Sponsors who suspend webmasters for inactivity

[Toby]

In each of the cases where I had a sponsor close an account I had yet to send any traffic.

I'm also a CL affiliate. I promoted them at one time, several years ago, but they didn't convert for me and I've not sent them any traffic in ages, but my account is still active.

I believe that with CCBill if the affiliate account has been terminated the CCBill referal link redirects to an account closed message rather than to the sponsor tour. So the sponsor wouldn't be getting any residual benefit from orphaned links.

If I'm correct about the above, then it lends even more credence to the theory that they believe they are killing off surfer accounts. CL has been around long enough they should have figured a few things out by now, but the others in my case have all been fetish models with minimal promo tools and obviously little knowledge of what is really involved in running an affiliate program.