sounds a little fishy to me
thanks

i'm curious why it sounds fishy?
from any website owners point of view, they want two things:
1. to sell their wares
2. to increase their ability to sell their wares
making my own affiliate scheme means that i can pay for my
successful advertising by giving a percentage of my profit to the advertiser, rather than pay for advertising that may or may not work.
it also satifies the second desire, which is to increase the number of backlinks and therefore increase my ability to get customers.
i guess if you go with any affiliate, you are trusting them that they are going to pay you what you are due.
i dont think there's anything dubious about my affiliate. i spend a lot of money paying a webdesign company to develop the system which involved a body of work around ensuring that people's referals dont get lost (this resulted in the use of sessions rather than cookies).
i suppose the only thing that might be considered dubious is the fact that the company is quite new (started at the end of 2009) and so doesn't have the business confidence that adbrite or other big affiliates might have.
of course this is a catch 22 situation, you can't start a new affiliate because people dont trust it, you can't get trust because people wont try it.
hopefully in the future, as Bast Monitoring becomes larger and a more famous brand there will be more trust.
PS: my appologies for the "1 post" but again this is a catch 22 situation. to join this community i had to have a motive. my motive was to advertise my affiliate. to advertise my affiliate i had to post
nevertheless I'm please to say that i've also learned a few things about emarketing.
thanks all for looking at the post and taking the time to read this, hopefully i can change people's minds to new affiliates. my view of new things is if it looks too good to be true, it probably is. i don't think that this affiliate falls into that bracket but i guess that's up to the reader.