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Originally Posted by Mutt
How would you feel if you owned a hardware store, you worked years building up your clientele and reputation, you spend money advertising it - when your customers are in your store and checking out a product out of nowhere an interloper representing your competition jumps into his face and tells him there's another product, it's better and it's cheaper and he'll drive him over to
the competition? I guarantee you that anybody would kick the shit out of the interloper. On the Internet you have no way of doing anything about it - you are powerless - you have to stand there and watch your customers be taken away right out of your store.
As time goes by and this dirty business tactic gets more popular then you really will have people forced into doing the same thing or they will lose their business completely.
Right now Zango hasn't penetrated far enough to hurt anybody's bottom line substantially - when there are 10 Zango's out there it will. People right now are just outraged about the principal of the thing and scared of what happens when the problem grows larger and I don't see any reason why it won't get larger when you have companies like AFF making it a very profitable business for Zango.
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Great sum-up. For all of you people saying, its only a small amount of sales lost, you need to read this again and try looking a little into the future. The problem is not going to go away. It is only going to get worst.
Fact: if enough affiliates leave the companies who accept this traffic then the company will stop doing business with shitware, it will cost them more then it is making them. These companies need to protect their own fucking trademarks. Why trademark something if you are not going to protect it.
Then which ever rouge companies continue to use zango, or other shitware programs, then all of us (sponsors included) go after them and the shitware companies, united.
That's the plan, someone get AFF on board to lead the way.
We also try to educate the surfers along the way.
Anyone else have any suggestions on a better plan ?