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jayeff · 03-17-2005, 10:29 AM

If you send someone 100 sales and get paid for 90 of them, then yes you are being ripped off and that should be the end of the story. But too many webmasters deny what common sense tells them and if a program offers $30 instead of $40 (or whatever) they won't promote it. Thus we all but force paysite owners to be dishonest. What we don't know is which shave only enough to cover our greed and which take advantage of the situation to shave more deeply.

But it is also an illusion that revshare is inherently better. Many program owners are forced to give up a bigger share than makes sense (it is mainly smaller sites which can least afford it that have to attract with big %ages) so the pressure to be dishonest is still there. And particularly recently, sites with nothing to suggest they will retain members longer than the average PPS site are going the revshare route. If a site only retains for 1 or 2 months... well work it out for yourself.

Revshare works best if the program owner is honest and if the site has solid appeal to its subscribers. Can you think of even 50 well-known sites which fulfil both those requirements?

03-17-2005, 10:29 AM
jayeff Confirmed User Join Date: May 2001 Posts: 2,944	If you send someone 100 sales and get paid for 90 of them, then yes you are being ripped off and that should be the end of the story. But too many webmasters deny what common sense tells them and if a program offers $30 instead of $40 (or whatever) they won't promote it. Thus we all but force paysite owners to be dishonest. What we don't know is which shave only enough to cover our greed and which take advantage of the situation to shave more deeply. But it is also an illusion that revshare is inherently better. Many program owners are forced to give up a bigger share than makes sense (it is mainly smaller sites which can least afford it that have to attract with big %ages) so the pressure to be dishonest is still there. And particularly recently, sites with nothing to suggest they will retain members longer than the average PPS site are going the revshare route. If a site only retains for 1 or 2 months... well work it out for yourself. Revshare works best if the program owner is honest and if the site has solid appeal to its subscribers. Can you think of even 50 well-known sites which fulfil both those requirements?