Does Platinum Bucks Shave?

[Hooper]

I'm coming into some information that doesnt look very good for them... includes screenshots, correspondence, acknowledgment that they have stolen signups.

I'm trying to decide what the best course of action is here.

What do you think?

[Winetalk.com]

Hooper,
if I were you, I'd ask for my pass to their party in Las Vegas,
grab the microphone and announce it to all their and Lensman's guests!

Whatta you think?

...or you can present your evidence here

[Mike AI]

Hoop, while I would like to see the evidence, and of course their reaction - the reality is that a majority of major programs shave some way or other. I imagine Platinum Bucks response is going to be "So what?" Then they will go into how much they pay out webmasters, blah blah blah....

I would be interested personally since I do send a decent amount of signups to them.

[Nickatilynx]

post it, Hooper. :)

BTW I'm sending you an email tonight ;)

[Hooper]

Well i happen to really like dave and albert.. that guy dan is another story, he seems like kind of a prick in my opinion.

But the story is pretty simple really. We sent a tiny tiny bit of traffic (mind you that it usually generates about 100 joins but with platinum it only made 11 joins)... Que Ce'ra Ce'ra...

So they tell me their going to send their optin mailer to me to make up for the shitty conversions and to show how sorry they are. So they start sending away and suprise suprise that it was about as dirty an email list as it gets. 40 spam cop complaints an hour is about what we were getting. So i told them i couldnt accept the traffic anymore cause verio got mad and redirected it to a completely blank 404 page that just said "account terminated".. sure i coulda kept getting the traffic some how, but it woulda been bad imho.

So then dave gets all mad at me, threats etc..etc.. i tell him i'm sorry but i cant help you right now because i'll get shut down.

Soooo... on the 16th my invoicing guy takes this screenshot of the stats cause thats what we do:
http://personal.clickfeel.com/kris/platinum2.jpg

Today my invoicing guy is comparing checks to screenshots and notices a discrepancy... 100 bucks was the check and 485 was the invoice. So he contacts platinum bucks and the talk to their "programmer" who makes the 11 signups disappear and accordingly *corrects* the problem.
http://personal.clickfeel.com/kris/platinum_after.jpg

So after a few hours (god this is a lot of work for a few bucks eh?) they finally decide to tell us some b.s. about how they were moving stats from one account to another and it *inadvertently* ended up in our account and that it was a mistake and they wont be paying us.

Its' not actually a very well thought out shave imho... probably more of an emotional knee jerk reaction to being shut down.

Thats my story and i'm stickin to it.

[Nickatilynx]

If you are going to shave its easier just to use MKstats. ;)

:)

Or invent uvouns ;) :yowsa:

[Mike AI]

But the story is pretty simple really. We sent a tiny tiny bit of traffic (mind you that it usually generates about 100 joins but with platinum it only made 11 joins)... Que Ce'ra Ce'ra...

You would be suprised how many times I have seen this with many programs.

Of course it seems like you have a special issue that does not necessarily involve institutional shaving, but rather a "Lets fuck Hoop" type things. Luckily for you, your guys grabbed the screen shots.... and now PB is trying to cover their ass.

It is interesting, and something everyone should pay attention to and take note of.

[Winetalk.com]

Originally posted by Nickatilynx@Dec 17 2002, 08:26 PM
If you are going to shave its easier just to use MKstats. ;)

:)

Or invent uvouns ;) :yowsa:
fuck you Nick, you are WORSE than Brad Shaw!
;-)))

[Diamond Jim]

Without taking sides since I have no first hand knowledge of the situation, how does one get 5 cross-sells worth $100 at $20 each, if they don't get any sales in the first place?

[Diamond Jim]

For what it's worth, I do decent ratios at PB (on the real count)....not great, but not the huge stinkbomb I have gotten with some people, either...they are average, which is all one can hope for these days...

Where are the great converters?

[Nickatilynx]

fuck you Nick, you are WORSE than Brad Shaw!
;-)))

Wonder if lawyers do discount for bulk!!!!~
;)

Comparing me to "The Yellow Brad of Texas" is wrong!!!

;)

Where are the great converters?

Well in General the most conversions happen in foxholes ;)
As for best converting websites , I think they are in Russia or Denmark ;)



Last edited by Nickatilynx at Dec 17 2002, 08:59 PM

[Winetalk.com]

Originally posted by Nickatilynx@Dec 17 2002, 08:58 PM
fuck you Nick, you are WORSE than Brad Shaw!
;-)))

Wonder if lawyers do discount for bulk!!!!~
;)

Comparing me to "The Yellow Brad of Texas" is wrong!!!

;)


hahahahahahahaha
;-))))))

[Diamond Jim]

Originally posted by Nickatilynx@Dec 17 2002, 08:58 PM
Where are the great converters?

Well in General the most conversions happen in foxholes ;)
As for best converting websites , I think they are in Russia or Denmark ;)
Well gimme an email hint, Grandmaster Spammer B! :D
Check your ICQ's from Lisa, btw....and she can give you the email if you don't have it.. :wnw:

[Nickatilynx]

Done :)

[Nickatilynx]

Hooper,

Looks like Platinum Dave believes the best defence is a good offence. ;)

http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.p...&threadid=94390 (http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=94390)

[Hooper]

Can you believe that he has just gone and wiped all the joins from the period following that as well?

These guys are sheisters. Be careful in your dealings with them, cause if they'll fuck me over a tiny bit of money I would guess that they would fuck you too!



Last edited by Hooper at Dec 17 2002, 11:51 PM

[GregP]

I have to take the Platinumbucks side on this (nobody asked me to take sides) , the reason is because I am the mailer (not spammer) that send the 11 joins to studtoons (wrong account) for one of my clients. ( We manage alot of people's mailing lists ) .
The studtoons html email was sent to us hardcoded with another affiliates id - we didn't notice and sent it out. We realized that there was a mistake the next day and told Platinumbucks - they switched the joins to our account. I guess in switching the joins to our account they inadvertently placed them in Hoopers account for a short while. Anyways , I just wanted to speak my mind because it sucks seeing someone get blasted for something they didn't do.

[Hooper]

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We realized that there was a mistake the next day
---

I call bullshit Greg. The account "mistake" didnt get corrected til today and was up for 30 days.. it didnt get "adjusted" til today about 30 minutes after we inquired about where the money was.

To top it off somebody else posted on another board that those 11 joins were theirs!

[GregP]

To be honest Hooper I havn't talked with Platinumbucks these particular 11 joins you are both fighing about.
I know that we sent an html mailer to studtoons about a month ago (I can get you exact date and time when I get into my office tomorrow) and it went to the wrong account. We contacted them and were told that it did 11 joins and we would get credit on the joins. We have since been given credit on 11 joins.
I probably jumped the gun claiming that they were generated from us , it just seems very likely that it was the mailer that we sent out. 11 joins studtoons that went to wrong account.
Anyways, I don't even know the people at Platinumbucks that well and I have nothing to gain by lying.

[Hooper]

We mailed SLUTtoons.. not STUDtoons.

They're trying to get you to defend their theivery.

[GregP]

To top it off somebody else posted on another board that those 11 joins were theirs!
----------------------------------
Actually I just checked the other board and the "somebody else" you are referring to works for me - same people claiming responsibility for the joins.

[EricP]

Originally posted by Nickatilynx@Dec 17 2002, 10:35 PM
Hooper,

Looks like Platinum Dave believes the best defence is a good offence. ;)

http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.p...&threadid=94390 (http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=94390)
Must read post to get the 'Whole' story.




:rolleyes:

[Hooper]

I *started* it and i'm not even sure I understand the whole story!

:yowsa:

[-= JR =-]

if you are not sure you understand the whole story, why would you intentionally try to damage someones business?
:zzz:

http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.p...&threadid=94390 (http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=94390)

[EricP]

Originally posted by -= JR =-@Dec 18 2002, 03:01 AM
why would you intentionally try to damage someones business?


Hurt the competition -- webmasters leave -- come to you.

Dirty business SUCKS.





Last edited by EricP at Dec 18 2002, 04:52 AM

[Winetalk.com]

Hooper, your name is Barnard Rothchild???? any relations to winemaker?
;-))

[Monk]

Originally posted by Hooper@Dec 18 2002, 01:24 AM
I *started* it and i'm not even sure I understand the whole story!

:yowsa:
That may be the problem.

[Winetalk.com]

Jesus Says:
"One who doesn't shave - let him cast the first stone!"!

;-))

[Hooper]

I was kidding JR, i understand the whole story perfectly well.

[Hooper]

Did Jesus Shave?

[Winetalk.com]

Originally posted by Hooper@Dec 18 2002, 10:32 AM
Did Jesus Shave?
http://askjesus.com
;-))

[Winetalk.com]

BTW, Hooper, what happened to your "The Program which revolutionise the Industry"?

[Hooper]

I'm not sure which program I was referring to.

[Winetalk.com]

Originally posted by Hooper@Dec 18 2002, 10:44 AM
I'm not sure which program I was referring to.
few months back you were telling us all about it...
I hate to prescribe the Vitamin E at your young age, but...
it helps one's memory tremendously!
;-)))

[Hooper]

Aaaah.. I think i know what you're talking about now.

We decided against launching it after researching the legalities a bit further.

[Mutt]

i've read this thread and the three over at GFY. I can't decide who's telling the truth, somebody is definitely not, but i have no feeling one way or another - deadlock.

http://www.opranoplus.com/smilies/drinker.gif

[Mike AI]

Yeah it is very confusing....

To me it seems the real person at fault is the person who fucked up the mailer and put the wrong code in. Hey buddy, you fuck up - you eat the loss. He is the person who should be making it right.

The amount of $$ is so trivial, I am suprised PB did not just pay out everyone and move on....

Of course I am still confused...

[Hooper]

I've tried to clarify the matter here.

http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.p...&threadid=94525 (http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=94525)

I've even offered several times that we donate eachother's checks to charity instead of paying eachother but they wont do that :-(

[SextrafficPete]

hell is hot!



Last edited by SextrafficPete at Dec 18 2002, 02:48 PM

[SextrafficPete]

charity thing sounds like a good idea

donate some xbox's to hospitals or something instead

[Hooper]

*



Last edited by Hooper at Dec 18 2002, 02:48 PM

[SextrafficPete]

fuck it

i've been to hell and enjoyed it!



Last edited by SextrafficPete at Dec 18 2002, 02:47 PM

[Nickatilynx]

At this juncture I would like tostate for the record that:

http://www.nicksclicks.com

Has never shaved an affiliate EVER!

:)

[DrGuile]

I would side with Hooper just because of the shirts the PB guy wears... (white, horizontal black stripes)

where's the fashion police?

:nyanya:

[Hooper]

http://www.webmasterhangover.com/v2/images/234_image.jpg


I hate to use the W****r word... but if the jumpsuit fits ;-))

[Winetalk.com]

oh, c'mon, you know that English is not my first langi=uage..

is
"W****r " = Wanker?

why do you people love to have me at disadvantage????

[DrGuile]

dammit, I cant find the prison shirts pictures...


Ill give you a hint Sergei,

W**g*r

[Winetalk.com]

Originally posted by DrGuile@Dec 18 2002, 05:55 PM
dammit, I cant find the prison shirts pictures...


Ill give you a hint Sergei,

W**g*r
I think I know what this is,
but I'll have to ask D$ just to make sure!
;-)))

[Mutt]

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