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Top Affiliate Marketer Sentenced to 5 Months in Federal Prison (7)

05-02-2014 07:16 AM #1 cmdeal (Veteran Member)
Top Affiliate Marketer Sentenced to 5 Months in Federal Prison

The criminal judgement from yesterday here: http://www.businessinsider.com/docum...0-0--22751.pdf

The complete backstory here (an absolutely amazing read): http://www.businessinsider.com/ebay-...ng-2013-4?op=1

05-02-2014 07:29 AM #2 maynzie (Moderator)

Wow thanks for the share cmdeal thats a sick read!

05-02-2014 08:25 AM #3 Mr Green (Administrator)

I was reading that story and it sounded all too familiar.

He was the owner of digitalpoint forums. It took 5-6 years to make it happen. https://forums.digitalpoint.com/thre...ffing.1000740/

05-02-2014 09:43 AM #4 h0mp (Member)

I don't think he's a Top Affiliate Marketer. The only link with affiliate marketing is the abuse of the ebay partner program.


The problem with affiliate marketing is that there isn't much money in it. eBay pays about $70 million annually to its 26,000 affiliate marketers, according to court papers. The average payment is around $2,700 a year. Remove Hogan and Dunning from the equation — Hogan alone was 15% of eBay's total payout — and the average payment drops even lower.

05-02-2014 09:50 AM #5 ari_ (Member)

man, three years of supervised release. That sucks. A lot of people who have done time have said you're better off with a few more months on the inside if you can knock off supervised release.

05-02-2014 07:51 PM #6 stackman (Administrator)

Quote Originally Posted by Mr Green View Post
I was reading that story and it sounded all too familiar.

He was the owner of digitalpoint forums. It took 5-6 years to make it happen. https://forums.digitalpoint.com/thre...ffing.1000740/
I was thinking the exact same thing.

05-02-2014 11:08 PM #7 waltermitty (Senior Member)

In the federal system if you serve time you will always have some sort of supervised release usually 1,3 or 5 year terms. He is either really lucky or extremely unlucky as you usually do not see 5 months sentences I am curious what his PSI looked like.

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