some excellent points Dom that I didn’t think of …
I would think that at least an email (Bulk) could be sent out saying look in your stockings the next day or two . … Santa’s about to visit.
Another method might be that since our accounts are password protected .. some place inside our accounts a note could be made of what name to look for ?
I guess I don’t have the answers ….thought I did. But I know its costing programs …. mostly those that don’t pay on time (which hurts them bigtime anyway) … especially those that are months behind … to find a way to let us know we were paid.
I can’t understand english with foreign accents very well but I could sure get by good enough if I got a phone call saying this is Sally … (and if we didn’t know the aff managers/assist manager’s name we’d sure enough catch on quick enough with a couple of posts from them) … calling and saying payments went out today/ we have addressed your needs ……. hell tell me the red goose has flown the coop … 
something so that I can give credit where due and not be accidently punishing programs that had paid but I couldn’t put 2 + 2 together.
I’m very adamant and fast on the draw when it comes to taking down links of programs that don’t produce or don’t pay. Every other aff should be the same because it’ll stop a lot of non-sense we put up with every single month.
We get treated like that nephew that lives across the country ….. ya we might get our birthday present but it’ll arrive when it gets there and without notice to look for it other than knowing we are owed.
Way too many programs don’t pay the dates they claim on their sites …. and I’ve no real problem with it being a little late but my concern is that I’m taking down links to sites that ARE paying but I’m missing the connection.
many of us have many different programs listed and it truly is a nightmare (at least for me) to figure out wire transfers ….. like I mentioned eco card is rather easy and those programs that pay me thru there … are currently enjoying better exposure even if the money made is similar to that I might have got from a program using wire transfer.
well I guess i don’t have the answer but surely this bunch of very intelligent affs can figure out a way and then pass it along to these programs that obviously have not ….. probably even bothered to think of a way to notify us or give us some kind of clue are payments are coming in.
for me … its not hard about the programs that don’t pay. If I think they didn’t …. they get yanked and damn quick.
But it bugs me like when for instance you enter the thread about Vegas Affs and see about half the people saying they got paid …. and the other half saying not – that I might have taken them down when in fact had been paid.
No easy answer apparently and I appreciate your very valid points.