Crazy sponsor demands I not promote competitors sites.

[dirkg]

I dont post here often. But I wanted to pass this along so no one else gets taken for any money if he decides not to pay out to tgp's
Here is a cut and paste job from another board including my emails.
The sponsor is saharagetsdirty.com and here are the emails about not working with tgps that use trade scripts and how I cant promote his site if I am going to promote his competitors.

OK. Enough is enough. This guy is crazy. Now he false states his TOS says tgps with trade scripts are not welcome. Someone please check them out and verify they dont before he changes them.
Here are our emails in their entire form.

OK. I will make sure and post these emails for you at GFY and AWI. We are already having quite a conversation about you. Up until now I haven’t named names. But I feel its pretty important that my fellow webmasters know what kind of sponsor they may be signing up for. I also have copies of your sign up page and TOS. Nothing in there states I cant promote other programs at the same time as your, and nothing in there says I cant use a trade script, which nearly all of todays tgps do.
Also no where in any of my emails did I ever say anything about trade scripts. So I guess you went back to my site to check out my gallery rotation script again since you mistook it for a trade script. Have no fears, I will be in contact with the owner of this script and make sure you are taken out of it.


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From: total@dirkg.totally4free.com [mailto:total@dirkg.totally4free.com] On Behalf Of Joe A
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 5:05 PM
To: total
Subject: Re: Sahara Gets dirty Affiliate Programme Signup


I hate to say this but I'm not happy to work with affiliates who use trading scripts when promoting Sahara's site. I do state this somewhere before you signed up.

If you ever run a clean tgp or links page or you make your own galleries from my material, you'll be a welcome addition.

Sorry about this

Joe A
----- Original Message -----
From: total
To: 'Joe A'
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 12:15 AM
Subject: RE: Sahara Gets dirty Affiliate Programme Signup

Look deeper into the site and you will see that each link is actually going to the same rotating script. I don’t know if you clicked the links or what. Each rotator script owned by Muliniche. I get 99% of the traffic that clicks on each link, the other 1% either goes to his affiliate code or his tgp. As far as how many galleries from each sponsor are in what script, I don’t know. If you are saying I cant promote two different sponsors, I have no control over that either since I don’t own the script.

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From: total@dirkg.totally4free.com [mailto:total@dirkg.totally4free.com] On Behalf Of Joe A
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 2:55 PM
To: webmaster@totally4free.com
Subject: Re: Sahara Gets dirty Affiliate Programme Signup

Hi

In just looked at http://www.totally4free.com/indian.shtml and 99% of the listed pages there are to Anjali. Are these your own or affiliates for her site, and so I would like to know how you'll be promoting Sahara Gets Dirty.

I know it might seem strange for a sponsor to query a new affiliate, but I don't like to see both Anjali's and Sahara's sites almost fighting for attention on tgps etc. I look at the posts on Netpond where wm's are asking for trades with other Indian tgp's and all they do is promote Anjali, so in effect any traffic sent to them just sells her and no one else.... DUH. I won't work with anyone who has a site like that.

I have 60+ hosted pages for Sahara plus a lot of the material is available in zip files to create your own pages, so if you would let me know your plans, I'll send you all the details by return

Regards

Joe A.
----- Original Message -----
From: Sahara Gets dirty Affiliate Programme
To: webmaster@saharagetsdirty.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 10:43 PM
Subject: Sahara Gets dirty Affiliate Programme Signup


A new partner has just signed up under Sahara Gets dirty Affiliate Programme.

Affiliate ID: 1037574