Exactly,
extreme seller's, able to pool volume for higher payouts and benefits.
Totally taking each market approach and owning it, different traffic sources, variable selling points, etc.
In a sense yes programs do similar things, but they aren't vicious enough in their attack, because for the most point they are restricted by having something to loose.
Not the same hunger as before, and not able to take risks that would generate larger rewards... a bit of complacency.. so much so that I see programs now that have lost all common sense in general.. incredibly out of touch. So unsure of themselves, they leech of other people's innovation and ideas.. usually smaller webmasters.
Would seem only logical that groups would form, and if they already existed be more blatant about it.. but then again as mentioned, GREED is a big problem, as well as ignorance.
I never understand how certain people get these sweet ass salary fluff jobs at larger programs, when they contribute almost nothing.
Naturally it's an attribute to be an empty vessel as well, and carry out orders to the "t" only being told one time, but still doesn't mean you can't be a little creative and try a few extra tactics.
Programs now are missing out on surfer psychology bigtime, I mean just look how cartoonish the porn sites still are.
Anyways, I would love to see an active group, with a webpage, doing a good job of "flexing" the resources they have and the sales volume they can do when they aim their guns at any particular area, this is where the benefits are at.
I would revel taking part in something like that, just as I used to.. Leave the dummies out the door and get twerking.
Real funny thing is, I would imagine that a group even of lesser morals.. would have a more padded approach to how they treat the customer than most affiliate programs today.. which just shows you just how greedy people can get.. burning viable resources without planting any new ones
Bottom line, if you were part of a group you would make a bigger impact and have to be taken a lot more seriously.. you also wouldn't get rolled over in the slightest.. or used up I should say.. and this I have experienced many times operating alone.