CJ not paying me this month

by Sapphire (August 30, 2005)

This would have been my first month getting a check from CJ, but they decided it was ever so much nicer not to pay me at all. A lot of other affiliates aren’t getting paid everything they’re owed, and what’s worse is there’s no explanation that I can make sense of, and apparently I’m not the only one whose emails are being ignored. The non-payment for me takes this form:

Before July, I hadn’t earned enough to get a check. During July, I earned more than enough. So they’re just labeling my July earnings as “pending commissions” even though they show up in my “balance” at the top of each page. But when you go into the transaction reports, my “real” balance is actually the pre-July number. All other commissions are “pending” or “locked” or “whipped cream with cherry”. I mean, what do these little labels mean, anyway?

Here’s the closes thing I can find to an explanation:

If you did not receive a payment or a portion of your payment, including some commissions or performance incentives, you will receive these items AND any outstanding current account balance in a follow-up direct deposit or check to be issued at the beginning of next month.

The reason this occurred is because a portion of data had not yet been processed when the initial payout was finalized. We determined it would be preferable to get out a majority of payments without holding them all back in order to wait for unprocessed commissions.

We apologize for this inconvenience and we expect this to be a one-time event. We believe you will find the *early* payment of a portion of your commissions to be of some benefit in light of what you have experienced. Thank you for your patience.

Somehow I doubt this will apply to me. I think since I had never before reached payout level, I will just be regarded as “unworthy” for the rest of August, and only after September 20 will they even think about sending me some money for my troubles.

And what exactly does that mean, “a portion of data had not yet been processed when the initial payout was finalized”? They’re still in violation of their own agreement, aren’t they? I mean, have you ever given an explanation like that to a creditor, or to someone for whom you agreed to finish something on a deadline?

If I get a check after the first of the month, I’ll feel a little more generous about overlooking their failure to do their job. But I seriously doubt that’s going to happen, and I’m pissed.

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