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ritto · 2006-06-13, 03:29 PM

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I'm not 100% sure on the history but this is the way I read it. One big avs company went a little strange and dumped most of its webmasters (together with their sites). Not very nice but then this kind of upheavel appens in other parts of the webmaster worlrd.

I remember a big adult sponsor(possibly ars but dont quote me on that), not an avs system, who did something that upset just about every webmaster that used them. And a mainstream affiliate network, currently doing something similiar (they have 2 letters in their name, the first is the letter c).

Basically shit happens, and its us webmasters who have to bare the brunt of the upheavels, be it changing all our linking codes or finding completely new sponsors to link our sites too (again, changing linking codes). I see no distinction with these upheavels, whether they be AVS, adult paysites, or mainstream.

The real answer is to not have all your eggs in one basket. Unfortunatly most of my income comes from the one source, and I'm not too happy about it. I'm trying to branch out just in case the shit hits the fan. I'm not expecting it but I dont want to remain vulnerable as I am just now.

I know you've been trying free sites and to be honest I think you should still stick at it. Do try AVS as well. I know which will be more successful and fufilling, both in the short and long term. Well, to be honest that will be the one that makes the most money :-)

To answer the original question. I dont see any potential for cheating within the avs system, or at least no more than with the other main route ie promoting adult paysites.

The references to visa go back a few years (or it feels that long). Visa suddenly didnt want to be associated with processing payments from adult sites. That left a lot of sponsors with a billing issue and there was a scramble to find new processing companies for the credit card transactions. I'm not positive but I think that meant a lot of webmasters suddenly lost a lot of their recurring customers, who were using a visa card for their monthly subscriptions.

That had a negative effect on both adult site sponsors as well as AVS systems.

I seem to be defending avs systems, lol. And why not. I'm a part-time webmaster and I just put $700 of cheques into the bank today - from my AVS sites

2006-06-13, 03:29 PM	#25
ritto Aw, Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless Join Date: May 2006 Location: Scotland Posts: 29	virgohippy I'm not 100% sure on the history but this is the way I read it. One big avs company went a little strange and dumped most of its webmasters (together with their sites). Not very nice but then this kind of upheavel appens in other parts of the webmaster worlrd. I remember a big adult sponsor(possibly ars but dont quote me on that), not an avs system, who did something that upset just about every webmaster that used them. And a mainstream affiliate network, currently doing something similiar (they have 2 letters in their name, the first is the letter c). Basically shit happens, and its us webmasters who have to bare the brunt of the upheavels, be it changing all our linking codes or finding completely new sponsors to link our sites too (again, changing linking codes). I see no distinction with these upheavels, whether they be AVS, adult paysites, or mainstream. The real answer is to not have all your eggs in one basket. Unfortunatly most of my income comes from the one source, and I'm not too happy about it. I'm trying to branch out just in case the shit hits the fan. I'm not expecting it but I dont want to remain vulnerable as I am just now. I know you've been trying free sites and to be honest I think you should still stick at it. Do try AVS as well. I know which will be more successful and fufilling, both in the short and long term. Well, to be honest that will be the one that makes the most money :-) To answer the original question. I dont see any potential for cheating within the avs system, or at least no more than with the other main route ie promoting adult paysites. The references to visa go back a few years (or it feels that long). Visa suddenly didnt want to be associated with processing payments from adult sites. That left a lot of sponsors with a billing issue and there was a scramble to find new processing companies for the credit card transactions. I'm not positive but I think that meant a lot of webmasters suddenly lost a lot of their recurring customers, who were using a visa card for their monthly subscriptions. That had a negative effect on both adult site sponsors as well as AVS systems. I seem to be defending avs systems, lol. And why not. I'm a part-time webmaster and I just put $700 of cheques into the bank today - from my AVS sites