Scammed by Shockbyte Affiliates After Earning Over $4000

[NerdofIM]

Be careful about this company, They denied my payment saying my traffic is not legit. Even though my traffic is very clean and contains zero bots. All people were interested in the service.

They are frauds and unethical. After waiting for 35 days to be eligible for withdrawal, they looked for made up pretexts and they even dragged time by replying the tickets very late on purpose so they can make most of my traffic. It took over 1 week to inform me that they are not going to pay, while their last tickets which were about other issues were being replied in less than a few hours. They were not replying to their tickets between 14-20 January until I was asking them for an update:

Their terms and conditions obviously state that forum traffic is permitted:

https://shockbyte.com/terms-of-service#affiliates
My traffic was only from one forum , all human and targeted traffic. The pretext they use is 'an attempt to exploit the affiliate system ' for using multiple accounts to promote the affiliate links. Just a vague pretext not to pay what I earned . While their competitors are paying me for exactly the same source of traffic that I drive.


Even if they think traffic your traffic is not legit , they will let you send them as many as traffic possible to make most of your traffic, and they will inform you about that only just when you ask for withdrawal.

Just a heads up to anyone that wants to try that affiliate program out. There is not guarantee they will pay you after doing your work specially if the amount you have reached is considerable.

 

[gentzalli]

had the exact same experience. I told them exactly how I was promoting them yesterday which was accepted by their terms and conditions, and the affiliate manager basically said "we don't believe you, we think you might be doing something that's against our terms but we have no proof, so we'll just hold your money".

It's clear to me after reading this post that their entire affiliate program is a fraud and they don't pay out any of their affiliates. We should raise these concerns in the minecraft community as well.

 

[cutt4r]

I am new here so is there any shitlist for affillate networks that dont pay,so that i can avoid them?

 

[NerdofIM]

had the exact same experience. I told them exactly how I was promoting them yesterday which was accepted by their terms and conditions, and the affiliate manager basically said "we don't believe you, we think you might be doing something that's against our terms but we have no proof, so we'll just hold your money".

It's clear to me after reading this post that their entire affiliate program is a fraud and they don't pay out any of their affiliates. We should raise these concerns in the minecraft community as well.

They are obviously fraud. And I guess I have been myself naive too, if something is too good to be true, then there is probably something tricky.

They claim they pay 70% of every sale. Just a lie to tempt affiliate marketer to promote their products .

I even sent them the links where I promote their products, all were legit and people I would target were gamers looking for server hosts. And they avoided to pay me under pretext of 'an attempt to exploit the affiliate system' .

Brief they are horrible pathetic unethical liars.

 

[NerdofIM]

We should raise these concerns in the minecraft community as well.

Please let me know if there is any other community where we can post about that to prevent others from falling for this scam . I ain't trying to get my money back, just wanna make sure others don't fall for it . Let me know if you know of any good places to post.

I am new here so is there any shitlist for affillate networks that dont pay,so that i can avoid them?

I don't think there is any specific list for that, just be careful when promoting stuff, make sure you do your research and check if the offer is legit. I'm just sharing my experience so you don't get scammed like I did.

 

[roydan]

That's very unfortunate.
I hope you learned from it; never get to the first time a network needs to pay you with an amount you be hurt losing.