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Travel Affiliates : What do you recommend?

by George Schwab
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I/ve been with Agoda for about 2 years, but I'm in travel for 17 years

now Agoda does not pay us for 5 months - even when they issues a payment
notice a month ago 2 weeks ago.

I want to replace all links with a company that does not have black sheeps
in accounting dept.

What you suggest?
#affiliates #recommend #travel
  • Profile picture of the author Darryl Smith
    I found good CPA offers through Peerfly and Maxbounty for flight and hotel bookings. NO issues with either platform.
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  • Profile picture of the author Azlan.MY
    Originally Posted by George Schwab View Post

    I/ve been with Agoda for about 2 years, but I'm in travel for 17 years

    now Agoda does not pay us for 5 months - even when they issues a payment
    notice a month ago 2 weeks ago.

    I want to replace all links with a company that does not have black sheeps
    in accounting dept.

    What you suggest?
    I haven't try this niche yet, but I am planning to do so. That being said, this question was asked before in this forum. There's a blog post at Affilorama about this topic:

    https://www.affilorama.com/blog/trav...liate-programs

    Other than that, you can check another blog post at high paying affiliate programs:
    Travel Affiliate Programs
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  • Profile picture of the author George Schwab
    Thanks, good info.

    a tip for entering this niche: they all state they give you xx% commission,
    however you cannot compare these percentages with each other, it only
    tells you how much you will get from THEIR commission.

    And they all get different commissions from the airlines and hotels.
    so that % basically tells you nothing, you have to sign up first and
    make a sale to know for sure how much you really earn.

    or ask your rep, and discuss with them. They would tell you.
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  • Profile picture of the author George Schwab
    also looking at booking.com - saw some good reviews

    the thing is: they belong with agoda to the same mother company
    but i think thats not the problem - the problem must be local

    we have some representatives here locally
    the main company would not approve of .

    Let's call the boss and talk man to man. Then switch to some good guys
    that appreciate all the traffic they receive from us. Sustainability depends on it:

    For EVERY company, Fortune 500 or not, doesnt make any difference.
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  • Profile picture of the author George Schwab
    the first one sounds interesting

    tripadvisor themselves are basically affiliates, so not sure how much you really
    can make as an affiliate of an affiliate - BUT: as a website owner a thing to look at
    very clever concept for a website. User create the content, then there are several
    options of providers, and it doesnt matter which one you choose - tripadvisor gets paid
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  • Profile picture of the author George Schwab
    Some Interesting facts:

    "recently I have lost more than $8K with Agoda,
    They has been banned terminate and forfeiture of my commission with irrelevant reason.
    they don't pay my recent earning before banning.
    Don't joint Agoda.

    The other Agoda issue, they start skimming your affiliate ID, and replace with Agoda Staff CID."

    source:
    http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...gram-best.html



    "First I have tried to make a hotel booking through my affiliate ID, and I do not find it on my affiliate account. Second time, I have tried to make another booking, and I track through view page source of browser and they remove (skimming) my affiliate ID on checkout page (payment page)."


    Source:
    Partners Agoda.com - Agoda started to skim the affiliate earnings, Review 668065 | Complaints Board


    other affilate same board:

    "Nothing has been credited to my commission account at all"

    and another:

    "Sadly another case of a big company ripping off their affiliates."

    another affilate:

    "I am also getting scammed by Agoda"


    another guy:

    "I am still waiting to receive my commission after 3 months"
    "These guys are committing fraud. Stay away from them."
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  • Profile picture of the author George Schwab
    JUST a little head up for travel affiliates:

    YOU DONT have to cave in and desist when they cheat you

    we made a case with local representatives to raid that office,
    they are actual real life police, and will come to their office
    - and they either pay out or we close them., The whole office.
    can we do that ? yeah by law.

    We know the guy that issued their license of operation
    See it;s so easy to fight these cheaters> make them pay + apologize

    or they will lose it all

    how much they will loose by not having a local office?

    Millions, but why stop there? Go direct to their head office
    via interpol. By now you're thinking why they are so amateur
    to NOT just pay a simple bill. they already say they will pay?

    No clue. because they suck?

    Exactly! Why should they allowed to be amateurs online any longer?

    Convince me... maybe i make an exception,,,
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