Originally Posted by pompousjohn

It's about the principle of the thing.

I choose be someone who does the right thing and pay what I owe. And I choose to work exclusively with others who do the same.

Of course I could say "well, I can just hide 10% of these joins and not pay for them" and likely no one would notice and if they did there are plenty of excuses. At the same time I could work for someone like that as well, and probably make a living with my 90%.

But its not like that. There's a mindset in marketing that all the scammers have, and its never pay a dime that you don't absolutely have to. It's like a short in circuitry that destroys all the efficiency of a process. If they owe you 10 and pay you 9, and you are ok with it next week it'll be 8 and finally you'll be lucky to get 1/10th of what you earned. If someone owes me 100 bucks they need to pay me 100 bucks. 0 is the wrong amount to pay and so 10, 50 and so is 99.99

Nothing on my part had changed. And we tested with email addresses of our own and were not getting the credit for them. Even when we told them we were going to test forms etc.

Sad really.

Company was out of business soon after.


All of you apologists saying "shave me all you want, just make it look like my clicks are valuable and leave me enough to buy more traffic to send you" - I don't know in a way I want to say I hope you get what you deserve, but that supports the people doing it so I don't know. I just hope you realize a thief is a thief, whether he steals a lot or a little, if you keep him around he will eventually take it all because he is not interested in giving value for value, just in taking whatever is not nailed down.