I emailed this thread to Kelly at Penthouse and she replied saying that she would put someone from digital on the boards to straighten this out. That was Sept 26th.
i believe aff switches you to rev share only when your traffic isn't cutting it.
if you don't have a signup in 20 unique they switch you to rev share.
My name is Ruben I work for Friend finder Networks for over 14 years, If you have good traffic
we have a home for all your traffic. We pay millions of dollars a month on affiliate basis.
Its call business for a reason if the traffic that some people send is not backing out we have
its written on the affiliate program terms that we have the right to convert the accounts.
If the traffic that is the x affiliate is not backing out and if the affiliate works with us 9times out of 10 WE will meet you in the middle.
If you or anyone you know have some traffic again I have home for it. We have being on business for over 20 years we still strong we are the number 1 adult dating site in the world for a reason.
Hit me up directly if you have any questions about your affiliate account.
Ruben [email protected]
FriendFinder Networks
Business Development Manager.
skype: r_rodriguez_ffn
Office: 1-408-745-5466
Stop promoting them a while ago after Promis from Account manager to get pay PPC and after the first checks they sent without any warning switch to Rev share ...
Dishonnest behavior from a sponsor and there is plenty of story about it but i did not listen others warning me.... Hardhead i am .
Will never promote any site link to AFF. Lesson learned
My name is Ruben I work for Friend finder Networks for over 14 years, If you have good traffic
we have a home for all your traffic. We pay millions of dollars a month on affiliate basis.
Its call business for a reason if the traffic that some people send is not backing out we have
its written on the affiliate program terms that we have the right to convert the accounts.
If the traffic that is the x affiliate is not backing out and if the affiliate works with us 9times out of 10 WE will meet you in the middle.
If you or anyone you know have some traffic again I have home for it. We have being on business for over 20 years we still strong we are the number 1 adult dating site in the world for a reason.
Hit me up directly if you have any questions about your affiliate account.
Ruben [email protected]
FriendFinder Networks
Business Development Manager.
skype: r_rodriguez_ffn
Office: 1-408-745-5466
I am no longer managing penthouse affiliate. They eliminated the position about 2 months ago. Good luck to you all and getting paid. I couldn't even tell you who to talk to there
*AFF and Penthouse split last february. They are independently owned now
I wanted to take a moment and introduce myself. My name is Mike, and I am a new webmaster over at Penthouse. Since I have been in the business for about 20 years, some of you know me from a few years back because of my wife Sweet Georgia (Georgia Adair). I have also have been running a hosting company for years, so some of you may know me that way.
As a new webmaster at Penthouse, I will be overseeing the Affiliate Program as part of my responsibilities, which prompted this quick note. Although I am still taking the time to get familiar with everything it should not take too long to get up to speed. Consequently, I thought I?d give you a chance to contact me directly in the interim.
First order ? no surprise ? will be getting everyone current in their payouts and the new Penthouse operations team has been excellent thus far in heading down this path.
So with that said, we are working over the next two weeks to get everyone paid up in full. We have begun the process of setting up a new Paxum account which will hopefully not delay those people as we wait on the system.
This only serves as the beginning of what we have planned, but it marks perhaps the most important step, so thanks again for bearing with us (as it were). If you need anything at all, please feel free to get in contact with me.
Hi Mike it's nice to see someone starting to sort a few things out.
Couple questions,
1- Why the need for a new Paxum account? What happen to the old one?
2- Can you tell us all why there was - and still is - a months long delay in paying people?
(Something other than there was a change... The OP seems to indicate since July and "Freeones" - maybe others I only skimmed some of the posts)
Penthouse is setup on NATs and as many people here already know from using NATs for their own sites getting payment details is not exactly rocket science.
As it is almost the middle of the month.
If new account at Paxum is not already live so that a wire can be sent to it to fund the outbound payments...
What is the cut off date that you will be using to contact webmasters directly (email etc) to let then know that you do not have a Paxum account setup so that they can make other payment arrangements with you.
Hi Mike it's nice to see someone starting to sort a few things out.
Couple questions,
1- Why the need for a new Paxum account? What happen to the old one?
2- Can you tell us all why there was - and still is - a months long delay in paying people?
(Something other than there was a change... The OP seems to indicate since July and "Freeones" - maybe others I only skimmed some of the posts)
Penthouse is setup on NATs and as many people here already know from using NATs for their own sites getting payment details is not exactly rocket science.
As it is almost the middle of the month.
If new account at Paxum is not already live so that a wire can be sent to it to fund the outbound payments...
What is the cut off date that you will be using to contact webmasters directly (email etc) to let then know that you do not have a Paxum account setup so that they can make other payment arrangements with you.
We needed a new Paxum account because the old one was in someone else's name that is no longer with the company. Not sure if that was a rule of Paxum or for security on our end. But the account was never put into the proper persons name from the beginning.
Checks are going out, but we did the latest batch that was 30 days out. After we get things back on track, the checks will only be 2 weeks out like before.
I know you may not think this is rocket science, but to some outside of our industry and
even some in out industry it can be. NATS and MPA are pretty big programs. Someone new that isn't familiar with can be very over whelmed. I have been around a long time and have seen many many people that have experience and still not able to figure things out in NATS.
Paxum should be set very soon. I will be sending out an intro email shortly and another as Paxum and Paypal is paid.
Mike,
Glad you guys are sorting things out etc.
I really don't mean to come off rude, but come on now it should never have got to this point.
Payouts in NATs is not hard to understand, there is no code/scripting/smarty etc. It's not like setting up a custom join page etc.
We are talking about going into the "Payments" area and grabbing "Stored Payments" report. (Honestly it's 2 clicks, and then 1 more click to mark as paid )
I do understand there is a lot to NATS, and maybe the section(tab) can be missed, but submitting a ticket is a quick solve to a simple yet intergral part of business.
Like I said I'm not trying to be mean, and in that light I'm more than happy to help PH and you get back to where you need to be.
Feel free to drop me a PM
Being rude or not doesn't bother me. If I was owed money I may be rude as well. So no worries there.
I really can not speak for anything that happened before I came aboard. But I can tell you, this is a pretty large company. People in accounting have no idea what NATS even is let alone know how to do an export. Plus, if someone has never worked with NATS they would have no idea what Open Payments vs Stored Payments are.
Everything is getting on track though. I just did a recent, up to date export of payouts and this was sent to accounting. Payout 10-1-2017
It literally has a tab named "Payments" and defines Open Payments and Stored Payments on the payments page.
Anyways my point was this all was avoidable.
The past is the past the future is the future. People are now getting paid and problems getting solved time to turn the page.
Being rude or not doesn't bother me. If I was owed money I may be rude as well. So no worries there.
I really can not speak for anything that happened before I came aboard. But I can tell you, this is a pretty large company. People in accounting have no idea what NATS even is let alone know how to do an export. Plus, if someone has never worked with NATS they would have no idea what Open Payments vs Stored Payments are.
Everything is getting on track though. I just did a recent, up to date export of payouts and this was sent to accounting. Payout 10-1-2017
I forgot, i had a blog on penthouse content, but those galleries never came back again, a complete waist of time. Such a big name and so poorly handled, Rhonda was the only reason we even sent traffic at all.
Sorry for the delay. I was on vacation and trying to get caught up with all emails.
I was told by accounting that checks have been cut and are going out in the mail to get everyone up to date. Paxum has said the account should be all set this week so we expect payments to go out the same time.
I have really no control over accounting. They had to enter in everyone by hand. Moving forward, it should all be an dump and import to make it easier.
I can only apologize. I did get everyone's info on payments over to accounting. But I do not write the checks. I have talked with the President and she is making it top priority for accounting to get this done.
I think that affiliate programs who have a genuine delay would be better to communicate when a delay happens (again).
Because as an affiliate I'm having to contact so many programs about missing these past 2 years, often it's 50-60% of the payments I'm expecting that are late and I know if I don't keep bugging them they won't pay (and yes this includes some of the biggest porn companies).
So taking that into account, it would be wise for programs that are just having a temporary issue to let affiliates know about it, just like plane delays, people get annoyed when they don't know what's going on.
I would suggest doing what Naughty America started doing: sending wires through Western Union, which seems to be super cheap and fast, even for international wires
anybody got some news, haven't been able to get a response by email or Skype in several months from them
June 4th is the auction of Penthouse's assets. Objections must be filed by Monday, May 21st. Relief will be granted to Penthouse and you are not getting paid, not even for rebills. If you previously filed as a creditor with the trustee, you may get your share of the pennies from the auction.
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Indeed, you have recently received a Court notification stating that PENTHOUSE (which filed for relief under Chapter 11 on January 11, 2018) will be entering into a sale process.
There are many types of bankruptcies in the United States legal system. Chapter 11 is utilized for the restructuring of a company’s balance sheet (e.g. debt). American Airlines, MGM, and General Motors are examples of Chapter 11 bankruptcies. Unlike American Airlines and GM, our plan has been pre-negotiated and agreed to by an overwhelming majority of the different constituents.
No one should confuse what we are doing with a Chapter 7. A Chapter 7 is liquidation. Companies that don’t generate cash or have no future end up in Chapter 7. This is *NOT* a Chapter 7. We all believe that this company has a bright future, and we remain confident that Ms. Kelly Holland, the current PENTHOUSE’s CEO, will be able to redeem the company with the help of known and well established investors.
I’d like to underline that the company has ran its business as usual while in Chapter 11, and we intend to CONTINUE with the same course until the sale and after WITHOUT impacting our contractual services delivery/our broadcasting operations.
It’s business as usual is the short answer !
We are anticipating honoring all of our existing agreements and providing the same great customer/viewer/user experience as always. The broadcasting operations WILL NOT be affected by the sale process.
I’ll notify you of the outcome next month as soon as the sale process is officially completed.
Should you have any concerns, I am more than happy to set up a call with you in order to waive any possible misunderstanding or misleading interpretation.
Warm regards,
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