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04-23-2003 11:26 PM |
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Originally posted by Carrie
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Mainly I'm thinking about the "close look" that Visa is taking at AVS sites, because when they slammed their rules down, a lot of the sites they were targeting moved into premium AVS areas. An AVS is a network of sites, like this - so there is that similarity.
Although I do realize that each site will be checked for anything illegal, etc. Maybe an extra step could be to see if a paysite's owner is located in the Terminated Merchant File (not even sure if you could get access to that).
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We've looked a little into this with avs, we were kinda hoping we solved the issues visa had with our more closed door solution - let's hope visa agrees in the long term ;-)
If not, i think we are in a better position than most paysite owners to comply with whatever the new set of restrictions is ... we will probably have to look at a series of things like you mentioned over time ...
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As a possible partner, my questions are this:
1. Will the amount I'm paid cover the bandwidth that the Swoit users eat up?
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In theory ...
my concern is that people will spend more times in the sites with lots of text that are low bandwidth, and quickly browse through a movies section downloading 100 meg along the way in 5 minutes of surfing ... we haven't seen this happen yet, but i'm expecting there to be issues for some sites, yes.
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2. Can I make a separate "landing page" for Swoit members that might not have all of the features that my normal member's area has? For example, if I currently connect member's areas with another paysite, I wouldn't want Swoit members going there and eating up that person's bandwidth and they wouldn't get paid for it, or for plugins that I have that don't allow this type of access - can I make a different member's area entrance page for Swoit members that won't have links to the plugins or the shared member's area from my "partner" paysite?
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Yes, I can so no reason why not ... as long as its an actual paysite standard members area and you can set up a copy with its own htaccess to post usernames to ...
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3. Will we be paid directly from Swoit, or from CCBill?
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Directly through swoit
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4. Will payouts be in USD or AUD?
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LOL
usd ;-)
we don't work in any other currency
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5. How many current Swoit members are there? Projections of 100k recurring customers in 3 months is cool - but how many members are we looking at possibly serving right now? (This would allow us to make projections on bandwidth and costs and weigh that against what we might expect to make.)
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About 650 at last count ... a week of beta testing and 24 hours since launch so we are expecting that to grow pretty quick from now on.
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As an affiliate, what's to keep a Swoit member from liking one particular paysite so much that he drops Swoit and goes directly to that paysite? What kind of offers are thrown at him on the cancel page?
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As much as that would be nice for the paysite owner, we doubt it will happen often enough to be an issue ... most of the paysites in the system are more expensive on their own LOL
Also, its in swoits best interest for that not to happen so we earn money too .... |
