whats the going rate for 200 prepaid joins?
 

what do you think is fair?

timeframe 1 month or less to complete.

hmm so many factors to calculate into this

Every month or just once????

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For those of us whom have never been involved in such transactions, explain how they work, and what are the potential benefits/pitfalls for each party?

ADG

the lower payout in the long run.

200 sales a month say 2400 a year, at 30pps which would be the normal the payout would be 72k, the prepaid at 20pps would save the program 24k in payout in the long run.

Why sell at a lower rate..if they are locking up more joins...charge more :)

30 PPS is a bit low.. one could possible do a little better then this, especially if the join form has $100 plus cross sales

my thoughts exactly.

I understand the benefit from the affiliate point of view...cash up front.

If people are saying you should be able to do better than $30 PPS on prepaid deals, what is the incentive for the program? Especially since there is risk of not getting all of the joins you've paid for...

It's one of those things I know happen, but I've never taken part and am trying to understand the benefits for a program.

Edit: is the benefit for the program getting those joins locked in to them and not going elsewhere? That's the only thing I can think of.

9-10k to start?

time frame is a little brutal tho

that makes zero sense...

why would you take a 33% pay cut to get your money 2 weeks earlier? only makes sense if the sales come from a questionable source and your account could get banned at anytime...

it's usually the opposite, the more sales you can push the higher your pps rate... 200/month now a days is a pretty decent amount, so should be able to get more than $30/sale...

Could be a cash flow problem or he needs to pre pay the traffic buy and spent all his coin on xmas gifts

Pre paid sells have alot of similarities to whats called factoring in other businesses. Affiliiates sells to sponsors are like an invoice to a company that is paid 30days out or longer. You sell your invoices to a factor company at a discount to get your funds sooner.
My question to buyers of prepaids is how do you structure it to insure delivery of all sales you purchase? Is it a handshake like trust agreement or ??

i wonder whats the % of deals where the promised amount was never delivered and the affiliate didnt return the money?

I'm wondering the same thing. I'd be interested in taking that deal since Xmas killed me, but there's no guarantee in making that many sales even if you have all the traffic in the world, especially since I don't know what site/product we're talking about..