Mar 17 • General discussion
My $273.60 affiliate commissions are stuck in limbo until June. 💸
Here's the wild story.
Last December, I was eyeballing my bank account, ready for $614.40 in affiliate commissions to hit.
You know, for those last-minute Christmas gifts.
Instead?
$340.80.
Almost $300 just... gone.
No warning. No email. Nothing.
So, I dug into the invoice and saw two deductions.
The wild Boar in me was fuming.
I reached out to the company and thus began the most bat-spit crazy back-and-forth of my life.
Turns out, their "automated system" flagged two commissions from over a YEAR earlier.
Said I violated terms.
They clawed them back.
I KNEW I hadn't done anything wrong.
So I went full Batman detective mode.
Dug up old chat logs, took screenshots, even had the customer contact them.
FINALLY, they sorted it and told me...
"We've decided to reinstate your commissions."
Code for: "Oops. We flucked up."
Sigh of relief? NAH.
Couldn't be that easy.
Instead of just sending me the money they took, they put it back into their automated payout system.
Which meant I had to wait ANOTHER two months for it to clear their 30-day refund period. Ugh. 🤦♂️
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5/ Then, last month, time to get paid again.
Except... nothing.
Crickets.
More back-and-forth like we're playing hot potatos.
More "let me check with the tech team."
Finally, they found the problem: a bug in their system.
Their estimate for a fix? JUNE. 🗓️
See, here's what nobody tells us about affiliate marketing when you're dreaming of freedom: We don't control ANYTHING.
They can change rates, claw back commissions, or have "bugs" that take 90 days to fix.
We just sit there and take it.
Because we don't own the product, the customer, or the payment system.
I'm not saying it doesn't work – I've made $2,450.12 from this program alone, and close to $50k in total affiliate sales since 2016.
But, today I calculated how much PiggyBANKING income I've made from licensing other people's IP.
You'll be blown away by the number.
$2,564.70
Nope, not missing any zeros in that.
Sorry if I'm not that impressive.
Yet, here's what I want you to take away fellow PiggyBANKER...
I got that money immediately.
100 percent mine, minus the Stripe / PayPal fees.
No affiliate payment limbo.
No playing hot potato with a support person.
All under MY control.
And I made more in PIggyBANKING income than I have with that affiliate program.
Again, I'm not against affiliate marketing (just made an affiliate sale today on a different program).
It's just not the ticket to freedom the gurus teach us.
Freedom to me isn't just about how much money we make...
But, if we have the CONTROL to continue creating that income.
PiggyBANKING income is under OUR control.
Affiliate income is not.
The bottom line?
Put your energy and time into income you can control.
I know this was long winded.
Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk lol.
Before I bolt for the evening...
I've got a PiggyBANKER in our group that just cracked through $1k in sales by using a simple PiggyBANKING strategy.
If English isn't your first language, you'll get a kick out of this.
Even if English is your native language you can take this strategy and use it.
I'll tell you about it in the next few days.
Until then...
Let's get piggy wit it,
PB Chad
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My $273.60 affiliate commissions are stuck in limbo until June. 💸
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