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Originally posted by bigfrank
I too have been dealing with this situation for the last two months. The last check I received was dated 4/28/04 and was sent by the website owner. A week later I received an e-mail from him saying that he had issued checks for the month of March , there was a miscommunication with I-Bill and they decided not to send out check or release funds to him so he paid out of pocket. All further checks would be issued by him and that he would be switching to a new cascade billing system soon.
1 1/2 months went by and no more payments from him or I-Bill so I began e-mailing him asking about payments but never any response. I have spoken with him at least 10 times in the past 2 months by phone and have been told the check went out Monday, sorry it will go out this Monday, I am writing checks now,call me back tomorrow, It should be there tomorrow,call me back,call me back.
Then he finally agreed to paypal it to me which he still has not done.
The problem that I have with I-Bill is this whole time I was calling and e-mailing them and getting the same run around from their reps and accounting. I was told by them that the webmaster had switched to have the payout sent to him and that I could request to close out the account and receive final payment which I did.
Then I finally find out that that option is not an option since the webmaster has switched to having all payments sent to him.I signed up with this website through I-Bill and dont understand why they allow him to all of a sudden decide he wants all payments to go to him?
But the real problem I have is to this day this website still has on his webmaster page that all checks will be issued and guaranteed by I-Bill. He still has the I-Bill sign up page and I-Bill is still accepting sign ups with webmasters under that impression that checks will be coming from them. The reps I spoke with didnt seem to care.
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As far as I know Epoch allows this as well (Sponsor deciding to have the affiliate checks sent to himself instead of the affiliate). I do this with one Epoch sponsor and the sponsor combines a couple checks and sends me a wire
I had not seen it from that other angle yet. I am not worried in my case, but it is indeed strange that this is even possible, now that I think about it. I am sure many affiliates do not know about this when using a direct-ibill program as an affiliate.
I guess CCBill doesn't allow sponsors to re-route affiliate checks to themselves?