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Originally Posted by babymaker
I can tell somethingis wrong just by email volume, my inbox used to just move like a stock ticker and now it is like on weekends it can have same email at top of stack for half the day, weekdays not much better, sponsors arent mailing promos, people dont even bother to spam, less and less offers of course way less sales emails lol. The end has been her just i got hit be for some of you but the end has been here for a bit except for the few mega corps that control everything now, there is no need for affiliates at all now.
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There are very few pure active affiliates left. And many that are left only send $xx-$xxx to any one sponsor at a time. I think many programs have started with a strategy of focusing on fellow paysites and mega affiliates only. Many still try to keep up appearances by having an ICQ contact or two but they are seldom staffed and they don't work much with smaller or medium sized affiliates. I suspect some set their shaves to minimize the commissions which are paid to affiliates and then they help themselves to whatever they can take from that affiliate. It's free money. That's the only reason they still keep their programs. They only want to keep up appearances at this point. The small sponsors left who still need you are themselves for the most part beholden to the 3rd party processors such as Ccbill, Verotel and Zombaio.