Lou did work hard and he does deserve to get paid. I do use CAP as a guideline along with my own experience, and I do click on CAP ads to support the community. CAP has to be profitable like any other business, but it also has a mission and Lou has always kept that in view. CAP is an affiliate community. We support each other and help each other, and in adversity we stick together. We stick up for each other when the chips fall. I have been loyal to CAP since it’s inception, when it was just a fairly quiet message board, and that is why. I have given countless hours of my time to CAP, and CAP has given me a voice and has been instrumental in keeping the industry clean and a pleasure to do business in.
A few years ago we fought long and hard because some programs changed T&Cs retroactively. Some programs took months to see that they would lose and not profit as a result of such behavior. But every single one came around and changed things back for existing affiliates. Without CAP, without a strong community, we would be screwed.
Very very true! Without CAP we would not be here debating this right now, and hopefully good will come from this thread as it has in the past, and like CPA said most of us built ourselves from the ground up and all the while maintained our INTGRITY.
Let’s not forget that it is not the job of the affiliate to maintain the player base we send to the programs, once we have driven that newbie to the casino it is their job to do good player retention.