Ok I am going to spill out all of the facts for you on how Market Leverage jerked me around over $22k+. First off, I'm a mailer who does solid numbers every month with multiple CPA networks. Xy7, CPA Emp, Adsolutia, Incenta, Hydra, CB, MaxB, all love my traffic. All of these networks have catered to my needs and have done a wonderful job of providing excellent service. Unfortunately Market Leverage is the absolute worst CPA network I have EVER! dealt with.
The issue is over a Harry and David giftcard I mailed exclusively for ML over the weekend on June 8 - 10th. Apparently ML got a complaint from their advertiser and said fuck you, we aren't paying you anything for that traffic which amounted to over $22k. (Keep in mind that these are perfectly good leads.) The complaint was over me modifying the creative on the Harry and David card. ML claimed that they did not get paid a single dime from the advertiser because the AD looked "deceptive". (I can post the exact ad I mailed here and let you decide if needed.) When I asked who the advertiser was, they responded: confidental. I have had circumstances like this happen before on other networks, and I have ALWAYS been paid for the traffic. I have a REAL hard time believeing that they didn't get paid for my leads.
Phone Convo with Sal on Monday June 11th
I talked to Sal of Market leverage on the phone thinking there would be some type of resolution to this problem. Even if there was a slight decrease in the amount per lead, I could work with that. I don't think I've ever talked to a more rude arrogant prick than this fuck. He was talking about all this BS about how he was honest and one of the "good guys" in the industry. Sal said he didnt want to work with me on this and wasn't even going to TRY to pay me on the leads. The message I got from the conversation was, fuck you Jason your not getting paid.
The next day when everyone seemed to cool their jets, I talked to my AM at POS ML and he propsed a resolution. The resolution was that they would give me the full price per lead, 15% more than I was currently making, for a week or two to make up the loss. So I'd get paid 100% on all leads and ML would get nothing on my leads for about a week. Yes, after everything that happened they now wanted my traffic. My counter was bumping up the rest of the money owed to me, ($16k+) to full price per lead. This amounted to a raise of about $4k. YES ML HAS A BALANCE OF CLOSE TO 40K THAT THEY OWE ME. I reluctantly agreed to these terms as to cut my losses as best as I can. Sal explained to me that this advertiser has him "by the balls" and there isn't much he could do about it. I dont see waht the big deal in dropping the advertiser is. If they are fucking people over why would you want to keep them anyway?! This conversation was much different than the one we had the other day where he said he didn't want to work with me on the situation. Interesting...I sent over an AD for ML to approve, as to not cause anymore issues and started up my mailer Thursday night running one of my ads. I was for a couple of days because of an issue with my domain registrar.
As part of the agreement between me and ML, a wire would be sent out on Friday for the 16k+ I was owed for other traffic generated during the month. This amounted to $20k+ because I was getting full pop on the leads. However when I contacted and asked about the wire, ML said that they didn't feel a wire should go out because of the amount of traffic I was currently sending. KEEP IN MIND I WAS DOWN FOR 2 DAYS AND WAS CURRENTLY MAILING ONE OF THEIR OFFERS!! I CANNOT BELIEVE THESE FUCKERS!! I pretty much said fuck this bullshit send me my damn MONEY!!! MARKET LEVERAGE AGREED TO SEND ME $16.5K ON MONDAY JUNE 19TH, YESTERDAY!! I bugged them all day yesterday about this and my AM said I would have my money by 5pm Eastern Standard Time! I contacted them today about the issue and got this responce, and I quote,"accounting doesn't want to send until we are square with advertiser payment...they will send Net 15, i had a meeting with them last night."
Well what do ya fucking know, ML screwing me around again?? Say it aint soooo...I have the AIM logs to back up my conversations with Market Leverage. I will post them as needed. Also have a SS of my stats.
These guys NEED to be banned. I am going to get paid on the 16k+ im owed and pursue legal action on the 22k. I have laid down all the facts on what exactly took place. These guys are the most disrespectufl scummiest POS on the CPA planet! They cant get away with scamming people out of money like this. AND BELIEVE ME! I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE. I'VE TALKED TO OTHER PEOPLE WHO'VE HAD PAYMENT ISSUES ON ML, SOME ARE ON THIS VERY SITE! I'll leave it up to them if they want to respond since they have significant money owed too. I have been biting the proverbial bullet par say the last few days; holding back from posting this in hopes payment could be worked out. I feel this information needs to be made public, so here it is!
Lets hear it WF members. WHat do you all think about this? SHould ML be the 2nd CPA network banned? I say FUCK YEAH. I'll let you all decide. Better yet, ML what do you have to say over these alligations?
