topbucks site review incompetent bullshit?
 

anyone else got that crappy reply on application?

Sorry, we weren't able to approve your account due to one or more of
the following reason(s):

url/site against terms. celebrities

fuck!? i have NOT A SINGLE PICTURE OR LINK TO anything
related to celebs !? are those guys just blind or eager to piss
webmasters off? :mad:

not that i need another sponsor, but i am curious about your
experience with that shitty reply and what they come up with ...

input welcome ...

OL' - BraveD.

topbucks is top notch. I had an account with them 6 years ago . dont know if it's still existed.

try signing up again ... and wait for their reply :mad:

Hello,
Please email me the URL you used to sign up with and I will review the account.

jenn [AT] topbucks [DOT] com

thank you,

LOL, nice vote of confidence there. Haven't used your account in 6 years but it's top notch? :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

mailing with darlene now and it looks like she affiliates me with
"nudecelebritypictures.***" ... i have no link to that site nor
do i know they link me ... WTF is this crap? :(

and i second myself ... i have NO affiliation to ANY
celeb site (to my knowledge)

@ jenn [AT] topbucks [DOT] com

THAT url has NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING to do with MY
application for signing up, so WTF?! i dont own it, i dont
link it, i dont even KNOW THAT PAGE!?

Hello Overload,
If you haven't already, please send me an email with the URL you put on signup form. Name and email address is also helpful in locating the account in our database.

Thank you!

i'll do that tomorrow ... if i still feel
comfy about becoming an affiliate
with TB after all this ... right now
i dont ...

I've been with TB for over 6 years and have not had any problems with them, payments are always on time, and support has improved greatly in the last year ( used to be a little slow). Not too happy with the new webmaster site (TB reloaded), lots of bugs but, other then that, pretty happy with them.

They are good as gold, probably just a mistake.

What hosting do you have?
Could be sharing with a celeb site that they picked up on..

I was accused once of having stolen content on a site that wasn't even mine, but it was on the same server as I was.. however that works...

Must be nice to be so big where you can afford to turn away affiliates. ;)

Sorry, we weren't able to approve your account due to one or more of
the following reason(s):We are so big we can afford to turn away affiliates

hmm wouldn't take stuff like that to the boards you could have just mailed them and ask .

humans make mistakes sometimes :2 cents:

how about to wait for a reply before you come on here and cry like a fucking baby , what a fucking joke

I have used TB for 8 years, and so have 50k other Webmasters. I'm sure a few applications get approved by mistake just like others don't get approved by mistake.

So what was the URL that you signed up with?

Very very nice customer service guys..Please make sure all you affliates are happy

BWAHAHHAAHAHA i love GFY

topbucks has great support, you're better off just emailing them.

last time i had a problem with topbucks it took them a week to resolve it and the rep was quite a bitch with me.

topbucks is and always has been incredibly easy to deal with and VERY fair in their dealings.


unless of course you're an idiot :)

i had a really crappy rep with topbucks at one point, i requested a new one and they set me up with a new one.

topbucks is defiantly top notch butttttt some of their support reps are totally noobs who doesn't know the difference between a tgp and a blog....

Hey Dissapate-
If that in fact happened, my apologies. Can you hit me up on icq so we can discuss? Of course we pride ourselves on our customer service so I want to make absolutely fucking sure every webmaster is getting the attention they need.

thanks
lea
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your reading skills are a joke ... I GOT A REPLY and THAT made
me go HUH?! big time because the url in the reply had NOTHING
to do with the site i used for signing up ... those who read are
clearly in advantage baby :2 cents:

@ jenn: mail send ... curious what you'll tell me how come my
site was confused with a totally different one i dont even linked
or know in the first place :pimp

Hello Overload,
I have replied to your email.

Please let me know if you have any further questions or concerns!

Thank you :)

Overload,
It's my understanding that Jenn just emailed you and tried to provide a bit more clarity to the situation:


"I reviewed the URL you provided on your TB application www.bravedigger.net and you do in fact have a celebrity link that directs to: www.nudecelebritypictures.

I have attached a screen shot of the page. This is found about half way down the page. Per our terms/FAQ www.topbucks.com/faq.php, we do not approve accounts that have celebrity links. If you wish to remove that link or provide us with another site, we will be happy to review your account again."


If this is still unclear, please feel free to hit me up.
thanks
lea

Overload - sometimes it happens - they review your site and click around, sometimes something takes over their screens sometimes it's something else - either way, the reviewer is human. Not only are they a great program, they do what they can to keep their affiliates and go out of their way for them.

Affiliates that don't get approved, simply have to write in or reply to the decline email to discuss the issue and see if they can review it with additional info or with another URL (not your case but just putting it out there).

Not only did I work for the company for 3 great years, I have been an affiliate since they started and despite some hiccups in the 8 years, they have only come back with a vengeance and improved consistently.

You'll enjoy being a Topbucks affiliate :)

topbucks is tops in my books:)

ehh? what link redirects to that celeb crap?! please
lemme know as i sure as hell didnt add anything
linking to that kinda stuff intentionally :disgust

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah ... now i got it ... folks, thats NOT
a hard link! its a iframe with rotating links from a traffic broker
and not MY content :P lol

Think that pretty much sums up why they probably don't want to partner with you... :pimp

i could see if he was sending traffic to a celeb sponsor , but the link he has is obviously a trade script , one link buried in 1000 links.. i wouldnt think that should REALLY be a problem..

the rejection letter should have been more specific in my opinion , but hey i dont run the site and not my position to say what is right and wrong for someone else's biz..

if you had contacted them back via email you might have still gotten approved afte explaining the situation , but you kinda jumped the gun in calling them out as they were forced to call you out for your mistake..

Very well put...:thumbsup

50,000 webmasters have used Topbucks for 8 years? Wow, they must be making BILLIONS!!!

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

No worries, i don't get all butthurt over one bad experience. I just don't deal with that one person now. I still think topbucks is a great program :thumbsup:thumbsup

That's probably close to the number of affiliates signed up, and they've most likely are into 100s of millions for the total of the last 8years... :pimp

totally agreed - in all three paragraphs --- yes, #3 too ... i was
so baffled and pissed that i didnt get a clue what they were talking
about and that made me go ape :1orglaugh ... ah well, shit happens :2 cents:
lol, but i surely wont cut off my traffic just for another sponsor :winkwink:

totally agreed - in all three paragraphs --- yes, #3 too ... i was
so baffled and pissed that i didnt get a clue what they were talking
about and that made me go ape :1orglaugh ... ah well, shit happens :2 cents:
lol, but i surely wont cut off my traffic just for another sponsor :winkwink:

anyways ... the reviewer shud have seen its not a hard link ...
i am not asking about diluting program rules but about a lil
more understanding ... these traffic trading inserts are usual
these days and basing a declination upon that is pretty much
)(/&%$§"! ... lol, i couldnt care less about a sponsor that
buggy :D ... none else ever stumbled acroos that :D

anyways ... the reviewer shud have seen its not a hard link ...
i am not asking about diluting program rules but about a lil
more understanding ... these traffic trading inserts are usual
these days and basing a declination upon that is pretty much
)(/&%$§"! ... lol, i couldnt care less about a sponsor that
buggy :D ... none else ever stumbled across that :D

Wow thats crazy

That is going a little too far IMHO.