Originally Posted by will76

that is the cost of running a business plain and simple. If you have 1000's of affiliates you need a bigger staff but you also "should" be making a lot of money too. Even if your profit margin is small.

I do buy any of the arguments at all on justify charging (forcing) someone to pay you a fee to be paid money they earned. If a company isn't making enough money to cover their bills or thinks they are paying their affiliates too much money, then they should cut back in other areas.... promotions, drinks at shows, bonuses whatever. Trying to nickle and dime someone to get paid by putting a fee on sending them a check is a terrible, terrible thing to do from a perception stand point. I am surprised that someone started it in the first place, and now it looks like a lot of companies are jumping on the bandwagon.