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Originally posted by Marc De
Adult Site Traffic - its a W9 and since you recieve money from us the IRS has made SPECIFIC requirements that we have W9's for everyone of our webmasters.
Its a simple form, you print it and fax it and you are all set 
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Yo Macdaady De;
I don't think anyone really has a problem with W9; but in my case my printer was down, I had the wrong version of Internet Explorer so acrobat reader would not install and I didn't know anyone who had all the needed tools to download the form.
So, I had to get a form mailed to me...just got it yesterday.
But not even being able to go to my account and download a new banner or get a linking code was like over kill. I mean if a webmaster really didn't want to do a W9 then they ain't gonna download more banners so it seemed unreasonable to webmasters that knew they were going to get the form in but need to do work right now.
Blocking your own promo materials was kind of self-defeating.
Anyway, the internal situation that led to the W9 in the first place is the work of bad accounting advice.
See I lease you ad space on the websites that I own on a pay per performance basis. I don't actually provide any service for you that is differrent then you buying an ad in a newspaper.
If you ran ads in the LA Times and asked them to do a W9 they would tell you to GFY.