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Originally Posted by cherrylula
I don't understand what you guys had to "iron out?"
If people brought their own tours, what was the problem in the first place?
live and learn, no use beating a dead horse as they say. :::guffaw:::
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That is correct ARS has lived and learned!
At the time, the problem wasn?t the tours. The problem was our partnerships and the billing company processing for us. We could not continue to process those sites anymore and had to shut them down in order to continue operation of ARS. If any of you faced the same decision you would have done the same. One option was to just shut down entirely, but knowing we wanted to bring a successful product to our webmasters, we had to make a very tough decision, but we dug in for our webmasters and took the heat. ARS had paid out multi millions to our webmasters and we wanted to continue to do that.
We came up with a solution that we felt would payout as much as the paysites to cover the gap. Unfortunately it did not go as well as we had planned. With our foots in our mouth we have certainly learned our lesson. We rebuilt from the ground up, using our OWN merchant account, and our OWN content. Then we added it to our already great webmaster system. We did what it took to remain in business throughout a poor situation. We know it wasn?t perfect, but this new BYOT program is.
We spent over $1.3 million dollars on domains and content to give you this new product that totally rocks. We have no intention of shutting this new BYOT program down. We have taken the steps to ensure its longevity. We would have not made such an investment unless we were sure it could thrive.
I understand that some of you can be upset about the old BYOT program shutting down. I would be too. But we have learned from that, and now put 100% back into a product that will make everyone happy, and this time we are in total control of the product.
I have total confidence in this product, and I know we can earn your trust back, ARS is solid again, and the past far behind us. Some of you seem a bit overboard a situation that is far behind us. All I ask is for a second chance from you nay-sayers, its time to make some serious money again, and you know it was ARS in the past doing it for you. We will always continue to listen to our webmasters and give 100% support throughout the years. ARS has always been about More Service, More Trust, More Money.