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Originally Posted by will76
Ok all of that aside, what other affiliates bitch about. I do know what it takes to run / own a program, deal with affiliates etc... I still don't get the $2, $5, $10 charge to send someone a check. You still going to get pain in the ass affiliates, you still going to get people who bitch whether you charge to send them a check or not. Affiliates don't change their address often.
Bottom line is that it is another way for them to nickel and dime affiliates. If they send out 100 checks a week and they charge $3 a check, its a way for them to make $300 a week to help cover their bills, put more money in their pockets, whatever.
Charging someone to send them a check is screwing them. Think about it, really it is insaine to charge someone to pay them. When you have to pay your programmer, staff, people you buy content from, your hosting company, etc. etc... all those other people that a company has to send payments to, do they charge them as well?
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Micro payments always cost 1000% more to handle, 2x 10k payments does not cost anything.....if that was all you did you wouldent need an accounting department.
A good efficient accounting department has to be billable!
Some of that can come through fee's
Some come from catching people like the Turbos
Some through deductions and just overall having good accounting people
Its not just the 3-8 bucks pr check, its a combination of all of it.
I will give you this though, for you to charge you need to have a large amount of payouts to the point where that is actually costing you a LOT
Everything i have written does not really apply to small programs.
But it does apply, ask any financial person