Just another bump for the day.
I did have about 40-some credits revoked from MFF today, but that was not the site's fault. Here is an explanation:
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I wish I had better news for you. I can't even think of how to say everything that needs to be said, so I'll just break it down the best way I can.
First of all, it is not only this site that has been affected by the email/zip problem. Some other sites (one VERY high profile one) are also being affected. So don't think it's a MFF problem.
The advertiser got mad because there is a group of people using a bot to fill out the offers. They were mad because a whole bunch of people were using fake email addresses. They are not pleased with the quality of the traffic that they received from these offers.
As of yesterday, a settlement had been reached that would have been bad, but not horrible. We were going to lose some credits, but keep the majority of them. This morning, the advertiser changed their mind and decided to revoke the entire month's completions. That's right - they wanted to revoke everything going back to June 1st.
Luckily, my affiliate manager is awesome and has been able to talk her boss into absorbing the loss for the first half of the month. Unfortunately, there is nothing that can be done to salvage the second half of the month. All leads from email/zip submits have been revoked.
That means that a lot of you will not be paid as you had anticipated. There is nothing I can do about it, unfortunately. I know it's not fair to those of you who did everything right, but that's the game we're playing. Sometimes you CAN get something for nothing. Sometimes you can't.
My affiliate manager is in the process of setting up some new easy offers with a different advertiser. She asked me to apologize to you guys and promises to have new stuff soon.
I have asked her to have the advertiser in question review the quality of our current traffic. If they are not happy with it, I will be pulling the email/zip offers. It's just not going to be worth having them if they're going to take off with the leads and not pay for them.
It's not fair. I'm not happy about it. We're ALL losing money here.
I'm in the process of adding new offers from a new affiliate site. I'm doing what I can to get you guys some new amazing offers. Hang in there - we'll have some new stuff soon![/quote]