Originally Posted by will76

but they could also not be sent in the first place.


Everyone keeps saying how great wires are, but how much do wires typically cost to send? It's been a while since I have sent one personally since I don't handle the books and have someone doing that for me, but if I remember right I am paying at least $20 to send domestic and $35 or so for international. When I send I do it as a courtesy and pay t he cost. I am thinking most affiliate programs are not going to absurb this cost unless you are sending them thousands of dollars a pay period.

If they going to pass the wire fee back on me and I am going to have to pay $20 - $35 for a wire to collect in some cases $500 or less, either once a week or once every two weeks then do the math per year across several sponsors. No thanks, you can keep the wires, I will save thousands of dollars a year and I can wait a couple extra days for the paper check in the mail. Now if sponsors want to send a wire to me for free, by all means, I'll accept it. But I don't see many offering that and considering in my case ( and many other people) could have smaller checkes coming in from several sponsors it is retarded to pay a high fee just to collect a smaller amount weekly or by weekly. Yes you can raise your payout to $1,000 or what ever, so you only get sent the wire say once every 2 months opposed to every 2 weeks but 1. It's stupid to let someone else hold your money that long when you could be putting it to good use, and 2. the longer they hold it, the more money you are risking losing if the company goes out of business and stops paying.

So someone explain to me how wires are so great (unless they are free) and what I am missing here. Since I am a dinsour that rather gets a check (omg a couple days later) for typically free opposed to paying $300 - $750 a year per EACH sponsor using wires.