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Originally Posted by tonyparra
Sponsor thinking: "Hmmm how can i fix this?"
Lawyer answer: "Its easy dcma affiliates using your name to promote you, and for the other get so unreliable with your payouts that they will just drop you. That way, you can have the rebills and you wont have to compete with those pesky affiliates for top 10 spots on the search engines, or answer those time consuming emails. Most of them will not have any legal recourse to get their monies anyways...Oh and the torrents and tubes will get the other 9 spots but dont worry with all the extra revenue you get you can still pay me and your hosting bill. My bill is in the mail."
Sponsor: "That sounds great will do i sign?"
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I'd laugh if it weren't so sad. Actually I think a lot of the screwing of affiliates and taking rebills has more to do with survival and being the low hanging fruit. When you need that money to survive it's tempting to tell affiliates to fuck off and justify stealing their rebills. It's the short term way to survive anyway but it wouldn't be necessary if you had a clue instead on how to run a real legitimate long term business.
I'm going to be very raw here. I'm not a mensa member myself but this industry is filled with idiots. On one end you have sponsors who have zero business sense and operate like used car salesmen or those involved in some kind of ponzi scheme. On the other end you have stupid, naive, and gullible affiliates who don't have a clue about anything. The two feed off of one another. The exceptions are few and far between and the industry as a whole is now paying for it.