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Originally Posted by WarChild
A long time ago when I used to submit galleries I used to pay to get top listings all over the place (long before paying was the in thing to do). One specific site, a guy I actually know, was selling me spots 5-10 on his very large MGP site. One day I look at the site and realize that what he's doing is taking the 5 sponsors that I pay for top listings, knowing that if I'm paying they must be making sales, then making his own galleries and listing them in spots 1-5 right above mine. What a dick!
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I have been in a similar situation. Many years ago I used AFF on a lot of my galleries. After much trial and error I came up with a kick ass text ad that pulled hits like mad and converted like crazy. I started using it on my galleries. A month later half the TGPs I submitted to mysteriously had that exact same text ad on their sites. When I contacted them and asked them about it they said they got it from the sponsor banner page. Of course it wasn't in there and when I told them it was something I made for myself they either didn't respond or just told me they would make sure to give me good listings. Not long after conversions started to drop so I switched to a different sponsor.