Affiliates Beware of New Advertiser In CJ!! Read!

Hey warning about thecredit exchange.
Heres what happened, I signed up got accepted. So I started as a test a ppc ad, directlinking. Which is ok. My google ads were limited to one country and one language, english and the US. I started running the ad at 8pm and stopped it at 8am. I had 24000 imps, 220 clicks and 20 leads. The leads are 25.00 per sign up. Yesterday evening I saw that they were slowly being reversed so I contacted the AM who responded He said all my leads were from Nigeria and other countries. Well he said 12 of the 20 so he popped over a email with one of the names which he could have just made up. This morning ALL of them were reversed. Free advertising doesn't sit well. and either does lying. I presented the evidence to CJ I hope they expire them.
this is just a fair warning the payout seems nice but they are SCAM artists
JodyQ
Lucky I only pay around .04 per click so no big loss only the knowledge of another scammy merchant. Please becareful out there.
Love yall

 

Thanks for the warning. Blessings.

 

Damn... i have heard about something before also about some other advertiser and same thing happened -- leads were reversed...

this is simply ridiculous...

 

No worries thats why I call them test ppc ads. So I don't go putting links in my websites and blogs only to find them all reversed after hard work and dedication.
I will get back though I am tired of these merchants and I know for a fact he was manually taking them off as I was emailing him, so what is a few bucks more at ppc make him work hard eh.

 

wow that sucks. thanks for letting us know.

 

Thanks for informing us.

 

any day any whoo have a interview in a hour at netbiz.com wish me luck!

 

Wow it sounds like you would have made over $450 for that if they didn't reverse your leads. Thanks for the advice, I'll be careful from now on when dealing with new merchants. Rep added.

 

these are our correspondences tell me what system allows for nigerians to place their address in a US column. He is pulling my leg and is a jerk and i have a extra 20.00 laying around which will be dedicated to ppc I pay .04 per click have about a 20% conversion will run the ads at night what a prick. they are back wards. He reversed all but one just some random one in the middle. I think what happened is this. He either wants free advertising or he didn't think we affiliates could do so well and his company is freeken broke so he makes up some lame asz excuse as they are nigerian. Well you tell me whe you put one country and it is the us and one language english in google. what are the chance google is just going to randomly send only my ad to nigeria. the conversation starts at the bottom.

I completely understand. I've been on the other end.

I was running out of the office when I got your emails. I'll get you at least one or two more examples to show what I see, and that should explain our/my actions.

If I can help, let me know. For the record, I did see a few VERY VALID leads from you.

Until tomorrow,
brian


On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 6:48 PM, me.com> wrote:

I am contacting google, I have one location united states and one language english, on my ppc ad. sorry for being snappy, I will use yahoo instead. thats just about crappy.
sorry and I do thank you for taking the time to review and respond.




----- Original Message ----
From: Brian Anthony Teti <briant@thecreditexchange.com>
To: >
Cc:

Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 6:44:09 PM
Subject: RE: My reversal already?

First, they are NOT all Nigerian, but I can supply you with data to verify
that these are NOT valid/payable leads.

See below:
Name: EVERESTUS IGWE
Address: BUKURU EXPRESS PLATEAU STATE NIGERIA
ZIP: 23400
Phone: 23464950095

Tell me what YOU think? This is ONE of about 12 (SO FAR) that has caught my
eye (from YOUR id)

Thanks.


-----Original Message-----
From: ]
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 6:35 PM
To: Brian Anthony Teti
Subject: Re: My reversal already?

These were all generate via ppc on google. I ran the ad at 11:00PM and
stopped it at 8:30 I only advertise in The US. I can generate a adwords
report. The link was a direct link via your keywords link in the CJ
interface. I can also generate the keywords listed. Where are you coming off
saying they are all nigerian?



----- Original Message ----
From: Brian Anthony Teti <briant@thecreditexchange.com>
To: me<me@yahoo.com>
Cc:
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 6:20:09 PM
Subject: RE: My reversal already?

Jodi,
I am reversing ALL of the leads that you are sending over that are NOT US
based customers. We clearly state that we can ONLY accept leads from the
USA. MANY of yours appear to be coming from Nigeria or other countries. We
are NOT able to contact or use data from anyone that is NOT in the US. Your
"SUMMERLAKE AW" website is producing NON-valid (not-acceptable) lead data,
YOU might want to look into this yourself.

Sorry for the inconvenience,
Brian Anthony Teti
Internet Liaison, Credit Exchange, LLC.

 

thanks for the warning

 

Jody - I don't see "the credit exchange" in Cj... maybe they got kicked out already?

 

Thanks for warning us though. I will check them on Scam Search too if there are additional complaints about them.

 

When you log in to cj and you are on the publishers home page scroll all the way down they are the last new advertiser on the page
it is TheCreditExchange all one word they are located in the credit card section.

 

I see them now... that's a shame that they did that to you. My guess is that if you were able to generate that kind of revenue with these guys, you can just move your business model to an ethical firm and get the money you earned fair and square.

I do appreciate the head's up.

 

Update.....
So I put $20.00 into my google account and only activated this merchant, now listen I only advertise in the US in English lol. This is my daily stats and this is what they have done......
Day 2 Page Total $***.45 $0.00 $***.94 ($200.00) The () is what they reversed
Day 3.Page Total $***.00 $0.00 $***.00 ($250.00) Reversed
Day again....$***.00 $0.00 $***.00 ($425.00) reversed
again Page Total $***00 $0.00 $***.00 ($150.00) reversed
again...($150.00)
And remember on day one they reversed $500 so as I see it i am owed $1675.00. This weekend in to Monday I am taking a small vacation. I know where this prick works

 

Agree that this is perhaps the worst experience we've ever had with a CJ merchant as well. We've had a 50%+ reversal rate, and I assure you that we are sending very high quality pre-qualified traffic. Their landing page is horrible, and doesn't even render properly in Firefox. Totally unresponsive to calls and emails too.

Definitely stay away from this one.

 

Are you sure you can put the affiliate link in adwords? Thanks for the heads up with this advertiser.

 

you can direct link if the merchants say ok. This one is a lying scumbag and hopefully there company fails miserably and hopefull cj will see that they are theives and deactivate them soon, I filed with the affiliate collection agency on this one I have the proof I sent them us traffic, nigerian up theirs.
Edit:mharad I love your site! just thought I would throw that in there you have been saved as a favorite!!!

 

thank u for warning

 

thanks for the heads up!