I am a former AWeber Advocate. I have worked with many companies over the last 10+ years and I have never been treated so badly.They say you can get "lifetime" recurring commissions. It really means temporary. They can cut you off whenever they want for whatever reason. Don't believe me? Just look it up in their terms. They put "lifetime" on their main pages, but hide that they can ban you whenever they want and for whatever reason they want inside their terms. They also specifically say you can place your link "anywhere". It sounds so good to lure affiliates in, but it turns out to be false advertising. They tell advocates to just follow their section 8 in the terms, which I went through carefully. I never violated their terms that I am aware of. I never sent a single spam email, never used PPC search engine traffic, never targeted their keywords, etc... Nothing black-hat at all. I sent quality traffic. I referred 35 trial signups in about a week or so. This seemed to be too much too fast for them and I received an email from Connor saying my Advocate account was on hold until he got more information about how I was promoting AWeber. I replied back fast. And then so did he. I gave him details and never heard back from him. I emailed a reminder to him and I patiently waited days and still nothing. Then I finally emailed support about it. They looked into it and I was told "Our Best Practices team has thoroughly reviewed the account and the review has resulted in the closure of your Advocate account. In order to protect the integrity of our network, we are not able to disclose information on the specifics of the review.". So they closed my account without even telling me it was closed and gave no reason at all! I never even asked for specifics. A simple reply back from Connor with a reason would have been the least they could do. Like "You violated X term in our advocate terms" or something like that.This is what AWeber calls "lifetime". It's a joke. This is the thanks I get for promoting them. I thought this would be a win-win relationship for both parties. I still do not know what I did wrong or how they could possibly not want me as an advocate. If you want to promote them and be banned at any time, choose AWeber.
