Originally Posted by fuzebox

Affiliates need to accept that programs can and will do what they want. If they have traffic leaks, they clearly don't really care about you. If you have preconceptions about how "revshare should work" because in the past programs you have worked with operated this way, it's not relevant today. The only thing you can do about it is choose to send them traffic or not. The nice thing about that is that there are plenty (too many?) programs to choose from, and hell, starting your own paysite/program is extremely easy and affordable.

What Relentless is trying to say is that the only control you have is to send traffic or not to send traffic. Starting a thread on GFY isn't going to do anything but suck everyone's productivity. Tomorrow ReallyUseful is still going to be running his promo popup and his xsales. You can take it or leave it.

Anecdote: I recently tried a dating sponsor on a PPS basis. Like all dating sponsors, I signed up for a free account to analyse their mailing schedule and test their inboxing. These guys were pushing all sorts of offers to the free member, a lot of which weren't for the premium upsell. I immediately contacted my rep, and he offered me a fair PPL rate to accommodate the leaks. EPC was better but still not as good as another program I was split testing, so I moved on. Their business model is paying affiliates for their traffic and monetizing it however they can. Mine is squeezing every last cent out of my EPC. No harm, no foul.