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Originally Posted by Blackcrow
This type of advertising is not really in the spirit of why we, as webmasters, pay affiliates. The idea is we pay affiliates to generate sales that we would otherwise not have, where as this cuts in to our organic sales.
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LOL.
You have just announced to smart affiliates everywhere to stay WAY the fuck away from you.
The "idea" is that you pay affiliates for their sales, period. You don't get to speculate about which sales you might have gotten if the affiliates didn't out-hustle you for them. If you've got an affiliate program, you accept the risk that affiliates may out-hustle you for sales. You don't get to say "we reserve the right to sit on our fat asses and let you make sales, and then speculate that we would have gotten them if you didn't."
Or rather, I suppose you do get the right to say that if you put it in your TOS, but you might as well brand "we are idiots" on your foreheads when you do it.
Oh, well, merry Christmas!