Any experience with Affiliate Junktion?

There are allot of Affiliate programs these days, and most good bloggers are affiliate savvy as are readers. I decide to take the plunge and check out one thats surfaced recently.

The site is Affiliate Junktion. Affiliate Junktion reads too good to be true. It guarantees to make you $150 a day, free to join and free website. We all know that affiliate plans can never 'guarantee' anything. In an effort to find out if Affiliate Junktion is a fraud, I did a bit of research:

I found (from forums/blogs) that after you join with Affiliate Junktion, sure you might get a free website (more on that later), but you have to host it with the service provider in their scheme. For that you have to pay for a years hosting, anything from US$5 to $10 a month (depending on time of year specials - currently only $4.95). Thats US$60-$100. So much for free (although the do promise to re-reimburse you $75 to cover that)

Looking at the site it appears to be New Zealand based. A quick whois check show Affiliate Junktion is hosted by bluehost.com in the US but (care of their domain privacy). OK so its hosted in the US that doesn't tell us anything. I had a look at the affiliate program at bluehost.com and they pay out $65.00 per signup to affiliates. That looks like where Affiliate Junktion is making their money.

So I thought lets see what happen when I sign up and registered my details. I immediately received an instruction email showing that I would have to sign up at ipower.com. Something smelt rather fishy. Why host with bluehost.com and direct people to ipower.com to sign up? So I check out their site, seams legit and a quick look at their affiliate program might hold a clue as to how Affiliate Junktion makes money. ipower.com pays out US$100 per sign up, enough to cover the promised $75 reimbursement and $2 sign up fee Affiliate Junktion pays its members (as I understand it).

About the guarantee to make $150 a day, we'll I check out Affiliate Junktions terms and conditions and it has a waiver that basically says that Affiliate Junktion is not liable for the validity or truth in the content of its site. That way Affiliate Junktion can guarantee and promise all they like it doesn't mean anything. You should know that.

I decided to carry on with the sign up. Hey I could use a years hosting even if the Affiliate Junktion turned out to be a scheme.

Therein I think lies the secret. Affiliate Junktion gets you to sign up for web hosting. This is how it avoids being a pyramid scheme, because at the bottom level there is someone getting a product, and one that most people who are likely to come across Affiliate Junktion (those searching for affiliate schemes) can use.

There are other schemes like that. They are called multi-level marketing. Basically a pyramid scheme which make sure the bottom level never 'breaks down' leaving people with nothing to show for thier money, by providing a product or service. They then encourage their members to duplicate the process and find more members. They even have a name for it, it's called "the cycle of duplication".

Whatever the outcome, I've paid my money to Affiliate Junktion so time will tell if they suckered me. If it is real, ones things for sure, Affiliate Junktion is set to make a bundle and at some stage there will be allot of people saying "I've got my hosting, now what?"

The last thing I did today ways to send my sign up proof to Affiliate Junktion. They are supposed to respond and upload the 'magical' website which will make me $150 per day to my host account. In any case I'll post tomorrow with more... if your thinking about joining Affiliate Junktion, maybe hold off a few days, we'll soon see if Affiliate Junktion is truth or fraud.

 

The site is Affiliate Junktion. Affiliate Junktion reads too good to be true. It guarantees to make you $150 a day, free to join and free website. We all know that affiliate plans can never 'guarantee' anything. In an effort to find out if Affiliate Junktion is a fraud, I did a bit of research:

Yes I have a Affiliate Junktion proof of payment posted at website. Please goto earnmydollars dot com >>http://www.earnmydollars.com/Affiliate_Junktion_Proof.html

 

Hello guys!

I signed up for affiliate junktion few days ago. It seams for me that this program is quiet ok. I've started a campaign on adwords, it is running and I am waiting for leads to make. I believe this can be profitable.

www.loopget.com

 

I tried Affiliate Junktion, and yes, they paid. I spent many hours promoting the program, without getting paid a whole lot, considering my efforts. I have read on blogs, etc. about people making good money with Affiliate Junktion, and I think some people probably do fine with this program. I think most of those people do spend quite a bit on paid advertising, which I was not willing to risk investing in until I actually got paid. Since the payout minimum is $200, it took some months to finally receive payment. It was around the time I received my first payment that I discovered Affiliate Town. Affiliate Town is a very similar program, but is based in the USA and pays you $5-$10 US Dollars per lead. Not only that, Affiliate Town is a 2-Tier program, and will pay you $1 for every lead generated by one of your referrals. I have been with Affiliate Town for just under 3 weeks and I am so thrilled I signed up. My ads are getting much better response. I think this is because Affiliate Town offers so much for so little. All you have to commit is a little time and effort (I usually spend a couple hours per day placing ads, updating my blog, etc.) and you get a handsome commission just for generating free signups. The minimum payout is only $100 which takes no time to reach. I would highly recommend Affiliate Town over Affiliate Junktion. Yes, AJ is an honest opportunity, but you get so much more with Affiliate Town. If you're ready to sign up, or are interested in learning how a regular person with no marketing background is doing with Affiliate Town, I invite you to check out http://affiliatetownreview.blogspot.com/

 

Anyone who thinks Affiliate Junktion can be profitable hasn't done the math. It's massively oversaturated, you can't get good, cheap keywords, and they always leave half your referrals as "pending" so it takes much longer to get to their minimum payout. And then, they pay you in New Zealand dollars, which are worth a little more than half of an American dollar. I generated tons of referrals for them and they never paid a dime. Perhaps some lucky folks did get paid, but the vast majority did not.

 

I went to the site and got the following message.

"This page parked courtesy of www.bluehost.com Bluehost.com Affordable, Reliable"

guess its gone.