A few years back, I was running gaming offers through Admitad. Traffic was flowing, conversions were accepted, everything looked normal. They'd already paid me over thirty thousand dollars without a hitch.
Then, about a year after I'd stopped the traffic, my account got blocked. No proper explanation, just a few screenshots. I asked for log exports to compare data - ignored. They ended up holding around twenty grand and refused to give it back.
After a year of trying to sort it out, my gut says the advertiser either doesn't talk properly to the network, or the network simply doesn't want the hassle. Feels like it was easier to write off the webmaster than investigate or push back.
I even tried a compromise: asked them to cover my traffic costs from the commission they'd already earned on my conversions. Ignored. Asked for the advertiser's contact details so I could take it up directly - ignored too.
strangest part? One month after my account was blocked, the same advertiser, on the same offers, with identical traffic, paid out through another affiliate network.
So that's the whole thing. Maybe it helps someone else working with gaming offers. The delayed clawbacks are nasty - everything looking clean for months, then reversed in batches with zero transparency. you can't even compare logs or source-level data properly. and when your traffic converts fine elsewhere, you start wondering if it's really fraud or just internal risk management.
