Affiliate programs that cancel your account without telling you....
 

Ok, you want to cancel my account, not tell me.... then continue to send me promo content to keep adding to my sites?

:321GFY:321GFY:321GFY

name them :)

What did you do to get cancelled?

I sure as fuck didn't go ape shit playing tunes for the popo from my balcony.

I think you seem to be missing the point.

First of all I didn't do a damn thing.

Maybe send them traffic and make sales since the mid to late 90's?

I wouldn't ban ya for that. :1orglaugh

Funny, but kinda messed up. :)

Useless without sponsor name.

Had similar issues with Kinkydollars

I had issues with KD a few months ago. Fortunately they DID let me know my account was cancelled, and I was able to clear up the misunderstanding within a few hours. I am still sending them traffic and sales, they are still sending me cheques :thumbsup

I've had a ton of smaller sponsors cancel accounts without letting me know for who knows what reason - most of them were small ccbill sponsors.

You are on their mailing list - Its not the end of the world.

:2 cents:

eep - that doesn't make me feel good as their one I've been considering signing up with

i need to hit up KD, same issue here without notice my account is not working anymore :@

Mailing list? Being sent dead link codes?

Has happened to me twice in the last year both by big "reputable" programs

Easily. E.g. pimproll.com

i've only had this problem with nasty dollars and bangbros... happened multiple times with both of them so i quit promoting them...

For sure its not the big deal. Just keep checking all time your sponsors.

I've also had issues with kinkydollars. They're on my blacklist. Some sponsors you can trust, but kinkydollars you can not. When they fuck you, they will not email you. You will be lucky if they respond to you at all. If you have to promote them, choose PPS, otherwise in the end they will keep all your revshare rebills.

It is a VERY big deal. Why continue to bother sending me an email with "MY" linking codes, if I need to login every so often just to see if the account is still alive?

Its fucking shady.

Lets say you spend a shitload of time adding their content ... you login and your account is closed.

Now, Ive got to contact someone with the program. If I get a response and If I don't keep getting forwarded to someone else who can fix the situation, I have at least lost sales and traffic numbers for who knows how long?

Btw, Ive yet to still hear back from this company, so I will withhold any names unless I don't get a resolve. Not getting a response yet has pissed me off enough to come here and vent.

If you run an affiliate program like this. :321GFY:321GFY

what's wrong with kraft dinner?

Heh, I think he's confusing you with Chris formerly of AVN.

What are you guys doing to get your account nuked? I promote kinky dollars so i would be curious to know? People very rarely name the sponsor then they dont give details. What type of promotion would cause a sponsor to kill your account?

They mostly convert like crap nowadays, you can just get their members area at one of the many fetish torrent sites.

@tony, for me the clue came out of the resulting login url:
&reason=high+chargeback+ratio+2011

tyhe sad thing about it is i hardly and i mean really hardly make anything with them, so i kinda find it hard ot beleive that those few signups i produced over the years all charged back at once.

ive sent a message to terry over at kd lets see what comes out fo it.

to add to it, friend of mine had the same thing happen twice to him...

bangbros after my first pps sale

nastydollars
made with them more then 100k usd in the past years, only to have my account cancelled recently without any email, no replies to my emails at all. fortunately i wasnt promoting them heavily lately, only something like 50 clicks a day

Dude...I think you are mistaking "Evil Chris" for "Chris 2.0"

They are not the same person.

What happened to him anyway? He get the help he needed?

I have seen him posting recently.

Some sponsors get annoyed when you outrank them for their own terms in Google. Let's say you're 1st and they're 2nd, they think "All those sales would be coming to us without this guy anyway". I've seen this happen a number of times

karma catches up with idiots in the form of sites like cliphunter and xvideos

and then they end up not ranking for 1st or 2nd either, ive seen that happen :1orglaugh

I was wondering if that was the case. I see them and another big BDSM set of sites on torrents all the time ...guess it makes sense to try for someone less out there for the taking. Sad though to hear that KD is doing that crap - I've been a fan of their sites for some time. Letdown to hear.

some of them are even annoyed when you underrank them on the first page and then they force you to hand over your domains (eg. nastydollars did to me two years ago with daredom) They would probably rather see tubes or torrents in google on their SE paysite keywords.

I'm a bit confused - how do you know they cancelled your account? Can you no longer login, even though you still get the promos in your inbox?

This seems especially worrisome with CCBill programs where programs that close continue to linger in your list of sponsors, and 'logging in' to get your promo material is little more than entering your ID that gets inserted in the appropriate places.

This is not the issue in my case.

There really is no need to get technical about it and go off on these crazy theories as to why I got cancelled, or explain other reasons why people get cancelled.

Bottom line. If your going to cancel my account, send me a fucking email and let me know.

If you can take the time to send me dead fucking link codes every other day, you could have taken the time to send me a fucking email telling me you were cancelling my account.

How in the fuck does this happen anyway?

BTW, it is very interesting to see Nats step into this thread because the company in question uses Nats.

A question for you Nats.....

How does an account get cancelled and that now ex-affiliate still get emails with dead linking codes sent to him on a regular basis? Is that something built into the system? Or?

Please explain.

See that's the shit I am talking about. However, the clicks I was sending were more then 50 a day, but even if your only sending 50 a day, that is still bullshit to cancel an account when you have been a loyal affiliate for years.

This program uses nats.

I would need to know the details of your situation and look at how the NATS program is setup to give you exact answers on why you're getting emails.

If your question is whether or not it's by design or something we encourage to mail link codes & promo tools to banned affiliate accounts, then the answer is no.

Personally I always like to understand my enemy before engaging. :2 cents: One way or another like you say they are scammers; the word needs to get out and people need to start boycotting the sponsor

"banned" affiliates? Really? You want to use the term "banned"? Kind of harsh, since you say you don't know the details of my situation.

Here are the facts....

I've been an affiliate of a company for probably 15 years, that is now using your software.
I have taken a serious amount of time to add their promo content to my sites. NO rules were broken, and I've done NOTHING shady. Blog posts, TGP and MGP galleries, and 100% legal tube videos that they provided.

After all the hard work and effort, I go to log in and my account doesn't exist.

Yet I am still getting emails with linking codes.

Do I think you encourage people to be shady? No. I never asked that and wouldn't bother asking you such a question.

But they are using nats, my account is dead, and Im still getting emails with my so called link codes to their promo content.

They probably shut your account off from access. This just means your data is still in there system. Its not rocket science. Im sure they didnt delete your info. How else would they send you spam in the future.

wow i wonder who it could be ... :(

Really? No shit?

Why do you think your explanation should make a difference to me?

By the way, It's not rocket science to assume that was a possibility already.

Don't expect any smart guy awards in the mail. Smart ass... maybe.

By the way, that is exactly why I was asking John (Nats) about this.

Are either of you catching on yet?

Well whatever the case, I hope it works out for you.

if you're using NATS and you can't log in as an affiliate, someone clicked the "ban reseller" or "disable reseller" link. John wasn't being harsh, he was being accurate.
Most likely someone was cleaning out dead affiliates who haven't sent a join in a year or so.

We all know it's lame to disable active accounts without notifying the affiliates. But if it's NastyDollars or BangBros this sort of stuff has been going on with them as early as 2007 if you search the boards. If affiliates would do their due dilligence these sponsors would have had a hard time growing to the size they are.

If you'd like assistance with the situation I'm happy to try to provide it. However, I get the impression that's not what you're looking for here. Sometimes text can be misinterpreted however, so if it is what you're looking for, provide me some details, here or in private, and I can lend you a hand.