I have a good personal reputation as a poster in some very very popular national internet forums, so I was able to bring in a lot of traffic to my current site from the the beginning without much any advertising at all – people just follow links in my signatures with curiosity. I have used less than $300 into advertising this far.
I wouldn´t rather publish my site yet here, because 1) It´s very very under construction contentwise, and I am not even a domain owner where it is located now 2) It is in foreign language to 99% to you, so you wouldn´t understand anything about it anyway. I have some strong content thou in it related to many aspects of online gambling, not just link/bannerfarm to online casinos. So that´s also a reason to rapid popularity I guess. I will move it to my own domain and translate it in english in the beginning of the new year when I have all the content I want ready, and I have hired some people to make graphical design and web platform for me. So then I can put link to it in international forums too 
But back to a question: How can affiliate program this big decide what kind of a users I will bring in (hundreds of them) in upcoming months, from the first ~20 users who happen to use my links? And even that´s okay for me if they don´t want me to promote them, but how they don´t even bother to email me about it?! In my opinion this is a very unprofessional manner to work with in this kind of a business.
I have had very good support and contact with affiliate managers with other groups I have decided to promote this far, so I hope this is just a rare occurance of bad business practice in this industry from this particular group.
EDIT: I am not chinese, I am from Europe and so are my users.