Commission Junction (CJ)

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.

If there was a ZERO rating I would give them that but this is the most disgusting company with no ethics that I have dealt with. They deactivated my account without good reason and kept my $128 in commission.
What kind of fraud could I have done if I made only 128 dollars in commission?! Its ridiculous.

I even explained to them that some of my customers don't have international cards so on email I get request to purchase products for them so I made some sales on their behalf but the CJ.com team just won't listen.

Affiliates stay away from this fraud company. They also don't release commission on time and always open an "investigation" before payouts are due.an excuse to steal your commission.

The management should be behind bars.

They scam you into a long term contract, forcing you to pay monthly fees, with no support knowing that you will not get results.

Sent 2000 messages to their advertisers, didn't make any revenue.

Waste of time and money.

I made some sales with a particular company and watched my clients when I sent the link. I thought maybe I did something wrong. Well. My buddy and a couple of people did the same and got paid. I was sure that I used the links correctly. Now here's where I started to get suspicious. I started tracking with a reputable link tracker and did different campaigns to make sure it was reliable and use this same company for all of my marketing clients. Well, lots of clicks, thousands for free offers, not only proved to me they completed the offer for my giveaway, well I got no sales. I'm hoping you guys didn't steal money from me like that. There are a lot of great companies on here that I would love to continue to promote but can't since they are only on CJ. Here's the deal, if these stores are getting all the traffic and sales they have no reason to complain. Why take advantage of people? Greed makes no sense.

They never answer support queries, they don't payout, and they can't give you a statement of what was paid out by who - If this isn't a true testament to a scam company - Then I dont know what is - Reporting is nonsense it shows you nothing - I have pulled every report I can and still I dont understand the data as it changes constantly - The statements they provide are so undetailed that you will never be able to see what they have paid out. If you ask them they tell you to ask the affiliate for a report - what company handles money from one to the other and then just simply has ZERO audit trail of funds. You statement will say locked in balance $1000 and they will pay you &400 IF YOU ASK WHY THEY JUST IGNORE YOU - WORST COMPANY IN THE WORLD! BELOW IS A HALF-ARSED RESPONSE AND THIS IS WHAT YOU CAN LOOK FORWARD TO FROM THEM! They know nothing, they steal from publishes

Issues
1. I cannot see what you owe us- Pulling reports is a waste of my time as you constantly change the amounts even when they are locked in.
2. The statuses "Posting date" Event date" and "locking date" change the reports so drastically there is no uniformity or logic.
3. What do the above statuses actually mean? Nothing online about them - I cannot pull a report per affiliate because this status constantly changes the values owing, so how do I know which one is true?
4. How can I have "new" statuses over 7 months old? Goes against what you state on your support page. I have statuses of "new" from a February report. How is this possible?
5. You dont pay us out monthly?
6. You constantly change the commission amounts? How can a report for the same month with different statuses regarding posting and locking dates ect be so drastically different?
7. Your balance sheet is a joke, there are no dates or references to the balance sheet amounts and there is no way to track this with transparency from your end.
8. You don't even give us a monthly report or allow us to pull one that is logical, So how am I supposed to track my commissions and where it actually comes from?
9. Things go from "Locked" status to refund?
10. I have tried calling several times and nobody answer and I am unable to leave a message as the option doesnt work.

These folks don't communicate. They close accounts, won't tell you why, and won't pay you either. It took me hours to delete all affiliate links from my pages and nearly 100 articles. I've sent them multiple emails asking why I was removed since I followed all the rules and even have an email stating I was in compliance with Chewy. They have not sent any reply. I'm not surprised. Honestly, if you're a blogger don't waste your time with affiliates. Work directly with sponsors or sell your own products. That's the only way you'll make a penny. Keep as much control as possible.

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They didn't make the $300 commission payment that has been waiting for about 2 months, and 3 days ago, they dropped half of the $300 payment from the balance without any explanation. I contacted to complain about this situation. And in return they closed my account and extorted my money.
The reason they closed my account was that it was "below the standards of my website". Standard scam CJ my honest business website has a 10x higher standard.
Don't work with CJ, don't let them steal your money.
CJ is remorseful, CJ is a swindler.

Adding to what others have said. CJ is fraud, scamming waste of time. They take your commissions and hide behind their legalese TOS agreement. In my opinion it's criminal behavior. At the very least... it's unethical.

They are owned by Conversant Media (https://www.conversantmedia.eu/solutions/affiliate-marketing-solutions).

Conversant Media is run by Epislon (https://www.epsilon.com/us).

I stayed a month as an affiliate, it's a waste of time, because they just close your account and don't pay you! The proof I have is my account balance, they just didn't pay my commissions. It is a fraudulent company that deceives publishers!

If you read this on 2021 or later - don't bother to even try to use this Affiliate Network. They close accounts for now reason, UI is slow and not friendly, tracking attribution of sales is bad (stealing your commisions), support pages does not work at all - they throw some misterious salesforce error. And so on. Keep away for your own good.

Commission Junction CJ is totally a scam company. Mark my words it's a % scam. I worked for 3 months, literally slogged like anything. I use to get good impressions but didn't get converted into sale. So I thought of experimenting with one software related affiliate link. I forwarded the affiliate link to my 6 friends & told them to purchase the software by using this link & I paid them back. To my surprise it didn't get converted into sale. When I asked CJ about this, they told me that no sale happened from my affiliate link. From that day I stopped doing any kind of affiliate work & any home base job.
The scam work like this, they hire some paid artist & post video on YouTube and other social media platforms. This paid artist tell people how he or she didn't made any money for 3–4 months & after that sales begin to pick up. They will show you sales dashboard & $ awesome money they are making now. Then they will show you how they are sitting besides beach side & money falling from sky. This is totally enticing & people fall for the trap. I would also like to tell you here that even if you are earning money from this, it will not be full money you will be getting for your hard work. But it will be quarter of money for what you have slogged for. Even if you stop working guys, this scam is going to work for lifetime because every year lot of people are going to graduate and they will be looking for this kind of home based job. They will work for few days or month's before giving up. What I mean to say here or draw attention to, is that you are kind of doing free marketing for them, driving traffic to their clients website. Also if you are working for some small company & you didn't make any sale for that month, you are definitely going to get paid by the company. If something happens to you ex COVID while working, the company guys are definitely going to ask about you & pay for your health-care. But in affiliate thing if God forbid something happens to you, then CJ affiliate or any other affiliate program is not going to enquire about your health but instead they will pocket your money & not give your hard earned money to your loved ones. In reality You are just bot for this people driving web traffic to their clients website. So guy's instead of working for this fraud affiliate program, go get a job or start your business.

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.

Terrible company, just like the others, they deactivated my account with no warning due to invalid clicks and they referenced a domain name which is not even in use lol, bunch of fools. Use impact or go directly with the affiliate bypassing these turds at cj.

This is my first review in my entire life, beacuse i am feeling hurting, they eat my all commission they did not pay any $ to me, And Deactivate my account with no reason,
Please i am begging you dont wast time on cj network they are just thief

We are an affiliate marketing agency and we manage a portfolio of affiliate programs. CJ is by far the worst affiliate network we use. Here are some of the reasons: 1) technology is antiquated in comparison to other platforms such as Impact, 2) they make simple things difficult, that other platforms provide seamlessly, such as exporting affiliate contact list, 3) the user interface and dashboard is 10 years behind, 4) mobile integration capabilities are inferior, and 5) the staff is not technically knowledgeable or well trained and offer very little support.

Never wrote any reviews in my life. But it was this company that made me write a review and unfortunately negative. Believe me, I read every review below and they look like true.
They closed my account without explanation and without payout either.
People try: open an account, spend their money on promotion. Then their account is blocked and does not respond to any letters. And this is in the 21st century((
This is primarily not respect for their partners, but without respect they have no future.
The purpose of writing this review: I want people to not lose their time, money and nerves for this company. If I had previously read all the negativity in relation to this organization, I would have believed all of this and would not have collaborated with them. Work with those who pay you for your work.

P.S. And please, if any of you still failed with them, I ask you to spend a little time for writing your own review.

I have a cashback wabsite and i'm working up 3 years for affilite marketing i'm working with sharesale and clickbanck and other big companies they have a good services and paying to the commissions to my costumers but this scamming company commission juntion they are big scam peaple they stealling money of my costumers they deactivate my account today 16th of this month befor they paying date 20th thats mean the advertisers paying to them and CJ took the money and close the account without warnings or explanition it should from them open a case on the account and explain the ploblem and ask for reasons and try to fix the problem if that be but they are a scamming and thifs don't waste your time they close your accounts befor paying date like me and all the publishers i open a cese aginst them on BBB and FTC and by the govrmment FBI please i you have the same problem go and repport for them the stealling from me over 4200 dollar they are big scam

Many, many times I have been standing behind someone who clicks on something to buy - legitimately - like a client buying a hosting package or a friend buying a vacation trip etc...

I look at my backend page for clicks and paid clicks and guess what? Nothing. After 10 years of having sites that probably generated tens and tens of thousands of dollars and who knows maybe hundreds of thousands of dollars, I have received a few checks amounting to a few hundred dollars.

I have spent hundred upon hundreds of hours doing review sites, adding links, trying to get more companies to allow me to use their links, figuring all the new ways CJ has changed their site, learn their classes and info they give and tons of my life has gone into placing their links on all my sites... and for what... over ten years... PRACTICALLY NOTHING! If I look back on my life, it was like I worked for Commission Junction and all the big companies they represent and I got paid about 2 cents an hour.

Stay away from all this. Find another way to make money. This is a rip off and a waste of time.

I almost forgot one of the biggest problems and reasons why CJ sucks, when I would have a problem with a company not giving me my money, like Hostmonster or Hostgator (which are owned by one company, Endurance International Group... look that up some time... how EIG has taken over hosting and monopolized the hosting world and ruined any decent service left... anyway) CJ would leave me high and dry and tell me I have to deal with them and they won't help EVEN IF I HAVE GIVEN THEM SPECIFIC TIME AND DAY OF SALE... CJ sucks.

Find a better revenue stream... it's out there. Not here.