Location subdomains?

[ClaytonKendall]

We were contacted by a company that claims they want to build us a local. sub domain that targets only local traffic and operate on a rev share model. I'm very weary of this and can think of many things wrong with it, but I was asked to look into it. I'm about to give them a call to see what they are all about, but I always get great advice from the moz community so I thought I'd reach out to hear your opinions. Thanks!

[EGOL]

References are a good idea.

Amazon astore will display products and pay you a commission.... very easy to set up.. and they can make good money...  http://astore.amazon.com/

[ClaytonKendall]

Thanks for the advice EGOL! I will ask for references and see if they are involved in our niche in any way(even though we will almost definitely not partner with them). How does an amazon store apply to a subdomain? I'm not familiar in that process.

[EGOL]

I am occasionally contacted by people who want to rent or revshare a subdomain on my site.

These requests always come from people who are unknown in my niche.  The few times that I asked them for more information (they wanted to talk on phone but I told them to send email with samples of their other web properties and an explanation of how things would work).

One hundred percent of the time these are people who simply want to mooch on the popularity of your good domain and expect you to give generous links to the subdomain from every page of your site.

You don't need to settle for a share of the revenue.  Just open an astore at amazon or get a couple feeds from ebay... slap that on a subdomain and you can collect 100% of the revenue yourself.