while true (and lollerrific)- most times affiliates aren't emailing skeptical consumers back and forth with "I know it says you're rebilled- but dude- it's REALLY FREE - trust us and disregard the t's and c's those are just technicalities" several times.
Yet networks often tell affiliates very clear with said networks' technical terms of ability to not pay affiliate if not paid "traffic is great, send as much as you can - we have a prepay" only to then re-neg on this.
This is distinctly different in my eyes and goes back to what was previously said about the near inability to make a risk assessment since an affiliate isn't seeing both sides of the situation and is thus solely relying on network communication and network reputation/confidence/history.
Some small network not paying me b/c they didn't get paid on some obscure product and it's clearly in their T's and C's and we had no communication? Hey- that's part of the game, and I'm going to extend very limited amounts of credit in terms of ramping traffic and incurring costs.
Some network not paying me after numerous proactive communications from me asking about traffic quality, how solid the relationship with the advertiser is, and conference calls initiated by them to brainstorm pay bumps and media buys to hit quotas? We're gonna have real fucking problems even though I'm well aware of the technicalities.
That's a clear slap in the face.
