Video Secrets / Policy Change & Lifetime Payouts
 

Over the past 8 days many of you were witness to a long and sometimes heated thread regarding our decision to suspend an affiliate account for lack of activity. Many of you disagreed with our policy and made your opinions quite clear. While we will continue to hope that sending an affiliate thousands of dollars a month warrants continued promotion we have decided to amend our Terms & Conditions in favor of a LIFETIME PAYOUT.

The affiliate in question will receive any and all monies that were withheld for the 7 months his account was in suspension. In addition, he will continue to receive his commissions on a monthly basis as long as the customer he referred continues to make purchases; regardless of whether he sends another click.

We have posted an amendment to our Terms & Conditions clearly stating that we will not suspend an account for lack of promotional activity.


http://www.videosecrets.com/terms.php (Section 6.4)

It has been said that decisions are always correct when you make them, but they can stop being correct soon thereafter. In this case it?s clear that what is in the best interest of Video Secrets, our thousands of performers and our affiliates is a policy which goes out of its way to pay affiliates for life.

We hope that those of you who made some very out of line personal attacks in the other threads will think twice before doing that again. There are always two sides to every controversy and while the wheels of progress sometimes move slowly we feel they have stopped on a positive outcome for all.

Back to Business. :thumbsup

Brad Estes
Manager of Operations
Video Secretes

Sig spot. LOL

Sigitus spoticus...

And good move guys...

Sig spot. LOL

:)

Nice to hear that

I'll read after reserving my sig spot. :)

Am afraid you are too late....

see sig.

It's very good of you to continue paying Chrome, and to amend your TOS, but I'm still wary of your company since this "positive outcome" took you so long to produce.

Wow, sig spot! That is awesome news for the affiliate that they had canceled.

Interesting development. I am glad the drama that is spreading across the boards was worked out.

way to step up and do the right thing A+ move

Good, i was waiting on this news.

Positive outcome, good to see.

crap, now i wish i had read those threads fully :upsidedow

way to save face

When an organization is as large as VideoSecrets with as many people in management as well as having vested interest, it will definitely make it move slower then a mom and pop organization. There are a lot more opinions to hear, a lot more discussion to have. I am not defending the time it took them to come to the conclusion, simply explaining it. I know Homegrown has taken much longer to move on some issues due to the same type of structure, so I can relate to their pain there. The important thing at the end of the day is that they did do the right thing, and it wasn't years later.

Good job.

Revshare for life should be for life.

Thank Goodness the little man prevailed for once.....

Now it's time to unban Chrome....

Better late then never :thumbsup

sig spot! cheers for that decision but I certainly hope the asshole got fired over that... VS must have lost lots of $ based on the Alexa drop!

congrats to the winners..everyone

As long as the end result is satisfactory.

They would of saved face with a quicker decison though.

This is good news

Nice to hear you and the affliate have sorted it out :thumbsup

That was the right thing to do.

Glad to see a thread like this.
WG

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might have had somethign to do with this outcome

sitting waiting for the 5 pager

:thumbsup:thumbsup:thumbsup

there you go chrome

good to see

Of course

Facts are always a eye opener :winkwink:

Bye Bye GFY it was a nice week

oh my ...lol

good move

Glad to see the situation being resolved:thumbsup

I'd say this had alot to do with it,

I understand your point, but I'm skeptical. I'm very, very skeptical. I really don't want to continue jabbing VS since they did the right thing, but I'm curious about how long it took them to create that official response to this thread where they tried to justify their tactics by placing the blame on the affiliate in question, by characterizing him as a freeloader who's undeserving of continued revshare from a "single click", as a belligerent man who berated VS employees after he was told he wouldn't receive the money he's owed.

Yes, what a positive outcome indeed for VS... being patted on the back for doing what they should have done in the first place. Excuse me while I break out the champagne and hookers.

Quite frankly, the real positive outcome from this was a group of united affiliates pushing for a compatriot. Everyone talks about how organizing individuals in this industry is like herding cats. Looks like a few cats were herded.

Good move on VS's part, better late than never, rah rah rah, enjoy the kudos fellas.

it is unfortunate an affiliate had to make a post on here in order to get it resolved but all's well that ends well I guess. :thumbsup

That's awesome! :thumbsup

:1orglaugh at that traffic chart.

Finally. I guess some pretty big players did indeed pull their links.

Now just for chrome to be unbanned and witness that he indeed did get the last x months check, since checks tend to be lost in mail.

We should start the Webmaster Syndicate and get all the scammers, shavers and the likes out there!

I'm very glad you guys did the right thing in the end .. I had a feeling you would .. Just wish it didn't have to go so far .. Good Job VS

thank god this is finished

LOL Thats Awesome

Ha, not only get them out there but make them feel the consequences of their actions. I can see a lot of interest amoung affiliates for a group where all members agree to pull links when any one of the other members is able to prove to the group that they were wronged in some way. If anyone knows of such a group or wants to start one, show me where to signup!

This was a no brainer from the beginning. Its almost more unbelievable how long it took them to come to this resolution and considering Brad's earlier responses.

I'm glad they did the right thing, but man...

This much is definitely true, but I'm sorry, after the initial responses in the first thread this comes off as nothing more than self preservation.

JFK, I totally agree. :thumbsup Looking forward to seeing Tim and Eddie in Vegas, you guys rock! J

There has always been a webmasters sydicate. :)