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Eric
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Hi all,
After four long weeks of testing I have come to the conclusion that CJ is ripping me off. Here is what brought me to this conclusion.
02-15-05
I got an e-mail from a customer who purchased a backpack off of one of my travel sites. The e-mail was not at all related to Commission Junction, the customer had just gotten the product and had a few questions about the best way to use it. This instantly struck me as odd because I had not seen anything on CJ about the product being sold. In fact not single backpack had been sold for three weeks, I have only seen money coming in from rail passes and hostel bookings. The customer faxed the paper that came with the product and sure enough it had been purchased from e-bags through my affiliate link through CJ. I contacted CJ and was told it was not reported from e-bags. I contacted e-bags and was told it had been reported to CJ. Someone is lying right? Next step, find out if it would happen again.
02-28-05
I ordered a backpack myself using a Paypal debit card with a business name on it that differed from my CJ account name. Pack shows up 5 days later, CJ gives me no credit whatsover. Keep in mind these are several hundred dollar backpacks. The big travel style packs so surley I would get a commission of some kind. Huh, maybe my link is being highjacked right?
03-09-05
I ordered a pack in my name, the same name the CJ account is in. This time I ordered a much smaller one so as to not spend a fortune on trying to figure this all out. Guess what happened? I made 6 bucks off the sale.
So it cant be the affiliate code, it seems to work if I order in my own name but if someone else orders through that company I get nothing. Neither company is taking blame, or even taking a step to look into it from what I have seen.
Anyone else have situations like this? This could really hurt me as backpacks are a part of my keyword optimization and I am ranking quite well. At this rate I could be selling a crap load of backpacks and getting nothing for it.
Thoughts?
After four long weeks of testing I have come to the conclusion that CJ is ripping me off. Here is what brought me to this conclusion.
02-15-05
I got an e-mail from a customer who purchased a backpack off of one of my travel sites. The e-mail was not at all related to Commission Junction, the customer had just gotten the product and had a few questions about the best way to use it. This instantly struck me as odd because I had not seen anything on CJ about the product being sold. In fact not single backpack had been sold for three weeks, I have only seen money coming in from rail passes and hostel bookings. The customer faxed the paper that came with the product and sure enough it had been purchased from e-bags through my affiliate link through CJ. I contacted CJ and was told it was not reported from e-bags. I contacted e-bags and was told it had been reported to CJ. Someone is lying right? Next step, find out if it would happen again.
02-28-05
I ordered a backpack myself using a Paypal debit card with a business name on it that differed from my CJ account name. Pack shows up 5 days later, CJ gives me no credit whatsover. Keep in mind these are several hundred dollar backpacks. The big travel style packs so surley I would get a commission of some kind. Huh, maybe my link is being highjacked right?
03-09-05
I ordered a pack in my name, the same name the CJ account is in. This time I ordered a much smaller one so as to not spend a fortune on trying to figure this all out. Guess what happened? I made 6 bucks off the sale.
So it cant be the affiliate code, it seems to work if I order in my own name but if someone else orders through that company I get nothing. Neither company is taking blame, or even taking a step to look into it from what I have seen.
Anyone else have situations like this? This could really hurt me as backpacks are a part of my keyword optimization and I am ranking quite well. At this rate I could be selling a crap load of backpacks and getting nothing for it.
Thoughts?
