[WARNING] Maxbounty - Dont send them black traffic

Lucky me i saw that just before i wanted to start with maxbounty.Thanks for warning us :beerchug:

I doubt MaxSteve will come back to this thread. It's a shame really. Wanted to see his response.

The problem are the TOS of many ads network : they milk you, they make money, but before they pay, they try to ban a percentage of the affiliates. It's a way like others to make money.
It would be best to not registered with these networks. The opacity of operations is good enought to abuse and shave.
I can't say the OP is an angel, but the other party either...

how did they find out you were giving instagram traffic? you have a link shortner to the affilate link?

Well all i can say from my experience. I have been trying out 4-5 CPA sites and i am by no means a veteran in CPA but MB is giving me best conversions. I have been paid every time and on time, this weeks payment was even sent before the right day together with a letter thanking for good traffic. So i do not really know what the fuss is about... but these things happen

And for op, if they found you spamming, that is your problem. Dont break the rules and you would be ok.
To others reading this thread:

AM DOES NOT KNOW YOU ARE CHEATING HE ONLY HELPS YOU TO MAKE MORE $, THEIR JOB IS NOT TO CHECK UR TRAFFIC IS LEGIT

read before you talk crap about the AMs they have. My AM is actually a very cool lady

And about that 6k u lost, it hurts im sure of that. Has happened to me also on a PPD site. But if it was my company, i would do the same, ban and not give out the cash. It is like "A robber goes and cons a bank for 6k$ and then expects them to pay him before he goes to jail" I mean really ?

Would you rather them ask for Instagram to drop a lawsuit on you for spamming ? If i was STeve and reading this right now i would turn to Instagram, talk about the situation and let them sue you for spamming. Im sure this woulg get the message through.

If you do BH, you can get fcked. If you wana hussle, learn how to do it without getting ur a$$ handed to you or learn to live with getting pounded by everyone

My 2 cents

Snivy said:

I doubt MaxSteve will come back to this thread. It's a shame really. Wanted to see his response.

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he wont come back, i contacted him and he said that advertisers didnt paid them so he wont pay OP as well which is bs i guess.

Like I've seen stated above, after you find a good offer on a network that is converting well for you, go straight to
the source & work outta deal.. That way you can cut the middle man (maxbounty) out the picture

royal2b said:

Like I've seen stated above, when you find a good offer on a network that is converting well for you, than go straight to
the source to work outta deal.. That way you can cut the middle man (maxbounty) out the picture

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And moreover you earn more money and get faster payments.

The issue that seems to keep getting glossed over is with the AM at MaxBounty. Everyone is focusing in on the OP losing the $6K but he's admitted he broke the TOS and when you do that you run the risk of getting banned.

Now to the issue of the AM, my guess is that these guys don't care if you're running black hat traffic as long as they see dollars going through. This is an internal issue I imagine for many networks where the AM likely gets paid based on performance. This leads to the problem of the AM looking the other way if he/she does know.

Now that's not true with every network or every AM but either:

A) The AM knew about the traffic and wanted to make more money and should be fired.

or

B) The AM was not informed about the traffic by compliance and in that case MB needs better quality control and communication.

Either way someone at MB should be getting an ass-reaming. There needs to be more communication with affiliates when there is a problem or you get problems like this where people start bashing your company because they think that you are just ripping them off.

Well, maxbounty is going to lose a lot of publishers.... if they treat them like shlt...

royal2b said:

Like I've seen stated above, after you find a good offer on a network that is converting well for you, go straight to the source & work outta deal.. That way you can cut the middle man (maxbounty) out the picture

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Sounds good in theory, but is it viable in real life? Not familiar with contractual arrangements between affiliates and advertisers, but this does seem like the "common sense" solution. If the advertisers was happy with the traffic as the OP says, the only reasons I can think of to NOT do it is because the volumes/dollar values are too low to mess with, or there is some kind of "exclusivity clause" in the affiliate/advertiser's contract.

Is this done? If the situation is as the OP describes it, why WOULDN'T the advertiser be willing to work out a separate arrangement with marketers whose traffic converts, but the methods used to generate it fall outside the affiliate's ToS?

dennisyu said:

Please list all the networks that allow spam as a means of traffic. Oh, that's right...there are none.

Also, if people are entering fake, unverifiable info -- that is fraud. Fact is, you don't know.

Maxbounty is one of the few networks that have been around for a long time. They didn't get there by ripping off affiliates.

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Eva Pharmacy!

Thanks alot on this warning !

jason666 said:

Update to the thread:
I want to add something, today I investigated more and I got in touch with the mother company of the offer i was promoting with maxbounty. I was promoting an offer for this mother company and I mentioned that other offer I was promoting for maxbounty, and she told me they own that offer as well. ( it happened by coincident )
Well the point is I gave her my aff id on maxbounty to check the quality of the leads I sent, because I told her I will send similar traffic, she said the leads were good quality and converted well for them, then I asked her whether maxbounty got paid she said yea, maxbounty was paid for my leads.

Now, what maxbounty did was not only they banned me when I said I will wait for payday, but also they WERE PAID for my leads and didn't send me that amount.

Yea I understand I broke their TOS or whatever, but they were paid for my leads which were good for the advertiser, and it is my right to get paid for them AND then it is their right to terminate my account.

What do you think ?

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Damn, can only assume Steve(MG) knew this was coming hence said that was his last comment here, would love to read from him after this update.

Well first let me say Maxbounty are the scum of the earth - because no matter what you say you are always wrong - and there is always an excuse // AM and compliance are seperate // AM says do more -- but still your not going to get paid.

HOWEVER OP Maxbounty cannot pay you for comment spammed Instagram leads - because they will get sued for the payment plus damages - as it would be an admission that they allow this and encourage this - which is a break of TOS of the Social Network.... assuming Social Network sued.

so 1. you made the mistake in the beginning of doing it 2. you didn't blank/change referrer according to a more normal campaign.

Yeah Maxbounty are scum for the way they deal with affiliates but you also made some pretty basic mistakes to compound the issue.

Max Steve is only going to keep saying the same thing over and over - because they just don't need a lawsuit that they would lose over $6k

good luck

Danny1111 said:

Well first let me say Maxbounty are the scum of the earth - because no matter what you say you are always wrong - and there is always an excuse // AM and compliance are seperate // AM says do more -- but still your not going to get paid.

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The underlined part isn't true. Earlier this year, MB went down while I was running traffic to a CPA offer, my AM wouldn't do anything to help me. Steve overrode my AM and added money to my account based on the last few days results. So, my AM was wrong, I was right.

Stupid Smurf said:

The underlined part isn't true. Earlier this year, MB went down while I was running traffic to a CPA offer, my AM wouldn't do anything to help me. Steve overrode my AM and added money to my account based on the last few days results. So, my AM was wrong, I was right.

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They did this for all their publishers

Roundhouse said:

They did this for all their publishers

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No, my AM said I didn't qualify to receive any payments for the site being down. I know it was paid out to all publishers that had history to go with, I was new and had only been running the campaign a few days, maybe a week at most. I did voice that on a forum, and Steve stepped in and fixed it for me.

After reviewing the material here that has been disclosed, the young man's account of the goings on of this network, and its subsequent action; I most certainly will never bring any of my traffic to this network. Shame, I was considering this network for another niche project of genuine business traffic.

To be crass and puerile, I will echo the same sentiment another user typed: "burn in hell."

Good day.

I got this email yesterday:

Got this today:

I lost 657 dollars, not much but I was hoping to get a new computer. My friend got this same situation.

"Can we help increase sales?" -- "Your account has been terminated".

And I haven't been running any ads in the last few days. I didn't break the rules, I basically ran one ad through blogs, according to my AM that was fine. I wrote a story about Sony's new cloud gaming service, explained what the cloud was, then told them a good place to get cloud storage. I got a lot of clicks and only 5 or 6 conversations but at about 140 each it wasn't bad. They did exactly what everyone else said happened to them. I can only vouch for myself but I got screwed out of my money, I am moving on to other CPA's now. Just thought I would leave my story, because it is very similar.