Is ShareASale A Scam? CJ Pays, But NOT ShareASale!

I used to run Purity Products ads on Commission Junction.
They paid me over $100 every month.
Then I read about the lawsuit, and the scumware, and commission thefts.
So I switched to ShareASale - all the same pages (plus a few more), with the same ads.

For 3 months, I gave them many thousands of impressions.
At over 500 "hits", and ZERO pennies paid to me, I called it quits, and pulled all my ads.
The NEXT DAY, they put $12 into my account (as if to say, "Whoops, we hit your level of intolerance - please come back.") Yeah, right. Great timing. How disingenuous. I'm gone. The $12 "make up" teaser payment confirms my suspicions.

I was in marketing for years. One thing I learned, is that you use THE OPPOSITE of your WEAKEST point as your tagline. For instance, if your parts are slow, your tagline is "Fastest Parts" available. If your parts are lacking features, you claim "Full-featured Parts".

And if you help affiliates and employees steal commissions, maybe you build your reputation for "cleanest network", and "scumware free", and "no parasites". WHERE DID MY MONEY GO? No more free ads for you! No more free real estate for ShareASale! I should have dropped them last month, but I wanted to give them a full calendar quarter.

I know it wasn't Purity Products, since they paid just fine with CJ.
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Well I was promoting ShareASale last year, and "forgot" about my account there, earlier this year I logged in and noticed some money there, just $xxx sent in the letter about the taxes, and I got a check.

 

I get about 2K++ every month from SAS.

I think it has to do with what you promote and how your promote. :0)
Why not give it another try!

 

Actually, it WAS my second try. Oh, well.

If there is one thing I just don't get, it's affiliate marketing.
It is a mental block, or bad genes, or something.

In the time I spent trying to try to make it work, I could have built quite a few nice-paying PPC pages. Time to go back to my strengths.
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I used them a few years ago and I suspect they were cheating or using a bad software for tracking sales.

 

It has been 3 years and now I have a script tracking my impressions and all installed still something is wrong because I am being paid $0.

 

ShareASale is big affiliate network i not work with ShareASale but i think ShareASale is trust company

 

ShareASale and Clixgalore sux big time, real worst support as well

 

Just plan to signup for affiliate to shareasale,
dig to the old thread,
I might give up to join shareasale and stick with cj.com.

 

I have been with them for a while got one payment..But I really didnt like their way of treating affiliates, they give you minimum resources so I am now diverting all my traffic towards smaller networks which still believe in AM and affiliate relationship.

I dont think they would be scam if they were scam it would be all over by now, but I just hate big networks like shareasale and CJ not becasue they are scam becasue they dont give damn if you make money or not..its all about Super Affiliates in those networks

 

I have been with them for 3-4 years and consistently making couple hundred bucks every month. Then all of sudden those assholes suspended my account and kept my money. I sent them an email to explain what I have done wrong but they never replied back. I method of promotion was to use their datafeeds and blogging, all whitehat stuff. I do the same sort of promotion with CJ and they never question about my account.

Shareasale sucks. Affiliate beware... stay away from Shareasale!

Here is my shareasale affiliate id 140447.

I hope shareasale-scamers read my post.

 

Hi Surf Dude,

Sorry for whatever happened to you.

However I have to say that I've been around for a lot of years, read a TON of affiliate forums and consider myself to be an affiliate advocate and SAS is the one network I hardly ever hear any complaints about. Almost every affiliate I know likes them better than other networks and I know them to be honest industry players.

It makes no sense for SAS to steal from you, because they don't get paid unless you get paid.

What I think is the MOST likely scenario is that the merchant placed the SAS pixel wrong or it's not working or something.

Did you contact the merchant about it before coming here to defame a network's otherwise good reputation???

 

That's a good point right there. I hate it when idiots make these statements based on pure sand and in their sayings, I never see a real proved method of how to catch the "bad guys".

Man that's just mean. Where all that hate from? I guess you're so dumps, that you can't realize that people are actually seeing these posts: me myself just came across by google.

So my point is, if you don't actually got proof SHUT THE HELL UP. Because, if somebody doesn't close this conversation like 5starAffiliates did, your info goes up in the search engines.

Conclusion: Think about other affiliate marketers that struggle to make a buck and are confused and disoriented of which network, product, website theme, companies etc etc etc etc .... to choose.

 

I choose to disagree with "surf_dude" and others. Frankly I have no vested interest either in CJ or in ShareAsale. I have, in fact, account with both and both of them have paid me. Although my earnings through CJ have been below average, ShareAsale has paid me on time. CJ & ShareAsale does pay, but the revenue really depends upon what you do with their opportunities...

 

I think SAS not scam, maybe you did some wrong ..
your can check here http://www.imreportcard.com/services/shareasale

 

Thing is, often when the same merchant is with several different networks, sometimes the right cookie doesn't get credited.

If a SAS cookie was last, but there was a earlier CJ cookie, the SAS cookie should get the sale. Doesn't always happen though.
IMO: it's more about the merchant than the network. At least with these big networks. They all have good merchants and they all have crap merchants.

 

absolutely SAS is not scam i get constant $$$ every month

 

I signed up with ShareASale and placed lots and lots of ads on my web site. I received payments and then suddenly I could not log into my SAS affiliate account. I e-mailed my contact person, Jason Rubacky, several times and finally got an answer of he would check into the problem. Never heard back, and I e-mailed SAS directly, no answer, just no response at all. I have dead links, no more checks, no answers, and a mess of a web site to clean up, the clean up nightmare I am facing is what makes me really mad. Finally, I am not a corporation, I am a person, and I take things personally.

 

Shareasale is not a scam. They are a well respected company.

 

Shareasale is not scam. They Pay me on time (every 20th) per month