Beware Goldkey

[Noobie]

99.9% of my income from Goldkey is referral.
This month i was making 15-30$ a day off referrals, which was a nice source of income.
Yesterday I notice, one of my referred users was removed and thus all commisions were removed also so i opened this ticket:

Subject: 2nd tier member gone?
Comments: ====== 09.28.06 09:00 PM EDT User xxxxxxxx wrote : ======
One of my second tier members has been removed and all earnings associated with him/her

This morning, I get this email:
Hello,

After detailed analysis of the traffic being generated from your domains at GoldKey.com, your account has been disabled.

You will receive no commissions from GoldKey.com.

Considering my own domain earnings (i have 3 parked there, i started parking them this month) was 45 cents, i doubt i was really exploiting the system.

500$ gone, on the 29th of the month this happens.

Last month i made 249$ no problems at all.

 

[InsideDN]

That's awful, maybe you should contact them again to let them re-examine the "analysis". It may be they just made a mistake. Good luck.

 

[Noobie]

I did.

And they just responsed by not adding to my ticket, juut "Hello and Thank you" and just closing it.

One of our support staff have responded to your inquiry at GoldKey.com

Subject: UNfair
Comments: Hello,
Service ticket generated from Contact form at GoldKey.com .
Name: David xxxxxx
Date: Fri 09/29/06 12:59:53 PM EDT
Remote Host: xxxxxxxx
Email: [email protected]
Subject: UNfair
Comments:
All my commisions are from 2nd tier members and I have been wrongfully banned.
My account name is xxxxxxx

I have not done anything to exploit the system.

-Thank you

[Service Ticket Closed]

 

[InsideDN]

well...it's really bad to hear this, unfair practices happen from time to time, what can we do...keep on fighting and best of luck with that

On a side note, is there anyone else having similar issues with GK? I've heard good things about them and their landers look pretty nice...

 

[techie474]

About 30% of traffic to my parked domains at ActiveAudience (GoldKey's sister site) was coming from Pakistan and India. My account was disabled too on 26th Sep. Hopefully they will send me my commission, and prove not to be a scam for me.

I think they don't like the traffic from Asia. I cannot even contact support because my account is disabled and cannot access customer support page.

EMAIL
"After detailed analysis of the traffic being generated from your domains at ActiveAudience.com, your account has been disabled.

You will be paid all your commissions during our next payment cycle.
Regards,
ActiveAudience Support Team"

Do you think I will get my commission?

 

[verbster]

Hey, what's with this? Is there more to the story, or are they truly shutting down accounts with no explanations and/or responses. If so, that's just wrong, and we should make sure they know about it. If not, what's really going on? Someone step up with full details...if there are any.

 

[Noobie]

They never replied to any of my emails.
I even used their support system outside of the user account.
I also tried directly emailing them.
No response.
Basically, they saved themselves 500-600$/month.
They can probably still kept my referred users and saved paying me my 10%.

It wasn't that hard for me to point out i was ripped off, i had 3 domains parked there, they made no money.

"Hello,

After detailed analysis of the traffic being generated from your domains at GoldKey.com, your account has been disabled.

You will receive no commissions from GoldKey.com.

Regards,
GateKeeper
GoldKey.com, LLC."

The status has been changed since that email from disabled to suspended

There's nothing anyone can do really, they answer to noone.
All I can try to do is try to get people to look elsewhere for their PPC needs.

 

[techie474]

When I try to log in to ActiveAudience, it says

Your account is under review.
Please email [email protected] for more information.

They don't reply to my emails. But they told me I will be paid

After detailed analysis of the traffic being generated from your domains at ActiveAudience.com, your account has been disabled.

You will be paid all your commissions during our next payment cycle.
Regards,
ActiveAudience Support Team

 

[Noobie]

Better than nothing ;p

 

[verbster]

Their "account disabled" statement reveals nothing, does it. Do you think they thought they were being defrauded...maybe because lots of referrals but no payments to them for whatever? This is just strange, not to mention worriesome.

I don't buy the, we're-God-and-can-do-whatever-we-like attitude. Wonder why they are being so non-responsive when a little info would go a long ways. Perhaps they think something is wrong but can''t prove it, and this is their quick remedy? Or maybe you've found a loophole in their system that they didn't know about and can't afford to leave open...

No communication is unacceptable in their line of business. Would sure like to hear what they have to say.

 

[edomain.biz]

Account disabled at GoldKey.com

I have been with Goldkey for 15 months and was currently making around $400 a month from some of my names and referral accounts. I got the following on the 20th. I have never clicked on one of my own names and hardly ever check them. I get no response from Goldkey. They are obviously taking the new accounts. They just took around $300 from me.



Hello,

After detailed analysis of the traffic being generated from your domains at GoldKey.com, your account has been disabled.

You will receive no commissions from GoldKey.com.

Regards,
GateKeeper
GoldKey.com, LLC.

 

[Noobie]

Heh ... that's just crazy

 

[floatingworld]

they probably decided re traffic analysis that the income was being generated through concentrated offshore click farming.....

 

[AMDWarrior]

I hear more and more of this, not just from this site but seems to be happening alot lately, good luck wih it..

 

[OptimaDomains]

In the past, Goldkey has always paid me on time, and they seem to pay better than Sedo.

However, one day they shut down one of my domains without even telling me. So, I emailed them, but never got a response back. Their communication is horrible. I would not recommend them.