Simon,
Affiliate programs should not be doing things to raise affiliates blood pressure. It’s bad business.
Any changes made to terms and conditions should be for new affiliates who sign up after you change them. Meanwhile, you are changing your terms and conditions at a time when advertising sports betting is a risky thing. I for one stopped promoting sports altogether, however I have sent hundreds of players to you in the past. So your saying that I am an exception. Well that may be, for now. But what about 6 months from now when I haven’t sent you a player in 6 months. Then I just lose my income that I worked so hard to build up.
Also, what about those of us who depend on search terms, if we had a search term and lost it, we stop sending traffic, however we could regain that traffic again at some time in the future.
Also, checking stats on who is speaking up and talking about it publicly in the forum is amateur-ish. These people, like Simmo, are speaking up for the normal people in this industry who don’t give a shit about frequenting these forums.
The reality is, in an industry that has screwed over affiliates more than once, doing anything at a time like we’re in right now only makes you look highly suspicious and your explanation that writing $20 checks is costing you too much money is ridiculous to those of us that know you guys are making billions.