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Old 08-02-2008, 10:53 AM
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Hey Guys,

I thought it responsible that I report my experiences as a warning to those who are currently promoting SeNuke.

For approx. three weeks I sent a load of traffic through the senuke affiliate and picked up three sales according to their system. To top it off, a business friend of mine subscribed to the premium version as well (a total of 3 premium and 1 standard subscriptions).

So anyway, I thought... sweet, some steady passive income and left it at that as it was still three weeks from senuke's announced pay period.

Well to cut the story short, five weeks later when I had seen no commission, I logged into the site and noticed their system (or operators) had flipped the sales I made into an area stating I wasnt going to see any of the money. When I emailed "Joe" I received word that "oh, all those people that signed up under you were on the free trial period". So I rebutted (knowing my friend coughed up close to a hundred on this pos program) that I had close contact to those who purchased and I would have them email him their paypal receipt so he could issue a full refund... afterall, he had already established they were "free" users. I didnt even bother pointing out to Joe that their "free" trial was created and offered after the subscription of these others.

Anyhow, "Joe" continued to evade responsibility for the situation and I began rerouting the traffic and support of senuke to another relevant competitor.

So the reason for my post my friends is that if you are supporting Senuke's BS affiliate campaign, please be careful to keep an eye on how many conversions you are making AND that you arent losing a load of commission to these slimey wankers.

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Old 08-02-2008, 10:59 AM
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thanks for the heads up ellie. that sucks to dont it.
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yes ellie thanks for the heads up... I was looking into promotion of senuke... Will have to really rethink that now.
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Ellie: Who is the relevant competitor you are sending your traffic too? Is it the same kind of service as SEnuke? I was thinking of using SEnuke but now I'm not so sure.
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Thanks for letting us know bro...
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Old 08-02-2008, 03:05 PM
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This sucks man. Screw Joe ... promote the competitor ... hurts him in the long run.
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Thanks for sharing. I suspect something as I had no sales even from many free trials.
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Old 08-02-2008, 04:31 PM
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Zon: I began routing traffic to web submitter 2, seo elite and any seo-type affiliate.

Micro niche finder is great if you guys ever get stuck looking for affiliates.
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Old 08-02-2008, 04:36 PM
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Gotta love double posts and no ability to delete the clone
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Ellie, first of all affiliate commissions were just paid out yesterday and today secondly no one went in and flipped or otherwise changed anything in your account.

We dont rely on the script to give an accurate count of sales as there are ways to game the system such as signing up under your own affiliate ID or creating a second membership and signing up under that to gain a commission this is why we manually verify each and every sale and commission through Paypal.

If you did in fact refer a friend and you know for a fact he is active and did not cancel then have him contact us with his Paypal transaction number and SEnuke member ID and if there was an error you will receive whatever you are entitled to.

If you are going to be doing any type of business online or off and want to succeed I would suggest that you learn some business etiquette. Simply contacting us to look into this matter would have have been sufficient.

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Old 08-02-2008, 05:55 PM
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An affiliate should not have to contact the people he refers to your site for sales. Thats like saying i sent 5000 unique visitors to your website last month, 10 of them converted on your end, but I still have to follow up with those 10 to receive commissions.

Now if this happed to 1 of those 10, I could understand a possible mistake in your system, but to think that 3 friends he refered, and are still subscribed slipped through is bogus. He should have no obligation to contact any of the people he referered, because 99% of the time, it will be unknown to him who he sent, hes just damn lucky it was people he knew.

My take after reading the rspons of joerussell and Ellie. I have to side with Ellie on this one, stay away from SENuke

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Ellie, first of all affiliate commissions were just paid out yesterday and today secondly no one went in and flipped or otherwise changed anything in your account.

We dont rely on the script to give an accurate count of sales as there are ways to game the system such as signing up under your own affiliate ID or creating a second membership and signing up under that to gain a commission this is why we manually verify each and every sale and commission through Paypal.

If you did in fact refer a friend and you know for a fact he is active and did not cancel then have him contact us with his Paypal transaction number and SEnuke member ID and if there was an error you will receive whatever you are entitled to.

If you are going to be doing any type of business online or off and want to succeed I would suggest that you learn some business etiquette. Simply contacting us to look into this matter would have have been sufficient.

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Im not saying there is a mistake. In fact I beleive our calculations are spot on and the OP is the one who has doubts.

Joe
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Old 08-02-2008, 06:09 PM
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Thanks for the heads up guys. I was actually thinking about promoting this and now I know to put my efforts into something more constructive. This thread is already #3 in the G00gle search results for the term: (senuke affiliate)

This kind of information is why I love BHW!

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An affiliate should not have to contact the people he refers to your site for sales. Thats like saying i sent 5000 unique visitors to your website last month, 10 of them converted on your end, but I still have to follow up with those 10 to receive commissions.

Now if this happed to 1 of those 10, I could understand a possible mistake in your system, but to think that 3 friends he refered, and are still subscribed slipped through is bogus. He should have no obligation to contact any of the people he referered, because 99% of the time, it will be unknown to him who he sent, hes just damn lucky it was people he knew.

My take after reading the rspons of joerussell and Ellie. I have to side with Ellie on this one, stay away from SENuke
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