Since it is based on the internet, there is no true harmony between the people paying and the people getting paid.
Instead of sponsors and affiliates working 100% together, all we see is people on top trying to screw the affiliates. Either by shaving, showing misleading stats (join page hits vs. first page hits), hiding rebills, now this cookie problem... Who knows what other methods are used, or might be used in the future.
And then closing programs and starting a new one under different names, keeping affiliate money in their own pockets... (as if what was mentionned on top wasn't enough...)
And all of these sponsors hire reps to look you in the eye, shake your hand and promiss you day after day that they are an honest, trustworthy company to deal with.
Even the biggest of the biggest programs take part in these unethical practices, and we all know it.
And as affiliates, what do most of us keep saying? "I don't care who is shaving as long as my paycheck is big at the end of the month".
And then there are the affiliates who will fraud signups to increase their own wallet size as well.
And then whenever companies like Acacia comes along, when everybody should come together, we see people buying Acacia stock? Betting against their own industry?
Only because we have a message board where all of us are somehow linked, doesn't mean that everything is actually rosy and beautiful...
Is there any way to fix this? I don't think so... simply because 99.9% of the time, you are at home, alone, behind a computer, and behind a simple nickname and ICQ number.
What do you guys think?
Instead of sponsors and affiliates working 100% together, all we see is people on top trying to screw the affiliates. Either by shaving, showing misleading stats (join page hits vs. first page hits), hiding rebills, now this cookie problem... Who knows what other methods are used, or might be used in the future.
And then closing programs and starting a new one under different names, keeping affiliate money in their own pockets... (as if what was mentionned on top wasn't enough...)
And all of these sponsors hire reps to look you in the eye, shake your hand and promiss you day after day that they are an honest, trustworthy company to deal with.
Even the biggest of the biggest programs take part in these unethical practices, and we all know it.
And as affiliates, what do most of us keep saying? "I don't care who is shaving as long as my paycheck is big at the end of the month".
And then there are the affiliates who will fraud signups to increase their own wallet size as well.
And then whenever companies like Acacia comes along, when everybody should come together, we see people buying Acacia stock? Betting against their own industry?
Only because we have a message board where all of us are somehow linked, doesn't mean that everything is actually rosy and beautiful...
Is there any way to fix this? I don't think so... simply because 99.9% of the time, you are at home, alone, behind a computer, and behind a simple nickname and ICQ number.
What do you guys think?
are that big, or heavily promoted, does not mean best 
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