Oct 30
Phone Cards Affiliate Program
Always interested in different methods to make money online, I decided to check out a phone card affiliate program offered by E-Trepreneur.
So far I’ve had few dealings with affiliate marketing in my “online career”, so I was pretty eager to see what E-Trepreneur could offer.
Here’s what I’ve been able to gather from the website. Judge for yourself if this is for you!
First Impressions
Upon first glance, the site looks a bit thrown together. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve seen worse but if this company is serious about attracting affiliates, I would get a graphic designer on the job STAT! But what am I saying? Who cares about the look…What about the program?
Now even though I’ve had limited experience with affiliate programs, the following excerpt from the site worried me…
When signing up, you will be charged a $74.95 one-time set up fee. We accept Visa, Master Card, Amex or Discover as payment methods. Please do not forget that there is a monthly charge of $19.95.
Now I’ve never heard of an affiliate program charging you to join, (since you’re the one helping them out), but what do I know? And I wish at this point I could say you only need X sales a month to cover the $19.95 montly charge but I really couldn’t find any information about how much the phone cards would be.
Conclusion
Hm. Uh…I’m not really sure what to say. Other affiliate programs I’ve dealt with have been very forthcoming with information and details about the product and unfortunately in this case, the information about the actual phone card(s) just aren’t there. And even though the rates for “membership” seem high (imho), until we know more about the actual products, I guess I can’t say one way or another if this affiliate program is worth our time.
October 30th, 2007 at 11:25 pm
SCAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
October 30th, 2007 at 11:38 pm
@Forest - Now WHAT would ever make you say that?
October 30th, 2007 at 11:42 pm
You are right, maybe I am being too judgmental.
I guess I should go sign up and pay the money to find out :)
October 31st, 2007 at 12:12 am
LOL. Stary FAR away from that one. Essentially, you’re pating $19.95 a month for a very crappy cookie-cutter site. Plus, they don’t even let you own your domain name! LOL. They want you to pick a domain name and then they’ll register it and lease it to you. OMG, what a joke.
Now, I’ve seen a lot of nonsense in the online money-making arena (I used to help bust mlm scams), but this one is one of the worst I’ve seen. Hell, their demo page doesn’t even have the demo on it!
If you want to check out a REAL site that lets you sell calling cards, cell phones, high-speed Internet, electronics, etc., for FREE then check out http://voic.com. Tons of great brand name products, a great pay plan and it’s free…which is the way affiliate marketing is supposed to be!
Shine on,
Aaron
October 31st, 2007 at 12:18 am
*Should be http://voic.com
Looks like the comments god didn’t like the period at the end of the sentence. :P
October 31st, 2007 at 10:16 am
No, I don`t think is a scam. Is just a honest way to steal money promissing ownership for one square meter on Mars (on Mars because on moon have been allready sold all spaces).
Doh ! Bush, you should start cash in money also - charge 1$ for each comment have 2 or more links .. mwuahahahahahaha
November 1st, 2007 at 6:37 am
@Forest - HA HA HA!
@Aaron - Great thoughts and I tend to agree with you on every single one. The whole not owning the domain thing certainly makes us webmasters more than leery but I know a lot of “RL Affiliate” programs where ppl happily let others control their domains because they don’t know any better. Of course I think most of those things are pyramid schemes but I guess that’s a story for another time…
And thanks for letting everyone know about voic too!
@Valentin - “a honest way to steal money” Ha ha ha. And I think I’d have to give away free chocolate bars or something to be able to charge $1 a comment. (#):)