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Massive Class Action Lawsuit Against Commission Junction

Tom Straub's picture
Submitted by Tom Straub on Tue, 07/10/2007 - 00:16.

As of April 20th 2007, two huge class-action lawsuits have been filed against Commission Junction, Befree and Valueclick.

Alleging things like breach of contract, unfair business practices and even negligence. To quote from the article I read:

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"The gist of it seems to be that CJ/BF has knowingly allowed adware affiliates within their Network which commit commission theft and fraudulent transactions through adware applications."

The entire articles is at:

http://affiliatefairplay.com/newsblog/2007/06/12/two-class-action-lawsuits-filed-against-cjbfvalueclick-on-behalf-of-affiliates-and-merchants/

The part of this that surprised me the most was that the plaintiffs who were accusing CJ of this were actual affiliates.

Doing some deeper digging, I also found out that CJ is deactivating affiliate accounts after 30 days if no affiliate commissions are earned. Note that doesn't mean traffic... and is charging affiliates $10 for deactivating their accounts.

What is going on???? :shock:

Tom

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MoneyBag's picture
Submitted by MoneyBag on Thu, 07/12/2007 - 12:15.

I was deactivated and they kept my commission of less than $10 for a fee. However, they allowed me to rejoin for another 6 months, but I would have to rejoin all the merchants. I choose not to do business with them. It takes a lot of time to set everything up then get deactivated.

Jeremy Palmer's picture
Submitted by Jeremy Palmer on Thu, 07/12/2007 - 17:35.

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What is going on???? ///////////RE:Lawsuits

I don't really understand the details of the lawsuit(s). I'll reserve my comments until I see how it plays out. Right now the info being posted on various blogs seems a little one-sided.

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Doing some deeper digging, I also found out that CJ is deactivating affiliate accounts after 30 days if no affiliate commissions are earned. Note that doesn't mean traffic... and is charging affiliates $10 for deactivating their accounts.

This must be something entirely new. I'll see if I can find out more.

Best,

Jeremy

jlc's picture
Submitted by jlc on Mon, 07/16/2007 - 22:24.

Hi Jeremy,

I hope you are able to find out more details about why CJ deactivates accounts without notifying affiliates.

As for the deactivation issue being new, I had my account mysteriously deactivated about two years ago sans any prior notification or $10 fee...

Janna

Jeremy Palmer's picture
Submitted by Jeremy Palmer on Sat, 07/21/2007 - 04:07.

jlc wrote:
Hi Jeremy,

I hope you are able to find out more details about why CJ deactivates accounts without notifying affiliates.

As for the deactivation issue being new, I had my account mysteriously deactivated about two years ago sans any prior notification or $10 fee...

Janna

I've spoken with my contacts at CJ about this. The response I got explained the policy, but not the "why" behind it - at least not to my satisfaction ;)

I have it as an agenda item for the next CJ Publisher Advisory Board meeting. I'll keep you posted.

Best,

Jeremy

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