FratPad Affiliate Program Changes

To ensure that we can properly support our affiliate relationships and continue profitability for both parties, Fratpad has made the difficult decision to limit our affiliate program.

By now, all of our affiliates were emailed and should have received a letter from me explaining the steps we are taking, and advising them whether or not their Fratpad affiliate accounts are remaining active. We are maintaining our relationship with some affiliates, and ending our relationship with other affiliates.

If you haven’t received an email from me, please contact me directly here via PM or via help@fratcash.com and I’ll advise you of your status as a Fratpad affiliate.

Our industry is facing many challenges, and we are taking this step to ensure that the resources we have can support our affiliates with the high degree of quality and professionalism that we expect of ourselves, and we recognize that to do this properly, we need to limit the number of active affiliates we have at any given time.

I know that this is a difficult step for all involved, and I’m here to answer any questions you have, address your concerns and hopefully put your minds at ease.

For those affiliate accounts we are deactivating, here is what you need to know:

1) Links will be deactivated 12am EST on April 15th , 2010

2) All monies owed up to March 1st, 2010 were mailed out on April 6th, 2010.

3) Any sales incurred between April 1st , 2010 and April 15th , 2010 will be promptly paid out by April 30th, 2010

Please Note:

These changes do not affect the Fratmen.TV affiliate program in any way. If you are already promoting Fratmen.TV, your accounts will remain active and live.

If you are not already promoting Fratmen.TV, please consider doing so as it will give your surfers access to similar quality content and continue to be a source of lasting revenue for you.

To be clear, none of our sites are closing and all changes only affect our relationship with some, not all, affiliates enrolled in the Fratpad affiliate program only.

Thanks for taking the time to read this message.

Didnt get an email, probably because im not an affiliate but i do think that 3 days notice of this for those it does affect is a little crazy to say the least, then, after having deactivated their links, telling them they can still promote your other site just seems like another slap in the face.

If an affiliate isnt good enough to promote one of your sites, they shouldnt be good enough to promote the others you have in your collection.

Seems to me like you are going to lose a lot of trust with this move, especially given the short amount of time affiliates have to 'remove' their links.

Regards,

Lee

I was about to say the same thing - but I do not want to look as the one who always bitches about stuff

here a program wrote on april 8th that they shut down some part of a biller on January 1st and will shut down the rest on on April 1st.... :broccoli:

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I was about to say the same thing - but I do not want to look as the one who always bitches about stuff

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Good thing I never signed up to their affiliate program. That is a pitty though. Very bad move. I think Fratmen will regret this. Last year a program did the same, a few months later they were begging for traffic, moments after they went out of business.

I was quite offended when I read the email sent from FratCash. I figured that since I had to go through the trouble of removing Fratpad links and promotional material from my two free sites, I might as well remove the Fratmen.tv stuff, too. After all, if my sites are worthy of sending traffic to one of their sites, why should I think I'm not going to get a similar email telling me they are dropping me from their other site?

Since FratCash never provided much in the way of promotional materials for Fratpad, there was little for me to removed. I did, however, remove 82 blog posts I had promoting Fratmen.tv.

Way to go FratCash! You've sufficiently pissed me off enough where I will now go out of my way to promote your competitors.

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I will now go out of my way to promote your competitors.

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PhillyFratLive.com is always looking for traffic ;)
We're gearing up for the 2nd run, guys moving out - new guys moving in. If your up for it, we'll have some really cool promo tools we can set you up with.
We are in Chicago right now finishing up the last audition. I'll be back Monday and I can shoot you some stuff to help you get started. affiliates are paid 50% on initial and recurring. Our member cancellation rate is very low. Everything is recorded, archived, and we add a slew of content.
The members don't just watch the guys live their lives. They watch them have sex, there's parties, there's diary chats which are where the guys jackoff and chat.
The guys do journal entries. It's more interactive than anything else. The theme is like Big Brother but sexual.

Any help to ya, I'm here. :)

I see your from Fort Lauderdale too.... Maybe one night, dinner on me. We're outside Wilton Manors. Relatively close to Middle River Terrace.

I'm still waiting for my first and only check from these guys.

They say it was mailed in Jan, but I don't beleive them, if they really sent a check the first time, then they would have no problem sending a new one.

It's easy to lay blaim on the US postal service, but when months go by and the issue is still unresolved, it's gotta be something else.

Sad thing is I seen it coming. They post their updates on another board. When I see them all I can do is laugh because I know they could be hurting for whatever reason and when a company shuts off majority of their affiliates with just a few days notice, they don't care about screwing over others. that's just bs

I wish to advertise fratpad.com but at me only links ccbill for fratmen.tv

I never got a single payment from Fratpad quite a while ago, so I dropped the company and removed all the links including Fratmen thru ccbill. Then, I got his email and immediately updated my maiiling address with Fratpad...never got a check at all at new or old address. Big shame as the site sold well.

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I never got a single payment from Fratpad quite a while ago, so I dropped the company and removed all the links including Fratmen thru ccbill. Then, I got his email and immediately updated my maiiling address with Fratpad...never got a check at all at new or old address. Big shame as the site sold well.

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Who can you trust anymore? Seems so many programs are screwing affiliates hardcore for a gain. I read on the boards and it seems every day that a new program isn't paying, closed, merged, etc etc etc.

I understand there's risks with promoting sites. But I'd want paid for my hard work, money spent, and dedication and not worry if I'm going to get paid or not from reading others experiences.

All their sites seem to be down this evening. Wonder if it's a server thing or if their business has gone ka-put.

--Aaron

One could only hope they've gone out of business.

Doesn't look like it. Their servers are back up, and they're even touting a new site ("coming soon") called iFratmen.

This thread is 3 months old & still getting bumped ;)

I'd like to remind you that Jayden, or "PFLJayden" is employed by a very low quality "frat" knock off site. He has made his agenda clear. He knows he's riding close to a legal line with his attacks on our program, comments and innuendo. After he personally attempted to defame our reputation, not ever being an affiliate of ours or ever working with us, he's proceeded to post that people could sign up to be affiliates for the site he works for.

Associating our switch from Affiliate Tracking to CCBill as a company on the brink of going out of business is reckless, inflammatory and completely false.

Everything is fine here at Fratmen.TV & Fratpad.com. We stopped using Affiliate Tracking because it's not user friendly for our large program and it's down time was unacceptable , not because of any fictitious innuendo you've been fed here by Jayden aka PFLJayden.

That dusty old Fratcash site is the same now as it was when Jasun left a couple years ago. Earlier this month I started working my tail off creating a new dynamic affiliate site (on a different server) to facilitate hosted galleries, affiliate blog posts, etc. and it will be launched later this month or early August.

@Fister Please call 1-800-Fratmen or send me an email at help@fratcash.com. I don't have any emails from you about not receiving money unless you're communicating with me via a name I don't recognize here.

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This thread is 3 months old & still getting bumped ;)

I'd like to remind you that Jayden, or "PFLJayden" is employed by a very low quality "frat" knock off site. He has made his agenda clear. He knows he's riding close to a legal line with his attacks on our program, comments and innuendo. After he personally attempted to defame our reputation, not ever being an affiliate of ours or ever working with us, he's proceeded to post that people could sign up to be affiliates for the site he works for.

Associating our switch from Affiliate Tracking to CCBill as a company on the brink of going out of business is reckless, inflammatory and completely false.

Everything is fine here at Fratmen.TV & Fratpad.com. We stopped using Affiliate Tracking because it's not user friendly for our large program and it's down time was unacceptable , not because of any fictitious innuendo you've been fed here by Jayden aka PFLJayden.

That dusty old Fratcash site is the same now as it was when Jasun left a couple years ago. Earlier this month I started working my tail off creating a new dynamic affiliate site (on a different server) to facilitate hosted galleries, affiliate blog posts, etc. and it will be launched later this month or early August.

@Fister Please call 1-800-Fratmen or send me an email at help@fratcash.com. I don't have any emails from you about not receiving money unless you're communicating with me via a name I don't recognize here.

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Good luck Fister,

I definitely got through via email, and I still didn't get paid.
I was told not to email any more, and to send my questions via certified mail.

This is the same people who booted most of us with a few days notice, then didn't pay out.

They seem to like to make us look like whiners and complainers, when they are the real ones who should be ashamed.

Pay up and maybe people will stop bumping threads about how crappy you are. And then you can spend more time building a quality site and less time giving out excuses why people are complaining about you.

Still doesn't look good for FratPad.

Why would anyone want to promote you if you could just cut your links again and drop anyone you wanted at any time like you did in April?

Jimmy