[Adam H]

Whats wrong with them earning money for promoting a product ? They have allowed/struck a deal with skimlinks to have the skimlinks built into vbulletin , with out that deal skimlinks would more than likely not have anywhere near as much of a client base.

There would obviously be a percentage worked out to come from skimlinks share, when someone buys a product from a skimlinks or viglink you as the forum owner only get a percentage of that commission anyway, viglink or skimlinks get the rest, what they do with their percentage is nothing to do with you.

If you go and promote the affiliate products on your own you would earn alot more with the same products than going through skimlinks or viglink but at the same time you wouldnt have such a large scale automated revenue stream to pick from.

Another fuss over nothing. Business is business