Honesty Matters affiliate program shutting down

It appears that the Honesty Matters affiliate program is shutting down completely. This was expected, but it will hurt those who relied on them with controlled substances, as Honesty Matters was the last pharmacy standing with available diet pills and pain medications.

Their warning reads as follows:

System Notes
****Effective Immediately****
Date Added: 8/24/2006 12:59:24 AM by Mike
Dear Affiliates: We are no longer accepting orders. Your patronage has been greatly appreciated. Please rest assured that all affiliates will be paid in full for all commissions due. Affiliates that have experienced a large volume of charge-backs will have a reserve kept equal to their average ratio of charge-backs to orders. All affiliate payouts will be made as soon as possible. We are striving to settle all accounts within ten business days. Thank you for your business.



Oh, well last week they eliminated all the drugs from their system which were considered useful by many affiliates, now they completely pulled the plug.

publishing date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 10:46:19 -0600 (1058 bytes long)

BetterLife Affiliate Program going offline

I just received this from the Better Life RX affiliate manager:

Hello, this is to inform you that the betterliferx.com website will be
shut down very soon. The reason for this is that there are very few
sales and the income barely covers the affiliate commissions and
maintenance cost. The owners of the website are now focusing their
efforts in other enterprises.

Other programs that belong to this group is GCPharma and Discover Costa Rica, from which the latter has a sign on it lately: this website is for sale.

Strange ....

publishing date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:21:02 -0600 (564 bytes long)

Grab the money and run - again

The group known as GR Global, Rxmedical network, Pritorityclick, Welton Intl, ran off again with affiliates' money, leaving no trace behind other than a Costa Rican phone number and a probably VOIP us call-in number.

They shut their site and ordering system down, and they do nost respond to affiliates' mails or phone calls.

Reportedly their office went off the grid - they literally cut electricity and fled.

Oh well, probably we will see them again in a while, selling prescription medications and contact lens to the poor fellas' customers.

The recipe?

1. build a huge affiliate base
2. pay them for a few months
3. when you owe enough : disappear
4. Create a new offshore company
5. get the whole customer list and mail it out
6. steal all refills/return business
7. go to #1, and repeat until you are a billionaire


Oh well great. Now everyone is chasing these guys, but they always do.

publishing date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 12:48:00 -0600 (979 bytes long)

Direct ROI (directroi) program removed

As we received an alert from an affiliate friend that his account was terminated by DirectRoi without any prior notice, we rushed to check our account, to find that our account was also terminated without any notice as well.

We highly advise against using DirectRoi, and have to say sorry to all of our users for suggesting a company with such a mentality for affiliation.

As of today we removed all links from the back end pointing to Direct Roi, and Quality MD.

update: we just received a tip, stating that DirectRoi used to run UltimateRX, who ripped us off with numerous offers, and then terminated our account, but no, apparently UltimateRX belongs to Pharmgroup (proof here http://ultimaterx.com/affiliates.html) and with that little research we also removed Pharmgroup from our Affiliate programs list.

publishing date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 11:34:35 -0600 (840 bytes long)

Mastercard dumps pharmacies

Mastercard is not a valid payment option in almost all online pharmacies from now. More decent OPs like HSN/MPLLC warned their affiliates, while others did not even post a notice on their backends.

Mastercard is not processing for pharmacies until the following issues are clearly black or white, and out of the legal grey area:

1. Online dispensing of Controlled medications
2. Reimportation of pharmaceuticals manufactured in the U.S. and remarketed in U.S.
3. Importation of medication that are not FDA approved, or are generic versions of those medications still on patent in the US.
4. Perscribing without a properly licsensed medical professional.

How about Visa and pharmacies? Well many think that Visa will go the same way.

publishing date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 16:32:24 -0600 (769 bytes long)

Rx-mex and affiliate program is gone

Without sending a formal warning to their affiliates, RX-Mex is closing shop and their affiliate program.

Here is the official notice on their website, shame on them that their affiliates weren't informed thru official channels:

"Dear Valued RX-MEX Customer,

We wish to inform you that at this time we have decided to shut down our operations at www.rx-mex.com due to the strict regulations for online pharmaceutical businesses.

Please note that we will maintain customer service for up to 3-4 weeks. We want to assure you that all orders placed up until this date will be fulfilled and shipped. All issues related to shipping and billing will be answered, and all pending orders will be shipped.

Our goal is to ensure our loyal customers that we will maintain customer priority during this time. We are available via telephone and email to answer all inquiries and handle all issues."

By the way, we personally avoided rx-mex as a supplier in the last year, because their reorder rate was terrible. After hundreds of orders, our affiliates received 0 reorders.

publishing date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:31:57 -0600 (1118 bytes long)

Genbucks goes herbal only tomorrow

As we announced it earlier: GenBucks shuts down all shipping operations to pharmaceuticals to the United States.

Genbucks will only ship herbal products to the U.S. while they will keep their pharmacies open for only international customers.

If it applies to you: change the links for US sites or go herbal :(.

publishing date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 18:02:38 -0600 (378 bytes long)

Priorityclick.com gone?

Priorityclick is displaying this not so promising message as of today:

========================================
Site Temporarily Unavailable
Sorry, the site you requested is currently unavailable. It will be available as soon as possible. Please try again later.
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Their site generator is offline for the last 3 weeks, when clicking on generate site, they just displayed a message, that your site will be generated by them, and a representative would get back to you, but never received a word.

Their conversion wasn't great lately even with super targeted traffic to a shopping cart, and now they are down for who knows how long.

If anyone has the slightest clue of what is happening over there or if payments are sent out for last month, we would appreciate a mail from you.


I suggest you suspend all advertisement or traffic to your private label stores or shopping carts.

publishing date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 07:26:57 -0600 (966 bytes long)

Webrxpartners down for restructuring

Apologies for the late alert, but better late than never. Webrxpartners is down for almost a week now.

They were supposedly having problems with their site, but did not alert anyone on time. After a weeks of problems and 4 days of downtime they promised payments and new system. That was 3 days ago and as far as I know, no one got a payment, and they are still down.

I hear nothing but complaints about them for the last 2 months, I think it is time to say that their program is a complete mess.
Late or no payments, terrible approval (some claim it is lower than 25%) rate and an unbeliavable long shipping queue. Actually there are more cancelled orders than shipped ones as no one wants to receive an order 3 weeks late.

I hate the restructuring really hapens because their program can be summarized righ now like this: it completely sucks.

publishing date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:56:30 -0600 (871 bytes long)

Genbucks kicks the bucket - or not?

Just received the sad news from the Genbucks affiliate manager that they are closing all sales to US customer by the end of next month (november).

"The analysis carried out by our consultants with our lawyers, however, reveals that most of our problems stem from our association with generic medication even though they all fall in the safe category. None of the agencies were willing to give us a proper hearing even when we have never encouraged spamming, simply because of our being in this line of business."


However life goes on and they are working on the "way forward":
they are already in the herbal business and are looking into electronics and bath and beauty products.

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