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Old 07-06-2006, 02:36 AM  
baddog
So Fucking Banned
 
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Originally Posted by will76
How do you think these companies pay for these prizes ???

lets say you give away a free Hummer. roughly 60K.

1 affiliate wins 60K, all the other affiliates get jack shit. Regardless of who wins, you are going to have several superstar affiliates, the guys who are making you rich, be rewarded with nothing, but yet 1 guy gets rewarded with 60K??? why to take care of the people who take care of you.

Why not spread that 60K out in the form of higher payouts. If Companies were not running stupid contest and tieing up so much money with that, they could pay affiliates more per signup... = scam IMO. Basically taking money out of the pockets of the afiliates who make the site successfull to give it to one person. Why? to attract noobs to your program?

It's a win win for the sponsor. They attract a lot of noobs who want to take a chance to win something and they dont have to pay for it, their current affiliates foot the bill.

Who switches sponsors to try to win something? Are you here to make money or try to find the best contest ?

I am really suprised that this has to be explained . . but don't you want to attract whales? $60k Hummers help do that.

Spreading that $60k over $12,000 $5 bonuses isn't going to attract many whales, and I doubt the extra $25 is going to make much of a difference to the little guy. He would much rather have a shot at the brass ring.
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