Kudos to to Greg on this one, not many people would post this, not from my side of the fence anyhow but you did the right thing. By posting it the facts came to light about the intentions of certain individuals who try and make business a chore. It’s possible to work on deals with your affiliate manager by talking to them as you would to any other human being, with respect I would say you tend to get more out of the partnership if its a 2 way thing.
Sometimes when people think they have something their assumed sense of power goes to their head and they turn all Gordon Ramsey on you, not the way to do business in my book from either side.
I am glad for one this has been raised as it does show some of the factors that we have to deal with from a management point of view, sometimes (in the early days mostly) emails like this can really affect the confidence of affiliate managers and could start to bring in doubts as to how they think they are performing on a whole. Greg has obviously pondered on this and got no answers from himself and done the right thing and posted about it and came to this forum with a smashing reply!
Good work.
M