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Chitika - Continues to struggle with delays

I have been following Chitika, which seems to be based on the Shopping.com API, for the last several months.  The concept of it is very interesting, and you haven’t heard of it, read about it here.

They have recently had trouble with their Audits, namely delays and crediting users with revenue.  As the delays grow longer, more of its userbase is losing faith.  Many bloggers are speculating that they are being ripped off.  Darren Rowse (aka ProBlogger) who seems to be in tight with Chitika states that the reason Chitika audits disregarded revenue “so heavily was primarily for reasons of traffic from non accepted countries”.  Darren has yet to say anything really negative about Chitika, and helps keep their hype alive…  So many are skeptical that he might have deeper ties than meets the eye…  Read more »