I can't see nothing positive in such bad story (again). I've seen too many times such behavior in this industry. I'm getting more and more tired, year after year ...
While I'm almost 99.999% sure that when our industry was 'cowboy town', affiliates were still being shaved etc. The BIG difference then to now, we were ALL making making money, and lots of it!!! With such heafty monthly cash flows, it was easy to not let those negatives affect you. But now things have changed, and making that money isn't anywhere near as easy as it once was.
Yet the demand to feed the beasts are still here. More so than ever before.
TBH I don't trust any program these days, because there a just way too many signals telling me that my stats are questionable.
Do I think some programs cook-the-affiliate-books? Yes!
I've got programs where I'm constantly doing decent 5 figure deposits each month, yet, NGR at End of Month, dives to 4 figures. If this is an example of what other affiliates are seeing, then I have wonder how these casinos stay in business. Simple answer, impossible. So clearly, least in my mind, something is not Kosher here.
But what do you do? No point complaining. Not like a program is going to admit to fraud. So you just keep going, hoping, you'll have a good month.
I'm getting old (56 this year). And, like yourself
dfiocch, I'm at the point where I'd rather be stress free from ALL this BS. I've got a few options, other than being a casino affiliate. I'm just kinda sad that after investing 17 years of hard work, I'm now being shafted by the programs I've been loyal to all these years. Guess when you work with sharks, eventually you'll lose a limb!