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Originally Posted by signupdamnit
That's how it used to be in Adult as well. I had one major sponsor (of old) "bounce" a check when they changed banks. He wrote me a check from his personal account and sent it via Fed Ex and volunteered to pay any additional fees. He was very apologetic about the whole thing.
Back then being an affiliate was more of a partnership. These days it's often more one way with the sponsor looking for every way they can to possibly screw you over and minimize you. The whole attitude has changed and it shows. 95% of programs by old standards are operating a scam on affiliates. But that's the old standards. It's very different now what is considered acceptable...
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It's always been my rule that a sponsor has to be
zealous about getting affiliates every penny owed. They are in a fiduciary relationship to affiliates and have an enormous field of opportunities to screw us without recourse; thus, to earn my trust, they need to take every visible opportunity to make certain that we get what's owed, down the the last cent.
LiveJasmin/AWE flunked that test with me years and years ago ... so long ago that I don't remember the details now. Pretty sure it had to do with cooky handling, or possibly their definition of "lifetime" for revshare purposes. No matter -- they've had waaay too many threads like this over the years for sensible affiliates to send them traffic. The thirty-five dollar lost check fee that affiliates eat, alone, is enough reason not to do business with them.
Bottom line: Affiliate funds belong to the affiliates. It's the sponsor's duty to get them into affiliate hands. If something goes wrong along the way, it's the sponsor's job to make it right. The affiliate didn't have control over how the money was sent, the affiliate shouldn't have to eat a bogus-huge fee when something goes wrong with the payment in transit. A sponsor who puts that cost on the affiliate is
NOT zealous about getting affiliates every penny of their money, is not to be trusted, and should not be dealt with.
This is affiliate business 101. There are still people who need to have this explained?