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Originally Posted by deltav
Only in this industry do you get quotes like this:
I don't get it. Is it some ego thing innate to online adult, where the line between a True Playa and just some pasty guy in his mom's basement slinging porn is thin enough that people have to show off how well they're doing, that $70 owed shouldn't even register on their radar? And if it does for anyone else, they're a "chump"? You see this all the time and it comes across as insecurity.
Again, in other industries this doesn't fly. I do alright monetarily, but if the phone company owes me $70 credit from a closed account I sure as hell expect them to pay. If I do a couple hours consulting work for a client, again I expect that $70 or whatever.
And yeah, if I'm closing my account with a program I'd expect a payout upon request. It is sales made, work done. Never had this denied. I probably have at least several hundred dollars still kicking around programs that I don't promote anymore - most likely wouldn't take the trouble to pursue that $$$ after reading threads like these, but it would be nice to have the option to withdraw. With the amount of money programs pocket via hundreds of affiliates who don't make that minimum (and again the OP *did* make it and received checks, the site just stopped converting before a final check could be issued), you'd think they wouldn't mind.
That being said, calling it a "scam" in the OP is stupid too. People need to take a deep breath before tossing a thread up on here, think carefully about using words like "scam" "cheat" or outright accusing someone of content theft without knowing the details (as happened the last couple days).
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No but it's called spending your time on certain things and not being an asshole. Sure the OP got his money, but he called a program for scammers when they weren't and he really owe them an apology.
I just checked - and I have around $1100 below minimum payout for programs I hardly send traffic to, this is just quick math by glancing at numbers from nifty stats, it's bound to be much more because many I don't even track anymore.
I could chase all those different programs or I could spend my time more productively. Because I presume, that now that he had his affiliate account closed and the funds paid out, that he also removed ALL the content he used to promote the affiliate programs paysites... and not just the links right? For me that would take ages, since I worked so wrong the first 3 years doing all of this that all old stuff is not tracked right and I have hits coming from places I can't even identify anymore. So I'd much rater just let old shit sit (or close the sites as time goes by) and work on something that I know makes me money.
So this isn't insecurity or anything about a bro club, it's about spending your time right.
You could also argue, that if a program has a minimum payout threshold that you are made aware of when you enter into an agreement. Then the money you've earned aren't really yours until you go above said threshold. But I am no lawyer. And I run CCBill programs so I don't have to deal with stuff like this
peace.