dirkpeddler
02-24-2010, 12:50 AM
I ran into another weird feature at GMP, My monthly recurring for GMP VIP are at a higher rate then $ 2.00 so when I noticed a site earned me a monthly recurring of $ 2.00 I thought this was a simple mistake and contacted support. This is what I was told:
It is not a monthly recurring earning but a 2 Year renewal of their regular menbership fee, which earns me $ 2.00. After some digging this could be true since on the date the $ 2.00 showed up in my stats, I had a 2 year sale, 2 years ago. However in February 2008, GMP did not have a recurring 1 or 2 year memebrship, this feature was not put in place until July 2008(so how long was GMP actually renewing memberships with out passing the earnings on to us?). And when that new feature was put in place I was assured that ANY renewals would be creditted to the webmaster at the usual 100%. For a while I had renewals show up in my stats under the description Yearly renewals with the correct amount creditted to me. Now they are trying to say that renewals were already being done way before July 2008 and that they only earn us $ 2.00.
Strange is that they show up with the description of Recurring renewals and I would have never noticed the descrepency was it not that for recurring I earn way more then $ 2.00 with them.
So after going back and forth with them, and now being ignored by them, since I backed them in a corner (I have always kept all correspondence with them because they make it a habit to change rules and deny having said things when they feel like it) I decided to put this warning out. We've had several of these strange issues with $ 2.00 recurrings, at first they explaned it as being the wrong amount creditted to me, now it's the yearly renewal explanation. At first the explanation that the wrong amount was creditted, which they corrected, however we found it odd that these recurring only happened for 1 month, they never stayed as most of our recurrings do, now the explanation that the $ 2.00 is for yearly or 2 year renewals, doesn't make any sense. They admit the renewal was done at $ 23.95 (the original sales price) so according to their announcement on July 2008 I should have earned $ 23.95 from that, not $ 2.00.
Just a heads up.
It is not a monthly recurring earning but a 2 Year renewal of their regular menbership fee, which earns me $ 2.00. After some digging this could be true since on the date the $ 2.00 showed up in my stats, I had a 2 year sale, 2 years ago. However in February 2008, GMP did not have a recurring 1 or 2 year memebrship, this feature was not put in place until July 2008(so how long was GMP actually renewing memberships with out passing the earnings on to us?). And when that new feature was put in place I was assured that ANY renewals would be creditted to the webmaster at the usual 100%. For a while I had renewals show up in my stats under the description Yearly renewals with the correct amount creditted to me. Now they are trying to say that renewals were already being done way before July 2008 and that they only earn us $ 2.00.
Strange is that they show up with the description of Recurring renewals and I would have never noticed the descrepency was it not that for recurring I earn way more then $ 2.00 with them.
So after going back and forth with them, and now being ignored by them, since I backed them in a corner (I have always kept all correspondence with them because they make it a habit to change rules and deny having said things when they feel like it) I decided to put this warning out. We've had several of these strange issues with $ 2.00 recurrings, at first they explaned it as being the wrong amount creditted to me, now it's the yearly renewal explanation. At first the explanation that the wrong amount was creditted, which they corrected, however we found it odd that these recurring only happened for 1 month, they never stayed as most of our recurrings do, now the explanation that the $ 2.00 is for yearly or 2 year renewals, doesn't make any sense. They admit the renewal was done at $ 23.95 (the original sales price) so according to their announcement on July 2008 I should have earned $ 23.95 from that, not $ 2.00.
Just a heads up.