I’ve temporarily removed most of my CrispAds while I wait to see where the flies are gonna land.
Everything was perfect, two weeks ago. I set my own keywords, and I got the sort of ads I wanted. It was more controllable than AdSense, and I was happy. Then they started this thing [...]

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So after being told yesterday that my merchants must be delinquent in their payments to CJ, I wrote my merchants and was assured they were not.
Then the lady from CJ wrote to inform me that, after further research, she’d found that my account is under some sort of quality check because (even though the account [...]

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(e) Facilitating Payment of Payouts. Subject to other provisions in this Agreement, CJ shall credit Your Account with a Payout for each qualifying Transaction in accordance with the Advertiser’s Payout rate and Program terms for the relevant Transaction. On the 20th day of each calendar month, CJ will issue to You any positive balance [...]

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For those of you keeping up with my continual CJ non-payment coverage, here’s the latest. My tax info - forms they have to have before they will pay me - which I sent in 2 weeks ago still haven’t been processed. Their explanation? It takes at least a week.
A week? 2 [...]

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We’ll know soon enough whether CJ has managed to weasel out of paying me for yet another month. And I’m not the only one who’s noticed that they seem to be reclassifying commissions under new names to get out of paying them until they’ve been paid. When I signed onto CJ, it was [...]

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A few days ago, I wrote to CJ to ask why all of the commissions I’ve earned since July are either “locked” or “new”, which means that even though my balance is many times the minimum payout, I’m still technically not qualified for payout. Their response?
They wanted my W-9. They put “solved” on [...]

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Ever wondered how hosts go about honoring their uptime guarantees? I mean, if they fall below that 99.9% (or whatever) threshhold, what exactly happens?
I personally didn’t find out until recently, because in getting started, I was using cheaper hosts who didn’t really offer guarantees, or honor the ones they did offer. But now [...]

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I can personally verify that CrispAds pays. I just got a payment via PayPal for a graphic ad I’ve been running. I had actually expected the payment to come at the end of this month (but honestly, I get confused about payment terms on all the various ad networks and affiliate brokers I’m [...]

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Got a nice little CJ commission this weekend to go with all my other CJ commissions… which I’m not getting paid for. Yes, I’m going to keep kvetching about this until that shiny check makes it to my grubby little paws.
I reached the payout minimum for the first time at the end of July, [...]

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Remember a few weeks ago when I posted an open letter to the Casino Spammers who kept submitting spam comments to my site here? In it, I just kindly let them know that I screen the comments, so they are not getting through. Period.
I haven’t had one since. Could it [...]

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