We only require a paid subscription to use E-junkie selling features; E-junkie users who are only participating in affiliate programs to refer sales to other merchants, without selling any products of their own, can continue to use E-junkie at no cost.
Normally, we detect when a user has joined E-junkie only to participate in affiliate programs, so we would not send these accounts any notification advising them to start a subscription. If your affiliate received such a notification, it's possible they'd got confused at some point and wandered into Seller Admin and set up a product there before they realized that wasn't necessary to be an affiliate, so our system was just erring on the safe side before deleting that product for lack of a subscription.