My Advice on FiveStarAffiliate.com

Filed Under Affiliate Programs (specific)

Since Affiliate Junktion recently deactivated their affiliate program, one of my blogreaders brought up an interesting case (thank you Chirag :-). I was asked to review a similar affiliate program like Affiliate Junktion, just to give my opinion if this program was worth joining. It’s called: fivestaraffiliate.com.

Well, for starters, let’s kick the door in, so you won’t have to read everything, if you are just interested in my advice.

My advice… stay away from fivestaraffiliate.com. Why? Let me tell you…. I just signed up for free and started to investigate their program. No, I didn’t buy their starting package for $98, I just signed up. What worried me, is that there are very little quality search results for them in Google (natural and paid). So I dived in a bit more…

First….I checked and reviewed them a bit more. They look a lot like Affiliate Junktion. The whole setup is exact the same and it seems that they had a happy time with copying and pasting. There’s one HUGE difference though. They charge you for joining them ($98) and this is tricky. Why?

I think it’s never a good idea to pay to become an affiliate for someone. Just think about it…. you are at a job interview and the manager says, well okay, you could start on Monday, but you have to pay $100 upfront and then you’re in. That’s just weird, isn’t it?

Well, AJ didn’t charge you for joining them. Yes, you had to buy hosting services to be in their program, but you got compensated for that from them. Fivestaraffiliate even copied AJ’s affiliate agreement and it seems that they are related to AJ for payouts and/or bonuses. Why I do think that?

Affiliate Junktion is mentioned twice in their affiliate agreement. I don’t know exactly if they forgot to correct that after copying and pasting a lot of things from AJ, but suppose it’s not a “typo”. Well, in that case, since AJ is deactivated, I wouldn’t step in this affiliate program.

Second… I know the CEO/manager from FSA. He once was an Affiliate Junktion affiliate too, but stopped promoting AJ, because he wanted to copy their success. I worked with him before and simply put. I don’t trust this guy anymore. He promises you quality and good service, but the only thing he does is….. he takes your money and leaves you in the cold when you need him or his support.

Seriously, don’t join this program.

But hey, that’s just my advice. We live in a free world, so it’s your choice of course.

Cheers,

Rob.