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Originally posted by Marc De
Daymare - I made my money from the past. Trust me, my margins fall on a monthly basis because of the state of this industry and its not just me! All sponsor programs feel it. Surfers are smarter, they know how the system works, retention rates have fallen to insanely low amounts and yet commissions stay where they are. That is where the term 'absurd commissions' comes from. However, this isn't about lowering payouts to make more money, this is about lowering payouts so sponsors can make corrective action that should have been done a long time ago. The biggest action is lowering monthly prices, the next is losing multiple cross sells on a page, and the next is losing free cross sells all together. Whether other companies make similar rules as Epoch or not, its the right thing to do. Its time to put greed aside for 2 seconds for the longevity of this business 
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I certainly can see how this model of payout HAS to go... retro like 6 months to a year ago when by the way the huge explosion of sites really started. Anyone ever keep track? If I was a surfer why would I recurr in a site I have seen for a week when there has to be more then 1500 (just the big guys) sites to go? I would keep on getting one month at all that interests me. That woudl actually be my new challenge (that those of us with avs sites have known for a while you must advertise new stuff all the time) to always find something new.
People are curious...they are not going to stay more then one month with so many sites out there. The big programs that have over 100 sites are actually shooting themselves in the foot... if they wanted to get their peers doing anything it should be shutting down all those sites.
Or stop the pay per sign up model.
Again this issue has already been dealt with in the for women market... paying the pps on the same surfer who wants to go into each of the sites in the program. They want to see all the sites they just discovered... and they probably didnt even recurr one month at any of them.
I always said that a 1.95 wank off was pretty sweet. Why would anyone bother recurring on purpose anywhere if you can pay 1.95 an orgasm? and free? fuck!!
I think its good that the programs are starting to make changes...i dont want to be seen as a naysayer but I do hope that its only the beginning of the thought process for alot of the programs.