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Originally Posted by nation-x
No... you are right... I wouldn't steal from the affiliate either (on purpose). That said... Dirty D has been around for years and paid affiliates plenty of money... some of the shit that people are calling him in this thread is totally undue. Shoehorn has been an affiliate long enough to know that lots of programs don't allow it and Dirty D may not have noticed it right away or chosen to give him a warning without terminating him. It's kind of a common sense thing from my perspective... I don't bid on adwords like this because I KNOW that is generally not acceptable... especially if I am sending directly to the tour and not to a landing page.
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I think the issue here though is you are thinking how YOU would have handled the situation; just as if I had been in the situation, I likely would have asked if my planned methods were fine before promoting the program.
Here though, you must put yourselves in the shoes of someone else; if Shoehorn (obviously) didn't think what he bid on was even a possible potential problem, and it's clearly not against the terms, he went ahead and promoted the site and should be paid for his efforts as he violated no rules.
I do think that from this thread though, a lot more people will now ask a program first before starting any PPC campaigns
