Pipecrew, are you paying the $650,000 FTC fine you guys got hit with?
 

http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2005/07/alrsweep.htm


Are you paying it, or is that the other guy?


"BangBros.com Inc., based in Florida, will pay $650,000 in civil penalties;"

you pay taxes?

tom foolery

ouch thats harsh fines.

didnt others get hit as well

PureCash
HawgsCash
Bangbros

Do I sense a bit of jealousy because they can afford to obsorb those fines? Feels like penis envy to me...

Wow, I just noticed this part of the article:
Isn't that Timbo's company, TopBucks and Soulcash respectively?
WG

I agree, it is the price of doing biz. But I also heard this is just the first round and there is much more to come.

what the fuck is going on

impulse is SC yeah, cyberheat is topbucks but dunno for sure who the other is. But definitely 2/3 :winkwink: I see MD Media was implicated too

The part that would bother me is that you can't have further violations. So if an affiliate spams again watch out!

yes, Impulse Mesia is SOulcash

that sucks guys

Let the witch hunts begin!

That's 3 house payments

i think we should all band together to sue junk snail mailers

I think MD Media is pimproll.

So, I wonder which sponsors are taking mail in light of the settlements announced herein and the new list of defendents the FTC named...
WG

pipecrew is a sales rep.... he couldnt pay a bar tab.

took down all of our bp hosting last week.

fuck that shit

Holy shit. $650K.

Ouch.

My bad...

What gets me is it's not the program that is doing the spamming, so assuming they killed all affiliates that spam. What's to stop the competition from getting some spammers to send out of bunch of spam promoting those programs to put them out of biz.

Or so you think its not :winkwink:

Brad your such a shit disturber! :upsidedow

lol yea this is true..

damn, that's a serious fine! Looks like the witch hunt has begun

Also Brad why are you singling out one company?

Yes and we delt with it and seriously cleaned house.

PimpRoll is an official "no mail allowed" program.

:pimp :pimp

Back to business.

Pimproll (MD Media) has to pay almost $240k, that has to hurt..

good stuff man

Good, a fine like that should be taken seriously, no matter how big you are.

That's a lot of folks we all know right there....

That's a lot of coin :Oh crap

This is pretty deep shit..

From what I understand not all the companies listed spam and they do close webmaster accounts that don?t send compliant emails. Notice some settled while others didn?t, if you didn?t violate the law then no reason to settle.


And?.. THIS ISN?T the cost of doing business, this is the cost of breaking the law.

It was taken very seriously and we got a lot of flack for no longer accepting mail months ago.

These days it is just easier not to accept mail.

with the amount of content they have in their backend, there should be no need to spam.

im doing some work for them right now and i can assure you guys once a member gets inside he will be pleased.

http://www.pimproll.com

sign up

I would suspect the fines are a small percentage (10%ish) of what was made.

i hope they havent spent all their money along the way

i have heard 33% but no oneis goig to admit anything

I'd guess less than that. But the ones that settled can easily be fucked by a rogue affiliate spamming them for fun. Part of the agreement was no more spams.

haha news to me!

Same Here, we havent and will not ever accept mail.

I think our email policy is pretty clear. :)

http://www.bangbrosonline.com/email.htm

how many affiliate programs say that in their tos? i think every single one does.

moron. who are you fooling.

Even at that you're still making a nice profit :)

The no more spam clause I'm sure makes it hard to continue doing this on an on-going basis :)
WG

Pure Marketing Solutions, LLC, a Florida company, and Internet Matrix Technology, a corporation based in Louisiana, will together pay $50,000.


Wasn't PMS - purecash?

I thought they closed up

I'm just courious.. But why would you settle if you didn't break the law in the first place? TOS or not.. I know for a fact I have recieved spam from some of these companies in the last month. Looking to see if I can dig it up again..

If you have received anything from an affiliate of ours, do hit me up on ICQ so they can be terminated.

ps: that includes someone who *IS* in compliance, as we accept *NO* email traffic. Period.

The cost of settling is far less than the cost of defending yourself against the FTC. If you're not making that much money from mail, it may be a better choice.
WG