work so successfully for DeluxePass simply is not sustainable anymore. We have been operating at a loss for a while and the death of mgps/tgps has had a seriously negative impact on our revenue. The high costs of hosting and management combined with the rapidly diminishing income generated by the site have created a climate in which we can not continue to operate the site effectively.

It is with great sadness that we are announcing the closing of the DeluxePass affiliate program. We have decided to close the affiliate program and focus our attention on other projects that have a greater chance of succeeding.

DeluxePass will be closing on November 1st 2010. Please make sure you change any links.

We understand it can take time and be an inconvenience to change links so we are giving you as much advance notice as possible. If you have any questions please contact us sometime during the next two weeks and we will gladly assist you as best we can.

Thanks you for your work as an affiliate webmaster, while we are sad to see DeluxePass go, we are glad we were able to help so many webmasters make significant money for themselves with DeluxePass over the years. It has been a great ride and we wish you the best of luck as you move forward to even bigger and better projects in the future!

Thanks,
The DeluxePass Team

Another one bites the dust!

So the site / sites are staying up but the affiliate program is going bye bye. Ugh. If not, what will you do with the content?

Nine or Ten days notice depending on where in the world you are. nice one.

I guess my sites should be taken down. Wonder if I can do that now. Use to be a pretty good program, but a little unattended to for the past little while. Literally no traffic anymore so it's no wonder it's closing. Why wouldn't they sell it?

damn that is sad news

nothing strange, also steam power is not so popular anymore ... :)

Well anyone looking to move links try www.justporno.com at www.nichewealth.com

It is unfortunate that DeluxePass has to close due to losses of income. Some businesses continue to operate with a loss of income with hopes of more profits in the future. Good luck, ruff.

a bunch of people were trying to get paid

I approve.

Times have changed. Wishing you the best in the mainstream world.

Man, it seems like most every day I get up to some BAD NEWS in the Adult Biz! This program closing, this guy's a scammer, Chris Mallick is a fucktard, on and on it goes. Sigh.

Hope this doesn't fuck you too bad Ruff. Sounds like DeluxePass was slowly dying anyway. :(

many sponsors don't even give a warning, many that do, give only a few days... :2 cents:

I haven't made any sales from them since I don't know when. At least they gave 11 days notice! The thing is they had a pretty good situation going on there, even now a pretty good deal for the surfer. Pretty much an autopilot type of thing.

Bad news :-/

That's truly sad. Deluxe Pass was the first adult program that I actually made some real money.

My AVS site sucked, and I could still pull 5-10 sales/day back in the good days.

RIP Deluxe Pass. I just hope you guys pay everybody (as I've seen more an more complaints over GFY about this).

:(

Wow. :(

I guess it was time.

Just looked at Stats Remote...I made $797,888.05 with Deluxe Pass

Paid a lot of bills with that money.

Bills? What kind of pimp lifestyle you livin' there in Vegas, babY? :1orglaugh

Damn, nice Robbie.

And for those others spamming their programs in this thread, do it in a different one.

Another one bites the dust.

This biz is getting worse every day.

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30 days is the standard expectation if at all possible + full payment of all rebills on rev share (if applicable) and where they will still be processing regardless of the status of the affiliate program. All payments presently due to webmasters should also be made according to the normal timetable or close to it. Just because others are scumbags doesn't mean the expectations should be lowered. :2 cents:

If a program doesn't do this I believe affiliates should consider blacklisting the owners and all future programs from them and follow them around to warn others when they start new ventures (mainstream or adult). You don't want to make it easy and without consequences to pull a "take the money and run". You have to make em pay for it.

Hey guys,

I just wanted to clarify a few things:

- All of the payments owed until the site shuts down will be paid out.
- The current deluxepass members are going to be cancelled and the sites/affiliate program closed.
- We're going to focus on our other sites such as videosz.com / ztod.com / thirdmovies.com and blackicepass.com

We're definitely sad to see it go, it was a good 10 years, we paid out close to 200M to affiliates in 10 years. I'm personally happy about that, I know a lot of guys made a lot of money with our work and we're still doing that over at videosz.com and ztod.com.

If you have any questions, please email me at [email protected]

Thanks

Clement makes me hardddddd

This is sad news, but an understandable business decision.
DeluxePass has been a great success and made many webmasters wealthy over the years.

Thanks to Clement and DeluxePass for the many good years.

Good luck with your remaining sites.

Et Bien ...

Times change and we just have to Adjust and find New Ways to generate some business and new Models that can generate revenues on a long term basis...

Tx for getting the Business where it is Clement ... we need peeps like you and I am sure we will do some great Business in a Near Future you and Gammae.

Best of luck with all your other projects.

That's kinda sad... :(

Sorry to see the program shut down Clement. You guys had a hell of a run though :thumbsup 10 years is nothing to sneeze at in this business.

Sad day indeed.. sorry to see it go! I made alot of coin with you in the past, good luck!

That sucks good luck

Sorry to see it go too, it was one of the best programs in my entire adult biz career :(

I am still sending a few sales there each month and I have some rebills there, so less money again ;(

I hoped you would keep the rebills running, but I see its not the plan.

Well, time to move on :)

So it's their own fault. :2 cents:

RIP DP. :anon

another shitty day :(

Congrats on a good 10 years! Sorry to see it end this way. Sign of the times, I guess :(

A great program back in the day. Evolution.

As long as VideosZ has a future im a happy man.

pot meet kettle. you're company is the worst brown nosing rep army on the planet. keep it real chicky!

If you guys don't want the program anymore, can I have it? I'll run it for you, get it going again. It's really too nice to shut down. Seems like it could be great again if someone got busy on a daily basis with it.

where are my $50 bucks deluxepass

I got started with DP. In a nutshell DP funded my current program. It's sad to see them go.
Duke