A number of mails were exchanged and they still didnt get that I was in the same position as them, looking for affiliates to work with, even after telling them. In the end I got this out of them…
Are they really trying to get me to advertise their brands to the players signed up at CWC and related brands?
Also this…
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Two things on this, I am now glad that they explained to me how the affiliate model works. I slept so much better last night as a result.
And secondly, do they expect that I sell their brands to our affiliates for them?
I would lay off the Meth buddy. :Bong:
I have to say you are not the first person to get one of these.. I get emails from other affiliate managers on a daily basis. I usually reply asking which site they found and some of them click immediately, but others just send me our RA domain then continue asking to be placed there.. I’ll play along 
Re PMs – being a “guest affiliate manager” I got so sick of the 10 PM limit (which includes sent items) so I just disabled the PM function. Don’t think I have ever spammed an affiliate through PM though, even when we were a certified member.
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Alex I would probably put them contacting you about Bingo down to the fact that they can’t see your signature to check if you promote Bingo and so are PMing you on a whim hoping that you do.
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What some of the aff managers fail to grasp is that those spam emails end up hurting their legitimate communications. The few spam emails that slip through my spam filter do end up marked as spam. When enough people do this – the spam filter marks all future email from that company as spam and a lot of affiliates end up not getting otherwise legitimate emails from their aff managers from that company.
I get emailed every day from affiliates asking for link exchanges or asking me to have a look at their site and give them opinions or ask me for sponsorship for a contest at their forum.. does that mean I can delete those since they are spam too?
Not trying to be offensive but in my opinion this view is a bit one sided. The nature of what we do must allow some kind of medium for contact. If not by email then how… by phone? I’m sure you’d prefer to receive one email that you can delete than a heap of phone calls.. noone likes phone calls and email is a less intrusive way to contact potential business partners.
If someone emails you asking to work with you and you told them that you don’t want to receive any emails from them anymore and they continue to SPAM you (notice how I used the word spam there) then I think that’s out of line. But one email, and if they remove you from the list when you tell them you are not interested, I don’t think that should be a problem. Of course if the person emailing you hasn’t even looked at your site then I think that gives reason to just delete.
IMO an email should be personal and contain the person’s first name if possible (of course there will be those cases when it’s not, but in that case as much info as possible would be best to show it’s not a mass spam email). I hate those harvested email spams too and I don’t blame you for being pissed at them.
On a side note a hint for affiliates – if you’re emailing an affiliate manager with a request such as one I noted above, and you want them to take you seriously, writing an email to a woman and addressing her as “Sir” is not going to get your email read. Take notice of the person you’re sending the email to. You may find you get more responses.
This is all my opinion.. Now I wait for the flaming :tongue: