Damage control..... Sorry, I've been away from this discussion for some hours - the last Ninja and immidiate removal of 351 TGP spots that had a Sunnydollars gallery.
Then suddenly my internal productivity raised again significantly - I got suspicious couple a days ago when I noticed my productivity was rapidly descenting.
From that point, I claim that the SCAM practice from Sunnydollars seriously WILL damage any honest TGP, and surely - the inflicted surfers will NEVER want to visit your site again.
Btw: My conversions come from all over the world, not just from the US. Fact. Actually, you have seriously damaged my income and my site's reputation for - how many days did you say this shit has been going on?? Let's say four days, from what my prod. stats say.
CAn I just send you a bill for my lost income during your (quote
"testing period" ?
Let's say you send me 1500 $ for your four days of bad practice, covering my lost traffic and lost revenue due to YOUR fucking dialer testing - this I have never accepted in the first place - and certainly I NEVER would, if you had asked me - which is probably why you didn't, right ;)
Setting things traight: What I experienced randomly testing my galleries - Sunnydollars galleries automacitally loads a page that starts a traditional WIndows autodownload warning:
"Do you want to install end run this...?"
It installs a dialer from Tawte.CA and Holistyc Limited.
When you reject this, a new window pops up saying "you MUST install this software - press OK"
And this circus will loop itself. I had to boot my Explorer, exactly as all my foreign surfers had to - for probably four days.
Appx. 45% of my traffic is foreign - so 45% of my surfers are LOST during the four days thanks to YOU. So I would just like to see you cover MY expenses for YOUR dialer shit testing going on from my site without my knowlegde.
Should this practice really become acceptable in this industry???
Is it ever acceptable - under ANY circumstance - for an affiliate program without notice to change policy and start redirecting YOUR surfers from YOUR site to a fucking dialer site and a malicious looping auto download program??
My opinion? This is bad practice, bad business & bad karma.
Sincerely
Pete