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Originally Posted by TheDoc
You can try to relate it, but at the end of the day Motor trend isn't being paid for the review, making commissions from it or taking any payment directly for the review. When they advertise they get permission to use the trademarks in the ad, when they write a review they get different permission.
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Well livereviews might have an affiliate link, but after giving a shitty review who is really going to join that site? If the program owner contacts them and says your method of advertising violates our TOS, it's no big loss for livereviews. Like I said they can just recommend a similar site on the review page.
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If a paysite tells you to take the review down and/or change information, the review site has no choice. Yeah, they could leave some trash review up and even link up....
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Like I said, it doesn't really hurt the review site. If they were concerned with sales with that program they wouldn't be writing a bad review. In fact I think it would even be in their best interest to not even use the affiliate program and just link to a better program.
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...but it's rather easy to redirect traffic. And think if they are ever wrong or mistaken, if the program wasn't responsible for the fraud but maybe your bank had a leak, and you accused a program of fraud or a host got hacked. IE: No fraud that is the program or paysites fault.
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And seriously, what are the odds of that? A brand new credit card being banged coincidentally after signing up for a porn site?
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We already know people in our Industry will sue for hurting the brand/image, quickly.... I have, and would do it again.
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If I owned livereviews I would say bring it on.
I commend them for standing up against piece of shit program owners that are destroying this business. They are not writing derogatory comments, they aren't out to harm a brand or image, they are simply posting honest reviews of what to expect after joining a paysite.
A.) Pre-checked Cross sales.
B.) Spam
C.) Fraud
Let the piece of shit program owners sue for being called out on their shady practices then. Odds are they won't though. If they are indeed spamming and banging cards it could open up an investigation.
Spam without an opt out link is illegal
Obviously banging credit cards is illegal and can easily be investigated.