Grooby Bucks

I would like to share this interesting email from Steven @ Grooby Bucks

These are strange times we're living in. With the economic crisis and dwindling profits due to piracy, some companies and affiliates are resorting to dubious means of increasing their bottom line, often at the expense of alienating customers and destroying consumer confidence in our industry.

Pre-checked cross-sales are bad for the industry in general and may lead to the demise of the website business model as we know it. These companies rely on the customer not fully reading the whole page (how many of us can say we do this) and after agreeing to join a site for $34.99 may find themselves getting credit card bills in excess of $100, billed over multiple processors to make it more complicated for them to cancel or get a refund. Often the only way for them to resolve this is to cancel their credit card (which may also cancel rebills you are getting from legitimate sites). Mastercard has already outlawed this practise and if Visa follows, it's not a great leap of faith to see them limiting automatic rebills (or doing away with them altogether) or taking other punitive action against the industry.

If you are working and promoting websites that are involved in this deceitful practise then I'd ask you to have a long think about the future of the industry and where it may lead. There are many companies offering fantastic affiliate programs who work fairly with their customers and concentrate on getting that customer to rebill, rather than a flashy front door, $1 joins and then stealing $100's from them. Groobybucks is the longest running company in transsexual websites and we set the standard for others to attain. I'm saddened to see some other programs have to resort to shady practises when their were alternatives. I'd question the integrity that these companies have towards their affiliates, if they show such distaste for their customers.

I appreciate we're all trying to make money and it is getting harder to in these trying times. Groobybucks is dedicated to the transsexual niche and although we've seen a slight slow down in sales, we're confident that we can ride this storm well. We have 4 new sites to launch in the next 6 months and the much anticipated relaunch of flagship, Shemale Yum. We're working harder with other respected companies in this niche, some of which are mentioned below and good partners for you to work with and we've started the Groobybucks Blog to help you make sales with us and teach you more about the transsexual niche.

Our door is always open to your ideas and suggestions. I can't force you to stop working with any company, I'd just ask you to please, be aware of the companies you are working with, their impact on the industry, on the customer and ultimately how they may affect you.

Regards,
"Grooby" Steven
President