I've been an affiliate of Aweber for over 8 YEARS. Yes. I am oldschool. I used to advertise them heavily back in the day but even then they were a little questionable with their affiliate relationships, so I dropped them and moved onto better options, both for me as an affiliate, and the actual customer.
Fast forward 6 years or so, I am getting these annoying $50 checks from them still - some guy probably died and Aweber is probably just draining his Paypal account and giving me whatever small % it was lol). Back in the day they had no option to adjust check size.
I've had some horrifically bad postal service in my country, a hilarious story of postal incompetence causing checks to never make it to me on many, many occasions.
I've now realized I've probably lost over $1000 in checks that never made it to me. This means Aweber still has my money.
Why I am here outing them is due to their horrifically poor responses to my requests asking them to call their bank and list the checks that never made it to me (below), so they can add it as a payable balance to my Aweber account, for the next check cycle.
Some of the responses I've just smiled at how ridiculous they are. Basically it boils down to: "We Can't be bothered. Go Away".
I've even offered to PAY THEM $150USD for someone to be arsed to call their bank and spend 20 minutes getting a total $ of checks not paid out. Still no. Like damn... I gotta offer them % so I can get paid... and they still can't be arsed. Nice.
Now, I've had to ask this of couple other networks (to help me out with my predicament here). It's no one's fault, its not theirs, but its not mine. Now every time I've asked other networks, its been an "OK no problem" response. Until Aweber. Who, whilst we have been in the 21st Century for the last 15 years now, refuse to pay affiliates through anything other than checks. Plainly embarassing.
I never really liked this company. Now I like them even less.
Below you will find a screenshot somewhat proving my long existence with them, and my full back and forth with them. I've done my best to get them to budge on like, paying me what I am owed, but apparently they can only "recut checks within a year". Like this is some sort of acceptable reason to keep my money. "Sorry Fred, we cant pay you for monday tuesday and wednesday, and thurday... just Friday.... just because..go away now".
Silliest most incompetent shit I've ever read. I honestly couldn't care less about this company and I was tempted to just move on, but why should I? I never Out companies on the Internet unless they're truly terribad like Aweber is. I've offered them money, which I never should have had to do, to help me out.
They do get an A+ for niceness whilst refusing to pay me what might be several thousand dollars for no particularly good reason, mostly being laziness and incompetence shielded by a feigned minor tax issue.
I am hoping this post wakes someone higher up to do something. I need you all, friends, to chime in here. Abuse me, abuse them, what should I do?
Below is the correspondence to date about this, + screenshot of checks sent to me (notice the 2007).
Fast forward 6 years or so, I am getting these annoying $50 checks from them still - some guy probably died and Aweber is probably just draining his Paypal account and giving me whatever small % it was lol). Back in the day they had no option to adjust check size.
I've had some horrifically bad postal service in my country, a hilarious story of postal incompetence causing checks to never make it to me on many, many occasions.
I've now realized I've probably lost over $1000 in checks that never made it to me. This means Aweber still has my money.
Why I am here outing them is due to their horrifically poor responses to my requests asking them to call their bank and list the checks that never made it to me (below), so they can add it as a payable balance to my Aweber account, for the next check cycle.
Some of the responses I've just smiled at how ridiculous they are. Basically it boils down to: "We Can't be bothered. Go Away".
I've even offered to PAY THEM $150USD for someone to be arsed to call their bank and spend 20 minutes getting a total $ of checks not paid out. Still no. Like damn... I gotta offer them % so I can get paid... and they still can't be arsed. Nice.
Now, I've had to ask this of couple other networks (to help me out with my predicament here). It's no one's fault, its not theirs, but its not mine. Now every time I've asked other networks, its been an "OK no problem" response. Until Aweber. Who, whilst we have been in the 21st Century for the last 15 years now, refuse to pay affiliates through anything other than checks. Plainly embarassing.
I never really liked this company. Now I like them even less.
Below you will find a screenshot somewhat proving my long existence with them, and my full back and forth with them. I've done my best to get them to budge on like, paying me what I am owed, but apparently they can only "recut checks within a year". Like this is some sort of acceptable reason to keep my money. "Sorry Fred, we cant pay you for monday tuesday and wednesday, and thurday... just Friday.... just because..go away now".
Silliest most incompetent shit I've ever read. I honestly couldn't care less about this company and I was tempted to just move on, but why should I? I never Out companies on the Internet unless they're truly terribad like Aweber is. I've offered them money, which I never should have had to do, to help me out.
They do get an A+ for niceness whilst refusing to pay me what might be several thousand dollars for no particularly good reason, mostly being laziness and incompetence shielded by a feigned minor tax issue.
I am hoping this post wakes someone higher up to do something. I need you all, friends, to chime in here. Abuse me, abuse them, what should I do?
Below is the correspondence to date about this, + screenshot of checks sent to me (notice the 2007).
