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Originally posted by crockett
SinEmpire, with all do respect you can never "know" your sponsor. This is the Internet we can only "know" a very limited amount about the people we do business with. Just because you go to a big convention party's every few months and they get you drunk, doesn't mean they aren't shaving you silly when they get home.
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Hey, I never said it was easy to know your sponsors. I understand your frustration, we all have it because even us affiliate programs are still affiliates for other programs too. Every backend can be made to shave, even those programs that use only a 3rd party billing company can shave.
My point is that any program is only as good and honest as it's owners. You have to put everything in perspective with MPA2, when it came out it was unique with the rich selection of features - the single most robust software platform out there. So, shaving aside, it was one of the best systems a sponsor had to choose from at that time to serve their program. I looked at everything else out there and when I first got it there wasn't even a close second in terms of performance, functionality and value.
Today, the landscape is different. There are a multitude of affiliate program back-ends and so there is much more out there to choose from. I think that competition in that sectore has raised the bar and because of that there are some superior options in the marketplace right now. I'm looking forward to having my installation upgraded to MPA3. The whole clicktruth plug-in sounds pretty interesting so with some more research I might decide to add it. However, I don't seem to have the credibility issues that some sponsors have so I don't think it would benefit me very much.
Cheers,
Brad