I'm not going to split hairs with you, and I'm not going to discuss things that pertain to individual programs, it's just not done in my side of the business.
I'm out of here for awhile but I'll leave you with a reiteration of what's already been said, and it can apply to many many things in a marketplace.
You may say that if one sponsor stopped with resellers, that ten more would take their place. But if the sponsor made more money without the resellers -- remember you are the one making the case that a trial price makes the sponsor more money but not the reseller -- and other sponsors saw this to be fact, don't you think they would all start to do away with resellers?
I know of a few that have no resellers that probably net as much as some doing twice their business, since they don't have that payout to make...
Please keep in mind that I am not in any way suggesting that sponsors will quit paying, as a matter of fact I haven't heard a single one say that ever.
I'm simply pointing out that under all these hypothetical math situations a sponsor could do half, or even less than half in most cases I'd bet, the number of joins they do with resellers and make just as much money. They wouldn't need fraud control, they wouldn't need expensive and complicated stats packages, they wouldn't need as much bandwidth, the list goes on...
Now it's time for food for my tummy
