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Originally Posted by Probono
Pay heed to Steve Lightspeed's rant. Think about how the age of short retention people can pay you $40 or more for a $4.95 trial without somehow cheating? Be realistic and realize it is a partnership and even paying 50% of a sale is a high marketing cost.
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Unfortunately, some programs seem to believe affiliates are not capable or interested in helping to detemine how their traffic is best monetized once it leaves their site.
Personally I would prefer to partnership with a program that offered the option for lower payouts per sale by allowing affiliates to opt out of such tactics rather than with a company with higher payouts per sale funded by their focus on the latest way to secretly monetize my traffic without me receiving credit.
At the end of the day what matters most is net profit and how well you get to sleep at night. If I am given the choice between a program that did not do any of this stuff that generated 10 sales at $20 each or one that did them and generated 5 sales at $40 each, I know which one I would choose.