I dunno, I was really into wanting to sign up with Chikita, that is until I found this forum! my gosh! talk about negative! Maybe I shouldn't sign up? Looks more like a hassle to me.
The difference between a successful webmaster and a mediocre one is that the first one doesn't believe what everybody else says and tests and gives it a try. The mediocre one just says "oh, everybody says it is bad, why bother then" and gives up without even trying.
I would give it a try. If it doesn't work out for you, what have you really lost? If it works out, you'll make some extra $$$.
I've heard the bad things as well but I kept it up and it's been decent for me. You have to remember, when Chitika was new a lot of people were clicking on them out of curiousity so a lot of the higher trafficked sites were showing unaudited $$$ that were huge. Then Chitika, wrongfully in my opinion, audited those numbers down and a lot of the very public site operators, rightfully, complained which is why there was so much backlash. (the recent audit delays didn't help either) In short, I agree with Fryman.
What were they supposed to do. Magic the money from non-sales out of thin air? They F*#ked up Royally, but they can't pay what they didn't earn.
Good one. Chitika is good on some sites and horrid on others. It all really depends. Then again you could say the same thing about any affiliate program.
I'm not trying Chitika. Why? There are other companies that I can trust like: Amazon, Google and CJ. Why try and spend my time with Chitika now? I don't now if it will survive - maybe I lost my time learning its scripts and all my work is lost. Ok, CJ, Amazon and Google is not 100% But is stable compared to Chitika. Am I wrong? There is any killing advantage of using Chikita?
Well, for me, there is not any killing advantage in not using Chitika. I use Amazon, Google and CJ as well, but Chitika does add yet another (actually quite good paying and well performing) revenue stream to this list, so I keep using them.