Oct
If It’s Broke, Just Give It a New Name
The old adage “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” seems lost on internet marketers.
Most of them seem to live by the motto, “If it’s broke, just give it a new name.” That way they can rehash the same crap under a new name and con people into joining, thinking it’s new and improved and all the other buzz words combined.
Unfortunately, AuctionAds is adopting that new motto.
Once AuctionAds payouts dropped and click-tracking suffered, publishers have been leaving in droves.
Nothing was getting better, and it even seemed as if they were ignoring the problem.
Perhaps they wanted to keep things under wraps, thinking that none of their publishers would notice… or talk amongst themselves…
Or maybe they were just going to launch a new product under a different name?
Yep, that was their best solution, and it’s called shoppingads.com, which is basically AuctionAds with a CPC model instead of CPA like eBay.
I for one am not buying it. (Partly because I didn’t get a special invitation, but mostly because of the whole AuctionAds fiasco…)
First, if AuctionAds isn’t working, why would I trust this new system?
Second, I only went for AuctionAds to boost my percentage earned in the eBay affiliate program. So what’s the big incentive to go with ShoppingAds?
Are they offering some special payouts over similar services like WidgetBucks and Chitika?
Who knows.
All I know is that it is getting a warm welcome at the DP forums. 
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You are so right! There are even Internet marketers, who call their customers all sorts of insulting names, only because they legitimately complain or have questions about their products. Followers of James Brausch and himself seem to play in that category.
Ha, sure rename something and all the negative stuff that comes up when people search for it goes away!
Everybody opening up an ad network these days. It seems that that’s the step you take after being an internet marketer for a while. It’s hard to tell who to trust any more.