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Originally Posted by MrPinks
I am going to be totally honest.Those discount prices are undercutting A SHITLOAD of affiliates. For the sponosrs to just offer those prices to TBP is unfair. Sure, TBP is a great site but I don't always see the need for everyone to bow down and kiss their ass every second. I feel screwed by those price adjustments and I'm sure a lot of affiliates would feel the same way if they knew what was going on. TBP says "We're not asking the affiliate program to do something special only for us."  Bullshit. Your asking for a lower price so you can have an upper hand against other affiliates. Plain and simple. |
This could be the start of a very disturbing trend
Price cutting never benefits any industry as a whole unless the prices are so far out of line to begin with that people aren't buying the products. Clearly that is not the case in this industry except for a VERY small percentage of customers.
Had they been negotiating for higher payouts no one would have likely complained.
Discounted prices give them an unfair advantage; the only way to remedey this fairly would be to give all affiliates the option to shortchange themselves like this, and no doubt many shortsighted webmasters would take the opportunity to do so. It might generate a marginal increase in revenue for the short term but in the long run it would fuck every affiliate and sponsor over. Conditioning customers to expecting more value for less money is a losing game for all involved. It is suited to more competitive fields where the products are largely identical than it is to porn where that is not the case.