Azoogle banned my account last night. I am still waiting to see if it will be reinstated today. A month ago, two different ebay accounts were selling sites as a business package. They showed screenshots of how much money was being made by Azoogle. These sites had my Azoogle affiliate links on them. Azoogle contacted me and starting asking all sorts of questions, like am I sure I did not do this, do I know the person who is doing this, am I a friend of theirs and so on. I was asked this repeatedly. I sent the person on ebay an email and they promised to remove the links, which they did. Last night I tried to log in to view my stats and it said my account has been banned. I contacted my account rep and she said the same thing has happened again and compliance is looking at it. She said they have a policy of 3 offences and automatic ban by compliance, following a "senior level" investigation. I think this whole attitude sucks. Anyone can copy any link off an affiliate website. There is no evidence whatsoever to suggest that I was guilty. The screenshots were fake. Following their logic, I could argue that I have seen their screenshots on ebay 3 times and so they should be closed down to investigate possible fraud. Would you cut off person A's income if you found that someone had copied their content? No one even phoned me. I will be transferring my business to Max Bounty as this episode has cost me money (lost affiliate commission), time (2 hours spent trying to find the emails I sent), stopping all my PPC traffic (and its potential effect on history) and worry if they are going to pay me my commissions locked up in their account. I have sent them the 3 email conversation I had with the ebay guy one month ago as my defence of something where there is no evidence of my guilt. That really sucks big time. I just want to get my money out of them now. Jon
So... this person supposedly put your affiliate referrel link up or an actual offer link up? Either way, why would they do that? They have nothing to gain... you only do.
I had some similar bad experiences with Commission Junction.. both of these are very strict and sometimes really suck..