ThinkBeforePostingRubbish 1k visits /day

[snareklutz]

I'm selling my site ThinkBeforePostingRubbish. Please take a look at it at www.thinkbeforepostingrubbish.com. Yesterday, we reached a peak of 997 visitors in one day. Most of our visitors are from other forums, in which people post the links when somebody posts something stupid. I have attached a screenshot of referrers so that you can see this. Yesterday, I earned $2 through Google Adsense. A small portion of our visitors come from our new affiliate program which offers a domain instead of cash. This was a great sucess, and helped us reach the peak point. There are currently three members who have reached the minimum payment of $10. The site owner will have to deal with them.

I'm generally looking for offers above $50, but I may sell below that amount.

Please offer through PM/posting.

-Snare

 

[ApeXX]

Obviously he can't clear the debt. He wanted to push it off on the buyer o the domain, most likely. If he wanted to pay, he would have already. He also never stated the exact amount that is due right away to affiliates who reached their $10.00 minimum payout.

ANd if you think about it, he can just not pay anyone. There was no contract as far as I can see. He is not obligated legally to pay anyone. What are you gonna do, sue him for 20 bucks? LOL. More power to ya. Sure you can scream immorality or bad biz ethics all day long, but that and $0.99 will get you a bag of chips.



Serious? How could it get serious? What's gonna happen to him if he does not pay up? Get a bad trader rating? Big deal. Anyhow, you cannot give him a trader rating becasue the fact that he will not pay you the money he owes you has nothing to do with NP.

ANyhow, I'm definitely out of this mess. I have the feeling there is more to it than just what has been said. Sounds like a lot of trouble.

A scam is a scam, no matter the amount of money involved. I think that he should pay off every last penny, cause if I was an affiliate I would scream bloody murder to his host until they suspended his site.

 

[mosaic]

A scam is a scam, no matter the amount of money involved. I think that he should pay off every last penny, cause if I was an affiliate I would scream bloody murder to his host until they suspened his site.

Means clicked by Himself?
really funny.
But absolutely,It is a really good way to increase clicks.

 

[jamieneil]

I think its a good idea to sell, its small and can make a big amount from it, sell the page and keep the affiliates on it, and if the new owners decide to take down the old affilates and place new onse then it will be ok with a good price, but mabe they will just add new onse.

 

[ApeXX]

Means clicked by Himself?
really funny.
But absolutely,It is a really good way to increase clicks.

What are you talking about? Wrong thread maybe? :p

I think its a good idea to sell, its small and can make a big amount from it, sell the page and keep the affiliates on it, and if the new owners decide to take down the old affilates and place new onse then it will be ok with a good price, but mabe they will just add new onse.

I don't think that you completely comprehend what is going on. See the guy owes the affiliates money. The new owner of the site can't just get "rid" of the affiliates, because he owes them money. At this point I feel that it would be best to just give the site away, instead of trying to sell it.

 

[-db-]

Altogether, I am owing these affiliates $98 altogether.

Besides this $98 you mentioned, can you tell me the total cost to pay-off all affiliates? I don't care how long they've been members, or what the minimum payout is. I want to know every penny that's owed, to make things free & clear again. No debt, and no angry affiliates.

Also, besides the Bart Simpson character image, is the chalkboard image ripped from somewhere else too, or is it original? I need to know exactly what's involved here, what changes to make (etc).

Thank you.

 

[ApeXX]

Besides this $98 you mentioned, can you tell me the total cost to pay-off all affiliates? I don't care how long they've been members, or what the minimum payout is. I want to know every penny that's owed, to make things free & clear again. No debt, and no angry affiliates.

Also, besides the Bart Simpson character image, is the chalkboard image ripped from somewhere else too, or is it original? I need to know exactly what's involved here, what changes to make (etc).

Thank you.

I think me means $98 total, as in everyone even below payout, although I could be wrong.

 

[EbookLover]

See the guy owes the affiliates money. The new owner of the site can't just get "rid" of the affiliates, because he owes them money. At this point I feel that it would be best to just give the site away, instead of trying to sell it.

There is nothing legally binding the current owner or the new owner to paying up any affiliate money. Please show us the contract.

If a new owner buys that site he is not obligated to pay off anyone.

Again, show us the contract that states that either owner must or will pay anything.

I signed up as an affiliate to see how things worked and I came accross no affiliate contract what-so-ever.

And yes, the $98.00 is for all money racked up by afiliates but not necessary "payable" yet.

There are currently 38 affiliates at the time of this post. I have recieved 15 new ones today. However, only 3 of the members are really active. Altogether, I am owing these affiliates $98 altogether.

However, I wouldn't doubt that about 90% of that money is due to those 3 affiliates who have reached the min payout.

 

[snareklutz]

$98 is the money made by the members who has reached above the $10 mark. All the other affiliates have around 5 clicks, so I don't think they really matter. Hope that anwsered all your questions.

 

[EbookLover]

WOW! 100 bucks as soon as the new owner takes over. Definitely not worth it given it is too hard to generate income. Good thing theer is not binding contract.

You made a really bad mistake offering 5 cents per click. That is a lot of money to pay out for a site that is hard to monetize. Besides, I'm sure many of those clicks were most likely fraudulent. that PPC script probably isn't the greatest at detecting fraudulent clicks through anonymous proxy servers.

Good luck with that.

 

[bhavani]

hello
what amount u want to pay just tell so we will be happy i had promoted more and reached $10 and still they were running so please tell me what amount u want to pay or dont want pay
before starting this u should have to calculate how much u can pay
regards
bhavani

 

[Archangel]

I should tell you a few things about the business world:

1.) If you don't pay the current affiliates, you will tarnish your image, thus making it near-impossible to get anyone to trust you. (Well, that's not 100% true, seeing as you aren't Bill Gates calibre. But if ppl know who you are and associate you with this site, you're fuc*ed. You could use a pseudonym, if you wanna be shady).

2.) The ethics has to work out. Let's say that you bought something for $100. Now, you turn around and bust your ass trying to sell it for $100. If it sales, what did you earn? a headache? Theorectically, in that situation, if you sold it for $50-even if it sold with no effort on your part-you'd be losing money. Point being: If you knew that your site wasn't making the cash it needs to pay for itself/users, then why did you keep it up?

I'd be interested in the site, as I'm pretty sure I could turn a profit from it. But I won't place even a $1 offer because you messed up on point #2 above. PAY the members and then close the site. Or you could pay up and then study marketing trends or simple business ethics; after you understand the concept of monetary generation (making cash), then re-launch the site. It'd be hard to re-launch it but if you make everything more realistic, you just might earn some trust.

Just my 2 cents.

 

[kjmz]

If I were you I would stop the affiliate program right now. I would then pay the affiliates all the money that they earned. Then I would re-open the affiliate program but this time paying the members $0.01 or a little higher per user. If you wanted you could even get rid of the program. It's up to you but I would pay the affiliates because it will always be on your mind if you don't.
Good luck!

 

[Archangel]

And be careful: www.epippo.com (or whatever the exact URL is) closed down for the same reason: it owed its members thousands of dollars. They owed me $40-50 or so. Just the same, they offered its users more $ than they made.

 

[Phoog]

I dont think this guy will ever pay, but I hope so, I found this on his site today
"Affiliate Program has been shut down - payments will be held until further notice"

 

[harpo]

Remember the saying {people look like there dogs}
how about {people look like their domains}

 

[Phoog]

PMed Snake and got this awnser:

"The affiliate system has been closed and databases has been deleted. Consequently, all affiliate funds has been removed. Sorry for any inconvinence.

-Snare"

I dont know about you but he is definitly on my "black list" and a big scammer, I think he should be banner from this forum beacuse he posted about his site in the "Free R" category.

 

[-db-]

Ha!

Yes, I would say affiliates not getting paid is definitely an inconvenience for them.

 

[IAmAllanShore]

And yet the site is still listed in his signature, as well as the signatures of other forum members...

Also, I would advise against going to the site now because it has some automatic downloads/other trash that it's probably best just to stay clear of.

-Allan

 

[christopher]

Rather ironic:

"Think Before Posting Rubbish"

so aptly applies to this thread....

Chris

 

[Archangel]

His image is tarnished, for sure. I feel sorry for the guy - he could have done something good but he went ahead and dragged it through the mud. C'mon, I ask all of you - EACH AND EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU - would paying $100 break you? I'm not rich but I could/would pay for my mistakes. I admit that I've made a lotta them and I've lost hundreds of dollars because of them. That's business for ya - ya understand it or ya don't.

Everything's a gamble.