Nick Robertson, CEO of the online fashion store, ASOS.com recently slammed some of his affiliates for “taking a free ride”. This is the quote that set off all the drama that followed, “Next year we’ll reintroduce affiliate marketing but as it should be, as opposed to affiliates as they were, there’ll be no silly commissions being paid to grubby little people in grubby studios growing income at our expense, getting in the way of genuine sales”
Read more about the controversy that has been termed Grubbygate here and here.

Shawn Collins even had a video response to Robertson's negative comments on Affiliate Marketing: