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tigeress1 · 03-01-2012, 12:21 PM

Not saying its right by any means- However lets take a short walk down memory lane for a minute here.. Back in the early 2000's affiliate marketing was coming into play , and if you were on the beginning of the band wagon, you did pretty good, however by 2005 things started changing, and scams started flowing. Owners were now requiring you to make a certain amount of sales and income before payment.Payout amounts went from 25.00 to 100.00, and the market was so saturated that no one was making money. Spammers and hackers were robbing people blind and no one was stopping them or helping the honest affiliate out, people were just fed up and walking away.Than came rapid-share and mega-upload and picture hosting sites, all willing to pay for traffic.. Ahh.. people said, we can no longer make money doing affiliate work so lets do it for ourselves, so theft was on the rise, people set out to teach the adult industry a lesson, and it was one they felt hard, and instead of doing RIGHT by the affiliates ( which they should of done to begin with) they instead cried fowl. Now , how much do you think they pocketed by those accounts that never made it to the 100.00 mark? The affiliate never saw it, yet, they still cry fowl. Did they do the right thing and pay them that money when they stopped affiliate work for them? The answer is NO. So lets say you made 50.00 and 2000 more people made that as well , theirs $100,000.00 dollars from just them they pocketed, and NEVER worked for. Or maybe you earned 75.00 and another 2000 people did as well, that's another $150,000.00 they got, mind ya I am working on the low end of affiliates who just gave up and moved on, and were never paid because they never made the "quota". You want to complain, yet you don't look at both sides of the coin. You want people to come back and work for you, do right by them, and alot of theft would end. People liked the money when it was good , but greed took over on both sides, like it or not theirs two sides to this problem, and were one.

03-01-2012, 12:21 PM
tigeress1 Registered User Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 25	Not saying its right by any means- However lets take a short walk down memory lane for a minute here.. Back in the early 2000's affiliate marketing was coming into play , and if you were on the beginning of the band wagon, you did pretty good, however by 2005 things started changing, and scams started flowing. Owners were now requiring you to make a certain amount of sales and income before payment.Payout amounts went from 25.00 to 100.00, and the market was so saturated that no one was making money. Spammers and hackers were robbing people blind and no one was stopping them or helping the honest affiliate out, people were just fed up and walking away.Than came rapid-share and mega-upload and picture hosting sites, all willing to pay for traffic.. Ahh.. people said, we can no longer make money doing affiliate work so lets do it for ourselves, so theft was on the rise, people set out to teach the adult industry a lesson, and it was one they felt hard, and instead of doing RIGHT by the affiliates ( which they should of done to begin with) they instead cried fowl. Now , how much do you think they pocketed by those accounts that never made it to the 100.00 mark? The affiliate never saw it, yet, they still cry fowl. Did they do the right thing and pay them that money when they stopped affiliate work for them? The answer is NO. So lets say you made 50.00 and 2000 more people made that as well , theirs $100,000.00 dollars from just them they pocketed, and NEVER worked for. Or maybe you earned 75.00 and another 2000 people did as well, that's another $150,000.00 they got, mind ya I am working on the low end of affiliates who just gave up and moved on, and were never paid because they never made the "quota". You want to complain, yet you don't look at both sides of the coin. You want people to come back and work for you, do right by them, and alot of theft would end. People liked the money when it was good , but greed took over on both sides, like it or not theirs two sides to this problem, and were one.