Commission Junction (CJ)

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.

CJ is a SCAM! They beat me out of $680.00 worth of commissions an lied about sending it to me. They originally stated that a check was sent to my address which i never received. After calling Commission Junction several months to resolve this matter, a supervisor by the name of Ashley then lied again and said the funds were deposited into an account i no longer have open. These people are Scammers... Please stay away!

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.

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.

My company did business with them generating $17,000 in sales. They are two months behind with the payment and are refusing to pay. Stay away! Complete scam. I'm opening a lawsuit against this company.

I believe this is a scam and would advise avoiding. For the past few months I have been registering all my name cheap domain names through my own affiliate link on my website and not ONE of them has gone through as commission which pretty much reflects that Commission Junction is either a scam or the coding is no good. I will as a result not be using CJ.com an more. Sincerely Affiliate *******

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.

On time payments, easy to navigate website, great opportunities for big and small websites, and a large variety of companies to work with. Definitely recommend any one wanting to get into affiliate marketing to try cj.com out. Been using this for about a year now and having a great experience so far! =)

I'm working for 5 months. When it's time for first payment, suddenly they vanished my account with $1300 in it without any proper reason. It's their trick for not to pay and did it with lots of people. So don't waste your time.

After working with other affiliate networks, I have to say that CJ is one of the worst. Their customer service is extremely unhelpful, rude, and slow to respond to urgent issues. They don't give direct contact emails, so affiliate managers are forced to contact the support team email and hope that they will respond in a timely manner. Their reporting capabilities are outdated as well as their platform and the style of their platform and what they can report on. I would not recommend this platform to any brand that is looking to build a successful affiliate campaign.

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.

I have been using cj for some time. Lately some advertisers are deactivated while their links are being provided live to publishers by cj, that means no commissions for traffic drive via the advertiser's banners, text links, and/or other link types! Cj should immediately remove those links instead of asking publisher to do this without any prior notice. Looks like a scam!

I have been more than 10 years with CJ. In 2015 they closed my account, because of bad links. I lost all earned money, about 120 euro. After some months I opened again account. I gave them a second chance. In 2016 they removed me again. There are much better networks: Avantlink and Shareasale. Stay away from CJ!

CJ is horrible, they will find a reason to disable your account right before payment unless you are a huge website. Since you are a "little guy" there is noting you can do and they never intended on paying you for your traffic in the first place. Shame there is not some legal action that can be taken

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!

I've been advertising for these people for months. (4) I began questioning how why I haven't made any commissions. So someone told me they needed a loan and they have bad credit.The person got the bad credit loan and CJ isn't going to pay the $105 for the lead. I wonder how much they really kept. Do not work with these people.

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.

First, most of their advertisers charge more than competitors. So you don't get many people making purchases from placing the ads on your website.

Second, when I quit placing advertising of their advertisers on my pages and quit using CJ, they refused to pay me the money they owed me for the purchases that were made on their advertising.

Don't be as trusting as I was. Stay away from them.

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 spent a lot of time and effort in building links and relationships with advertisers and my blog was just growing traffic albeit it was still small. I was just building links the right way and organically over time. They then closed my account without reason or explanation. Now, instead of using my time to create additional articles, I am reviewing my pages to ensure all the CJ links are removed.

I've been using Commission Junction for a while and while it's definitely one of the largest affiliate marketing exchanges and there's a lot of value here for web publishers, it's way harder to use than it should be. To really get the most value you need to build up relationships with all the individual affiliates and it just isn't as efficient as it should be. It should work more like AdSense.

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.

One of the better networks for commissions. Payments are reliable, but their commission rates are not the best. Sometimes you can negotiate better rates directly with merchants.