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Originally posted by Marc De
Competition drove this industry where it is. Webmasters wanting more and more per sign up, webmaster programs pushing and pushing and trying to do all they could to achieve profitability while paying more and more. It was a self destructive situation that will hopefully begin to repair itself.
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I would call that one of the biggest bullshit statements I've read. To blame the WM's for using a program that offers more is daft. It is 110% the fault of the programs for deciding to have a porn version of the arms race and offering increasingly daft payouts. NOBODY forced them into it, instead they felt the need to keep trying to go just one better than the competition and screw everyone in the process.
Of course people will use the program that makes them the most $ at the end of the day. It is the program owners resposibility to make sure they don't offer them daft payouts in the first place. As an analogy...
Two car dealers selling new cars are competing next door to each other offering the same service and products. Joe public will obviously go to the cheapest dealer to get the car as they are almost identical in all other areas. Now - these dealers aren't too bright so for the next 12 months every so often one will slash the price and the other follows suit immediately for fear of losing business. After 12 months they are both selling cars for less than they cost and are basically in the shit. It's the customers fault for wanting the cheapest car? Of course not. They should have both had the sense to know when to call it a day and try to make money by offering better service etc rather than continuing a price war that just made everyone lose out at the end of the day.
This whole mess is due to many, many factors and at the end of the day may still not be a bad thing for those in this for the long haul. However all you see in posts are people on both sides spewing crap about it not being their fault, or it's caused because of XYZ and totally ignoring all the other very obvious facts. Nobody wants to take responsibility or admit that they may just possibly have been in part to blame which is amazing considering 95%+ of the people in this industry contributed to this shit one way or another.