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Originally Posted by TheDoc
Correct... and I get what you are saying.
You had sales that got full credit on, that now you don't. The question is, do you have more sales now?
If you sent 5 sales a day, and now you get 6 but two take the offer, that's a 20% gain. If the trial converts, it's net income growth for you. Most sites have scripts that help with trial conversion, and anything over 30% trial to converts, you're growing in money.
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See therein lies the problem for me. Yes, i had 8 additional sales. Were they in addtion to what I normally might have had, i have no idea since these cookies were effectively overridden.
Now, the problem here is that I chose no-trial links because the model I am promoting does not have sufficient content to warrant a trial. You can view her entire site in an afternoon as it is still new. However, I have had a fan site on her for a few years and refer a steady supply of signups and traffic to her. The surfers go there and then come on back and talk about the updates on MY site. This encourages repeat traffic from my site to theirs. But not a lot will recur because of the lack of content given it's early age.
Now, with these trials injected onto the sales, I made $1.23 for these things instead of $14.97. Sure I had more sales, but at a whole lt less money and given the nature of the site, there's not much chance of a rebill either.
See my issue?
I'd rather take the chance on my referrals going back and buying at full price than end up with a lousy $1.23 for nothing. In my view, I actually lost money on this versus made money. Thankfully the program owner disabled it for me. But it doesn't mean I am any less upset at having trial links injected onto my links that had no trials to begin with.