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Originally Posted by lagcam
Like most people here, I have no dog in this fight but I thought the matter had been resolved to the satisfaction of the people concerned?
It has been written many times here that you will always be on shaky ground as an affiliate using a domain with somebody else's trademark in it. Pretty much every company's terms state that they can change their terms when they want to. Fleshlight changed their terms. I don't think they did it just to get this guy's domain (whatever it was).
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Correct, they can change their terms at any time. No one is saying they "couldn't" do what they did, we just saying what they did was pretty shitty. After saying it was ok to do, they up and decided one day that you can't do it any more and your checks are no being held unless you transfer the ownership of the domain over. Not, shut down the site and we will pay you, but transfer the ownership of the domain over to us or we wont pay you.
Also, as I stated, they could have just as easily made a deal with him where he transfers ownership of the domain to them but they leave the site up with his affiliate id on it. Why wouldn't that be a fair option? They get the domain, they own it, no potential trade mark issues. He continues to make affiliate sales.
Like I said, we agree any company can up and change their TOS at any time. But the ones who do pull shit like this are the ones that people need to watch out for. Some sponsors pull crap like this, change their TOS and it fucks their affiliate, some sponsors never change their terms and never do anything to fuck their affiliates. We can't stop them from changing their TOS but we can make sure to point out who the companies are that do that to their affiliates.
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Originally Posted by lagcam
I know you thrive on negativity Will but why do you not consider how much money he made during the years he WAS able to use that domain? Without question, the word fleshlight being in the domain name will have helped his sales.
Didn't you use to use teamclickcash.com to promote clickcash? What happened with that?
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I guess you can say I "thrive" on negative just as much as you thrive on jumping into a lot of these types of threads to share your wisdom with everyone. /sarcasm to each his own lots of people post here for different reasons, for some reason people can't just accept after 8 years that I enjoy this just as much as you enjoy trying to sound like the smart guy, or Currently Sobber enjoys liking poo, paul enjoys listening to himself, other idiots enjoy arguing about politics all day.
I am sorry my posting style does not meet the approval of some of the people here. Perhaps I should spend more time in the "would you hit it" threads or arguing about politics instead of calling out sponsors who fuck affiliates. oh fucking well.
Since you care so much, I asked clickcash's permission before registering the domain. They said no problem. The website is still live. Hope that satisfies your curiosity.