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Originally Posted by V_RocKs
Can somebody explain this to me? I mean... Let's say I run a program and I have it as $35 PPS or 50% revshare... Now let's say times are getting tougher... but I am going to leave my sites open anyway...
Wouldn't it be smarter for me to tell everyone, Yo, I could close my affiliate program because I cannot afford to pay you $35 PPS or, I could leave it open and do 40% revshare and convert all accounts to revshare...
If you don't like it, stop promoting my sites... If you believe money is money and variety is key, keep promoting my sites. When times change we will re-install the old payouts... But for now, keep your links up.. or don't... But just know we care!
Now wouldn't that make sense? Legally we keep the old rebills at the old payouts on revshare...
Seems to me that'd make much more sense.
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Except affiliates require tools, affiliates get rebills even when they no longer have traffic, affiliates require support. In other words it costs money to run an affiliate program. And if any business has a part of it that is no longer profitable...they close it down.
A lot of programs can make more money these days buying spots on the handful of sites that DO still have traffic and stop losing money paying out affiliates.
Piracy has fucked the affiliate model in almost every way. First it took all of our traffic to a handful of big tubesites. And then it took away the need for people to pay for porn thus killing the few sales we might have been able to send with our reduced traffic.
In my humble opinion...when the govts. get together and do something about this stealing because of mainstream business complaining, then porn will be accidentally saved too and the affiliate model can work once again.