Commission Junction (CJ)

I tried CJ.com because Google and Facebook advertisement is getting worse and worse in their restrictions. I paid a fee of 1500 Euro per month so they find advertisers for me.
After 3 month I didn't have any real advertisers yet and not one sale on my site. Some days I had 200 registration for day but 90% deinstalled the app immediate after registration. The deal is for 6 month but i will stop pay now as I don't want to spend another 4500 Euro for nothing.

We have been an affiliate with CJ for 15 years and have seen many changes over the years. Affiliates used to have individual CJ advisers who checked in monthly with newsletters of support and frequently sent personal emails. Fast forward to mid February, 2019 when we realized that our account had been disabled. No notice or reasons given. When we contacted support we were told we had violated their Terms. No details. When we asked for clarification, we were accused of something we had not done. Tried to explain but no response. The worst thing is the evaporation of all our data. We have no way of accessing anything in our account. We had been 5 tier earners for 15 years and this is what was done to us. I wonder who is making off with our account balance and all the account balances we have been reading about in the complaints.?

This is a site for web developers and site owners to use affiliate advertising through. They have a good number of name brand companies that use them to advertise. The way the site works is quite simple.

First you setup an account to receive payments from advertisers. Next you find advertisers who are offering a program through this site and you join that program. Then you the links and banners provided by the advertiser through CJ.com and put them on your site.

Some advertisers pay you for leads or click-through to their site. Others give you a commission of sales. This site is very comprehensive an a real industry standard. Plus if you want to use them for advertising then you can get a lot of targeted audiences. Great tool for web developers.

I have been with CJ for a few years. I literally did nothing new day to day. Then all of a sudden out of the blue I violated there terms and services some how and they closed my account. Wouldn't be so bad but they never paid me the balance I had. I reached out several times to find out what terms I violated to get nothing but crickets. Don't waste your time, you dont earn what they tell you and when you do the check "they mailed" never makes it. Such a bunch of clown shoes. Don't make my mistake and stay away from these losers. I would go on but have better things to do.

Hi everyone,

I ran a promotion for a month or two promoting London Eye on Commission Junction which I made commissions over £100. I have new been waiting a year since those sales were made for payment and every month they say London Eye have not paid. I am some what confused though as to why this company is still promoting and live on Commission Junction and why it is fine for me to do work promoting a company for them to choose not to pay for over a year. Its not exactly a small company either. Terrible service and will not use this network again after such treatment.

I've used almost all affiliate programs for years. Some good some not so. Truth is, you need to get a ton of targeted traffic to make any money with these 2 - 8% commissions. I give CJ a 1 star rating because I don't like having to reach $100 before they'll pay you. Now, They took my travel earnings during the COVID crisis with bans on travel. They say I didn't make money in 2020 and removed my earnings over the last couple years. Thieves!
Beware! They say they have FEES they have to use while I couldn't make travel money because of the COVID TRAVEL BANS. I have a direct affiliate program that pays me 30 - 40% commissions for Caribbean resorts. Contact me if you want to make real money by posting the Ads on your website or Social media. It is my #1 money maker. No obligations and you get paid on every sale with no wait time. Free to join and participate. Go at your own pace.
www.adventurelandtravel.com

In our first day with CJ, we have 575 impressions and 28 click thrus. Before first day was over, CJ disabled the images in our banner ads. Went back into CJ that same first day and found CJ had changed ALL the image links, so I again updated ALL the image links for ALL our target markets. CJ immediately disabled those new image links as well. So we created our own image links, and tracked another 3,000 impressions in the next couple days. CJ reports 0 impressions and ZERO click thrus. ZERO stars is the CORRECT reviewer score for any HONEST review of their business practices. These other reviews claiming 5 stars are shills by a company who DOES IN FACT steal your commissions.

I have been in contact with CJ Junction for several months they Omie $870. They keep coming up with reasons why they can't pay me avoid the scamming operation at all cost.

Well, where do I start.

I've been signed up with Commission Junction for well over 2 years now.

My site is quite small and I've had sales that amounted to just under £9 GBP. After being inactive for a small amount of time, the CJ team decided to remove £7 from my balance.

I queried this and an advisor called Ashley politely offered to have the £7 refunded and the counter for the next fee reset. This was great news I thought. Until two months passed and there was still no sign of the refund. I was simply left with £1.82 in my account.

So, I got back in touch to query this, left it 24 hours, logged back in to find that my account had been deactivated, the remaining £1.82 in my account had been removed from my balance (and marked as a fee) and that my correspondence had been ignored.

The support team have ignored me since, I've taken the event to a host of online review sites and social media and it turns out that this happens often (I counted 53 similar experiences since January 2016).

My advice? Look elsewhere for an affiliate service. Unless you have tens of thousands of your local currency to dedicate to promoting your website, you simply won't make enough sales through this service to avoid the fees. One of the worst experiences I've had.