Originally Posted by Cyndalie

Affiliate "Whales" are most often now other businesses and it's usually tit for tat on that. As far as piggybacking sales and cross promoting every industry does it, not just adult. Magazines, mail order, even ebay has checkboxes to donate to charities when you list your auction trying to get you to give money away before you even earn it. Every try to cancel a book or music club thing, or how about those 'get a free xbox' promos you see everywhere (its free after you buy $500 worth of shit and 'free' subscriptions sure). Every sales form has prechecked 'promo' or newsletter boxes no matter where you buy from, consumers are used to seeing prechecks in one form or another. Sure there are some bad business practices going on but mostly it's just capitalizing on sales and perfectly legit.