Been doing this since the mid 90's and the past couple weeks has got to be a record breaker for us for shitty sales (iBill fiasco not included)..
Across the board on everything: Affiliate programs, clip stores, hard1ink sales, blog posts, you name it. Traffic and bandwidth are the same, just ratios suck.
And as if spending countless hours removing content from dozens of dead programs from sites wasn't bad enough, I keep getting Indian dudes who haggle with me forever wanting blog posts for a quarter and for me to write them, or they want permanent 1inks for 25 cents. The sad thing is, even though I know better, I waste an hour trying to get a reasonable price from them and in the end nada...
That shotgun I bought for December 21st, 2012 is looking absolutely delicious right now….. if only I could find some steak sauce.