CJReviews of cj.com

This whole sad story started with Advertising Purple contacting us with the promise of growing our online business through affiliate marketing with Commission Junction. Advertising Purple claims to be the company with the largest number of affiliates in the U.S... something no one can verify and after this unfortunate experience is most likely false. The cost of working with Advertising Purple + Commission Junction is very high between fixed and recurring fees. You have to pay between $5000 and $10,000 just to cover the future commissions of your future affiliates. Here's how it really works: Advertising Purple assigns you an account manager who only publishes your site on bogus coupon code and discount sites. The result is that even your customers who don't normally use coupon codes end up on these sites and ultimately make you lose money because without these sites, they would have bought at the price without a discount. In addition to not making you any money, you have to pay them a commission of course. All they do is bid on your brand name! These coupon sites do not acquire new customers for you (or very few) but allow people who already know your brand to get discounts...so really NO interests at all. Advertising Purple and Commission Junction promise you to be affiliated with quality sites (audience, traffic etc.) but in reality they are not. Their network literally stops at very poor quality sites with no interests. As for the account manager, let's call it "trainee" with 6 months experience, the word is more appropriate. We have decided to close our account with both Advertising Purple and Commission Junction. We have been waiting for the return of our deposit at Commission Junction for almost a year now, which is about $6500! Commission Junction is literally stealing from its clients by confiscating the deposit that was given to them at the beginning of the contract. What a shame! We have contacted our law firm to try to get this money back and our case is ongoing... If you want to develop your business via affiliation, make your own affiliation program and develop it yourself by contacting directly the sites that are in your niche. Entrusting this task to Commission Junction and Advertising Purple is simply a huge waste of time and money.

problem with you again its really bad experience, I received email on 24 jan asking for my traffic sources and mentioned if I failed to respond within 48 hours will deactivated the account, i have responded 25 Jan and get deactivated also what wrong here??

This company is a complete scam! I will be recruiting other affiliates to join me in filing a class action lawsuit against them. they owed me money and the same day they were supposed to pay me my commission, they removed my account for some bogus reason. This is unacceptable to me! All of these bad reviews over and over about the same types of issues. I wish I would have went on Trustpilot before signing up with them.

I'm baffled as to how this company is still operating. I've been a loyal publisher for 10 years and have generated over $200k in commissions during that time. However, over the past few months, no sales have been registered despite normal traffic flow, and I'm unable to contact anyone for answers. Their phone number is disconnected, and I'm left wondering why reputable brands would continue to work with them.

Fraud!! We earn commissions and they keep cutting them giving various reasons until your balance is zero! Never affiliating with them again!!

Terrible program. Quickly take your money but 0 support and 0 help to fix bugs on the platform meaning its totally useless. Recommend to avoid this platform.

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.

Do not use CJ - Our media company has been owed £10k and it has not been resolved for 6 months, the support has been beyond useless, tickets closed without resolution and stock pasted answers and I still have no indication if we will ever get the money owed - Any who states its a SCAM!! it sure is, we worked hard to get our site making money and they have scammed us out of the every penny!!