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Originally Posted by jayeff
If a sponsor offers, to all their affiliates, several membership options such as with/without trials, it is up to their affiliates to decide which is appropriate to their traffic and presentation. This is not an equivalent situation, because in the majority of cases, other affiliates are not given the option of a low price.
I agree there probably isn't much crossover traffic, but to the extent there is, no way am I going to sell a $30 membership to anyone who knows about TBP, checks there and finds it at $20. And if I already made a sale and the discounted price is seen later, I can wave goodbye to that surfer.
It is one thing for sponsors to reward high-selling affiliates with higher payouts, but it is another to change the pricing so that we are not competing on level terms. Either keep a single price for everyone or make the discounted prices available to everyone. We are not running retail stores (where in any case special prices are usually for limited periods or volumes) and permanent discounts of 30%, 50%, etc really puts both the sponsors and their other affiliates in a very bad light.
JJ: I'll leave this in case anyone else thinks along your original lines, but I saw your response after I posted it.
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The problem with offering affiliates the ability to set their own price points is the affiliate does not have the benefit of seeing the backend numbers that I see. In most cases they would be guessing as to what they thought would be the best price point instead of relying on the long hours of research we do to maximize the money they make. It also would attract the wrong type of affiliate to our program. We offer a pay per signup option and the last thing i need is to be dealing with foreign affiliates ringing up fraudulent Trial sales at PPS.
I believe the crossover of review site traffic is VERY low. Review sites have created or assembled a gathering spot for the serious porn spender. I don't remember ever witnessing this in my 8 or 9 years online. The review site surfer is a serious porn consumer that is interested in spending money to get quality porn. Who knows that is my take on it, i may be very wrong about that. V Rocks has already showed me how wrong i was regarding the LS situation lol.