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Originally posted by jayeff
Every month hundreds of hosted galleries are taken offline and their URLs redirected. I doubt if I receive notice about more than 1 in 10. Similarly 2-3 sponsors change their processor or for some other reason require new referal codes. Maybe one-quarter notify their affiliates.
If you want to be generous, you could put things like that down to inefficiency and in some cases that is probably true. But in all cases? And how about the type of exit console that was designed not to maximise sales, but specifically to divert surfers away from the site to which they had been sent? They are not as popular now as in the past, but it didn't take them long to appear once the concept of "legitimate" consoles had been developed.
Smoke and mirrors are routinely employed in this business and we don't come close to having professional standards as the norm. Neither in the way we treat customers nor each other. The software "exposed" today isn't anything new: another program with the same facility appeared here earlier this year and that wasn't the first either. It simply defies reason that shaving does not go on: particularly since it can be so easy to do.
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This is what you get for sending traffic to fly by night operations. I would stick to the pillars of the industry, and send any left over traffic to yourself. Programs pop up every day, you should be very careful who you do business with. Just like in any other form of business.