Commission Junction (CJ)

My name is Jenson and I first joined CJ.com in 2004 and things used to be well in those days. (At least I thought so) During those days my method of integration was just pasting the links they provided me. I used to see a lot of clicks, but the conversion was very low. But I thought maybe it's how it works.

Then l started to log the customers' details prior to sending them to the affiliate to make the purchase. I also cross-checked with them to find out if they purchased the product and how useful it was to them. Some of them indeed purchased and shared the proof with me! That's when I started to notice the foul play by CJ.com. They have not tracked many of my sales which resulted in a real loss of income. Because each link I send to my customers was UNIQUE! With is "sid" customized specially for them. So, it's easy to track at my CJ.com end. Customers could not even manipulate the links because the links were masked at my server end using server-side redirects.

Those who stayed with CJ.com from the 2004 days, really know very well what I am speaking about.
CJ.com has not updated the interface or usability really much. They still stick to old methods and what makes me angry is I spend quite a lot of time perfecting my series of websites and maintaining relations with my affiliate partners to give them the best results, and hoping I also benefit from it... but all my efforts went in vain.

My time, effort, health all get affected without results because of this useless affiliate partner CJ.com who does not even care about their publishers!

If you notice closely you will see that they are not transparent at all. A good company will have a transparent customer service platform! Why are they scared to open up such a service? They simply swallow millions of bucks from advertisers! It will only take a fraction of it to maintain it guys.

Now what I follow is to use several other updated platforms and even though it takes some effort I work directly with the affiliate companies using their own in-house affiliate programs.

I still use this bloody platform for finding advertisers! I am attaching proof of communication with an advertiser and CJ.com official for which I still haven't got a reply from the platform nor the advertiser who managed the advertiser account with CJ

One hell of a scam company. Good for nothing! Maybe good for beginners, but when they master the trade, they will definitely move out to the better platforms.

Customer service doesnt exist. I waisted some much time with this affilate. Don; t make my mistake. Today I will cancel my accout with them

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.

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