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Originally Posted by Robbie
They closed the program. Not the sites. Why would they? They obviously are looking at numbers in their program that we aren't privvy to and decided that affiliates aren't profitable for them anymore.
I can see in our program that 2 years ago affiliates sent 80% of sales. Now they send about 10% and have no traffic. Everybody surfs pornhub these days in case you haven't checked alexa lately.
So no traffic, no new sales from them, and still paying out millions of dollars in rebills just stopped making sense to those companies.
You'd probably do the exact same thing in their shoes if it were your company. It happens all the time in the "real" world. Job losses happen all the time, especially in the current economy.
I have a feeling that lots more affiliate programs are gonna be shutting down soon. Sucks because I promote over 400 of them. And all of it is revshare for me. 
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I think you missed my point. I am talking about the sales that were generated by big affiliates. IE the big PPC guys, the mailers, the chat spammers, the media buyers.