Hi Chip.
here’s the thing… I don’t know about you ……but i been around 7 yrs.
Perhaps you can guess how many times i’ve heard
It is nothing more but a clause that can be used, its not actually stating it’s going to be used.
the status quo answer to that …. is ….. then why have it in there in the first place?
valid ….. no getting around it. Pretty simple really. The fact is ….. no program would have the players they gained from an aff. …. had that aff not sent those players. Where is the justification for the clause?
Its not like you stand to lose anything. We merely want paid for the deserved earnings (players) we have sent.
Quotas really have nothing to do with the matter. And its these kind of (and I mean no offense to you personally) …… “we’re not gonna use the clause” ……. terms …… that keep most veteran ….. meaning those with enough experience to know to avoid such things ….. from promoting a program.
What if i get sick? What if I for some reason or another fall out of grace with the SEs ….. takes sometimes months to get back to even small amounts of traffic. Does that mean I don’t deserve to be paid for the players I sent … that a program would other wise have never had …… ?
The arguement doesn’t hold water …. never has … never will.
what amazes me is programs ….. especially if they have an idea that you might be capable of sending big sized players ….. will drive an aff crazy trying to get them signed up and promoting …. but that said ….. aren’t obviously happy with what they get. Yet these are players that quite likely …. they’d never had recieved otherwise.
Its an insult to our intelligence. If i have a select few quality players as regular vistors …. reminding these gained over 7 years of accumulating the trust of these people … why would I ever be so stupid as to get them signed up at a place that can take all my deserved earnings away at any time I can’t produce a quota of players?
I have actually had at times in the past … paid people to sign up at a program to save all my investment …… I learned from that.
Do you take the chance and see whether the program will take that opportunity to cut you out? Or do you take aggressive action to save all those months….. perhaps years …. of gaining these player trusts …… to see it all taken away because you didn’t send a certain amount of players in month …. 2 months …. 3 months. Doesn’t matter. We sent them…. they wouldn’t be there otherwise…. what kind of justification is there for punishing us just because we had a bad month or two. .. or even three?
make it 5 years. Doesn’t matter. We sent the players. They’d otherwise not be there. Why is this so hard for programs to see the obvious logic when its so blatant to anybody not in the program’s position?
So there you have it. And the reason won’t promote anything with a quota .. because the truth is …. if you never plan on using it …. there’s no need for it to be there.
The trust gained by doing away with such terms …… trust me on this …. will more than make up for whatever ….. unknown to me … since its never planned to be used ….. reason there was for a program having such a term in their T&Cs anyway.
Nobody with a veteran experience in this industry signs up for such a program having that kind of term ….. not anybody with an eye on the long run….. the big picture.
I can’t imagine not seeing what you lose in comparison to what you gain ….. which since it will never be used .. being nothing to gain….. for reason for having such in terms ….. it only breeds distrust and frankly… most vet affs here been screwed around, burned .. had every kind of angle to screw us around thrown at us.
Why can’t programs just be upfront. Make the small effort … and give us no reason to have to question their motives? Trust me … we’ll always be trying to send players. There’s no need to pressure us like that.
Hope i made my point. hope at some time in the future … to hear your program did away with quotas in an attempt towards showing their dedication to treating their partners in a fair and honorable ….. without intimidation ….. mannner.
be really thrilled and ready to promote for you.