BT Openzone have an attractive sounding affiliate scheme whereby you can earn 10% commission from the sale of air time vouchers for their wifi hotspots.

I've mentioned before how this has appeared to be a ghost programme, which few other affiliates promote and there's little or no information coming from BT about it.

In a previous post, I described how I called their support desk and the staff hadn't even heard of it and wanted to know from me the URL on their website that had information on it.

More emails to them with account queries have gone ignored or bounced back.

And most annoying and also most importantly, payment is still outstanding. A few months ago, I took down their links and decided to just send them a paper invoice but that didn't receive a reply also. The amount outstanding is only about £150 which I would have liked to receive but ultimately it's not worth the time to stress too much over so I'll end up having to write if off I guess.

But to sum up the BT Openzone E-Voucher reseller programme:

• Emails ignored or bounced back
• Staff on the only phone number listed haven't heard of it
• No payments

If ever there was an affiliate scheme to avoid, this is it.

The fact of the matter is, commercial hotspot access is too expensive anyway in the UK and with mobile internet over 3g being better priced and more convenient, the commercial hotspot business model doesn't look like it has much longevity anyway.

Labels: bt openzone, mobile internet