WEGCash.com Affiliate Program Shuts Down.
Here’s quite an interesting email I received from WEGCash.com today. I make my own comments following the quote.
Today’s communication with our affiliates comes after much deliberation, as well as a heavy heart. After 10 years, and millions of dollars in affiliate payouts, Wegcash has decided that the continuation of the affiliate program is no longer sustainable. Therefore, we will no longer be accepting referrals effective May 21st, at 4PM PST.
The reasons, many of which are obvious to all of us, revolve around the decline in membership revenue. The continued proliferation of free adult videos has spawned a market which does not support an affiliate program. This communication should in no way be interpreted as an industry, political or ethical stance, nor should it be deemed dispiritedness; rather, we choose to look at this as a time to embrace the future.
While our company is closing one door, we are working steadfastly on new opportunities. While we could all engage in the revisionist history of “what ifs,” events leading up to the current free tube models aren’t negotiable; we are better served focusing on the future. We also feel that energy is better served realizing the true successes that our affiliate program brought to us, and to our thousands of wonderful affiliates (without whom we would never have achieved the success we did).
The gravity of this announcement is in no way lost on our company’s staff, from executives and programmers, to its owners. The Wegcash brand was conceived by two passionate and driven entrepreneurs. Throughout the years, its continued prosperity is attributable to the hard working staff members, past and present, who stayed late, came in early, and passionately put their heart and soul into the product. It is also very much attributable to the thousands of affiliates that entrusted our brand with their business.
While today undoubtedly is revealing in terms of the current market, it’s also the lore for the successful future.
Our sincerest thanks to each and every one of you for the past decade of fruition,
Wegcash.
So, what should you make of this? Well, first off, I’ve not only been shafted by WEGCash’s affiliate program before (read: not paid commissions I’ve earned) and have read way too many horror stories from other WEGCash affiliates who’ve experienced the same shafting, to even care about this.
This announcement gives current promoters of their sites a whopping 3 days to remove or replace all their promotions galleries, links, banners, videos, etc. That really sucks. I couldn’t imagine having to find all those links and content on my network of adult tube sites and adult blogs.
So, let’s say you are/were one of their affiliates. What will you do with that traffic? Well, first we need to see why WEGcash had anything worth promoting in the first place. Well, they did have sites worth promoting. Those sites would be the free porn sites where you could make good commissions on free joins and registrations. Fear not, there are many excellent alternatives to WEGCash and I want to see you promoting them as hard as you possibly can. Do you realize how much free traffic WEGCash is going to be receiving in 3 days, once they stop paying out on sales? They’re going to be making a lot of money off of other people’s work and not rewarding them with as much as a penny in payouts.
Here are some sites who have converted well for me and paid out on time. These are sites with payouts for free trial joins as well as payouts for free cam joins.
PimpRoll.com – Tons of exclusive content for a large array of sites. They have everything you could imagine, including mobile redirects. I make $25.00/free trial with them. Excellent control panel and live stats. Payouts have always been on time. I get my payouts via ePassporte.
ClickCash – I promote their free cams program where I make $40/free cam sale. Weekly checks but they also have direct deposit among other choices for payout. They’re one of the rare sites that still pay the following week.
Dude 6:53 pm on June 28, 2010 Permalink
This is truly a scam !