He's making shitloads of money. Sadly, it doesn't seem too legit. I read how he's forced to cough up $750,000.00 for each and every new mwrchant account. I also read that he spams everyone under the sun, including kids.
Is it worth it for 10 million a month??
According to what I've read, I'd say no.

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From www.AdultBeat.com via www.GoFuckYourself.com

John Atherton's AdStats.com Under The Microscope
by Duke Floored (send email to Duke Floored)

Hooper writes on GFY about Brisbane porner John Atherton, who's made major bank over the Paris Hilton tape:


Wow... http://www.adstats.com is down AGAIN

2nd time in what, a week?

Nobody wants your business Atherton.

Go away, enjoy your millions, leave this business to the professionals who have a longterm view.

To all you affiliates promoting him, how many times does he have to go down before you realize that he's NOT RELIABLE and eventually you wont get paid!!!

Fuck, sorry, i just get emotional when i see people fucking up this biz for everybody.

Digipimp writes: I made a thread asking for them to post all their success stories and only one person admitted to promoting it. I hope that their database gets confiscated and all the webmasters promoting them get some federal attention.

Rooster writes: You obviously don't like him Hooper, so he must have used the phrase "These Jews" at one point in his life. We know how easily you take offence, right?

John Atherton writes on GFY under the name MONEY: Hey Hopper...

You fucking moron, that page was not adstats – it was a simple message to webmasters saying pull your traffic until the new network is up.

The guys that send us traffic are not likely to use some needle-dick operation like yours so I am not even sure why you are bothering to post…

If I pointed just one tiny fraction of our traffic at your machine [I doubt you have more than one] I would expect it to fry.. Get off your lame high horse and admit facts – if you were in any way successful you probably wouldn’t bother posting on this board…

You are another one who should do the math – you have posted 2036 times on this board – 3 minutes a post gives 101 hours – at 12 hours a day that is 8 solid days completely and utterly thrown away – you are either exceptionally lonely and have no life, your wife is truly ugly OR, if she isn’t; and you tell her that you are working at your computer, then you are bullshitting her – posting on this board is not work – it is a total waste of time. But I guess you have already demonstrated that you have absolutely no respect for her – here: http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showt...threadid=210961

SO maybe it is best that you immaturely brag to your buddies on this board about your wife’s bald hahahaha, and wait for the inevitable split with her because you spend more time posting to your buddies than actually talking to her…


I have a far longer term view of this business than you ever will – I have been in it since 1995 and am fairly close to achieving what I want from it. I am not in it because I like porn, I am not in it because I like work, nor am I in it to please you - I am only in it so I can retire and do what I want with my life – anybody who says they work in this industry for any other reason is lying to you or exceedingly stupid.

I couldn’t give a flying fuck if there are some bitter and twisted fuckwits like yourself that are jealous of success or try and leech off our misfortune – life goes on… and in the end I am not bitter about it – you can shrivel up and die with jealousy for all I care… but your lame attacks are not going to stop us, nor are the attempts by any of our other competitors to slow our business…

Incidentally the reason we draw so many haters is probably because we are successful, add to that; the fact that we have never shaved anybody – and it is easy to see why some other programs see us as a threat… I am told by most of our traffic partners that we convert at more than 5 times what the best of any other program does – QED all others must cheat lie and steal off the people sending traffic. We pay all our guys for every single signup they send. We convert at 1:40 on many sites while most others can only manage 1:400.

So in the end Hopper – just shut the fuck up.

Hooper writes: so with an iq of 40 that post must have taken you what? 45 minutes to write?

atherton, you are more fucked than you know. you think it takes brains to sell customers one thing and in fine print 50 lines down rob them blind?

if i'm a nobody, then ignore me... but you cant, because you're worried that every time I post that one of your affiliates might see the light of your tactics.

i understand though jon. running card scams long enough makes it tough to run a legitimate operation. so tonight, just cause i have sympathy for you i'll sit down on my knees and give a little prayer for you that you can get another week of hosting and robbing surfers and that maybe a few of the people here will be foolish enough to believe that you havent cornered yourself with the anti spammers and that your merchant account isnt ready to fall like we all know it is.

buh buy. i'm sure you'll be back in another year like the cockroach you are.

John Atherton writes: Hooper, every minute you spend on this board shows me your wife is still ugly - even with a shaved pussy.

But at least you have at least one small testicle and are not completely formed of estrogen like your silent bum buddy mutt…

Hooper writes: you just lost every bit of respect any idiot here might have had for you by dragging my family into this, and you made it that much more clear that you dont have a leg to stand on.

you're a bitter old man atherton, it's obvious that i'm under your skin.

come up with a new scam.

Digipimp writes to John Atherton: Can you explain something to me about your legit program, can you explain why your hosting would get yanked with 5 minutes notice as you said yourself, can you tell me why you keep having to change banks accouts, why do you keep needing new merchant accounts? Please win me over instead of talking shit about someones family.