Blogger Referral Bonus From Gazelle

If you are a blogger and wants to earn extra with your passion to blog, joining affiliate schemes is one way of earning.

I get my regular earning from Shareasale which is a well known affiliate marketing site. It offers plenty of opportunities for bloggers like myself to earn extra through commissions and/or bonuses offered to bloggers to post articles about various merchants' offers. One of the merchants that offers bonuses through referrals is Gazelle.

If you want to get an extra then join Gazelle's Affiliate program. Gazelle offers $15 for every approved blogger you will refer to the program. If you are not a Shareasale member yet, sign up here: Join Shareasale. Or you may directly join the Gazelle program here. Join the Gazelle Affiliate Program!

Gazelle is the nation’s leading consumer electronics reCommerce site. It provides easy, fast and safe way of getting cash from their used electronics. Gazelle is recognized by an A+ Better Business Bureau rating and a 9.5/10 Reseller Ratings review average. To date, Gazelle has paid out more than $200 million and bought and resold more than 2 million devices, helping consumers upgrade to the latest technology.

Highlights of the program include:

• Commission levels starting at 15% for trade-ins and 5% for certified pre-owned purchases
• 60-day cookie
• Average trade in value of $160 and average certified pre-owned selling price is $300
• Award-Winning Affiliate Management Team dedicated to your success from Acceleration Partners
• Monthly newsletter with updates on promotions, contests, and sales opportunities
• $10 affiliate referrals: Invite your website-owning and blogging friends to join Gazelle's affiliate program and earn $15 for each friend who's approved! (between 8/5 and 8/12 and after that it is $10)

So, want to earn? Join now!

Pay Up Please

It is not a secret that I accept paid posts in this blog. It is one way to augment my meager income. Besides, I do write with integrity and based on experience. I just feel a little bad about a direct advertiser (DA) who contacted me and asked me to write 3 paid posts which I gladly obliged and published. I have already sent the URLs for the 3 posts. The DA did not verify my paypal address and decided to just send it to the email address I use in this blog. I have received a notice from paypal about the payment but in my wrong email. So, I asked the DA to revert the payment to my paypal account which I provided in the same email.

It has been more than 2 weeks since I last heard from the DA, assuring me that the payment would be sent to the correct paypal account. Unfortunately, after repeated "gentle" reminders, I still have not received my payment. I even told the DA that the money is still in his/her account and that I would keep getting reminders about a payment I could not withdraw because it was the wrong paypal address. How hard is it to send a new payment since the one sent would be cancelled by paypal and returned to the payee eventually, if no one claims?

So, I did the right thing by pulling the posts down from my blog. I even left it there for sometime thinking and hoping I would get paid. Sigh, have I been scammed?!?

I feel sad about the whole thing. I have done my part but why can't the DA do his/her part? It's a mere few bucks to spare but enough to put food on our table.