Originally Posted by lazycash

Will, what else do you need to know, its still the same situation with HSN as I explained to you before, there was no bullshit. ARS/HSN reached an agreement with ifriends to use them as their backend starting Jan 4th of this year. Prior to that ARS had been using a third party processor to do the cc verify and then directing to another cam network backend. ARS severed their relationship with that backend and reached an agreement with ifriends. Along with this agreement ARS no longer uses the third party processesor and ifriends does it now. So long story short, if you are promoting ARS/HSN, your surfer goes through the HSN promo pages and is then directed to ifriends processing from the join page and ultimately to their cam network once approved.

HSN is still paying $25/join and $40 on fridays. At this point, the only reason to use HSN instead of ifriends is because of their better promotional materials, excellent support and reward points. However, many former HSN webmasters just didn't feel that was enough to make up for the $15 difference in payouts.

Nothing has changed as far as the huge drop in conversion ratios once ifriends took over the processing in January. Webmasters who still send traffic to HSN are only doing 25-60% of what they were doing before the ifriends processing changeover. HSN webmasters doing test signups are still getting their perfectly good cc declined and ifriends continues to explain it as extra high scrubbing. I was averaging 100+ signups/weekly on HSN for well over a year and the conversion ratios were like clockwork week after week month after month. Since the changeover my average dropped to 40/weekly and my conversion ratios fell from 1/48 to 1/116 for Jan and Feb. I've weened my cam traffic from them and am now back to converting 1/45 on another cc verify cam program paying $25. I'd like to send all my traffic to ifriends, but it just doesn't generate the highest $/unique despite the higher payout.