50........... :glugglug

They never paid me my contest winnings but whatever it was just chump change.

wow, so it looks like no one got paid...oh wait..except one person

I got my winnings from the digibucks contest.
At first I got a check from Mark for my winnings in that contest.
Since it was in Pounds, I ICQ/emailed Mark and asked if could be sent via epassporte cause my bank would not cash the check with out a large fee and 6 to 8 weeks wait.
I got the funds epassporte within 2 days if I am correct.
Thanks Mark

wtf... :error

Do you one part of the company or something? :1orglaugh

hey iggy

im not sure what the point of going to every single board on the net was... i mean you post on one board and you know that we will pick it up on board tracker.

I understand you need the money but hey this is not Marks fault at all, i have emailed you 4 times regarding the payment explaining clearly that we were in the process of changing bank accounts and that i would need your epassport account to send you the money. I have the emails as proof if you would like to read back over them.

Iggy i do not have any emails from you with your epassporte details otherwise we would have payed you as said.

Digibucks is NOT broke, infact we are growing from strength to strength every day, this is NOT the way to do business, Spanno has offered you the money and you have declined it so where is the irony?

If you hit me up and give me your epassporte details we will have this solved, likewise with anyone who has not recieved payment.

This is not a matter for the boards, this is just a really bad way of doing business.

sorry, this is pure and utter BULLSHIT........i got 2 emails from you, and when I sent you my epassporte addy i never heard back

I have sent 3 emails to anyone at digibucks I could find an address for with no response.....and absolutely no money tranferred into epassporte

there are other in my situation that didn't bother posting on the boards, like me, but now that you all keep coming on here acting like the people YOU owe money too are in the wrong, that is where I draw the line...don't fuck with the peopel YOU owe money to, contest or not, that is some fucked up shit

just pay the god damned money and stop making excuses

if I don't see some money in my epassporte tonight, i will post one thread a day about the matter on every board until the money is there

i could care less about the money, but now that you all have made all these excuses and are now calling out the contest winners like we did something wrong, you pissed me the fuck off

fuck i hate that shit

here, if you need something to remind you

What JaceXXX said.
Bad way of doing business is not paying oweing money.
Like I said its not about money. Simple email explaining situation would be enough but I never got that mail. Period.

fuck the money now, they made it personal making innocent people look like they did something wrong

I have now added "digibucks" to my hahahahahahahahahahahaha, and you better believe I am making use of that shit

oops, that hahahahahah was boardtracker

Yeah, I am being a dick because I said I didn't get money. :thumbsup

I will say that Iggysick is NOT a drama queen from what I've seen, and I believe him. I also think that contest participants have as much right to be paid as any other advertiser, and I don't give a rat's ass whether or not they chose to actively promote your program. Iggysick is a genuine webmaster (as well as a master referral whore :winkwink:)

Iggy i sent you 4 emails altogether - i never got an unsent message back so as far as im aware you recieved them, please send me your epassporte details and we will send you the money. We are not trying to hide from you, we want to pay you but we need the information to do that

lucy i will email you again with my epassporte

whats the best email to reach u at?

This post troubles me in a few ways.

First off, you don't issue prize cheques and then change banks and leave no money in your previous account to cover the prizes. Not smart right there, and it tells me that the existance of this thread isn't exactly Iggy's fault, it's yours.

Second, I read your contest rules in that thread you had going. You made no mention of the fact that it was mandatory that webmasters send you hits in order to win. Yes, it is customary to hope that they will send hits to the program, but that wasn't a hard and fast rule. Of course you're going to get a few people signing up who don't send hits, how can you be surprised by this? This point is neither here nor there anyway. Hard to believe you are now implying that because he sent you no traffic he is somehow less deserving of the prize money. That's a very dumb thing to be saying.

Thirdly, if you are sick of threads like this then in future you best make damned sure something like this never happens again. AND, try to be less confrontational when you DO have to post something in the way of dealing with a complaint.

Fourth -- that last item about you putting something fishy in your freehost.... your response tells me that you may actually have done something like that and that you don't give a shit about anyone's complaints about it, and that you will turn a deaf ear to said compaints. I don't know what kind of business manuel you're working from but I would suggest tossing it in the trash and getting a new one.


Threads like this don't have to happen, and I don't like seeing them any more than you do. I hate seeing this sort of horseshit going on every damned week in the community that I do business in. Hate it. But if you're looking to assign blame for this particular thread you best quit trying to deflect it and take some responsibility for your own mistakes.

And you know.... I wouldn't go mentioning irrelivant information like somone not sending any traffic. You never know if a few weeks or a few months from now someone won't start sending a shitload of hits and signups. Your comment to that point seems like very short-term thinking to me.

wow, so nice to see you all take care of iggy, yet ignore others

very well said...VERY well said

and I agree abotu the freehost and spyware comment...i read that the exact same way

like I said above though, because digibucks has turned this into the contest winners fault, i now have turned my personal mission into everyone knowing exactly how this went down...remember how well I stalked kak_azn/funky bastard? i am DAMN good at it

I don't think they would dare. :upsidedow

Hey Darling,
what's your icq?

the last coorespondance I ever got from digibucks (in order)

they wrote on Friday, June 03, 2005 9:21 AM:
i wrote back on 6/03/05
no response

so i wrote again on 6/17/05
i never heard anything back, and I personally don't think I should have to track people down to get money....

cool - email me at [email protected] xx

emailed...

If you run a contest, and offer even a single dollar to the winner, you better have that dollar in hand to send. Dont offer something that you can not pay. and dont offer soomething that has to be covered with the sign ups that is generated by the offer.

Hey Jace

thats fair enough - i passed your email to Mark who said he would sort it out - i have a list of people i did recieve epassporte details from and those who didnt - Iggy did not send me his.

I am sorry and we will sort this out very soon. This is not a vendetor against anyone, we do want to sort this out, we are webmasters who believe in honest and fair practise and have always had alot of good friends on these boards, there is no need to start a personal vendettor, like we said we WILL pay you

L xx

you have my email, and I will believe it when I see it

you all didn't come through 2 times now, let's try and strike out

ok Jace just got your email - will make sure you get your payment - Iggy if you kindly send me your epassporte details we will get you your money

email sent..

Can I get a few bucks too?

Don't forget...Dirty Duckets are scammers! Just a friendly FYI! :error

VERY well said by Smitty (as usual). :thumbsup :thumbsup

One of the things that is humoring, yet insulting in the community are some of these companies, sponsors, whatever who belittle their own affiliates. ANY time some board drama makes a remark about their company, they start more a less insulting, or trying to find the loop holes (no traffic, no e-mails, no correspondace, etc). Like it is the affiliate or customer's fault. I've fell victim to this a time or two myself.

When will some of the people in this industry get Customer Service 101, or Business 101 in their heads and stop this bullshit. Now I am sure some people have jumped the gun in the past, but I have seen some more reputable names on GFY having problems with certain companies and I know these gents. I know they would have exhausted every option before ever taking it to the boards.

So you not only come on the boards to defend you company, and little turf throwing blame all over the place except accepting it. If you owe someone money, just pay them. He won a contest, you owe him money, sure he did not send hits, but as Smitty pointed out, you did not specify him/others to. If you do not want your sht drug through the mud, then pay people what you owe them in a timely fashion.

From what I can tell from the posts, apparently you were moving bank accounts, and your e-mail had gremlins as there was no message sent out to contest winners, you are apparently not receiving e-mails, nor can write them back. Sounds like you have more than one issue going on here.

Jace has a point as well. I had to do this just last week, and normally I am too busy to go through some 30=40 affiliates to make sure their checks are coming in a timely fashion, and one of my sponsors I had not received a check from, which they said had been sent June 1st. I contacted them, and they checked to make sure had not been cashed, and issued a new check w/i 24-36 hours (don't have epassporte). Situation resolved.

I, and most webmasters are busy. We do not get to sit around with our thumbs up our asses, nor spend hours e-mailing, ICQing, and tracking all this shit down. Much less following up on it repeatedly. Whether $35 or $35000.00.

One of the keys to ANY successful business, adult or otherwise is TRUST. Affiliates are YOUR customers, and you should take care fo them as such. If we/they/me can't trust you, then it's only a matter of time before you are dropped. Whne word spreads, others will as well. Noone has time to track down money you fucking owe.

I do not know Jace well enough to make a character assessment, but I know Iggy is a class act. So if he took it to the boards, he had cause.

Pay the winenrs. End of drama.

:disgust

Oh yes? Well, then we're still waiting for the refund YOU GUYS OFFERED on Traffic Overdose, since you're in paying mode maybe you can sort that out too, you guys have my epassporte so there's no reason not to pay, if you need the info just contact me on ICQ (instead of ignoring mails like you use to) and you'll have it

I have organised for funds to be moved to my epassporte they should be there within 24 hours. any outstanding payments will be paid then

traffic overdose is nothing to do with digibucks is has different partners and a totally different company set up. There is no place for this in the thread. I am sorry it got overlooked payment again will be sent tommorow

drama=sig spot

Was thinking of buying a pass. You was not happy with the results?

I'll keep my opinion for now, let's see what happens

This might make sense if the 1k check had not already bounced.

The problem is definitely Digibucks so don't get me wrong. It's unprofessional to send bounced checks, and even more professional not to handle the situation immediately.

With that said, the original post is garbage if you ask me. You have no proof of them being broke, and they use CCBill (which means affiliates will get paid). What if an affiliate of theres saw this and decided to change their traffic? You're not just slandering Digibucks with information you don't have, you also could be hurting a real affiliate.

Not saying you are in the wrong, but you could be hurting affiliates of theres that actually do send them traffic. I've been fucked on over $1000 by two sponsors, and didn't make a post saying they were broke. The best way to get them back is to not send them traffic.

I'd like to hear the other story.

email sent lucy

What's left to be said? :error

Both sides of this drama have been posted.


I have a story site though. If you really want another story just shoot me an icq and I'll give you the link. :winkwink:

Keep your mouth shut and stop sending traffic! Oooh that's scary.

It hits a company in their most vulnerable spot. You send your traffic to competitors, they'll re-think their strategy.

was one of the rules was to be an active affiliate?

thats fucked up

Where were the Flashcash bashing threads when they bounced checks while changing bank accounts?

Seems going to the boards is no longer the last resort. :(

here is something that bothers me the most about this entire thread

I am one of the ones that was issued a check that was destined to bounce

I was emailed at the beginning of June that I would recieve epassporte funds, i tried contacting 2 more times after that without response

here is the mind boggling part...digibucks is JUST NOW arranging to put money where it needs to be to pay people...WTF? i really seriously think digibucks was NOT planning on paying at all, otherwise they would have had money in epassporte when they said they were going to, at the beginning of the June

fishy fishy