I agree Aleph but I’m really surprised there are so many short-sighted programs out there.
Yes they got away with that; but I wonder how it compares over say a 3 year period?
where they don’t pay, you’ve got to figure after the first year they’ve pretty well burned their bridges with most of the higher producing affiliates which means the next two years are not going to see anywhere near what they made in the first year,
how much might they have stood to make say over a 3 yr period had they paid their affiliates and not shaved in any form?
I can’t believe the math would justify the shaving when you look at the big picture.
but then again I doubt most look at the big picture. Between the fact of greed, that some of these places are run basically by kids: I’d have to guess the big picture never enters anybody’s mind in many cases.