Commission Junction (CJ)

My name is Tyler Odin and I am the CEO of AffiliateWatch. CJ has deactivated me for no reason, literally. I have used CJ.com for over 1 year and my earnings were constantly increasing month after month. My website had an entire section dedicated to CJ and I have done dozens of YouTube video reviews. I told 100's of affiliates to sign up for CJ and now I sincerely regret it. I was a level 4/5 earner and a super affiliate on the platform. The company has gone silent now and is not responding to me. I have not been paid out. The worst thing about all of this is that I was a huge NordVPN affiliate which pays residual income. So CJ will be cashing in all my checks for the next 5-15 years on my residuals, which is most likely why they cut me out of the network for no reason. Unless you have serious Klout, CJ will steal all your money and walk away smiling. They are an evil company ran by people with zero morals. I am going to report their theft to the FTC, BBB, and law enforcement. I will not go down without a fight and they will regret stealing from me and other affiliates as their reputation sinks in the toilet.

I will be releasing a YouTube video soon with all the details!

CJ refused to give a reason and sent this super vague email:

CJ has exercised it's right to terminate the Publisher Service Agreement (PSA) it entered into with you pursuant to §6(a). Notification of our intent to exercise this right was provided on 5/22/19. For ease of reference, we are including the applicable section of the PSA below:

(a) Term. This Agreement shall commence upon Your indication that You have accepted this Agreement by providing the required information and clicking through' the acceptance button on the CJ Web site and shall continue until terminated in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. This Agreement may be terminated by either party upon 15 days' notice.

CJ Affiliate by Conversant - former Commission Junction is definetely stealing sales. I've started promoting their links through social media abbreviating their links with Bit.ly and I earned 1000 USD in just one month. When payment was near they postponed it by warning me to stop using bit.ly and "heavy clicking". I stopped that and they paid me.
After that, using their links on my site (Deep Links, Text Links, Automated Deep Links) suddenly, no sales anymore, they disappeared.

Although their webpage (members.cj.com) seems outdated, they don't have neither a mobile version, they can perfectly control the number of clicks they want you to see and of course the number of sales they want you to believe you have. For example i see more impressions of their banners in the Control Panel of my website, that that they show on their Reports. That was not possible for them when i used bit.ly, it's something that goes behind of what they can control.

Definetelely CJ Affiliate by Conversant - former Commission Junction is a scam, crook, cheat and a District Attorney/Prosecutor should take care of them.

If you live in the USA maybe you can do something for them to get paid, Just have a look at the countless complaints against CJ Affiliate by Conversant - former Commission Junction in the websites of the Federal Trade Commission and Better Business Bureau. But if you live outside the US and you're a simple blogger, they will just drink a glass of champagne laughing at you. Most people understand this, and CJ's Alexa rank dropped by 70% in the last 12 months.

Stay away from them and from affiliate marketing in general. They pay you crumbs and keep your hard earned money in their pockets.

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.?

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

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.

I was a Cj.com member. At some point I received money from cj.com nevertheless, I noticed the website was very slow. One day, my affiliate program has been stopped for no reasons. However, my affiliate links were still in place on my website and there were always functioning. In other words, I was still sending customers to their website but I didn't receive money for it. Other times, I have subscribed to affiliate programs. Since I didn't make enough money cj.com closed my account several times. However, from a marketing point of view, visitors of my website still clicked on the affiliate links and visited the target website. I subscribed to other affiliate programs and had no problems at all. Cj.com is special. This is i think one of the only website with which I had problem. Furthermore after closing my account, they sent me spam.
Cj.com looks appealing to webmasters and merchant but in fact, many affiliate programs are from websites that look like scams and aren't serious. A website owner can suffer from the bad reputation of those affiliate programs. Website owners waste their time with affiliate programs that aren't serious at all.
Furthermore, the website itself cj.com wasn't available or very slow several times.

We are a brand new to affiliate marketing thought it would be great to build traffic and gain access to good publishers for content - only after we were on boarded did we get the bait and switch..."oh if you want that kind if support you must pay us 20K a month to mange your account" as a start up we cannot afford this hefty additional fee. In the meantime, we have managed on our won but the caliber of sites is horrific we search high and low and the number of new publishers wanting to work with us is meager and the type of sites are real trash... mostly foreign accounts with web pages that look like the worst websites you have ever seen... quantity not quality... most of the publishers here are clearly not vetted by them - this place is the swamp of advertising vehicles DO NOT get locked into a long contract run - do not sign up. Spoke to
Another company and hearing that this one "is going under" in the time we have been working with them their employees are leaving in droves. Forget getting anyone on the phone after you are up and running. This is a PONZI SCHEME

Looking for such reviews, I wish I had seen these bad reviews on Commission Junction when I joined them in August. Although it's easy to get accepted into the program, the member dashboard is good and I was given a 2nd chance after deactivation on March 1, I don't know where to start regarding what's wrong with this service. Here are the things I dislike about them: 1) It's too hard to reach their support team; 2) If you close your browser, you must login again even if you didn't previously log out; 3) You must accumulate $100 to cash out by check, $50 to cash out by direct deposit; 4) Page loading is slow; 5) Advertisers are allowed to go many months to approve or decline your application to join them; 6) Some advertisers will invite you to join them by email, only to turn you down upon applying through your CJ portal; 7) One advertiser dropped me within a day of approving my application; 8) I've made no money here despite my efforts, my running their advertiser banners on my blogs, my posting their brands discounts on Facebook; and 9) Advertisers are miserly in which some of them state on their banners you'll receive a certain amount of money for generating banner clicks in a 7-day or 90-day period but never pay you no matter how many visitors you continually send them - this can hurt you if your account is deactivated and you're charged a dormancy fee for not earning any commissions for 6 months.