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Originally Posted by Soul_Rebel
So MarcDe what went wrong and the old ARS sites as you had said became unprofitable and you removed them including the cheap trial payouts from the program? Currently there are like 100 sponsors doing the exactly same payouts, with much smaller volume and never run it to the same unprofitability problems, never reduce payouts, never tweak exits, upsales etc. Don't tell me they are more capable. Can someone just add 10-15 new sites and expect these variables to still work at the same rates?
For the record if there are some sponsors that fairly credit sales (no more than 5 in my mind now) ARS has to be one of them; but that's a very rare exception.
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Because of some decisions that were made in previous years, those sites were in chargeback trouble. The high level of chargebacks caused many issues with those sites ability to process, including the use of x sells. We felt that many changes would be FORCED upon this industry, unfortunately that never came to be. With the drastic change it allowed us to do some other things, including have a closer relationship with our content site operators. Storm Media is our new partner and my sister owns the company and that helps tremendously. It also allowed us to avoid the HUGE iBill problem that would have more than likely bankrupted our company (or been close). In the end, it was a VERY tough decision, but in the end it was most definitely the right decision. ARS still does great volume and still makes money and that will allow us to do the things we are working on doing!
In the next few months you will see an ARS that is bigger and MORE capable than any previous ARS and that will be in a large part due to our new relationship.
BTW, I appreciate your comment on our honesty. That is absolutely key for us! We know we'd be nowhere without our webmasters, therefore they are our most valuable asset and we take care of them!
