Here is part of a thread I posted about a year ago on another forum: (May 2010)
5/28/2010: "I signed up to promote Blucigs back in April of 2009. Selling very well for about a month, until all of a sudden, my conversions went to -0-, while click-thru traffic actually increased. Several people that I knew personally made purchases through my websites (including my sister) that never showed up as sales in my stats. I even emailed the order numbers to BlueCig support, but those sales never did show up in my stats. The products, however, were eventually delivered.
After emailing everyone (April, Jordan, Support) at AEBN/Blucig, I expected the issue to get resolved. It has never been resolved, and needless to say I stopped promoting Blucigs on my websites.
I can understand a decrease in conversions, but to go from 1:39 to -ZERO- in one month? And not because my traffic decreased, it actually increased. My click-thrus increased. And it happened completely at the end of a month. Increased traffic yet zero conversions. Some confirmed sales too. It did not make sense.
I was disappointed in not being able to get this issue resolved and I'm sorry to say this did not have a happy ending. I still don't understand why AEBN failed to investigate this problem."
6/8/2010: "I finally received a response from the AEBN/BlueCig folks.
Although they have "access" to their old system, where all of the data is, they can't identify all of the traffic/conversions that I sent to their site beginning 6/1/09.
My stats at the time indicated the traffic I sent to them was increasing on a daily basis. I had received my initial check from them for around $400 (for the month of May). Beginning 6/1/09, the clicks increased substantially but my sales went from 1:32 to -zero-. Not ONE sale for the entire month of June 2009.
After several months of emails and no response from them, I discontinued promoting BluCigs and removed their Ads/banners and posts from all of my blogs.
My stats at the time showed over 1,000 hits sent to their site for the month of June 2009.
Their response to me:
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I may be able to credit 4 commissions from starter kits purchases. Commissions from starter kit purchases are $11.99 each (or they were back in June 2009).
We can add another two and offer four, but please be aware that would only amount to $47.96.
I've explained to management what happened but my hands are tied at this point.
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I'm very disappointed after all of the hard work I did to promote them. I would have started to promote them again had their "settlement" offer been a little more realistic. The problem belonged to them and originated with their affiliate system. I didn't contribute to the problem and was very effective at delivering traffic.
I'm also surprised at their response and expected more from a company like AEBN. Not a happy ending."