Commission Junction (CJ)

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.

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'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

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.

I have also been an affiliate with Commission Junction and the only money I have made is $31 in over 4 years. Not worth the trouble. They have reputable companies but for some reason, I have never made any real money with this program. I have done affiliate marketing and advertising for over 15 years.

After 6 months making sales for them, they deactivated my account without notice. They never pay my commissions. When I called they said I did not mention I would use social media for sales. For me it is just a scam. I don't even have access anymore to show my sales.

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

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).

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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.

Advertisising on CJ for years, my business is going down, CJ minimum fee is hard to reach so I pay extra fees every month. I try to negociate my minimum fee down but they require me to commit for 24 months. My visibility on the affilite channel reduced and 24 months is too long at the moment.
CJ is supposed to support my business, now they're just trying to take money out of me.
AVOID

I just made site from scratch using theirs products. A reason why they block me not enough sales. Give me a time guys to drive more traffic. Strange service! DO NOT RECOMMEND!

Full scam does not pay had $ 17,000 to charge this month and for some reason I do not get that money generated, do not respond the message sent to you

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.

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

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.

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.

Commission Junction is a complete scam. Be aware. These are my results:
Clicks: 7,453
Impressions: 6,322,407
Earnings: 0.23 c.

What a waste of time!

I had almost 700,000 viewers/ clicks impressions in 30 days! Not ONE PENNY! I contacted them 4Times, 3 by email. Not one message answered!' WHAT A JOKE!

I should receive 80 EUR, but received no commission after 3 months, do not cooperate with them. Stay away from them.

IT IS TOTALLY A FAKE COMPANY. PLEASE DON'T WASTE YOUR PRECIOUS TIME HERE. THEY DEACTIVATE PUBLISHERS ACCOUNT WHEN IT'S TIME FOR PAYOUT.IT IS SCAM COMPANY

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.