Thread: If you don't make money they are going to charge YOU ?!!

I can almost see the logic, but it's not good PR.

Hopefully all those here won't fall into the category they describe!

Ben.

No, not going to worry anyone here !!

The way I read it - if you thought about starting an affiliate scheme six months ago but never went ahead then now you start getting charged 10$ a month for the next six months after which they close the account.
So suddenly, people that probably can't even remember who CJ are, start getting bills through the door.
Wouldn't like to be on the customer services telephones at CJ !!

The joys of making corporate moves !

Aly

The way I read it, they are going to put the charge onto your account rather than bill you for it. Then after six months they just close the account.

If they are planning on actually billing this then they should be giving people the chance of closing the account if they don't want it.

Yup, makes more sense that way !

Aly

<blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>If they are planning on actually billing this then they should be giving people the chance of closing the account if they don't want it. [/quote]

Ive got a spare account that I havent used for over a year, how'd I close it?

Well it was ages before I ever started to earn anything from CJ. I could well have had my account closed a few years ago if this had been the rules then...
Suppose there's good and bad points to it.

Cheers
Wardy

Very true, my spare account was my first account which I opened something like 4 years ago.. back then they had very few if any UK merchants. I never even made enough to get a payment in 4 years lol.

Theres about $10 in there. If they had this system then I would have been kicked out and very unlikely to get back in.

Look on the bright side, most other people wont know how to make money on the net (it took me 6 months to earn anything with CJ)... so will drop the ads and close the accounts = less competition & less ads on the net LOL.

"No, not going to worry anyone here !!"

Speak for yourself! :rollin:

With $21 in 6 weeks, with 3 merchants, I reckon I'm perilously close <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/ohwell.gif ALT=":\">

I think the key thing here is active, all you had to do is make 1 sale in 6 months.. I can understand this to be a problem for brand new folk but most people should manage 1 sale... And if you can't buy something small via one of your links at least once in 6 months and you will get to stay active

Well, I guess they would need to be reasonably lenient about this new idea, if they had introduced this system a few years back I doubt if anyone on this board would have an account.

Anyway I would have thought it was a good marketing thing for CJ to say to prospective merchants "hey, we've got XXX million of publishers" rather then saying "hey, we've got 20 but there all ****hot!"

I would rather have 100 ****hot then 10,000 monkeys!

But your right, heck imagine if TD had that in place when I started with them, I joined up and never done a thing for close to 6 months, the moment I found the merchants I could work with I was making thousands per month for not only me but TD.

I discussed this with a friend today - who is dropping CJ for other reasons.

I suspect that bandwidth of badly placed banners costs a lot of money, decreases performance of merchants stats and slows the whole thing down.

In some ways it will be a good thing, but for a lot of people the learning curve is slow and some people will get dropped unfairly perhaps.

I assume it'll impact the $$$$$ rating system too, if the overall number of affiliates is reduced.

If it means there are fewer competitors I'm not sure that'll make a difference as the ones being removed are the weaker ones. Maybe some of those naff sites will be got rid of (You know the ones with 6-7 banner ads on a page and then 4 popups).

On the other hand we should be asking perhaps that CJ supports new affiliates - you never know when they might decide they only want the affiliates who earn over 10k a month.

Maybe we should offer them a buddy system? So that good affils can adopt a new one? (Although we might want the 5% forever bounty reintroduced for that)

A company we know registered us as an referred affiliate, they had been inactive for over 6 months, their account was closed without notification and they lost their 5% over ride, they are quering this with CJ which has taken too long and looking at alternative ways to claim their entitlement.