Comments on: Hostgator Affiliate Scam

By: Danielle

Danielle — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:20:09 +0000

What Hostgator does is to find any reason to find a new hosting account invalid, and returns the money.

By this time, the hapless person has already started building a website or two through their Hostgator account.

So then they try to rectify things with Hostgator – and they pay again – only this time, the affiliate publisher is cheated out of a commission.

And I’ve heard publishers saying that commissions they definitely knew should have been coming to them (because they knew the people signing up and knew that these people had valid Hostgator accounts) – But Hostgator still reverses the payments.

In the end, Hostgator’s commissions are only worth maybe 10% – because of all the fake reversals.

It’s all a big cheat. For all that effort, you may as well be selling your own product. As least you know you won’t reverse the payments!

By: Amit

Amit — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:24:38 +0000

Hostgator affiliate they are commission theft ,please don’t promote that ..I am also going to remove that ..you know what I got after three months they replaced all my active commissions to duplicate after three months at the time of payment when I was waiting for three months ,how one guy after three months change his account to another same hostgator account or why he opens another account if he had one account..these are all questions at the time of payment ,This directly signifies that hostgator is taking our commission and this program is turning into big scam..so better try another ,Now the Hostgator turned into scam

Thanks
Amit

By: Willy

Willy — Sat, 14 May 2011 05:32:44 +0000

Same here… every time I get a commission it is first “extended” on exactly the day it should be locked.. then at 60 days it is reversed. Hostgator sucks!

By: Karl

Karl — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 03:05:34 +0000

Same here!!! 100% reversed to duplicate status but I promise not one person even had hosting because they didn’t have a website before I made them one.

By: Ahmad

Ahmad — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:59:12 +0000

Hostgator is a scam. And their president is a shill.

By: Bjorn

Bjorn — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 14:53:49 +0000

This is terrible. I am about to reach the 30 days period and at this moment I have 14 commissions. There will be hell to raise if they branch out of their terms and agreement.

If anyone has any stories to share, please send me an e-mail: bjorn@cox.net

Maybe some legal actions should be sought.

By: Sean Whitley

Sean Whitley — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:59:02 +0000

HostGator should just use Phone Verification so that when someone signs up for an account, they have to put their working number in the application. This would reduce the amount of bogus numbers and increase their conversion rates. All together its a win win win situation! Host Gator wins, affiliate wins, and real potential buyers get real attention rather than some sales guy who has just had 20 invalid numbers in a row and is overly ambitious when a number actually reaches a person.

By: Trazx

Trazx — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 11:20:06 +0000

Thats a shame, I am part of their affiliate program and have referred a few people but I am weary of scammers hostgator better improve their game

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:05:49 +0000

Yes, same here. Stopped promoting Hostgator 5 months ago, because there were months where 70% of the sales were reversed. They scam their affiliate clients really hard. Why not drop the freaking commission instead to 50$ and stop scamming ???

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 20 May 2010 08:26:51 +0000

The same has been happening to me. Hostgator used to reverse ANY signup if they could not reach the signup on the phone they provided upon signing up for their hosting. Let me ask you – how many people input their real phone number into the form when they sign up? Very few, who wants to get spammed by annoying sales calls? It is their convenient excuse to not pay you a dime, even though the signups are STILL hosting with Hostgator, even for many years. Hostgator is a complete scam as affiliate program goes – promise high payouts to attract suckers to send you free traffic and money, then screw them on a technicality that you KNOW in advance happens in 80% of cases. Someone should really take these scammers to court – all the affiliates that got screwed by them should find each other band together and pool funds to get a good law firm after these Hostgator scammers.