Question about JVZoo and affiliates

With over 5,000 sales I'd say he's been around long enough and proven he isn't scamming. That, or he's a really big scammer, lol.

You always take chances with people you don't know. Who cares if it's delay payment, they still get paid and you get protection. Anyone promoting for you the first time should realize it's a new deal between you and it's just business.

I recently launched on jvzoo and had an affiliate request from the philippines. This affiliate had over 1500 sales and requested to have instant commissions.

I ended up approving the affiliate but I agree and do think we should create some sort of thread that rates the trust of affiliates.

I think I'm going to make them friend me on Facebook so I can see who they are and what other social connections they have. Otherwise give me a reference or two. It's strange there's no community/social aspect to either JVZoo or W+ since there's so much potential for abuse, and trust is so important.

I recommend putting all affiliates you don't know on delayed commissions. I had one who had over 200 sales and he was a crook. I got taken for over 1K from approving affiliates on JV Zoo that I didn't know on instant commissions. They used stolen credit cards and I got stuck with the chargebacks and chargeback fees as well as the refunds.

Warrior Plus now also gives a hover-over that tells you whether they're a new affiliate or, if not, the number of sales they've made and the refunds as well.

I think you stand to lose more than you stand to gain by approving random affiliates. It's very rare that an affiliate you have never heard of before will sign up and bring you in a ton of sales. So is that small chance worth the risk of all the others who can send you junk traffic and scam you with chargebacks, etc? That's a decision you need to make.

Personally I deny everyone I do not know and if someone I don't know looks promising, then the easiest way is to send them a message and ask them to be more detailed about how they plan to promote and also recent results they have achieved for similar promotions. If you don't hear back from the affiliate then you know you did the right thing in denying them. If someone is very serious about promoting your product then they will usually question things if they are denied. Most people who are denied though you never hear from again because they really don't care what they are promoting, they just promote anything that approves them.