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Originally Posted by Jakez
Ok but I still don't understand how someone could be dumb enough to turn away money if they are closing it for financial reasons.. it doesn't cost anything to run revshare besides bandwidth. Like wegcash for example, I have typeins for one of their sites and went to grab some tools and they're closed, haven't they been around forever?
Has to be some kind of explanation.
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You know the answer....
They need money and are hurting. When they close an affiliate program the following happens:
1. they stop sending checks, which depending on their hold time it could be 3-4 weeks of affiliate payments they keep.
2. they get to make 100% now on all future rebills.
3. everyone who hadn't reached a min payout loses their money. you would be surprised how much this ads up for some companies.
4. many people don't notice the update and continue to send them traffic.
5. they continue to get a good bit of traffic from the 100000's of sites that were linking to them and some people forget or miss links when they go to swap it out.
It's a big cash infusion for them. Whether the owner needed it to pay his mortgage or loan on his nice sports cars or if they needed it to cover their business expenses. Either way its a bright neon sign that their ship is sinking. It's an exit strategy. When these companies are struggling to stay alive they don't give a fuck about their affiliates and how much their affiliate have made for them over the years. They are worrying about themselves and since they know they are going out of business they figure why continue to pay out when we can keep it.