Over in the Azoogleads forum at DigitalPoint, an interesting exchange sprung up between Shoemony, a well known super affiliate and JP the owner of the MaxBounty affiliate program. The post starts out innocently enough when a user asks if Azoogleads would be a good place to find ringtone ads. Someone replied that MaxBounty has a ringtone offer paying $13.90 per lead. Then Shoemoney jumped into the thread and said that MaxBounty is a bad company to work with and one of his friends way not paid when he drove a large volume of traffic to MaxBounty via PPC search traffic.
The thread then took an interesting turn when JP from MaxBounty came in to defend his history of paying affiliates on time. Shoemoney later posted a recap of the thread on his blog and stated that he still thinks MaxBounty sucks.
I have only done a little bit of work with MaxBounty, and my experience has been positive. I also know that JP has been an active and upstanding member of the webmaster community for quite a while. I remember seeing him frequently post of the GeekTalk forums years ago when I was just getting started. I would be curious to hear about others’ experiences with MaxBounty.
A key learning for me was how JP mentioned that affiliate networks often broker their deals out to each other. I always suspected this, but I had not seen it written anywhere. He mentioned that MaxBounty currently brokers out a few offers from Azoogleads, but they do most of their ads directly with publishers. I wonder what portion of most affiliate programs’ offers are brokered from other networks.
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Sir,
You are incorrect concerning the honest of Max Bounty. Mr. Sauve is an out and out liar thief and criminal. He re-directs traffic to dummy accounts and steals from affiliates.
I wished I read shoemoney’s account about Maxbounty. They are a rip off. They scammed me and did not pay me. Affiliate Beware do not sign up with these con artists.
Hello?!? MaxBounty is one of oldest and most respected of the per-lead networks. Even shoe recently said they were good. i know it old post but it’s not good info. I’ve been getting paid from them every month for almost 2 years. My A.M. is amazingly helpful. You two are probably cheaters who got caught. Everyone knows Maxbounty is legit!
Shoemoney is a douche! He has not problem ripping people or other sites. I have done business with max bounty and JP on both sites of the spectrum. He drove great traffic to my offers and I have been paid many times over on offers that I have promoted.