2nd Request. Please release me from being one of relaches referrals

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   paradigmsearchposted 9 years ago

   I mean seriously. I know that ethics trumps business is a minority opinion (not referring to HP).
   
   That first thread sure totally disappeared. I mean seriously and totally gone. Probably for the best. Don't bring it back. I really do just simply want full status with HP. Nothing more. Nothing less.
   
   Please do this.

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      paradigmsearchposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      I'm gonna do one of these a day. Every day. Money is money. Period.

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      Stacie Lposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      I guess you have thought of this before...I haven't seen it in the forums. I don't know if it will help get you out of a referral fee but open another account;start clean and transfer your hubs slowly into it?
      forgive any naivety...

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         paradigmsearchposted 9 years agoin reply to this

         Alas, moving all those URL's would lose all my traffic. Which means no more monthly pay out for yours truly.That monthly payment is the difference between poverty and a comfortable living for me. It may indeed what I'll end up having to do however. I've already unpublished/deleted 3 hubs; not to another account, but totally off HubPages altogether. If HP would just use my 5-year cap idea... Still hoping...

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         Rochelle Frankposted 9 years agoin reply to this

         Hubbers do not pay the referral fee, HP pays. Anyone who signed up as a referral gets the same percentage as a person who signs up on their own. The  10% to the referring person comes out of the HP share of proceeds.

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      Matthew Meyerposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      Referral are not reversible.
      This thread is now closed.
      If you have any further questions or concerns, please email us.
      team at hubpages dot com

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   paradigmsearchposted 9 years ago

   And if HP grants my request, I'll spill the beans as to my monthly income.

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      Solarasposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      You know you can't spill the beans lol; it's against TOS. I understand your feelings, but it is a policy that can't be broken. In how many years has such a breach of confidence been broken?  You are unique, and therefore the rules cannot be bent for you.
      
      Sorry - do love you though! Come have some fun with us on another thread. Bad grammar and such!

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         paradigmsearchposted 9 years agoin reply to this

         Stating monthly income does not violate TOS. Just don't state CPM/RPM and such. All is well.
         
         I really do need to get out from under this. Whatever it takes.

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   Shot by Lisaposted 9 years ago

   To what does this refer? I am new here and certainly don't want to feel as if I am in some binding contract --

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   Shot by Lisaposted 9 years ago

   What is a reaches referral?

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   Shot by Lisaposted 9 years ago

   ugh this mac! RELACHES

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      gitachudposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      The OP joined Hubpages through a referral link from another Hubber and now wants out.

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         Shot by Lisaposted 9 years agoin reply to this

         Thank you

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      Solarasposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      Relache is another hubber that Paradigmshift signed up under.  Under HP terms Relache get 10% of what PS earns, not from his income, but from HP's % of income.
      
      Don't worry about it; it am sure it does not affect you.

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         Shot by Lisaposted 9 years agoin reply to this

         Thanks for your reply.

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   Len Cannonposted 9 years ago

   If your only option is maintaining a hubpages account or poverty I would strongly suggest you reevaluate your decision to hold your articles hostage over a debate on business practices.
   
   This is, outside of the literal interpretation, the best example of cutting off your nose to spite your face I have ever seen.

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      paradigmsearchposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      You are right.
      
      Thus my very slow progression in the matter. I am still maintaining hope that:
      
      A. Relache requests HP to remove me from her referral list.
      
      Or
      
      B. HP modifies the author referral program in such a way that it is no longer my problem.

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         calculus-geometryposted 9 years agoin reply to this

         Then you should
         
         A. Communicate with Relache privately via the contact link on her profile page
         
         or
         
         B. Communicate with HP staff privately via HP's contact form or a staff member's profile page.

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            paradigmsearchposted 9 years agoin reply to this

            "A." will never happen.
            
            "B." will be my dead bang, absolute last resort. Besides, modifying the author referral program would make HP a boatload of extra money. My hope is they are examining that very possibility.

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               calculus-geometryposted 9 years agoin reply to this

               "B" should be everyone's first resort in a touchy issue such as this because staff members do not actively monitor this forum as they do the suggestions and technical issues forum.

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                  paradigmsearchposted 9 years agoin reply to this

                  Could be. Time will tell. They might not be too thrilled if I were to gather my 100+ posts on the subject and shipped it to them.
                  
                  For that matter, yesterday I said I was going to make a new thread a day resubmitting this request. I've changed my mind and won't be doing that (a sigh of relief ripples across the forums...).
                  
                  Funny that she thinks my earnings are so trivial, yet she won't send that request to HP.
                  
                  Whatever happens, happens.
                  
                  As for me, I'm only going to be posting cheerful stuff on these forums for awhile. Thanks everyone for all your help and moral support. It meant a lot to me.

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