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Originally posted by scoreman
You are discounting the fact that the site owners shoulder risks to capital that you never participate in. Like for example we spend $2700 to get a shoot together then it washes out because of a model flaking or the male component has hardware failure. Or we have a camera that is dropped and broken and cost $1800 to replace. Those are two quick examples but the list goeson and on and on.
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You're correct about all of that but I'm talking strictly about the MATHEMATICS of a surfer clicking on a sponsor link and the odds whether he will join now or join later...Like you can have one situation to why a surfer may not join and there are numerous permutations that can lead up to that same one reason. (ex. Doesn't sign up now because #1 card declined, #2 card is at home, #3, #4, etc. And for those reasons alone, when a site owner says they are getting 1:350 conversions, he isn't taking into account the bookmark traffic and typein traffic while the affiliate doesn't get to benefit from that kind of traffic to a site that he/she doesn't own.
The risks that the program owner takes are much higher than what the webmaster takes. That's a given.