Originally Posted by signupdamnit

That and fraud is pretty rampant (on both sides). In mainstream it's fairly common to hear stories about the company taking the leads you supply and then canceling them and taking the order over the phone in order to avoid having to pay you commission. It's the same with all the stories about people making thousands only to one day have it cut off just like a switch was thrown.

The truth I think is that in order to make a lot as an affiliate in most cases there needs to be favorable conditions for it where the company NEEDS you badly. All too often these companies don't feel they need the affiliates (let's just direct market instead, etc) so it's easy to fuck affiliates and say "so what?" if they catch on and threaten to walk. It's the difference with adult now too. A lot of these (bigger) companies if you notice just don't give a shit about an affiliate sending them a couple hundred or thousand clicks a day. They have these partnerships with the tubes or their own tubes. They don't care.

When it's your own thing you don't have to worry about any of that crap.