From an email recieved a few minutes ago:

“As you may know from previous experience, XXXXXX works each month to a set budget. While in the past, if they surpass that budget, we have been forced to remove partners. This is never ideal and we want to prevent this from happening as much as possible. As of right now, we are on track to surpass our February budget. To prevent this, we are asking you to take a 1% commission cut through the rest of the month.

We ask that you opt into the lower-commission offer immediately, or we will have to remove you from the program. This is only a short-term adjustment, so we thank you, in advance, for your cooperation and understanding.”

So do they want us to make sales or not? If we make too many then they might go over budget and we will be removed. To make sure they don’t go over budget they want us to send the same amount of shoppers but get paid less?

I don’t understand companies that lump affiliate marketing into their advertising budgets. There should be no budget as they don’t pay out more unless more sales are made.