If we arbitrarily dump all the programs who lessen affiliate incentives by implementing negative carry-over or by bundling what might happen to the business climate? (Obviously it’ll be the smaller programs forced into this first).
Many affiliate programs/casinos would likely go belly up or taken over by a small group of large affiliate programs/casinos, leaving us with a small handfull of programs to choose from – something of a monopoly?
What then? How healthy is the gambling affiliate business going to be when there is something of a monopoly…
Anybody here who has experience in other industries will attest to the fact that monopolies are not good for our bank accounts. They can lessen commission percentages, etc., without worrying the competition will scoop up affilite website space as a result.
It’s competition for our website space that brought us such lucritive incentives in the first place…
Fergie, I applaud your effort to see both sides of the coin, but you would be doing yourself a solid if you did what was best for your business at the current time, and just reacted accordingly as things evolve. Think of it like a poker game, they might have pocket aces, yet trying to make you think they are weak. They also might have 2-7, and are trying to buy the pot, thats up to you to decide and make a good read. It just seems in reading your posts that you have no doubt that this is just to survive, and I would just caution the credence you give to moves done by programs. I am not saying your wrong, because I don’t know either, just that if you believe everything done by programs is in the interest of survival, or even in the interest of affiliates, you will cost yourself money, no matter what business you are in.