Too funny!
Affiliates are to pay for the privilege of spending their time building sites and getting them in the SERPS and buying ads and doing whatever all each individual does, without any guarantee of income unless they make even more money for the room. All this with no sick pay, no insurance, no retirement and – well, really absolutely nothing except getting a share of the money they make for the poker room.
Try to get a brick and mortar salesforce to agree to that.
Well, you do have door to door sales people still I think, and they do pay for the merchandise they sell, but then there is actual merchandise they can touch….
I would NEVER partner with a program that has so little regard for my work.