Ok, I admit I only skimmed through from page 3-4 of this thread. It's late here and this thread managed to piss me off.

To quote Lee: "No, i think pretty much all affiliates are lazy and over-paid." Well, thank you, dear, that's very nice of you to say. I guess it's nice to know that a sponsor I promote thinks that way about me. Same for Corbin Fisher, whom I have joined no more than two weeks ago, right? Brian, kindly tell me why in all our emails between us you never mentioned the fact that you're about to pull the rug from under the work I do? And no, I am probably not sending CF bundles of traffic, so I'm pretty sure I'll be among the cut off 1300 webmasters. If that's the case, why take on new affiliates?

You think my time is worthless or what? I do some RSS feed blogs, but hey, those take time to build too, believe it or not, and mostly to promote. I also do "quality" blogs with my own posts. Know what, why do I even have to apologize to you guys for the way I am promoting your sites or creating traffic? I work hard, ok? my hour is as good as your hour, even if you don't seem to think so. I worked my ass off for over a year now, in adult, to get to the point where I send 5000 clicks a day to sponsors. Guess what, many of those sponsors convert like shit, wasting away my efforts. Maybe they shave, maybe they don't, I don't know. All I know is that when I work in mainstream, I make a whole lot more of money from a similar amount of traffic.

You only see this from your point of view as a program owner, obviously. Try looking it from our side, see how much time and effort is put into this by us. And screw those FHG's and banners and stuff. I never ever asked a sponsor for any of those. All I'm looking for is an honest sponsor with a good product, that actually converts. A sponsor that won't cheat me, won't shave, won't have leaks in his tour. Doesn't sound like much, I know, but not that easy to find, believe it or not.

What can I say, I'm glad I found out about the plans at Corbin Fisher now, before I put up too many links or invested too many hours of work into promoting your sites. I apologize for being just a humble affiliate, a work from home mom who doesn't attend conventions and conferences and is out of the social loop. I just focus on promoting sites honestly and fairly, and with a lot of hard work, see. I just expected a sponsor to be fair enough as to not take on new affiliates without telling them they're about to be kicked out of the program very soon. :thumbsdown:

I have yet to meet an affiliate who makes a bundle of cash without working very hard at it. Are there lazy affiliates/webmasters out there? sure, but they don't end up making much money. Go browse some boards where you have fewer sponsors and more affiliates and you'll see how much affiliates actually make, and how hard it is to make enough money per hour in this biz as an affiliate. I don't usually post harshly, but the tone used by some sponsors in this thread is downright insulting.