Do you even know what the fuck happened? The old sites were never ARS sites to begin with, they were simply marketing them for GIM. Once they severed their relationship with GIM they could no longer market those sites and had to produce their own. They didn't fuck over anyone, they gave plenty of notice as to when their contract was up with GIM and affiliates would no longer be able to market them. Funny how you are scolding others for not knowing what they are talking about when you seem completely clueless on the situation.

Bullshit, they gave over 2 months notice to their webmasters as to when they would no longer be paying on the old GIM sites.

They received over 300k in orders after they reopened their new rewards store and are working their way through the orders.

amen

at least someone knows whats going on and doesn't just post bullshit on a msg board for sig views...

I must have missed the email that said "we are going to feed our new ppc engine with all your existing links and pay you pennies for your traffic"

Sounds like you have not been around too long if you think that is where the timeline really starts for those sites and their relationship to each other.

Been with ARS since the beginning and am fully aware of their relationship with GIM, where did I talk about their history timeline in my previous post?

I dont care if they were marketing sites for GIM or Pope John Paul II. That doesnt change the fact that they made a business decision which screwed over thousands of webmasters. Do you think webmasters that built 100's of AVS sites, 100's of TGP galleries, 100's of free site galleries promoting ARS websites did not feel like they were screwed over once they heard the news that ARS was shutting down all their old sites? I cant believe you have the nerve to say "They didnt fuck over anyone".

My checks are always on time!

they didn't convert anyways, who cares. the GIM sites were so 2001

50 order delays...

For the last time, they weren't ARS sites to shut down, they severed their relationship with GIM and GIM regained control of marketing for their sites. Companies have to make decisions to stay profitable and secure long term stability. ARS had to make changes in order to survive, yet you feel they should have just continued on their current path soley for the sake of not upsetting webmasters who didn't want to change out their links? Your narrowminded view of business suggests that programs should just continue on their merry way do whatever is absolutely best for their webmasters completely disregarding any obligaton to remain profitable. ARS old model had become very unprofitable and changes needed to occur in order to survive. They gave plenty of warning of the upcoming changes and their webmasters had plenty of time to swap out their links. So tell me again how they fucked over all their webmasters?