ARS having cash issues. Reward Orders over 1 month delayed!!!
 

Looks like ARS is having some SERIOUS issues.....they still havent managed to send out or confirm my reward order from May 4th, 2004! They have a backlog of some 500+ rewards to give out now and are getting to the point where they are now giving lower priority to webmasters who've stopped sending traffic but still have points and overdue reward orders!


I'd be really wary if you're still promoting ARS...proceed with caution.

Check out the following, for example, posted on their boards by one of their staff. Still on the 3rd after 10 days!! Does it really take 10 days to send out orders from just one day?

ars are solid

do you want to do there job ? running the rewards section of a major affilate program is not so easy

give them some break

I say 1 month is acceptable for a free gift

2 months question it

3 months icq about it

4 months email about it

5 months post on gfy about it if you are that hard up for free shit

if i give you a cookie will you shut the fuck up and stop whining?

Watch out what you put in the title. And it's a FREE GIFT to YOU, so be patient.

Yeah.. they aren't in the REWARDS business. Thats just a bonus.

As long as your checks are on time....

Can you imagine the volume of rewards they have to deal with after however long they had rewards disabled? Come on, get a fucking clue you vulture. :2 cents:

maybe they need the cash for sigs :winkwink:

for real they're doing it as an incentive to be in the program even if it takes a while who cares its not like you paid for it you know... no bid deal man:1orglaugh

i can't even imagine GFY with there T-shirts, hoody's and panties much less ARS and rewards, :1orglaugh

Your thread title is very misleading. They are behind on their rewards, not cash. If they weren't paying affiliates, there would have a shit storm.

WG

Never got a bounced check yet ;-)

i finally ordered my 2 gift cards :Graucho

free gift? its part of the compensation for sending them joins. so i guess my cheques are gifts too?

thank you marc de for being so genorous to mere mortals like me...

as long as the paychecks keep coming on time I wouldnt stress out that your reward is a little late

i put in an order 2 months ago and last week i decided to check on it cuz it's not here. And the order was cancelled for some reason..no explanation. Have way more rewards points then needed to cover the item. Didnt even bother to go through it again.

I keep cashing in my cecash points for home depot gift cards

It's about time :)
WG

Wheres Amber when you need some ARS answers?

Didn't they put a hold on the program a couple months back so that they can get structured and reorganized?

And to everyone that says "be happy you're getting free stuff!", don't kid yourself. The rewards program was created as an incentive to send traffic to ARS and not other programs. It isn't just "free stuff", it's part of payment and anyone wondering where their reward items are is perfectly justified.

The day ARS starts having cash problems is the day its time to exit this industry.

man, why did you have to day THAT name (different amber, but still)

i have faith in ars, btw

:1orglaugh

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Yeah, sponsors that are solid shut down all their sites and screw over thousands of webmasters :thumbsup

People like you who have no idea what they're talking about should not be allowed to have sigs.

sounds like very good advice :thumbsup

I agree, I think he has a right to complain, even though the title was a bit misleading. It shouldn't take a month to send out the orders for a single day.

Dude don't give all the ARS sig whores a heart attack..

they made changes for the better. one step back to take three steps forward.

not easy? a fucking monkey could do it.

Ars program got droped by a shitload of webmasters ... I guess they just stoped using it and everybody is ordering rewards at the same time ... but they are still rocking

:thumbsup

are your checks there every week on time ? mine are ! :thumbsup

I get my check every week on time...

WTF?? It's free! Do we know what FREE means? It means they chose to give you a perk, they are not obligated to do it. Checks come, who cares about freebies!!!!!

You know what this means right ???? People are making alot of $$ with ARS. Rewards are the result of making money. If you too want to make money, see the freakin sig :thumbsup

that sucks :( I'm sure they will get it resolved

we need a chicken little emoticon

ARS changed their sites in an attempt to "make things better" for themselves. In the process they lowered webmaster payouts and stopped giving credit for traffic being sent to their old sites. Looking at it from a webmaster perspective, these changes were not for the better.

Whats most lame, is they are not even doing anything unique. They are simply copying a business model that has already been done by every other sponsor out there.

This is my interpretation of ARS...
"Lets cash in on reality sites, there are lots of sheep and newbies who will continue to promote us no matter how many times we fuck them over."

Very true. Add that to the fact that they didn't even give notice of what they were going to do when they had the opportunity to do so. ARS is a bad choice to send traffic to. They will most likely screw you over eventually.

stfu idiot