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Originally Posted by jscott
C'mon guys, you MUST show at least some respect for this, really Shane, is good for you to be doing this. 
Look at the may many many other fucks out there that weasel their way around not paying affiliates, some notable ones, Cash Overdrive, Aron Simpson, Jason Forrest, etc etc. |
Have any of them come back and asked you for your traffic again?
Paying people back IS the right thing to do. Giving the guy serious props for paying what he OWES to people? Yeah, not so much.
I notice freeones has a bunch of links up to Melissa Midwest. I'm guessing that's bringing him some nice traffic. Traffic I'm assuming he wouldn't have gotten had he not paid them. He's using THAT traffic to get funds to pay off lower tier affiliates. Once everyone is paid he should be making pretty decent money. There was a very self serving reason for him to pay people back in there somewhere I'm sure.
Had the guy had shown up out of the blue and handed freeones and/or everyone else their cash and walked away without asking any of them for anything in return, then the guy would have deserved the respect some of you are showing him.
The program has shut down before based on the "nature of the market and the acceptance for a solo girl site in today's marketplace"...
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The site is at a level where it no longer makes sense to sustain the operations of the affiliate program. No business lasts forever, and our time has finally come. I don't really think this should be a shock, given the nature of the market and the acceptance for a solo girl site in today's marketplace, particularly one as old as mine. There will be no more payments.
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What's to stop him from doing the exact same thing again this time once the site is rolling? I wasn't aware the "nature of the market or acceptance of a solo girl site" was better today than the day they decided "There will be no more payments". He's come to the well again and anyone sending him traffic is just asking for it to happen again. THIS time they deserve what they get.