CJ.com: Commission Junction Details, Reviews & Opinions

It’s plus and minus, the best offer is the arrangement they have with GoDaddy. If a purchase is made for annual hosting through your link, you get back $105 per sale. The downside is, they track using cookies which often fail due to browser issues. If you call them on a sale you definitely made, their response is to “Contact the advertiser directly through our website e-mail.” So now, you have worked hard publishing and since the cookie did not register, you will now fight to prove the sale was generated your affiliate link. Then if a payment check is “Lost” in the mail, they hit you with a $25 reissue fee and THEN ANOTHER 30 DAYS DELAY TIME! Wow, good thing you have all my info, someday I may collect.

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I recently discovered a new network that is an Adsense alternative called, Prosperent Network. You should check it out as it is very customizable and has a high eCPM. I highly recommend it.

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They are not good company, I have summer specific PPS product and they want to deactivate my account due no commusion. No support at all. It total crap. I don’t like them. Why i cant call or write to support io i have an isue?

“Consequently, per the Publisher Service Agreement, we regularly deactivate accounts that are not actively earning commissions and do not have a sufficient balance amount. Your account has been deemed inactive and is scheduled for deactivation in the next 30 days for dormancy. Please note that while your account is deactivated, you will not track or earn commissions and your advertiser relationships may expire.”

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Loved the opportunity and may be a little slow to learn but instructions not clear. I never had any tracking. Support information is hard to find. E-mail questions were unanswered. Never received any payout. Maybe the customers were just not clicking on the affiliates.

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BS! (I was forced to give a least one star or I couldn’t submit this review, in no way is it deserved. They do have a shit load of offers though, but the odds are you won’t be approved for them)

1)No one to contact.

2) No response to several emails sent.

3) One of their merchants owe me over $10,000 and there has been no help whatsoever, in helping me resolve the issue or get paid, to add insult to injury the merchant is still on the CJ network.

4) Sales rarely track.

I was attracted to this network because off all the great things I heard about them and I honestly use to make tons of money marketing their campaigns, but somehow things went down with this network and it’s a shame.

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Thanks everyone for your reviews of the Commission Junction affiliate program and vendor network. We appreciate you sharing your opinion and doing the research needed to fairly evaluate the service. We have seen fit to link to this article in our independent Commission Junction Reviews section. Anyhow, keep up the good work spreading truth. I’ve personally rated them after using the service for roughly a year now…top notch but poor tracking.

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I like CJ, but do have some issues with them. The biggest problem is that is nearly impossible to get any support. Hard to find any contact information for CJ. Also, the $100 min can be a but much for people just starting out and to add insult to injury, you dont get your earnings at all if it takes 3 months to make it.

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I dont know what so many others have had such a hard with CJ. Perhaps it’s different as a publisher, but as a merchant, I find CJ the absolute best!!!!

My CJ reps are always quick to replying to emails, I mean quick;; within the hour, usually less! Interface is clean and super easy to navigate. Tracking seems to be off a little bit at times, but always ends up being accurate. Basically, everything I get from them is what I need. Especially as a merchant, their list of advertisers/publishers are top notch, as in 3 short months, our program was able to drive over 6-digit in sales p/ month. Not even close to that with my other network.

So to end, Overall, ABSOLUTE BEST, support is great, and tracking is still good despite some minor inaccuracies.

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years ago CJ would be on my top list, these days not even a thought! If i was running a comparison shopping site i would still use them, but no good for my SEO or email lists. But like anything – worth a look.

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Its been 4 years with this network, and I found it very hard to work with them as an affiliate. The support is the worst. If they don’t like your question they will never reply. And for those they reply, most of those are irrelevant to the question. I had to give 1 star to the support.
The only reason CJ is alive today is due to the amount of top advertisers it have. But that thing is changing, I can clearly see that.

I do praise one feature of CJ, that is they can send payment by Courier service FedEx. I’m international affiliate and direct deposit is not available for my country. So I have to stick to snail mail check. FedEx is a great convenience for me. The only networks I know of that send checks by courier are CJ and ShareASale.

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This is the be-all and end-all of all affiliate networks. if it’s anywhere it’ll be in CJ. Read the other review for the good stuff, so here’s the bad:

Problems with CJ
– No-one to contact. Forget about phone numbers, or even tryign to email in.
– Stats are usually DAYS late so no trying to figure out how your campaign is working
– $100 minimum payout automatically (although if you put your checking account AND change TWO places you’ll get paid on $50 at a time)
– “locked” and “processed”! All your transactions go through steps before they’re “officially” given to you. For me a sale is a sale. Unless there’s a refund If I got the sale on the 29th, the check on the first should include that sale.
– “Approval”! Some offers have to get “approved” but even though CJ lets you show which sites you have, the “vendor” may not see that you have NOT ONLY that great political site, BUT ALSO a site that comes up #1 on google for cell phone terms and THAT’S why you’re applying for AT&T. if they let me CHOOSE which site I was them to “see” then maybe they wouldn’t “disapprove” me but approve spammy competitors.
- Kick you off. – If you don’t reach your $50 minium in 3 months (I know won’t happen to you) they’ll just kick you off and keep your money. Google Adsense will let you take up to two years to make their $100 minimum. I mean really. Do you think they return the money to the vendor? Or have any “cost” to me ONLY making $3/month? (I know make that an hour, but I did have to start somewhere!)

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Useless network ever. No support to affiliates. No flexibility. They wont change anything for us. Auto rejections. Infact everything sucks.

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The biggest and the most popular network. They promote good offers. Some of the offers have good conversion ratio, some dont have. Even though so many affiliate networks emerged after CJ, I strongly recommend Cj because they have the biggest online customers. Commission Junction offers bigger payouts for sales.

The only thing I hate about Commission Junction is most of the offers wont get approved. We have to contact them for each and every offer they rejected.

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I like using comission junction because they have a very wide varity of affiliate offers to promote. I can always find what i am looking for in CJ. alot of companies run their affiliate programs through CJ and whats good is that you can also find offers for many different niches that you may not find on other affiliate networks.

Jani G

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