jayeff

Of course it does. In this post - http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showpo...&postcount=211 - allegedly someone from Zango is admitting that AFF is one of their customers. Yet in one of the screenshots we have since this past week, was what appeared to be an affiliate's link to AFF being popped over by a Zango-triggered window promoting SexSearch.

A lot of this is auction based, so as long as they don't mind signing checks, SexSearch - for example - can grab a piece of - again for example - AFF's business. But there is nothing to prevent AFF writing a check and getting a slice of Sexsearch's pie. For that matter another sponsor entirely (or an affiliate promoting another sponsor) can come along and buy traffic diverted from both of them. There isn't even a risk involved once you have figured out conversion rates, so you can play games with a competitor's business and even make a profit in the process. You could do a lot more damage before it started to get really expensive.

Any sponsors who are working with Zango and the rest, really have to be assuming that their competitors are as dumb as they appear to think their affiliates are. I guess we shall have to wait and see...