Post 43 of the thread:


The term "whale" pertains to signups, not mass traffic.

My question is, why isn't the affiliate in question on these threads defending his own position? You'd think if his account with Paul was valuable he would be telling his side of the deal, no? (instead of you lot)

I never said that I agree with what Paul has done. But the fact is it IS his site, and he can do whatever he wants with it. If he wants to take it down and burn all his content that's within his right to do so, for example.

I don't know of the program out there that has a TOS that gives affiliates any legal right of claim on how the program is run or how they are treated etc. Most programs will can an affiliate or suspend their account if they think the affiliate is up to no good or something is wrong with the way they send traffic. ALL of those that I deal with will at least listen to your side of it and work with you to make things right. Paul seems willing to do this.

The other guy doesn't seem to be talking much.

Keep emailing & calling the dude....should be interesting to see how this turns out.

If the dude is sending non-converting traffic then offer him some help.
Maybe teach him how to filter it better...
Being a nice guy will get you farther and only improve your biz and rep. :thumbsup

...anyways i hope it all works out for you.

If it's about the ethics then why aren't all you guys in the completely misleading and dubious Naughty America contest thread?

I don't know anything about Paul Markham or his sites but this thread seems a little bit baited and unnecessary...There is real crap to deal with on GFY just a few clicks away...

See the rest of the (my) post. Again, where did I say this particular guy was/is a whale? I'll save you the bother - I didn't.

I have to say that as an affiliate I'd be pretty pissed off if someone rang my day job (not that I have one)... Regardless of what they were calling about, that would be grounds enough to can a sponsor.