Now I have to do their announcements for them......
Quote:
email from SwapBucks
Dear Peermasters,
We have been listening to your input. We are currently in
development to bring you the type of program you are expecting.
We have contracted our content portion of the program to an
outside content management company. Per your requests, in
order to implement a pay-per-sale model, we have developed a
business relationship with a content aggregation company, who
has agreed to give us auditing rights to their system. By utilizing
this method, we will be able to provide you with accurate,
trustworthy statistics. The current system does not allow this,
and we too are not comfortable with the current methods of
tracking even our sales with our current content affiliates.
Swapbucks is and will continue to be a traffic aggregation
company. Please stay tuned while we firm up these new business
relationships and continue to develop the program to completion.
We realize that some of you were inconvenienced and thank you
for being a part of our trial period. We are sorry to admit that this
model did not work the way it was initially developed. We are
happy to announce that we have figured it out and we will be
back STRONG very soon.
Please understand we are exploring a new Industry, and we
appreciate your patience while we better our business model to
our mutual benefits.
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I was never told it was a so called "trial period". Exploring a "new
industry" does that mean they aren't adult webmasters?
phone call with SwapBucks
$400 in the pool.
"You should have stopped sending traffic when you didn't get a
response"
So I guess I shouldn't have given them the benefit of the doubt.
What they really wanted people to do is keep sending traffic until
the site was removed so then nothing will be counted and
webmasters can further assume that the site will be back after
an intermitiant outage. Lucky I wasn't quite that stupid.
They also said that AdultCheck offered them a room but they
refused. Still sounds like it's AC just using other peoples
bandwidth to test new shit to me.
A week or so ago MrBig and a few others stopped sending traffic.
I'm guessing these are Swapbucks employees and test accounts.
Then 3 or so days ago they take down the domain. Then finally
today the send an email.
Not good enough.
Taking the site down makes them the only people with access to
the stats and contact information. It also leaves those that just
happen to miss this email with a very bad taste.
If you whois the phone number given isn't correct but does give
you another number to try.
Swapbucks: +1 8189722168
They'll give you "I can't hear you" but get them to change
channels on the phone or get a proper handset.
-Ben
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