It is a bit of a nightmare situation, If you still are able to email your previous affilaites at all then I would, just to clear things up, also make announcements on your previous recruitment threads etc that this is no longer your site.
Tell your client to add something new to it, like an upgrade or add on, then raise the commission back up... cutting down a clickbank commission to 10% is suicide...
* Buys your site * The site doesn't bank as well as the buyer had hoped * Buyer takes the product down in a suicide move to make his money back then sell it off * You're the fall guy You should definitely care about who buys your site, but more importantly as stated you must go into all your threads/email aff's and announce the sale, announce who the new owner is, demand transparency from that person to your affiliates. Otherwise even at this stage people can be left to assume the worst and for all anyone knows you two worked as a team. Shitty situation dude but it's good you're performing damage control, better late than... N.
In my opinion, I think the whole "genre" of game copy niches are completely useless. I learned how to burn videogames from videos on youtube. This is why youtube EXISTS, and expanding tutorial/entertainment website.
Most people sell their sites when they see sales have peaked and start slowing down. Most "Gurus" won't tell you that but its common practice. They will show a buyer a screen shot of the money that product made them, and the buyer will end up over paying for a site and product that has already peaked. In a desperate attempt to recoup some of their money, they do something desperate like lower the commission and end up killing off what business is left. I'm not sure if that's what happened here, but that's what it looks like....
Robert, thanks for explaining your situation. Initially, i was wondering how come you want to make a short term profit but destroy your long term business.... But now, i understand that's not your intention but your stupid client. lol.
Hello Guys, Yet I have not got any response from my client. The best thing I can do here is forwarding you the contact details of him. So if you need to contact him, please send me your affiliate ID (Only pm me if you had made any sales with GCM) and your email ID by PM.