I just made a quick few thousand dollars
 

by lowering my minimum payouts

don't count your chickens till they hatch. It sounds like some of that money has been sitting a while and hadn't met the min for a check to be sent. I wonder how many of those companies still paying... Let me know which % rate of success you have getting paid from all of them.

D'oh! :moon

Are you trying to scare me now? Shut up. :1orglaugh

Hope it works out for ya!

I wouldn't have posted that if you know what i mean! :1orglaugh

good for you.

Brujah is on the money, I did this recently and it was worth doing. Unless a program only sends checks, which makes it expensive for me to cash, I now go with the minimum payout in case the program closes shop or decides to change the rules.

Good move IMHO.

This is one reason I like getting paid by third party billers, everything gets aggregated into a single payment. Doesn't matter if you make 50c with one affiliate account one week so long as your totals exceed the minimum.

I discovered the other day that I was owed $160 from a traffic broker I'd been sending dribbles of traffic to for a few years and forgotten about. Requested a payout. :thumbsup

It's all about risk management. At one point I moved from cheques to wires with a particular program because I wasn't feeling so confident about their longevity. Wires cost a bit more but they have the advantage of 100% cleared funds about 48 hours after the program sends them; if a program went bust the day after I deposited a cheque then it wouldn't be returned as NSF for 3-4 weeks. Even worse if I didn't know and the 2 or 3 cheques I'd deposited in the meantime were returned and the amounts debited back from my account...

Hmmm good idea actually!

Yeah great one.... :helpme

I cant afford to make a quick few thousand dollars...

I don't get it, how did you make money by lowering payouts, aren't you just getting the same amount of money but sooner?

Yes. It's a half-joke. I do that most of the time.

Sometime around February I decided to do a thorough search of all sponsors I push that are still set to ePassporte... I had the same results!

Found somebody that hadn't paid me since 2006!

Could anyone list some reason(s) you wouldn't want to set your account to the lowest payout amount? I'm sure it's nice letting it build up to one big check but I like to get what I'm owed as soon as possible, especially in this industry..

I liked going to the bank once a month instead of every week.

Yeah, I can consider doing a bit higher amount to get a payout monthly, quarterly or with a few trustworthy ones even yearly. All to keep the number of transactions down, total cost of transactions to a minimum and so on. But it's a gamble I'm not taking with others than trustworthy ones.

Perception is everything

I just saved trillions buy switching to geico