Quote Originally Posted by Lee
There are actually a couple of legitimate reasons for doing that on the revshare model, the main one being 'testing' purposes, for example, Sponsor A has a 50% payout on their sites, they want to 'test' a new site before allowing their affiliates to promote it heavily, if that site doesnt convert on the traffic that the sponsor is being sent, they need to know about it and, work on the problem.
Why doesn't the sponsor ask me first if I mind they experiment with my traffic? You have no idea what my financial needs and obligations are, what if I absolutely need every dime that's coming in? And that's irrelevant anyway, I'm sending you traffic, you should pay me for everything I send you that generates a sale.

I mean a sponsor would be jumping all over my back if I were using their content to "test" out another program to see if I could make money at it. And if I were using a sponsors beautiful banners and sending the clicks somewhere else, I'm sure they wouldn't be too happy about it.

Seems to me if a sponsor treats a webmaster like crap, they'll just be getting screwed in the end by lots of webmasters. So if it's worth it to a sponsor to dick them around, I guess they might be get rich, but they'll be constantly looking for new webmasters to screw over.

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