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Originally Posted by commonsense
I love the guys that ride into threads like this and try and justify it. You really just don't give a shit about your traffic, as most affiliates don't. Then crying over lowered ratios and money and keep sending their surfers to the same programs that fuck their new customers over and over again.
Most affiliates do not give a fuck about customers returning through them for a purchase, or for fuck all even understand that concept.
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It's a fallacy to believe that a stadard cross-sell "fucks over" a surfer. How do I know for a fact that it's a fallacy? Because for a given program anywhere from 65% - 85% (ie the majority) or members UNCHECK any pre-checked x-sells, and 10 - 30% of members CHECK unchecked x-sells. What does this mean? It's means that
a) surfers can read
b) surfers are capable of making their own decisions of how they spend their money
How else do I know? I know because most processors have stringent credit and chargeback thresholds that must be maintained. Do you know how easy it is to lose a merchant account of you are too agressive?
There is alot of good information available on GFY, but there is also a MOUNTAIN of uninformed mis-information and blatant lies and fallacy.
In a competitve market like this, the webmaster is ultimately empowered by choice. No affiliate is ever forced into promoting any program nor is it the right of a small number of "activist" webmasters who may promote a certain program to demand a change, since as stated earlier, 99.9% of programs are crystal clear with their terms and conditions as it applies to revshare.
As a webmaster, you can freely choose to promote a revshare program that is free of cross sells, and as Charles from Karups pointed out, there are revshare programs that are setup to PAY on cross sells. I even bet that alot of programs could provide a xsell-free transaction page for someone who asked. At the end of the day, sponsor programs are not reponsible for the due dilligence of the affiliate. Any webmaster who promotes sites on a revshare and who is concerned about xsells, would simple have to ask the program and they would be told what the policy is.