Shaadi.com – Rewards?
I don’t remember when i joined the shaddi.com affiliate program.. maybe 2-3 years back, when i was checking out the performance of the indian based websites. As it happens usually, i might have put the code in some of my sites and forgot about it. After checking out a few months, when no rewards was showing, i simply deleted all the code. I think i missed to delete the code from one of the sites and one fine day, i got an email saying that there is a balance of 1581 INR in my account.
I was not too impressed with the earnings, but somehow i felt that atleast i am getting something. But since last one month, there has been no response from their customer care about the process of claiming the money. They say, send an invoice. I sent already.. but no response. I am not sure if they want a proper paper invoice sent through regular mail (that will be an extra headache). This monday i called up their customer care and she gave me an email id of one girl who is taking care of payment from the company called Peopleinteractive. I believe this is the main company which owns all these site like shaadi.com and makaan.com etc . Let us see if they respond soon.
I have had very bad experiences so far with all the indian based affiliates or the ad networks. When it comes to payment time, they just stop responding. Maybe it is just my experience. That way i prefer sites like Google and TLA. There is no payment hassle, either money is deposited every month in the account or you get the cheque of your earned amount. I hope shaddi.com people are reading this and will get back to me soon.
Update (23rd March 2010) – The shaadi.com people were indeed reading the post and they were very quick to contact me on Monday ie 22nd March. The person told me that the payment was on hold as they were verifying the registrations (i wonder how long they take.. but anyway that’s not an issue) and now they will process it and i will get the cheque in next 30 days. They also replied to my emails with the invoice attached. So i must say, they were very quick in their response.
That guy called me back asking me to remove this post but i categorically denied. I told him, i will just put the feedback and update about their response and the fact that i had issues earlier will remain as it is. But i will just update the post saying that they responded and it was indeed a very fast response.
So webmasters, if you are having trouble with any of your payments, it takes just a blog post
