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Originally Posted by hardcoreblogger
first you were talking about piggybacking on existing systems (which will not happen), now you talk about a completely new system. payment processors already make good profits on every sale. the interests of most of the main customers of any such system (affiliate programs) are against such affiliate protection, they're quite happy with their current systems. sorry, i would actually like to see this happening, but i don't.
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Evidently we interpret the word "piggy-backing" differently. And yes, once one incorporates a front-end process into and already existing back-end process (piggybacking it, as they say) it becomes a new system.
Don't get bogged down in the semantics of the thing. I'm sure if we took the time, we could come up with a standardized definition that would please everybody. At this stage of the game it's conceptual and the vocabulary used to discuss the idea should be interpreted figuratively and not literally.
Affiliate program owners (sponsors) are driven by the market place. It takes a few early adopters and the rest tumble like dominos, as a new standard of fairness is set.
As I had mentioned in my first post on this subject One can come up with 101 reasons not to do this and you have offered up a few. However there are a million good rea$on$ to build it. Now it's only a matter of time until someone taps into that river of money.