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Any idea why the affiliate revenue is down?
Have they changed anything?
Do we just need to buy more stuff?

No idea. But we're not the only ones affected by it.

I mentioned it over here: https://www.lfgss.com/thread123213.html#post4119116

But basically even eBay traders and other sellers are reporting a collapse in sales at half the expected amount.

Our revenues are based on small kickbacks (a penny here, a pound there) from sales that occur as a result of clicks from here.

If the sales aren't happening... then we aren't getting paid.

And yes, this does not bode well for Microcosm. Though in Microcosm's favour I always understood that the key was to use scale to massively push down the costs. If LFGSS cost less to run then even the reduced revenue would've been fine. But that's just not how vBulletin operates... performance and low server costs were never in the design of the software, features were.