Capital Bucks (and by association Metro Money) Stole My Traffic & My Rewards!

[Greenguy]

Back when I was doing my last PPS Stats run I noticed that I had some reward points at Capital Bucks. I had 70 points - enough for 2 $50 - iTunes Music Gift Card - so I ordered them (I don't know the exact date, but it was well before Xmas because I remember thinking I could use them as emergency gifts)

2 weeks ago it dawned on me that I had not yet recv'd them I log in to my account & go to the rewards section & see this:
Reward Tracking - View Unshipped Rewards (2) - View Shipped Rewards (0)
To me, this means they have no yet been shipped. So I contact them via their support page:

I'm still waiting on the 2 iTunes gift cards I ordered a couple months back
Acct: greenguy

This is what they sent back to me:

from Newbiz <newbiz@capitalbucks.com>
to Mark Jenkins <blamo@concentric.net>
date Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 9:36 PM
subject Re: Rewards Problem

Sorry but the reward program was discontinued over a year ago.

My angry & hasty reply:

from Greenguy <blamo@concentric.net>
to Newbiz <newbiz@capitalbucks.com>
date Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:03 PM
subject Re: Rewards Problem

It's still in the admin!

Their reply:

from Newbiz <newbiz@capitalbucks.com>
to Greenguy <blamo@concentric.net>
date Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:32 PM
subject Re: Rewards Problem

Probably so.. Understand that we didn't go throgh our entire webmaster
database and delete rewards. We did we notify all affilaites that
rewards were discontinued.

So they removed the rewards program by emailing their webmasters, but not by removing it from the admin. Log into your Capital Bucks account right now & you'll see it's still there!

I personally do not remember seeing the email about the rewards program closing & their "news" page has 2 entries on it - one of which is PRICELESS:

» Pull your links!
02/14 - Webmasters

In the process of moving servers we have run into some unexpected problems. Please pull your links until the issues have been resolved.

*** Payments will go out as usual, you will be notified when payments have been sent.

So I decided to pull my links. But 1st, I decided to click on them - please do so for yourself & see what I see
http://join.analthrusters.com/track/MTAxODg5OjE1OjE/
http://join.dumbdrunksluts.com/track/MTAxODg5OjE1OjQ/
http://join.farmluv.com/track/MTAxODg5OjE1OjU/
http://join.harderporn.com/track/MTAxODg5OjE1OjY/
http://join.nakedfreecelebs.com/track/MTAxODg5OjE1Ojc/
http://join.young18teen.com/track/MTAxODg5OjE1OjEx/
EVERY link goes to a parked page with ads for other programs.

I'm sure there was an email sent out about this shit, too

Now, how does this Metro Money (MetroMoney) program & Metro Babes (MetroBabes) fit into this? I'm not 100% sure, but I did receive a spam from Capital Bucks about them:

from affiliates@capitalbucks.com
reply-to affiliates@capitalbucks.com
to blamo@concentric.net
date Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 5:04 PM
subject New Affiliate Program Invitation

Attention Affiliates

Please accept this exclusive invitation to become a Metro Money affiliate! We will be offering $35 PPS, 60% Rev Share in the upcoming weeks however, we wanted to offer you an increased payout of 30% Rev Share on our new live cam site www.metrobabes.com! Try something new and enjoy the increase in profits! We will be offering new sites monthly, exclusive content and monthly promos to all of our Metro Money affiliates! Sign up now www.metromoney.com

Thanks
Metro Money

Maybe this post will convince Capital Bucks to do the right thing & send me the $150 they owe me ($100 rewards, $50 from sales) Maybe it won't. But at the very least, it'll let all of you know to pull your links & not deal with either these THIEVES!