Tubby

I was making the sale on my site and faxing orders to the wholesaler and fronting the cash (a lot) for one product line. Also answering tons of questions, handling returns etc. and putting in a lot of time.

The place I affiliated with is the Mecca for everything in a huge niche - one of the 1,000's of product lines they carry is the one my whole website is focused on.

I have a hard time keeping up with what's left in the warehouse (won't allow me an access page) and have to call all the time. Also my wholesaler runs "in and out" of items really quick, making it more of a pain.

I'm putting "no-followed" links from "out of stock" products to the large Affiliate site that will drop my customers right on their "buy page" for a product I don't have or is no longer available to me. They told me they cookied the customers following these links and would pay commissions on "any product they buy - storewide."

I'm primarily worried that these outbound affiliate links wll be frowned on by Google, and others engines that have always given me top spots for my search terms?