I'm open to getting feedback, however, I received an anonymous email today on affiliate marketing that appears more like the beginnings of a manifesto rather than brief comments on a previous post. The subject is Why Affiliate Marketing Sucks. The message is unedited.

Keep them coming -- whoever you are...

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Why Affiliate Marketing Sucks

By Mr. Nobody (who is really somebody)

Affiliate marketing sucks. First of all, you can't trust anyone.
Other affiliates are all out to steal your ideas and one up you at
every opportunity. If they can't beat you fair and square they steal
your source code, copy your site and get indexed higher than you in
search engines (with your damn content!). Even worse they develop
technology that they then pepper the Internet with that highjacks your
traffic and claims credit for your commissions. OK, who else can't
you trust? One word, M-E-R-C-H-A-N-T-S! These corporations are
really out for themselves and could care less about some punk ass
affiliate building web pages in his (more like her) basement to earn
measly commissions. They have huge marketing budgets and all they
want is more customers at the lowest possible costs. In their opinion
affiliates are getting in the way of their customers going straight to
their site to do some e-commerce. Hey and how about those trusted
third-parties called networks. They couldn't track a commission if
their business depended on it much less serve an ad that gets past the
firewall police. They are just as greedy as everyone else, so don't
expect any sympathy (much less support) from them. So where does that
leave us (and who the hell is us anyway)? Hell if I know but if you
ask my opinion (and you don't have to cuz this is the Internet and I
can say whatever I want and you're gonna think I am an expert),
affiliate marketing is the worst thing to come along since the damn
Internet. I wish someone would come along and do away with them both
– good riddance, I say.