Originally Posted by CDSmith

I can only speak from my own experience, and according to that experience I am not wrong in the least.

Put it this way, one example happened many years back. I found an extreme niche fetish paysite that had zero affiliates. I struck a deal with the owner because I thought I could do well with promoting his stuff. That program, with ONE affiliate, increased it's membership by over 1/3 in a very short perdiod of time. I doubled his overall traffic back then and was paid whatever the standard affilliate payout was back then.

If he had of added in 100 or 200 more affiliates, well... it ain't rocket science as to what would have happened. And that's just one small example. I'm sure many program owners could tell you exactly how much they value the signups that their affiliates send each month, and why.

You're of course still entitled to think I'm wrong though. :D


Of course there are going to be exceptions.. but why complain? Bottom line for me is, I at one time had to put in a fucking TON of work to build and promote my sites in order that today I can "push a button" as someone said and make some money. It's still not that easy as far as I'm concerned, and the time it took to learn how to be able to "push that button" is valuable enough.

But hey, if every single paysite owner were to lower payouts right across the board then I guess affiliates would either have to suck it up, or develop their own pay sites and start taking 100% of the profits. :D

Most paysite owners I know don't seem all that hard done by for paying out what they do though, or offering other perks and incentives. I can think of several who live life pretty large the way things are, and they wouldn't be nearly so loaded without their hundreds or in some cases even thousands of affilates.