Professor.
I did read that post – and it was the points you made about how active 888.con on the internet that convinced me that their “efforts” to clean this up are not genuine.
888.con are huge – they have the resources – they have the knowledge … they currently lack the desire to change things. Because these blackhat sites that 888.con are paying for only rank highly thanks to scraping and plagerising the hard work of top ranking affiliates.
Simply cut the CPA funding and the problem dies. 888.con do not have to find all of the sites – they just have to reverse track the affiliate accounts. These blackhat people are not doing it for fun – but for moolah.
No payment = no profit = no 888.con scrapers. It is that simple.
CAP’s influence so far has been zero.
In fact less than zero – because by being able to tout your certification about 888.con have trapped other affiliates into the business with a veneer of respectability.
That’s the component that I think you can change professor. CAP is a big legitimate affiliate connection – and by maintaining that 888.con are certified you lower that standard.
Now – am I saying “cut off communications”? No!
If 888.con want to regain certification then maintaining a forum presence and sorting out this issue should be pre-requisites to being re-certified.
I’m not “jumping on a soapbox” – I’m using an affiliate forum to communicate to other affiliates – after seeing a lot of rather suspect opinions attacking Greek39 for his posts.
You use a twist of rhetoric to belittle the discussion while taking issue with my description of Shelly as a “flunkie” .. and yet …
While Shelley may work in the 888.con affiliate area – given the listless responses so far and her complete lack of knowledge on internet practices and disragard the scale and operations of the scraping …
… it has appeared that it’s her job to come on once a week and apologise and stall. Either that or Shelley has not had the common sense to bone up on this matter or escalate this to someone who can deal to the situation.
That complete lack of real action earns the title of “flunkie” … we’ve all dealt with them in our corporate lives. And come on – Flunkie – it’s a pretty bland term that certainly wasn’t the harshest I could have chosen.
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Look, we’re all in this business to make some money. Legitimately, honestly.
And I’d have no problem with this company being number 1 due to having a top site, great customer service and a fine ethical affiliate operation.
But that doesn’t describe 888.con‘s internet presence at all – does it?
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Ah look – I’ve had enough – I don’t wish to alienate you Professor – or the people who put a lot of good work into CAP. It’s a fine site. But this tacit support of 888.con … well … it’s just wrong.
But – I’ll simply ignore the 888.con threads in future – it does my head in to see so many ostriches with their heads in the sand … and I can tell I’m annoying you lot posting about it.
Sorry guys and gals.
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