Because some merchants mailed me with questions about the pay-out and why some of the payments suddenly appear as "Pending" in their statistics:

Very simple - there is a guy out there, trying hard to do credit card fraud on tradebit. Before we payout Wednesdays, we try to find his payments and set them to Pending. The process is quite obvious, but hard to filter automatically. The guy uses open proxies and does 2 things: he creates now merchant accounts and uses products with high affiliate rates.

So for new merchants and new affiliates: payments can be set to pending for up to 4 weeks in order to find fraud. After 4 weeks we will activate the payments again and pay out that money.

But if you have sudden sales of products with high affiliate rates: that could be the fraudster working on your files. Instead of deleting your account, we thought it is better to set questionable payments to "Pending" and see how that behavior develops. We are in close contact with the processing company to track down fraudulent users and there are many things to improve over the next weeks. We are getting better...