Damn, that out of all sponsors, the first one who fucked me over is Lightspeed.
Ive been hanging out with Steve and Tanker just 3 weeks ago. I hope they will understand why i post this.
Business is business and friendship is not business.
I have given them the time to solve this problem before taking it to the boards (which i only do when nothing else works anymore)
I know i will lose my credibility with them by posting this, too bad. They lost mine.
Ok, i try to keep it as short as possible:
I never promoted LS alot but had a few links up on a few old sites for quite some time sending a few hits a day.
last month (maybe 2 months now) i noticed those hits that slipped through made a few sales with decent ratios so i deceided to slowly push some traffic to LS again.
I build some galleries and started promoting LS18 and Jordan.
I copied and pasted the linking codes that were shown in my admin area of lscash, like i always do.
Submitted a bunch of galleries, i think i made 8-10 galleries total in a period of about 2 weeks.
So after a few days the tgps started listing me and traffic got sent to ls18 and Jordan.
Hits were tracked and i made a bunch of sales, nothing major but enough to buy a few big macs every week.
Now with smaller programs im not exactly a stats freak so after a while i noticed i didnt get sales anymore so i forgot about the tgp and started promoting other stuff again.
My last effort was putting a ls gallery on a paid tgp spot a few weeks ago.
So yesterday i checked my stats again, for the first time in weeks, and fuck me, that gallery on that paid spot didnt sent 1 hit.
So after giving the stats a closer look i now noticed why i had no sales for the last weeks. None of the hits i sent were tracked. So i was really confused what happened but i found it out quickly. ALL my links from the tgp pages i made over the weeks went to a 404 page. Checking my stats again learned me that after aug 15th my links stopped working.
Ok, Rochard was online so i pointed this out to him. Lane, their programmer contacted me and couldnt see what happened. He did see i was using non working links and asked me where i got them. Now im not the person that pulls links out of his ass so i told him i got them from the admin area, ofcourse. Nothing he could do about. Ok, back to Rochard. To put it simple, he said you use non working links so no soup for you. I ask him to check my stats and explain why all those galleries sent hits and signups before and went to a 404 after aug 15th. He didnt know and he doesnt care. Its an error on my side.
Even my friggin 404 page ( www.teenportals.com ) now goes to their 404, talking about targeted traffic. (edit: Lane made a redirection script so now the links go to the right site)
An error in your html link can happen. But i made several galleries, on several days, promoting several sites and every time i copied and pasted the links from the admin area in my galleries and my 404 page. This isnt a stand alone thing, were talking about a 2 week period here.
Anyway, the LS crew is not willing to work something out with me. They dont think its their problem but mine.
Ok we're talking about pocket change here, 300/400$ including rebills max, i dont care about that. I care about trusting a sponsor, getting support, time and effort in making a sponsor and myself money and not being dumped like that because they cant find THEIR error.
Now if you post a comment about this first pull your head out of your ass. We all know LS, we know they are great guys and throw great parties. Please dont mix business with pleasure in your reply. Read this and think with a clear head. I know its really easy to say fuck you, LS is the best. If you do feel like that then bash me, if you are smart you will give an honest reply.
Ive been hanging out with Steve and Tanker just 3 weeks ago. I hope they will understand why i post this.
Business is business and friendship is not business.
I have given them the time to solve this problem before taking it to the boards (which i only do when nothing else works anymore)
I know i will lose my credibility with them by posting this, too bad. They lost mine.
Ok, i try to keep it as short as possible:
I never promoted LS alot but had a few links up on a few old sites for quite some time sending a few hits a day.
last month (maybe 2 months now) i noticed those hits that slipped through made a few sales with decent ratios so i deceided to slowly push some traffic to LS again.
I build some galleries and started promoting LS18 and Jordan.
I copied and pasted the linking codes that were shown in my admin area of lscash, like i always do.
Submitted a bunch of galleries, i think i made 8-10 galleries total in a period of about 2 weeks.
So after a few days the tgps started listing me and traffic got sent to ls18 and Jordan.
Hits were tracked and i made a bunch of sales, nothing major but enough to buy a few big macs every week.
Now with smaller programs im not exactly a stats freak so after a while i noticed i didnt get sales anymore so i forgot about the tgp and started promoting other stuff again.
My last effort was putting a ls gallery on a paid tgp spot a few weeks ago.
So yesterday i checked my stats again, for the first time in weeks, and fuck me, that gallery on that paid spot didnt sent 1 hit.
So after giving the stats a closer look i now noticed why i had no sales for the last weeks. None of the hits i sent were tracked. So i was really confused what happened but i found it out quickly. ALL my links from the tgp pages i made over the weeks went to a 404 page. Checking my stats again learned me that after aug 15th my links stopped working.
Ok, Rochard was online so i pointed this out to him. Lane, their programmer contacted me and couldnt see what happened. He did see i was using non working links and asked me where i got them. Now im not the person that pulls links out of his ass so i told him i got them from the admin area, ofcourse. Nothing he could do about. Ok, back to Rochard. To put it simple, he said you use non working links so no soup for you. I ask him to check my stats and explain why all those galleries sent hits and signups before and went to a 404 after aug 15th. He didnt know and he doesnt care. Its an error on my side.
Even my friggin 404 page ( www.teenportals.com ) now goes to their 404, talking about targeted traffic. (edit: Lane made a redirection script so now the links go to the right site)
An error in your html link can happen. But i made several galleries, on several days, promoting several sites and every time i copied and pasted the links from the admin area in my galleries and my 404 page. This isnt a stand alone thing, were talking about a 2 week period here.
Anyway, the LS crew is not willing to work something out with me. They dont think its their problem but mine.
Ok we're talking about pocket change here, 300/400$ including rebills max, i dont care about that. I care about trusting a sponsor, getting support, time and effort in making a sponsor and myself money and not being dumped like that because they cant find THEIR error.
Now if you post a comment about this first pull your head out of your ass. We all know LS, we know they are great guys and throw great parties. Please dont mix business with pleasure in your reply. Read this and think with a clear head. I know its really easy to say fuck you, LS is the best. If you do feel like that then bash me, if you are smart you will give an honest reply.
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