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Originally posted by Brown Bear
How are they leading the industry in a positive direction? They're being FORCED to change their ways. That isn't leadership, it's called covering your ass so Visa doesn't bend them over and fuck them for good.
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BB, Visa only told the merchants that their ratio must be under 1%. Visa did not say "you must stop offering free trials, you must do this, you must do that".
Look at all of the threads here and on all of the webmaster boards of speculation about what the programs might do in order to be under 1%.
Silvercash and ARS were the first ones to step up, take responsibility, and say "We're making changes. We're dropping free trials, and we're lowering payouts."
It takes balls to do that. How many webmasters do you think are hard at work changing out their Silvercash and ARS links right now? They *will* lose webmasters and traffic due to this - most likely to CECash, which has announced it's going to do neither. (I see CECash getting slammed with TGP traffic very soon.)
Yes, the industry has needed it for a long time. Staying competitive with other large programs made it nearly impossible to do, because of the loss of webmasters and traffic you'd suffer.
These two programs are the FIRST to do it - and even though it needed to be done anyway, they still deserve huge kudos for being the first ones to step up to that line and say "we'll be responsible - who's going to follow us?"
Now if someone could just reassure me that the AVS model isn't going to go tits up or move to a fee-structured IPSP model within the next 6 months, I'd be so happy about everything that's happening tonight I'd be bouncing off of the walls. There are GOOD things coming in this industry for the folks who stick around. To those that are getting ready to take their ball and go home, hurry up and get out already! Flee the "sinking ship" while you can! (More traffic for the rest of us...) *evil grin*
BTW, Thank you, Marc!