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Originally Posted by Robbie
Maybe you're right for your situation. For me it IS personal. I shoot my own stuff personally. I take all the risks personally. I put in all the hours editing and uploading to my site personally.
So yeah, when someone steals it and monetizes it...it is very personal for me and any people who actually work their own sites from top to bottom.
But I can see what you're saying.
What I was suggesting is this: By doing what you are doing...it tells me that I'm wasting time as an affiliate of homegrown. Instead of playing by the rules, I should just steal your stuff. Use it to draw traffic. Monetize it like crazy.
I will not face any penalties. But instead...I will be rewarded by having you contact me and set up a great new business deal between us.
I'm not picking on you specifically. I'm just pointing out what I think is the flaw in your line of thinking on this.
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Yeah, or you could, say, stuff cookies to try and get sales to other offers, or do any number of things even affiliates try to get away with that are outside our terms and conditions. This is an imperfect universe and we all have to live with the reality that people try and fuck other people over any way possible and the people that get fucked over the most are people that actually believe, like we believe, that there are good honest people to work with, not just the dishonest ones that have to be reconciled in the best way possible.
The point is, whether you are an affiliate or not, our first inclination in all problems regarding our brand will be to try and work it out first so everyone is happy. If that doesn't work, well, we are one of the very few companies that when we say we are lawyering up - then people tend to take us very seriously.