This is an interesting discussion, so I have decided to pick it up for This Is Awesome report... I'm not enough affiliate marketing savvy, but I would say that this specific method of selling is very popular in this niche (TE, mailers, etc)... Maybe this can be one of the reasons for the bad reputation that is going around?

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