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Originally Posted by After Shock Media
You may not yet understand this but many sponsor program owners time is very valuable, specially if they are still a small to mid sized program that is doing it all themselves.
Many site owners nearly work 24/7 as it is. They need to handle affiliate support, they often need to shoot content, update the site, build new free hosted galleries, edit videos, photoshop pictures, put together promo content zips, put together other promo material, tweak tours and galleries, check stats, look for fraud, promote their own program, and many other tasks.
Now some may rather enjoy the small amount of time they can get off, maybe to relax or just spend some time with others. As it stands most site owners have to do nearly everything already for the affiliate, so why in the hell can they not charge a very small per check fee to use up even more of their time?
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You must be kidding me, right? As a guy that been in this business long before most of you were born, I can tell you this, every business and mine too takes time to run, and no one pays me for my vacations, to my 5000 SQF house, or my Porsche. I made it myself without fucking out anyone including my smallest customer. I don't give a fuck about the $2. But most of the affiliates make their money from commissions only. Who pays for their time to relax? I think it?s the principal of trying to do anything within the power to rip off people. I don?t care how small the sponsor is, he has to do things right and not wrong. As I said, I have been long enough in this biz, way before the Internet...and for some reason this business always attracted shady people and characters that will try to rip off the others. Most of them don't survive for the long run...kind of Karma