Comments on: Do Not Promote Products Through Plimus

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:28:59 +0000

I use Plimus and I have not any problem, the best way to be payed is Plimus Prepaid Card.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:16:14 +0000

I’ll use Plimus anytime. regarding payment cycle. i’d go for Wire transfer always on time within 2 to 5 working days, not to mention am in africa half a world away. Wire transfer is $21 compared to check =by mail which is $4. Generally for commissions more that $1000 : $21 is mere pocket change.

If you don’t make sales on an ongoing basis and the product you were promoting had a high refund rate, then its commonsense that they had to hold onto your commissions to cover themselves on this.

If you read the TOS the customer is in contract with Plimus as a seller but not the Vendor as seen in some networks like Paydotcom.

Some other interesting scenarios on plimus is: if a customer is known to ask for refund most of the time after sometime he/she will not be accepted to make a purchase on plimus network. I got an email from a client who was confirming that he has been denied to make a purchase from my website via Plimus because of his past refund record.

On another scenario as a vendor am notified of some pending sales where the IP location of the purchaser differs from the shipping address.

Some of these experiences as a vendor in plimus has me at some point furious but i’ve come to accept plimus as prudent network – do no evil

That’s my experience and i’ll stick with it

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By: dani

dani — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:31:25 +0000

Actually as bad as it sounds I understand them, they have to protect themselves from chargebacks and fraud, if you just doing this promotion and not selling with them than once they send out your money they are stuck with any refund or chargeback that will come…

in addition as a vendor who use them than I know its part of the agreement, all you have to do is read before you sign up

By: Craig Haywood

Craig Haywood — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:11:53 +0000

Hi Andrew,

Yikes, not nice.

I have been with Plimus for over a year (have 3 accounts with them) and have been paid via check, paypal and wire transfer in the hundreds of thousands of dollars without any hassle.

They even assigned me a personal account manager who is available 24 hours a day via his mobile.

That being said, it is always a good idea to have a backup payment gateway in the event something goes wrong. The last thing you want to do is to start looking for one when things go wrong and you have a popular product as all sales will come to standstill while you are looking for a backup.

Whenever I alunch a new site, I implement the payments on my backup processor as well, so if something goes wrong (it might even be a trivial as a network failure), I can simply swith to the backup in under 2 minutes

By: Tranque Fuller

Tranque Fuller — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:37:44 +0000

Ouch! That story hurts because I’m sure more than a few of us have a similar story and your pain brings back ours! lol!!! I’ve got my own $3000 soap-opera going on. And it involves one of the so-called “gurus” that you’re always bitching about, Andrew. Frankly, I guess I’m naive, but I thought these guys were above such slimy tactics . . . but I just got to say that just because your dealing with a “celebrity” on the Internet (in the IM arena anyway) doesn’t mean you should throw out good business sense when getting involved with them. Ok, there’s my rant too …..

By: admin

admin — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 08:10:44 +0000

Update: My last email to them has gone unanswered for almost 5 days…

By: Expert

Expert — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:36:57 +0000

I was never really convinced that Plimus is a top notch affiliate site. HOwever I have been promoting 1 product through them for 2 years now and have been paid on time every month. However probably because I promote on an ongoing basis. I’ll be sure to remember the short burst of sales of a product though them, don’t do it.

By: Mike Stenger

Mike Stenger — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:17:14 +0000

Wow man, can’t blame ya for ranting about that! Since affiliates are what keep a lot of these networks going and what makes quite a few businesses the most money, you should treat the affiliates in the best way humanly possible IMHO.

Affiliates are their paycheck really!

By: Welly Mulia

Welly Mulia — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:23:13 +0000

Hey Andrew,

Thanks for the heads up about Plimus. I’ve never promoted anything with them before and will never in the future, thanks to your sharing of this post.

I guess what Bob said makes sense. Nobody is going to believe you when you say you’re going to sue unless they receive a formal letter from the attorney office.

Hope you get your all affiliate payments soon.

Cheers,
Welly Mulia