Another sponsor dumping affiliates?

[Bill]

Originally Posted by Licker4U

Try to log in and see what happens. I couldn't log in after I saw this thread since I haven't been promoting TP for several years.

The point is, I'm not inactive. I want to know who's being caught up in this sweep. Does it include people like me too? Are they killing everybody but the whales?

Why the fuck should I have to worry about my account and run to the website and try to login like a criminal? What if I don't feel like running around like I've done something wrong, being all "I hope I'm not being screwed", when I've got two automatic payment processing llc checks sitting right in front of me.

[Ramster]

Originally Posted by plateman

I know they are raising there min payouts way up, 200.00 min for epass and 100 for checks

i take that as they want full time promoters and higher traffic webmasters

It's horrible when sponsors do that. I got a check Monday for $230.81 (still have the stub) that says:
Invoice 15-Aug-06 $104.86
Invoice 15-Sep-07 $125.95

I assume the min payout must be $200 since they've owed me $100 for 2 years. Nowhere in the stats/admin areea is there a min payout area to adjust it.

Now you're also probably wondering why the fuck did it take them this long to send me the check? I moved in July 07 and had to send them my new address 3 different times. AND they asked me to update the address again about a month ago when I emailed them to say I ALREADY DID!!

[Mr. Blue]

Originally Posted by Bill

The point is, I'm not inactive. I want to know who's being caught up in this sweep. Does it include people like me too? Are they killing everybody but the whales?

Why the fuck should I have to worry about my account and run to the website and try to login like a criminal? What if I don't feel like running around like I've done something wrong, being all "I hope I'm not being screwed", when I've got two automatic payment processing llc checks sitting right in front of me.

They still have me active and they're lucky if they get around 600 hits per month from me from some random galleries I have on my tgp as fillers. So I don't think it's whale only, but it wasn't exactly handled in the best way possible.

[TopBucks Lilit]

Originally Posted by Bill

Does this affect only inactive accounts, or should all of us be 'checking our account' to see if we've been shut off?

I'm not making as many sales with topbucks as I used too, but still get a check every period - is the only way I would know my account is shut off would be if I tried to login and was blocked?

Could my account be shut off now, and I don't know it, but am still sending traffic?

Hello Bill!

This affected only inactive accounts so you have nothing to worry about.

[lassiter]

Originally Posted by TopBucks Lilit

This affected only inactive accounts so you have nothing to worry about.

Well, now, I know we're friends again and all , but that's not quite true. Stats show I had 881 1st page hits, and 206 join page hits between August 1 and August 24 (which is the date I found my access cut off). That doesn't seem "inactive" to me.

[TopBucks Lilit]

Originally Posted by Ramster

It's horrible when sponsors do that. I got a check Monday for $230.81 (still have the stub) that says:
Invoice 15-Aug-06 $104.86
Invoice 15-Sep-07 $125.95

I assume the min payout must be $200 since they've owed me $100 for 2 years. Nowhere in the stats/admin areea is there a min payout area to adjust it.

Now you're also probably wondering why the fuck did it take them this long to send me the check? I moved in July 07 and had to send them my new address 3 different times. AND they asked me to update the address again about a month ago when I emailed them to say I ALREADY DID!!

Hi Ramster!

If you login in your webmaster admin you'll find a tab Edit Info on the top of the page. If you click this tab you'll see your minimum payment amount directly editable in Payment Information section. Or as a second option you can contact one of our representatives to have them edit your account information.

We have never had a late payment and if we owed you anything the only possible reason for that would be that you didn't reach your minimum payout on account.

Regarding updating your address - sometimes systems get screwed up and the changes won't go through, sometimes due to post office failures we get webmaster checks bounced back even if they were sent to a correct address. I don't know what exactly was the reason for asking for your address 3 times, but I'm more than sure the only goal of that was making sure that you'll receive your payment.

[TopBucks Lilit]

Originally Posted by lassiter

Well, now, I know we're friends again and all , but that's not quite true. Stats show I had 881 1st page hits, and 206 join page hits between August 1 and August 24 (which is the date I found my access cut off). That doesn't seem "inactive" to me.

Lassiter,

Accounts that didn't have sales and sent less than 500 hits a period for 3 mounths combined were considered inactive and were moved to inactive group.

As I've already explained we want to work closer with all our webmasters and we needed to filter out accounts that are in use. Sometimes people sell their sites and forget to close accounts while some links are still up and the program will still receive decent amount of traffic, but actually nobody manages this or that account. We're going to filter out accounts that are in use from such inactive ones and permanently move them to active group.

[Useless]

Originally Posted by TopBucks Lilit

As I've already explained we want to work closer with all our webmasters...

Cool - could you kill that feeds pop-up that I get every time I log in? I mean, we get it, you want us to use your feeds if and when we start our own paysites.

[Allfetish]

Originally Posted by plateman

I know they are raising there min payouts way up, 200.00 min for epass and 100 for checks

i take that as they want full time promoters and higher traffic webmasters

This is why I no longer sign up for sponsors with minimums above $50 who are not ccbill/verotel.

Also I don't know about others but I consider an account which gets sent 1 click a month active. Even one click could be a sale. And if a company deactivates my account for any reason other than fraud on my part, i make note of them, and the owners, then I make sure to never promote anything they run or even touch again, ever.

Will topbucks be redirecting hits sent from "inactive" accounts which will not get credit for any sales made back to the former affiliates site or the referring page from which the click was sent?

[Licker4U]

Originally Posted by Bill

The point is, I'm not inactive.

Then you have nothing to worry about, do you? But I think Lilit has already said what they consider "inactive".

[Ramster]

Originally Posted by TopBucks Lilit

Hi Ramster!

If you login in your webmaster admin you'll find a tab Edit Info on the top of the page. If you click this tab you'll see your minimum payment amount directly editable in Payment Information section. Or as a second option you can contact one of our representatives to have them edit your account information.

We have never had a late payment and if we owed you anything the only possible reason for that would be that you didn't reach your minimum payout on account.

Regarding updating your address - sometimes systems get screwed up and the changes won't go through, sometimes due to post office failures we get webmaster checks bounced back even if they were sent to a correct address. I don't know what exactly was the reason for asking for your address 3 times, but I'm more than sure the only goal of that was making sure that you'll receive your payment.

Thanks for the info but it wasn't you guys I was talking about, different sponsor.

But now that I look my account does not work, I cannot log in. I did a forget password to see if I was in the system and it sent me the info but it does not work. Account 8430. Not that it's a big deal, I sent 532 hits last month but still 532 hits doesn't seem "inactive" to me.

[TopBucks Lilit]

Originally Posted by Ramster

Thanks for the info but it wasn't you guys I was talking about, different sponsor.

But now that I look my account does not work, I cannot log in. I did a forget password to see if I was in the system and it sent me the info but it does not work. Account 8430. Not that it's a big deal, I sent 532 hits last month but still 532 hits doesn't seem "inactive" to me.

Hi Ramster!

I've just reopened your account. Please login and change any information that needs to be updated.
Stay tuned for my messages next week, I'd love to discuss improving your activity at TopBucks especially since I'm your account manager

Have a great weekend

[HarryM]

I noticed I couldn't log in a few days ago aswell, so I removed all topbucks galleries and deleted it off stats remote... I tried again after seeing this thread and my account is back to normal. But there's no way known I'll ever promote topbucks again.

What bothers me is nowdays I just submit galleries from a select few sponsors to some good partner TGPs, will everyone else fuck me over because I didn't send 10 joins this month? I already got locked outta pimproll for god knows what... it sucks not being able to trust who your working for :/

[SheepGuy]

Originally Posted by Allfetish

This is why I no longer sign up for sponsors with minimums above $50 who are not ccbill/verotel.

Also I don't know about others but I consider an account which gets sent 1 click a month active. Even one click could be a sale. And if a company deactivates my account for any reason other than fraud on my part, i make note of them, and the owners, then I make sure to never promote anything they run or even touch again, ever.

Will topbucks be redirecting hits sent from "inactive" accounts which will not get credit for any sales made back to the former affiliates site or the referring page from which the click was sent?

And a damn good question. I'd like to hear that the answer is no, but in the name of efficiency and all of that paperwork the megasites have to do, I doubt Ill hear what I'd like to hear.

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by HarryM

I noticed I couldn't log in a few days ago aswell, so I removed all topbucks galleries and deleted it off stats remote...

Just a question: did you look into why you could not log in?

I ask because there was a problem with a sponsor (BangBros?) a while back where people's passwords were not working & it was a database error that they fixed the next day.

Point being that, even though this situation probably did warrant the removal of the links, if you did that & it was a simple error, you'd probably feel silly.

[Pagan]

Most sponsors I have dealt with are quite responsive. Nadya has been great at working with people as you can tell by the threads here. Many will suggest ways you can showcase them better.. if you ask. If you don't communicate a need to your sponsors, how can you dismiss them if they drop you?

TopBucks does have nice sponsor content that is not watermarked (a huge plus) and has a solid open-door policy with management. They have a great variety of sites to promote. So they had a glitch with trying to clean up inactive account holders.. their plusses far outweigh their minuses in my eyes.

Originally Posted by HarryM

I noticed I couldn't log in a few days ago aswell, so I removed all topbucks galleries and deleted it off stats remote... I tried again after seeing this thread and my account is back to normal. But there's no way known I'll ever promote topbucks again.

What bothers me is nowdays I just submit galleries from a select few sponsors to some good partner TGPs, will everyone else fuck me over because I didn't send 10 joins this month? I already got locked outta pimproll for god knows what... it sucks not being able to trust who your working for :/

[Mateusz]

TopBucks, you gotta be kidding me.. seems my account was suspended this pay period. Well.. I know I didnt send any sales this pay period but I'm pretty sure I had few within last couple of pay periods. I also know send more than 5k first page hits this month so don't blame they didn't convert

I'm sure my contact info is up to date since I checked when this thread appeared and 5k hits / 2 weeks dont seem to be dead account

I'll be hitting Nadya on ICQ in a minute but it kinda annoying - do we really have to check our accounts each pay period to make sure our hits are being tracked?


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It took only few seconds and Nadya explained its system glitch that caused the problems

I'm sorry TopBucks