12-04-2010, 06:13 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: South Florida
Posts: 211
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Originally Posted by signupdamnit
Seriously if you're really legit and didn't do anything deceitful take this as a lesson to do your due diligence before launching a major promotion with a sponsor and move on. You have a good source of leads and you can do business with others instead. Fuck 'em. If you're really pissed tell your people not to buy anything from them again or perhaps even chargeback if they feel scammed. AWE won't gain a thing from that and this thread has probably already hurt them in an amount greater than what you lost.  |
Thank you for a thoughtful and well written comment. You showed me some respect while demonstrating some skepticism. You sir are an excellent example of a fair-minded person.
Somewhere in this thread I lamented that I did not do my homework before signing up with AWE. It will prove to be an expensive mistake.
$11,000 is a good sized amount of money to me. I have a few projects I'm working on that suck every penny I make.
I will make it my MISSION IN LIFE to make sure that every webmaster knows about AWE and their slimy business practices .. many of which have been chronicled here long before I ever started this thread.
I WILL get the lawyers involved ... but it won't be JUST ME. Other webmasters have contacted me and indicated they would want to join me in my fight.
AWE's figures that when a webmaster has a complaint that they'll just go away rather than fight.
I gave Mickey MANY OPPORTUNITIES to resolve this in a private, civilized way. He dragged things out and then we ended up right back where we started. At one point he took a swipe at me publicly for privately offering them an opportunity to make this go away in a way that would "save face" for all parties.
AWE: Be advised
THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING:
One of the lawyers that contacted me has such a 'bug up his ass' about AWE that he'll take the case PRO BONO -- for FREE. All we need to do is pay the out-of-pocket costs. He was really pissed when AWE retroactively SCREWED THEIR WEBMASTERS when they UNILATERALLY changed the referral payouts. We've begun the process of collecting info from webmasters around the world.
I'd like to see 20 or more other webmasters join us. That would surely get lots of coverage in the trade magazines and sites. One publication has already contacted me. More will follow.
Mickey: I got you a lot of sales and would have gotten lots more if you had not been a such a greedy, short-sighted man. I wonder where AWE would be if you had not been so dis-respectful to the people that are making you money.
Does the money you make with your slimy business practices make up for the honest business you lose when good affiliates drop you in the blink of an eye, or never sign with you in the first place?
The $11,000 you ripped me off for will be the most expensive screwing you ever perpetrated on an affiliate.
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