@Dominique 248878 wrote:
I haven’t hear one solution for that from you yet. What do you suggest?
Really!
I thought I made my observations and suggestions pretty damn obvious. But for your benefit, here is the non sugar coated version. Strap yourself in 
The majority of affiliates are 1 person operations with varying degrees of success.
However before our affiliate industry can return to square one it needs a good suppository to clean out the cr#p, which has been allowed to infiltrate and dictate their rules forged to feather their own nests.
GamblingGuru hit the nail on the head, “It’s like speaking to wise guys with dollars signs in their greedy eyes“. That btw, was direct to the GPWA.
Super affiliates etc etc can look after themselves.
But it’s the smaller affiliates who power these associations & or affiliate watchdog sites. If these places are incapable of keeping their affiliate members informed about risks to their livelihood, then what the hell are people supporting them for!
When an association or watchdog gives an affiliate program a seal, it also gives that program credence. And, if that program goes bad or it fails to pay its affiliates on time or any other issues which may develop, that association, in fairness to its members, should be all over the programs backside.
And do it in public threads where all affiliates are kept in the loop.
But that rarely happens. Or if it does, by the time any action is taken, it’s way too late.
Instead, sponsor programs are given carte blanche and affiliates; who these associations & watchdogs would be ghost towns without these members, sit on their hands and do nothing.
It’s the affiliate members of these associations etc etc who get $crewed every time.
Stories fly around that breaching or blacklisting doesn’t work. Well that’s just propaganda BS. Probably initiated by those who want to guarantee their fingers remain firmly planted in all their pies.
As an example, Commission365 sponsored of the AWAA.
In April 2011 payments to both affiliates and players were being stalled and far exceeding their T&C’s. I tried to work it out with them but nothing changed, just more broken promises. So I was left with no other alternative but to breach them in accordance to our Fair Practices Policy.
A mere ten (10) days later everything was fixed up, and the AWAA lifted the breach. However until that point, until they were breached, none of the issues were rectified.
Obviously the AWAA has an impact when I either breach, issues warnings or blacklist. Within a few days of these being listed in Google, an email arrives asking how to get off our negative listings!
When associations and watchdogs use catch cries along the lines of holding affiliates interest first, yet demonstrate a complete opposite, anyone who sees this as being OK surely must hold a vested interest in this status qou being maintained.
Until these attitudes are changed and reiterating, the cr#p is driven out of our industry, we’ll continue to see affiliates being burnt, and the powers that be looking the other way when sh#t hits the fan, in relation to the dodgy programs they give credence to.