It's shattering news for me , JD got me started in this biz as an affiliate over 3 years ago.
I knew nothing about the industry and one night after a few too many drinkies I types up a poorly written (Drunken) e-mail to him asking him why I should trust him and if his story was even real. You gotta ask yourself that question when you read about how he got started in adult
I expected either no relpy or maybe a quick "get fucked" e-mail the next day and did not really care either way at the time.
What I recieved was a long very polite letter explaining his story about how "The Wetlands" began and that if I would like to try promoting it he'd like to have me onboard as an affiliate !.
The letter ended stating that his webmaster (Zeph) will set up access to the site for me to grab any content I required for promotion and also give me free hosting.
I sat in front of my PC at the time in total awe, shocked into a state of disbelief that this guy had opened his site up his world renowned porn site to some fucking nobody half a world away that questioned his honesty and then gave me the tools I required to make money.
Looking back I now think it was his way of placing the "put up or shut up" ball squarely back in my court
I knew nothing about making a web page or making traffic so it worked ! I was now responsible for making $$$ with everything he gave me , my sucess or failure was in the hands of one person , me !.
I began to think to myself " Oh shit what has my big mouth got me into !"
The Wetlands has been the most consistant program I've ever promoted and I remember thinking to myself that all I need is another 9 sponsors as good as this and I'm set.
To date I'm still looking for those 9 sponsors BTW which certainly proves to me that JD was a one of a kind guy
As I walk around my house I'm surrounded by posessions that I would never have been able to afford if we had not exchanged e-mails over 3 years ago.
Even this laptop I'm typing this on was once a dream of mine that The Wetlands made a reality.
Without his realising he gave me so much, the extra income I was earning online meant I could finally make ends meet financially and have enough money left over to spend quality time with my family.
Some of the memories I now have such as having my sons watch in amazement at a Sea World Helicopter come in for landing ,they turned to me and said look those people are getting out now.
I looked at them and said "Thats because they have to make room for us to get in"
I'll never forget the look on thier faces once they realised I was serious
And when he returned to kindy a few days later his play buddies asked what he did on the weekend he told them and his teacher that he went up in a helicopter,naturally they did not believe him so a few days later I printed out the digital pictures and sent them with him for show and tell
And no prizes for guessing how I paid for that camera
It's the little things in life that make it all worthwile, These are just a few reasons why I will always have fond memories of JDwetlands and his anything is possible attitude.
He gave me the ability improve my life in so many ways I could talk about it for days.
I simply could not ever thank him enough.
Our Thoughts go out to Cherie (Cbaby) and the family , As well as Zeph,Hunter,Mercedes and the rest of the Wetlands team.
RIP Mate.
Wicked1