Hundreds of merchants "stealing" commissions?
12-17-01, 03:42 AM
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Hundreds of merchants "stealing" commissions?
I got this email earlier today from one of those "paid for reading email" sites and they (and others) are apparently having trouble getting paid from many merchants because of some "'fraudulent' business practices". I do not have a site myself, but thought that some may find this interesting....
Geof, many of the DVDTalk affiliates seem to be listed; any trouble with your commissions?
Geof, many of the DVDTalk affiliates seem to be listed; any trouble with your commissions?
For sometime now we have been legally battling Merchants and advertisers:
1. Who owe us over $100k for traffic.
2. Who have ripped us off by deleting us as affiliates for
generating extremely high traffic and simply ignoring our
emails and simply refusing to pay us what we were due.
3. Who have systematically 'conspired' to cheat us
by failing to track your visits, sales, leads and/or simply
never reported them to the third party tracking people so
we and you would get credit for them.
4. Who use 'scumware' to divert your visits and sales to
other parties who get credit for them and prevent us from
recieving any funds we would have been due so we can pay
you.
As a result we have been building a coalition of affiliate
based marketers to go after every merchant and ad network
guilty of these 'fraudulent' business practices.
Today we unveil the new: MERCHANTSBOYCOTT web site.
So please go view the page, read it closely, check out the
merchants involved, and when you are done reading, send as
many people to the merchant boycott site as you can.
We are taking an active legal effort to recover the funds
due us.
Thank you all for your efforts and Merry Christmas and
Happy New Year.
Over 500,000 people just like you will apreciate any help
you can give us.
http://www.merchantboycott.com
1. Who owe us over $100k for traffic.
2. Who have ripped us off by deleting us as affiliates for
generating extremely high traffic and simply ignoring our
emails and simply refusing to pay us what we were due.
3. Who have systematically 'conspired' to cheat us
by failing to track your visits, sales, leads and/or simply
never reported them to the third party tracking people so
we and you would get credit for them.
4. Who use 'scumware' to divert your visits and sales to
other parties who get credit for them and prevent us from
recieving any funds we would have been due so we can pay
you.
As a result we have been building a coalition of affiliate
based marketers to go after every merchant and ad network
guilty of these 'fraudulent' business practices.
Today we unveil the new: MERCHANTSBOYCOTT web site.
So please go view the page, read it closely, check out the
merchants involved, and when you are done reading, send as
many people to the merchant boycott site as you can.
We are taking an active legal effort to recover the funds
due us.
Thank you all for your efforts and Merry Christmas and
Happy New Year.
Over 500,000 people just like you will apreciate any help
you can give us.
http://www.merchantboycott.com
12-17-01, 05:35 PM
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Ah, I see. There is a site called " www.whenu.com ", which keeps track of what site you are at. If you are at a site which they are affiliated with (and the list is very long), they will have a browswer which pops up and tells you things about the site or something, including coupons.
The problem appears to be that if you were to, say, visit amazon from the DVDtalk link, the whenu site will take over once you visit Amazon and they would get the credit. The funny thing is is that whenu is a pay service, it is not free to use.
I think that there was a similar thing with gator.com , they were doing something like replacing ads on sites with their own ads, or something like that.
I believe that the stores are still paying the commissions, just to whenu instead of whereever the surfer linked to the site.
The problem appears to be that if you were to, say, visit amazon from the DVDtalk link, the whenu site will take over once you visit Amazon and they would get the credit. The funny thing is is that whenu is a pay service, it is not free to use.
I think that there was a similar thing with gator.com , they were doing something like replacing ads on sites with their own ads, or something like that.
I believe that the stores are still paying the commissions, just to whenu instead of whereever the surfer linked to the site.
