Posted: February 14th, 2013, 10:44 pm
Winston, I missed the part of your other page where you go into the details of how the "listing affiliates" are compensated by AFA. Can you please give us the exact details of those compensations arrangements?
What I did notice, however, is that you seem to think AFA could not keep track of "rogue" listing agencies? Give me a break, did you leave your mind in the coat closet? For $10 a letter, they can't figure that out? They cannot keep simple stastics from their paying customers on which agencies are reported for scamming? If not, they must not even have any genuine "listing agencies" for comparison. How is it that we are able to do a much better job of it for a monthly fee that translates into less than 10 cents a letter?
The one thing you are right about is that those running AFA (and the other per-message-fee services) are salesmen. I think that while these enterprises have had some success and do still have considerable earnings and cash to buy favor, that increasingly transparency will over the next few years either force them to reform for the better, or else out of business. I'm not sure how it will happen.
In our site, we dedicate ourselves to being transparent (you can read about times we have screwed up and let scammers on the site in our Advice Articles or made other mistakes) and believe that transparency going forward is a vital factor that will significantly influence success. It's part of what makes you, Winston, successful. So what are the details on the compensation arrangements used by AFA? Their paying members deserve to know.
What I did notice, however, is that you seem to think AFA could not keep track of "rogue" listing agencies? Give me a break, did you leave your mind in the coat closet? For $10 a letter, they can't figure that out? They cannot keep simple stastics from their paying customers on which agencies are reported for scamming? If not, they must not even have any genuine "listing agencies" for comparison. How is it that we are able to do a much better job of it for a monthly fee that translates into less than 10 cents a letter?
The one thing you are right about is that those running AFA (and the other per-message-fee services) are salesmen. I think that while these enterprises have had some success and do still have considerable earnings and cash to buy favor, that increasingly transparency will over the next few years either force them to reform for the better, or else out of business. I'm not sure how it will happen.
In our site, we dedicate ourselves to being transparent (you can read about times we have screwed up and let scammers on the site in our Advice Articles or made other mistakes) and believe that transparency going forward is a vital factor that will significantly influence success. It's part of what makes you, Winston, successful. So what are the details on the compensation arrangements used by AFA? Their paying members deserve to know.