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Originally Posted by Forkbeard
If I built a bunch of promotional materials in 2008, those work for both of us, forever. A sponsor who even HINTS at the possibility that they might come along later and say "sorry, if you're not working hard for us this week, we won't honor your old work" is a sponsor whom nobody should promote.
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I agree with what you mentioned above.
The affiliate works very hard one year producing a few sales and the next year for whatever reason, illness, travelling, etc, you can not work any longer for Femjoy or can only work part time and they go and close your account and all your work, links, galleries are suddenly gone up in smoke.
If you no longer make sales it might not seem a huge amount, but that is not the point, traffic could rebound, sales can happen even with small traffic and a single customer with rebills can be as much as $500 to you, you would lose thousands of dollars in sales over the years.
You pay for your own domains, hosting and everything. Femjoy will not insure you or pay any kind of holidays or benefit other than a percentage of any sale you make, and now they come along as if you were a Femjoy employee that costs them lots of money and tell you to work harder, full time and better or you are out of the door.
I think that smaller bloggers know what to do, and Femjoy is fine with that. The decisive question will be if the big whale sites are going to agree with Femjoy's new terms and conditions. I can also see that if Femjoy loses half their affiliates, it will be easier to make sales for the remaining, but the risk of being kicked out for not selling is simply too high and Femjoy isn't going to be found by the surfers that easily.