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Originally Posted by JSWENSON
You want us to compare $1,000 per click from a shady company to a tenth of a penny from one that isn't run by thieving fucks to emphasize your point. Well what about $0.25 per click from a legit company and $0.26 from the assholes? Or how about $0.25 from the legit company and the same from the shady fucks? I can tell you that in all honesty I would choose the company I perceive as above board in both situations for a multitude of reasons.
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This is a useful point. Ignoring the nonsense you posted before it, let's look at this point.
What you are saying is you apply a threshold to $/click and bracket sponsors. I do that as well. What one sponsor in one niche pays may be the highest even if it's much lower than a sponsor in a different niche bracket. Also, more to your point, within certain threshold percentages the values are essentially even.
A program paying .011% less than another might not get dropped for a lot of reasons. However if the payouts are 40% apart they aren't in the same bracket. As to how wide those brackets should be, I base that on past performance. If my expected EPC moves up or down by 8% from one month to another in a particular niche, I make the brackets 8% apart from each other for similar sites. That's a business decision based on math and objective values.
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I don't trust shady motherfuckers to not change the rules and get more shady after I've put in a lot of work to make them money.
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I don't trust non-shady motherfucker to avoid becoming shady motherfuckers. So I watch all my stats and if they change the rules in a way that affects my stats, I notice and I make changes accordingly. That's true whether I 'feel' like they were shady or 'feel' like they weren't. It's immediately clear just by looking at my net $/click and nobody can distort that stat.
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I don't trust shady motherfuckers to not decide that fucking over their customers one day is the best move. You can believe if a shady motherfucker is legit to customers it's only because they think that it helps their bottom line. They've already proven they'll be shady when it benefits them so if fucking the customer suddenly looks better in their business model then why the fuck not?
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You trust people much more than I do. You are implying you only watch people you think are shady. That is a huge mistake. For years people thought epassport wasn't shady. Watching people you 'feel' are shady leaves a big blind spot for people you 'feel' aren't shady but end up being wrong about. Instead of watching the people, watch the clicks!
Just like in poker, you can have a 'feeling' about what someone else is doing... But you will win much more if you accurately objectively focus on the cards and the bets. The jack of diamonds is always exactly a jack of diamonds, no matter how you feel about it.
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I would much rather support someone doing things right, even if it has some impact on my bottom line.
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I have hobbies too. Business is not a hobby. If you are comparing one bracket1 sponsor against another bracket1 sponsor there is room for 'choice' but if you are basing your decision on how you feel when the $/click is brackets apart you are fucking yourself, whether you see it or not.
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Because fuck you, that's why. Nonsense! nonsense! more nonsense
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If you really want to show them how you 'feel', make a ton of money, build an empire and rub their noses in it. Create a top quality site that can actually compete. Go out and crush it with the whole world watching. Whining about what is fair or what you wish they would do is not useful to yourself or anyone else. Yes, even if you use the F word and pretend you are a big strong manly man. The facts and the math remain exactly the same.