@ zaraza – Bwin was a wonderful program. The problem is sometimes when a company becomes to popular and well established they feel they can adjust their marketing practices to gain more benefit at the cost of their advertisors. The idea here is – they feel they are strong enough that reducing % to 5% seems fair to them. It has to do with perception. They feel nothing is wrong and they are justified to offer this (of which they feel is very generous).
Yes it is a blunder and will significantly hurt them in the long haul. My only hope is they see this reality before more programs take on this idea thinking they can steam role affiliates. Once you have 10-20-30 affiliates programs doing this were in trouble.
We need to get on this and act fast and harsh – through the SERPS! I suggest researching everything you can on the forums, make an educated decision on the benfit vs gain of adding a program that will eventually in all likelyhood shut you out when they do not need you anymore.
Read siggy below – and decide for yourself!! If you feel strongly in support link to it!