It's no secret that payouts are decreasing across the board, from hard scrubbing (less signups), netting refunds, not paying on trials, and shaving signups. Cybererotica sent the email below out today. They are lowering the payout per active (non-trial) member to $40. Expect others to follow suit. It's a class act that does it up front instead of shaving the shit out of signups like some other well known programs.
Here's part of the message from Fantasyman:
HUMBLING OF CYBEREROTICA
This is the toughest move I have ever had to make. For the last 5 years CE has always prided themselves on leading the way in higher payouts and leading edge technology.
As stated above, we are not making hasty decisions. All decisions that we are making come from in depth analysis of all of our programs. Also, included in these decisions are factors of increasing costs for credit card processing, credits, chargebacks, chargeback fines and many other factors such as Webmaster fraud.
So effective April 1st, 2001 all of our Free program's payouts are being reduced to $40 per active member. We are not doing this because we want to, we are doing this because we have to. I have always said, you can never take back something that you have already given. Well, at this point we have no choice. For the past 5 years we have prided ourselves by making on time payments to Webmasters. We have paid out well over $200 Million dollars, this is an extreme amount of money. We want to be here for the next 5 years making those same on time payments. To do this and stay solvent we need to cut our payouts back to $40 per active member.
Here's part of the message from Fantasyman:
HUMBLING OF CYBEREROTICA
This is the toughest move I have ever had to make. For the last 5 years CE has always prided themselves on leading the way in higher payouts and leading edge technology.
As stated above, we are not making hasty decisions. All decisions that we are making come from in depth analysis of all of our programs. Also, included in these decisions are factors of increasing costs for credit card processing, credits, chargebacks, chargeback fines and many other factors such as Webmaster fraud.
So effective April 1st, 2001 all of our Free program's payouts are being reduced to $40 per active member. We are not doing this because we want to, we are doing this because we have to. I have always said, you can never take back something that you have already given. Well, at this point we have no choice. For the past 5 years we have prided ourselves by making on time payments to Webmasters. We have paid out well over $200 Million dollars, this is an extreme amount of money. We want to be here for the next 5 years making those same on time payments. To do this and stay solvent we need to cut our payouts back to $40 per active member.
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