WEG Cash Closes Its Affiliate Program

[Fister]

"Today’s communication with our affiliates comes after much deliberation, as well as a heavy heart. After 10 years, and millions of dollars in affiliate payouts, Wegcash has decided that the continuation of the affiliate program is no longer sustainable. Therefore, we will no longer be accepting referrals effective May 21st, at 4PM PST.

The reasons, many of which are obvious to all of us, revolve around the decline in membership revenue. The continued proliferation of free adult videos has spawned a market which does not support an affiliate program. This communication should in no way be interpreted as an industry, political or ethical stance, nor should it be deemed dispiritedness; rather, we choose to look at this as a time to embrace the future.

While our company is closing one door, we are working steadfastly on new opportunities. While we could all engage in the revisionist history of "what ifs," events leading up to the current free tube models aren't negotiable; we are better served focusing on the future. We also feel that energy is better served realizing the true successes that our affiliate program brought to us, and to our thousands of wonderful affiliates (without whom we would never have achieved the success we did).

The gravity of this announcement is in no way lost on our company’s staff, from executives and programmers, to its owners. The Wegcash brand was conceived by two passionate and driven entrepreneurs. Throughout the years, its continued prosperity is attributable to the hard working staff members, past and present, who stayed late, came in early, and passionately put their heart and soul into the product. It is also very much attributable to the thousands of affiliates that entrusted our brand with their business.

While today undoubtedly is revealing in terms of the current market, it’s also the lore for the successful future.

Our sincerest thanks to each and every one of you for the past decade of fruition,

Wegcash."

Fortunately, I stopped emphasizing any WEG cash links about 1/2 year ago, so they have not recently been a significant revenue source. Spent a couple of hours removing links, all done!

WEG was a big straight adult sponsor, so this is big news. I sure hope my good gay sponsors keep their affiliate programs.

[Squirt]

more info on WEG Cash

I didn't trust them a couple years ago when I did a reverse IP on their server and found multiple CC processing storefronts. I believe they were big into hidden x sells too, another big no no on my list.

[Lee]

Yeah i got that email too, even though i stopped promoting them years ago.

Its always sad when a part of history disappears, like them or not, WEG have been around in the industry in one way, shape or form for many, many years.

Now, on the positive side, this is something we can all learn from, especially the program owners among us, be certain to check back at their sites over the coming few months and see how they monetize all that affiliate traffic they'll be getting for free from webmasters who dont change out all of their links.

I guarantee that even though WEG has closed its door, it will still be making money for months and years to come, 10+ years is a lot of affiliate links, with a lot of traffic to start playing with.

They will most likely end up redirecting that traffic to somewhere like CE Cash or one of the PPS programs paying out $40+ per join, they are going to make millions, upon millions of dollars for free over the next year or two, so long as they keep renewing their domain names.

Regards,

Lee

[Lee]

In related news, if anyone was promoting their 'Tube Style' tours, for gay traffic, shoot me over a PM and i can get you setup with a linking code through CCBill so you can start redirecting that traffic to our 50/50 revshare site at http://www.gaytubeaccess.com

Regards,

Lee

[HunkyLuke]

I did not realise all their dodgy issues until reading about the lawsuit plus all the comments on GFY, so not really sad about seeing them go now!

[Lee]

I did not realise all their dodgy issues until reading about the lawsuit plus all the comments on GFY, so not really sad about seeing them go now!

Oh yeah, WEG has a long history, as do their business owners and partners of dubious dealings of one description or another.

Regards,

Lee

[Gin]

Well, reading about them on different boards now i guess it's good i don't promote them

[GJ_Servers]

I think there willl probably be more fallout from other companies with this sort of business model.