Originally Posted by Sly

I don't really understand what exactly it is that you expect to gain by dropping your affiliate payouts to 20%. By paying affiliates, you are essentially paying people to market for you. So while on the short-term you may pick up the additional 30% that you were not getting before, in the long term you're going to have less and less people promoting you. Meaning less traffic. Meaning even fewer sales.

So unless you have the traffic and the resources to swoop in and recover all of the lost affiliate traffic, your 30% gain is going to hurt you more than benefit you.

Now if you really don't have any affiliates or affiliate sales to begin with, the whole subject is pretty much moot. Do what you feel is right either way.