Master Affiliate Get's Screwed, Any Ideas?

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Hey guys, any help or thought here would be great.

We are a master affiliate for a health based product. We have accomplish everything the company has asked of us and out performed. We have over 500 affiliate under us in the system.

The company is now moving to a new affiliate program and structure. We like all affiliates, got an email stating that they were moving to a new affiliate system and that we would have to go and signup there for our new links.

I wrote my contact at the company and asked how this impacts us. He basically stated that they are doing away with us as a master affiliate and we,like everybody else can be a one level affiliate.

So our primary issue is that we brought in over 500 affiliates and no they are saying that we won't get paid for any of those anymore. Clearly not what was agreed to.

We have no idea of what to do here except to grab our lawyer, and we hate doing business like that but it just seems nuts. We built it for them and now are getting the boot. And never received any notices or issues with our performance, just the opposite in fact.
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  • Wow that is truly a bummer. I would seek legal advice definitely
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  • My bet is there is a clause in the contract you signed with
    them allowing them to change the terms and conditions at
    their sole discretion. The email was your notice.

    Have a lawyer read the contract and advise.
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    • The interesting thing is that there was really no contract but I think that works in our favor. We had an agreement with the original owner, he sold the company keeping our agreement in tact. We were told by the new owners that if we reached a certain goal they would continue to do business with us on the same terms. We blew the goal out of that water and continued.
  • Welcome to the corporate system. "I read every page of the 28 page contract I signed why are you screwing me?". Well paragraph 17, statues 20382 states we can have a secret addendum no one case that on the site changes the rules in our favor so we can screw you and law 203882 says you can't talk about it or your a criminal. Welcome to the new freedom and love it and be proud that we can do this to you, isn't it nice for you?
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    • Hopefully you have your 500 affiliates email addresses. I would find another multi-tier affiliate program and encourage them to change to that one

      al
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  • Banned
    well your screwed

    talk to a lawyer, but i am guessing they covered themselves legally
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  • Create your own competing offer and crush them
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    • Explore your options with your Lawyer and in the future always work towards eliminating the middle man when they can affect your business if not always have a way out.
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  • It all comes down to the contract you had with them, they've most likely got their butt covered, the lesson here is when you build a business solely around 1 company they've got you by the balls and can squeeze them any time they dang want...friendship and loyalty doesn't count for shit...
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    • Thanks, they certainly aren't the only business we do, they are in fact a fairly small piece of what we do . . . but we hate getting jerked around. :-)
  • Just to update everybody on this, we are in the process of negotiating with a competitor.and plan on moving our affiliates over to them.
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