Best thing to do when a sponsor goes belly up or just stops paying?

[terry]

As a gallery submitter my action or reaction depends on what happens with the sponsor. If they just close down and I never hear from them, then I just swap out the linking code to another site - I switch it up between my own sites, dating links, a similar site etc. This was the gallery doesnt go down and nobody gets pissed at me.

I have a sponsor that currently owes me over 20k and all I have done is swap out root pages to similar niche sites. All of my galleries are still active and that fucking sponsor is still making sales off me. I have recently come to realize that I will never see this money and I am thinking about just swapping the links and dealing with whatever happens when it happens. If they hit me with a dmca then i'll swap everything back while I work on 404'ing it.

[RedCherry]

This makes me really glad that 98% of the galleries and free sites I submit are for my own sites.

I 404 everything I can find on link lists, but I'm sure I have old free sites out there from 10 years ago that have defunct links on them, its just been so many years since I built anything but for a handful of sponsors other than my own sites, and they are all still active, it isn't worth the bother.

I do know I went and changed out a ton of links when pro adult went under, since I had promoted them heavily, and switched them to my other sites on other avs systems.

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by RedCherry

This makes me really glad that 98% of the galleries and free sites I submit are for my own sites.

Doesn't always make you 100% safe. My main sponsor is me, but my main adult business is selling the eBooks that I publish, so my links go direct to the payment processor's page. A few years back my processor decided that he no longer wanted to do adult goods, so I changed processor. In the long run this was a good thing because my new processor was more of a distributor than just a processor, and actually generates sales for me. But it meant I had to go through all my sites and change the fucking links.

[plateman]

Originally Posted by terry

I have a sponsor that currently owes me over 20k and all I have done is swap out root pages to similar niche sites. All of my galleries are still active and that fucking sponsor is still making sales off me. I have recently come to realize that I will never see this money and I am thinking about just swapping the links and dealing with whatever happens when it happens. If they hit me with a dmca then i'll swap everything back while I work on 404'ing it.

sorry to hear that terry, thats just fucked and a lot of money

I been kind of lucky when weg went, that was a easy and replace ads and links

as far as content goes when a sponsor went out, I'd lean towards what UW said and use of careful thought on a case by case decision