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Originally Posted by anexsia
I promote a few programs that give $30-35 on $1/trials and they have been paying me on time for years, putting out great content, and the members rebill so not every trial sponsor is shit  meanwhile there's a lot of non-trial/$1 programs I promote that convert like crap and don't rebill... |
Well, that may be true but just because a PPS Program is paying out like clockwork on $1 Trials does not mean they aren't also card-banging, cross-selling, x-selling and all the other 'tricks' to fuck surfers. Do the math, as this wise man just pointed out:
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Originally Posted by pompousjohn
Yep. Either that or raise the trial price to $5. $5 is the new $1 and $1 is the new penny. Anyone willing to spend a dollar is willing to spend $5 unless they only have $1 and that's not a customer anyone wants, or unless they plan on signing up to a large number of sites, also not a customer anyone wants. Fraud affiliates usually try to sign up to as many cheap trials as possible as well so that's another good reason not to go too low.
Anyone with $1 trials is either banking on x sells or pre-approving a higher amount or isn't paying PPS or has a solid database of unproductive BIN #'s they can block.
PPS or not, it's just not worth it to do $1. $1 doesn't even cover the transaction cost with most billers I know of, I think an approved transactions costs around 1.24 most of the time between processing and gateway fees and even a decline isn't free. That's why CCBill and Epoch have higher minimums.
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The entire concept of a Trial is unattractive to me. It's a business model primarily based on people forgeting to cancel. Then, when they DO cancel, it's Hello Chargeback City. No thanks. Not to mention the insane hole you can dig yourself into when offering $50 PPS on a $29.95 Membership.
To me, ANY PPS should top out at the max price of the recurring offer so there's a CHANCE of making a profit (rebills). Of course, many whales would disagree with me. LOL