Originally Posted by Far-L

"1. to prevent real scammers from making a few fraud sales and getting paid"

Fraud is fraud but delaying payments rather than not paying is a simple solution for that.

"2. to delay payment so that chargebacks have time to settle and not get paid out"

As I posted previously, there is a huge difference between delaying payment and not paying.

"3. to prevent MEMBERS from playing the system and joining under their own affiliate code and getting %50+ of the membership back right away (im assuming few of you have even considered this possibility)"


If the loophole to do that exists then that is up to the program to address, not to penalize someone for it based on suspicion.

"4. i believe nats does require a minimum at least all nats progs ive seen do have it"

A minimum threshold is set so that the administration of the affiliate account doesn't drain the programs accounting resources dealing with amounts less than (X). It doesn't have anything to do with paying what legit affiliates are owed, even based on a single sale.


"5. to not spend time on sending lots of little checks"

That is basically saying that you don't want to pay someone what you owe them. If you owe someone even 1 penny then they have a reasonable justification to expect payment. If I could count all the times someone welched on a debt because they thought "he can afford it; the amount is too small to matter" it would be enough to buy a house. Making that point makes it completely clear to me where the affiliate is justified calling you guys scammers.

"6. it could actually also be an incentive for smaller affiliates to send a couple more sales to meet the minimum!"

Maybe just flog them to incentive them, worked for every master since time immemorial. Looks like only "50% agree" so that means it looks like you just gave the other 50% a reason to stay away from any programs that are just going to take their cash 100% of the time based on unclear and misleading terms and conditions.

"7. because certain methods of payments like BANK WIRES cost money (up to $30) and must be done by owner or partner with bank access so our minimum for wires is $500."


That is just obfuscating. The amount of a wire has nothing to do with paying what is owed. Most companies set wire minimums for very reasonable concerns like the amount, the frequency, etc. but none of those reasons are applicable to being reasons for non payment. If someone has too little then send them a check.