Instagram Sex Toy Company Ooh! Companion Accused Of Delaying Paying Influencers

Influencers say a high-end sex toy company based in Melbourne has been hiring them to create sponsored content for its products — but then delaying or ghosting them when it’s time to pay up.Ooh! Companion touts itself as a company dedicated to “sexual empowerment” for women and sells vibrators that retail for hundreds of dollars on its website. But creators who have worked with the company on sponsored content deals told BuzzFeed News they have spent weeks or months chasing down payments from the brand, with some saying they were only paid after threatening legal action. Some have still never been paid in full.They also accused the company of using strange evasion tactics to delay compensating them, including having them speak to several different “employees,” who the influencers believe are both real and fake.Their suspicions were backed up by two former employees at the company. One of whom, who wished to remain anonymous, claimed to BuzzFeed News that the company’s founder, a man named Ethan Ban, regularly communicated with influencers by pretending to be fake employees, in an attempt to avoid their complaints. BuzzFeed News verified names of several real employees among names used in dozens of emails and DMs…
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