Originally posted by studpuppy
For one thing - certain groups of webmasters are permitted to reuse their existing sites as a new site for link site purposes. This a strict NO-NO but yet even when webmasters complain in the forum, on the chat, in emails and directly to Dave or Gary, nothing is done. If you are not a member of the "group", a webmaster would be summarily and severly dealt with by TTI. I know as a friend tested this theory. If interested on this specific complaint and can't find the thread then done a search on their link list using "!" and you'll find many sites with the same title, same url, but different site ids.
If memory serves me correctly, I think it was Xstrguy that originally started the thread over there concerning this issue!
Yep, that was me... a very frustrating experience, to say the least. I did receive responses that amounted to "shut up and quit making trouble". They did make a half-assed attempt to remove duplicate sites... but soon after, the same webmaster was pulling the same shit.

Although I still submit to UGAS, I have pretty much given up hope on them for several reasons.

They are too hetero-centric (I honestly don't think they have any gay employees).

UGAS doesn't appear to be important to them... the site hasn't been updated in over 3 years, while CyberAge has had 2 or 3 redesigns in the same period.

Most of the sites they approve are absolute shit... old content, minimal designs, etc.

My sales have fallen 50% in the past 2 years... The Platinum program was great when it started, but it is over priced and under-value, so rebills have become crap.

Traffic from new listings has fallen drastically.

Their stats are very "iffy". I have a Platinum site that has had "17 rebill customers" in the stats for several months, but I only get 2 or 3 rebills a period. Strange! The stats do not allow you to track trial memberships, so they use that as an excuse. "You only have 6 rebilling customers, the other 11 rebilling customers are trial joins."


I have recently started to mirror all of my new sites on ManCheck, mostly because Michael (Dzinerbear) is so great to work with. My sales are ok, but I need to reach a critical mass of sites before I can pass judgement. I agree that their Plus site members section needs work and Michael said that he is working on it right now.


GMP just doesn't work for me... never had any luck with them.


A question to ponder... If a company has a gay AVS/AEN, why the hell aren't they posting here on the premier gay webmaster board? My answer is simple... the gay market is not important to them!