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Originally Posted by BestXXXPorn
I'm not sure that stating the facts and providing an alternate payment vehicle for "faster payment" qualifies as intentionally throwing WMC under the bus. I see this as taking care of their affiliates.
If they were to say nothing about it they would run the risk of damaging their own reputation as a sponsor. I would be upset with a sponsor if they didn't take some course of action to rectify an issue with being paid... I guess I'm at a loss as to how it could have been handled more diplomatically?
I'm not trying to be an ass here, just discern exactly what, in your eyes, would have been the correct way to handle it. I'm always interested in hearing additional ways to tactfully handle any bad situation without pissing off anyone involved ;)
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Taking care of the affiliates would have required merely stating there was an issue with their processor; instead we have this shitfest all over the front page of the same goddamn email.
They've offered to recut checks if you send the old ones back. Anyone can do that, and it's swell they opted to do so - but they didn't need to create this shitfest.
It appears that this may have all been a momentary thing caused because of the payments for Brazzers; as heavily relied upon as WMC is for processing, this is going to scare more affiliates away from programs who do/have used them, and has done nothing to decrease the noise:signal ratio.
I honestly feel sending the message as a primary 'issue with processing' without making the statement regarding the reasoning why would be fine for an initial contact. My guess is this will likely be (partially) resolved by the end of the week - but that this whole thing has crushed WMC, and they'll never be able to recover from it.
Before someone climbs up my ass, I'm not saying 'affiliates don't need to know', I'm saying 'fix it and contend with it', without making the affiliate an unwitting party to what has nothing to do with them.