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LA Mike · 08-14-2001, 08:04 PM

SilverCash pays $40 per trial signup and let me tell you we dont make much at all if anything from the signup. You can say average retention is 2 months and if we rebill at $34.95 you have to take away the 10-15% of what the billing company charges you. Now take away the chargeback fees. Take away bandwidth, advertising costs, employees, and so on and there is no profit. Probably a loss from what you'll actually make from the new member. Its hard to tell for sure. All I know is that we are able to pay $40 per trial and the company is still making money. So why change? Boneprone had a good point when he said that 'its not the ratios that matter, its the bottom line dollars" Take you're traffic and send it to one company and see how much you make after a week. Then send the same amount to another company and compare checks. There is a number of programs out there that pay $40 per signup but then they take away for cancels, credits, and chargebacks and you really end up making 15-25 bucks per join. Where with a flat rate company its $40 no matter what.

Basically as I said we probably lose after paying the webmasters, even considering we have just about every peice of content you can imagine in our sites, but we do things like collect email addresses, upsell our members, push traffic to other sponsors on exits and so forth.

So in answer to you're question, Yes you can pay $40 per trial and make money but you have to be carefull and its not easy. With Visa and everyone tightening up and fraud being such a problem payouts are going down everywhere.

08-14-2001, 08:04 PM
LA Mike Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Orange County, CA Posts: 3,056	SilverCash pays $40 per trial signup and let me tell you we dont make much at all if anything from the signup. You can say average retention is 2 months and if we rebill at $34.95 you have to take away the 10-15% of what the billing company charges you. Now take away the chargeback fees. Take away bandwidth, advertising costs, employees, and so on and there is no profit. Probably a loss from what you'll actually make from the new member. Its hard to tell for sure. All I know is that we are able to pay $40 per trial and the company is still making money. So why change? Boneprone had a good point when he said that 'its not the ratios that matter, its the bottom line dollars" Take you're traffic and send it to one company and see how much you make after a week. Then send the same amount to another company and compare checks. There is a number of programs out there that pay $40 per signup but then they take away for cancels, credits, and chargebacks and you really end up making 15-25 bucks per join. Where with a flat rate company its $40 no matter what. Basically as I said we probably lose after paying the webmasters, even considering we have just about every peice of content you can imagine in our sites, but we do things like collect email addresses, upsell our members, push traffic to other sponsors on exits and so forth. So in answer to you're question, Yes you can pay $40 per trial and make money but you have to be carefull and its not easy. With Visa and everyone tightening up and fraud being such a problem payouts are going down everywhere.