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I have tried to use major affiliate sites before, like Clickbank and Pepperjam but I guess it’s not meant to be. I could never find anything on Clickbank that I thought was a valuable product that I could believe in, and Pepperjam never responded to my initial sign up.
Commission Junction is another player in the affiliate game. I recently did a bit of investigating to find out their level of credibility. I was shocked. Commission Junction has represented Adobe and Ebay, major companies, so I expected them to be on the up and up.
Well, I’m not going to make any judgements since I’ve never used them, but I will provide you with the links to some pretty interesting information. Can you say “class action lawsuit?” Yikes.
Here’s a blogger that has complained about CJ’s unethical practices: Affiliates Scammed at Commission Junction?
The Rip Off Report calls Commission Junction a bunch of liars and thieves.
The Complaint Board has a list of unhappy campers who say they never received commission due to them.
Some say that Commission Junction is, or has been involved with affiliate programs (Shop at Home Select) that install malware on shopper’s computers.
If that’s not enough, here’s the link to their settlement details.
Even Problogger, a highly ranked site with plenty of traffic admits he’s never made any money with Commission Junction. Here is his Commission Junction Review. Some of the reader comments are particularly hostile toward CJ.
My honest advice on this one? Runnnnnnn Forrest, Ruuuuuuun!
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Here is full details about Commission Junction and one of their Advertiser (Central Desktop):
http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/471/RipOff0471068.htm
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Former and current Publishers of Commission Junction, if you wish to join a class action lawsuit, please contact me.
CJ is a complete scam. They terminated my account for “non bona-fide transactions” with eBay and have not paid me over $800,000 in commissions.
They won’t pay a commission until it reaches $50. I wonder just how much they’ve made on that deal??????
My frustration with them right now is that I did not receive my payment this month (my first month) and when I try to submit an inquiry, I get an error message stating that the page navigation was cancelled. So how am I supposed to get my $180?
Does anybody else reading this use Market Samurai? They integrate nicely with four different affiliate networks, one of which is Commission Junction. They are generally a product of high integrity; so I’m surprised to hear that CJ has such a questionable reputation …
@nick… so you let it get up to 800K worth of commission due to you before you made a stink? you are an incredible liar or some kind of stupid…