Hand signed Sponsor Check - Good or bad news?
 

I never thought it mattered.

Does it?

Hand-signing all non-US checks for the last 5 years :)

What difference does it make? None. Cash it.

A check is a check. Doesn't matter if it's stamped, signed in ink or signed in crayon.

may be a sign of cashflow problems or some suspicion of fraud (as it means the owner is willing to dedicate time to personally control all cash outflows manually)

i dont care if its trusted sponsor

Hmmmmmmmm?

Previous check was hand signed. First time I ever noticed it.

Current check is late, first time ever.

I hope you don't win this thread. :1orglaugh

I feel a little bit important when I get a hand signed check.

Sounds like they're getting ready to kick all black people out of their program.

Run to the bank, man ...

Most likely they just dont use a check cutting service.

I feel more of a personal relationship, when someone takes the time to write their name to a piece of paper that is essentially giving me money. I like that feeling, it feels genuine and real. Machine stamped checks are a pain, but I'm willing to go the extra mile to cash a manually written one without any problems.

I think it is better .

It's generally no problem. But I have one sponsor who for the forth time in two years forgot to sign the check.

There is the possibility that you are right. Generally as an affiliate I prefer as much as possible to be fully automatic when it comes to my commissions. When it becomes a manual process I have observed that certain things tend to happen more often to delay or remove me from my commissions. For instance one very large company seems to have most people's commissions manually reviewed. Further it seems they also have a policy of reviewing sales within a couple days after they are made. The problem with this is I keep noticing a constant pattern of large $ value sales being "refunded" at an unusual frequency right around the time where it seems an employee is manually reviewing things. It seems like such an unlikely coincidence to me that mainly the large $ value sales are refunded. I do not have this issue with large $ sales with other sponsors. But hand signing checks or manual processes hardly means such things occurring in themselves.

Years ago I got a CCBill check where the check paper had been put into the
printer upside down so that the check info was printed on the stub and vice versa.
I was not able to cash that one.

:1orglaugh


The reason I asked this question is because on my way to
the grocery store I grabbed a check out of my mail box and to save a trip to
the bank, decided to cash it at the grocery store. They declined to cash it
because their policy is to not cash hand signed checks.

Never heard of that before, but that's what I was told.

The check was good of course, I deposited it into the bank and no problem.

:1orglaugh

I have one sponsor that even hand writes the checks, so no it doesn't matter. :pimp

I don't do checks. How can I see if my wire is hand-submitted? :upsidedow

Used to send out about 400 checks a month all checked and hand signed by me. Would spend a few hours a week rechecking my comptroller. More than that would have been impossible.