Marc,
Many of your points are valid, but just as you suggest there are many costs to running your event – just as there many costs to running an affiliate program and your suggestion that programs comp affiliates that are making $1k a month shows that your vantage point of on an affiliate program business is from Mars.
Look at the title and content of your posts on this thread – it’s nothing more than spam. There is no doubt that if an affiliate program posted similar self serving posts on this part of the forum they would be flamed off CAP. So why are you so special?