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Originally Posted by stocktrader23
Most of the apologists here fail to take into consideration the shitpile of 'clean' signups programs get thanks to affiliates doing all of the branding. It is an insane amount of people that click on an affiliate link but sign up without credit going to an affiliate.
The programs closing are either run by morons or are stealing your money.
That is all.
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Very good point that no one mentioned yet in this thread. The affiliates brand the hell out of different programs, and sometimes the customer comes back later through google search or type in. We all know sign ups are "lost" along the way depending on the program. Whether it is transaction that is declined, but retried 2 weeks later and goes through and the affiliate might not get paid depending on the program. Or the person enters in their email address but doesn't sign up, the program emails them promos and then the person signs up but the affiliate doesn't get credit.
Then there is intentional and unintentional erorrs.
There is straight up traffic leaks.
Affiliates generate a lot of free joins for programs.
I once joined a dating site after I signed up to be an affiliate because I wanted to see how it worked since they were only offering me revshare (50%). On a fucking revshare deal they still had 2 prechecked cross sales on the join page. Neither of which I got paid a penny from. Then when the person logged in for the first time, instead of seeing the members area there was another "up sell" that was tricky, to another membership site (didn't get paid on that one either). Then there was traffic leaks all over, paid ads, etc... none of which I got paid on. So I asked, you hit the person with about $200 a month of fees, plus the ad space you selling that my traffic is going to that I make nothing from, and you want to give me 50% of just the main site membership and nothing else. Crazy. The first statement the customer gets and sees 4 memberships he is going to cancel them all. so I make 50% of 1 membership fee, the site made 50% of 1 and 100% of 4 plus all t he other shit. bullshit.