Mayors Money - $5 per check now?
 

doesn't bother me really, just wierd is all....$5 is pretty hefty for a check fee, what exactly costs $5 for a check to be cut and mailed? do they use some outside service?

gold plating, methinx!

damn . . .

Much larger programs cutting way more checks than them, and don't charge.

Wow, bit steep in my opinion.

Sending out checks costs money, if they didn't charge a fee it would result in lower payouts.

Which retard thinks that the webmasters should pay to run the fucking sponsor's business?? That's fucking ridiculous. I would be much more fucking disturbed if they were my sponsor.

What's next, $10 fee to all affiliates for 'hosted gallery server rental' ?

Yeah that's pretty steep.

Paycom still charges $2 I think. Most PPS programs don't charge anything.

That fee seems a bit odd.

it must be the "handling" fee

:thumbsup :thumbsup

hummm, if they send 2 checks a week and have a low payout they can claw back $40 from small accounts....


not a bad idea....... :2 cents:

Conversions are in the toilet. It's not like they'll be mailing as many checks as they used to anyway.

No, that's what minimum payouts are for, sport.

total crap imho. it's a cost of doing business with affiliates... another one that chaps my ass is the 2-4 dollar epass fee when they've already got a check cutting fee. WTF I have to pay to get my money??? lame...

How much is postage up there anyway?


So, how much does it cost to receive by wire?

i couldn't care less, since the wire fee is usually $20 anyway

As more and more programs feel the pinch of shorter rebills, higher content production costs, and significantly poorer conversions, they will look in every corner for ways to make money or save costs on the bottom line. The easiest way to do this is to pass expenses on to the affiliates.

Realitically, a check in the mail costs about $1.00 (postage, envelope, check costs) upwards to $2.00 if you include the manpower required to get the checks in the envelope, etc. If your staff is really expensive or if you are trying to sink other costs into the check operations, it can cost you more.

It is all about turning a cost center into a revenue neutral or even a minor profit center. Instead of losing maybe $1000 a week mailing checks (assume 500 checks at $2 each) you could instead turn a $1500 profit ($2500 in fees less the $1000 costs). On a weekly program, this could push an extra 80k a year to the bottom line.

Seems a bit steep to get a check.. Enless they have some LOWER cost alternative way that they are trying to get people to go to instead. I have not looked if this is the case yet.. Does anyone know?

B.I.N.G.O. I believe we do have a winner!!!

I just talked to a guy from my local bank - if i had to send out printed checks from them, it wouldt cost 5 $ pr check, unless i had a big volume...

maybe the Mayor needs Beer money.....

They also offer epass for free.

No, it's not a winner. Of course you've explained the reason why they would do it (and well), but it's not like that isn't obvious already.

The point about the whole thing is that it reveals so much about how Mayors Money treats their webmasters. Not only is it poor business practice, but it is absolutely laughable that they think it's acceptable to charge the webmasters for their own business expenses.

It is evidence of a sinking ship, poor business fundamentals, and if I was pushing them I would be immediately looking elsewhere.

In a 9-5 job would you accept if your boss deducted $5 from your wage every month for 'wage payment expenses'?

This is utterly unforgivable.

$2 charge is free ?

it does cost $5+ to have an outside service print and ship checks.

yes, but that is a cost of doing business, not an affiliate cost. Passing on every expense to the affiliate is a really big no-no.

Next fees will be the "content shooting fee" and "image color correction fee" and the "video encoding fee"...

pretty soon we will all send joins just for the fun of it.

You guys are pretty funny :)

Fact is, checks are retarded. I don't pay employees by check nor my bills nor anything at all for that matter.

Checks are an archaic throw back from last century. I am attempting to make it less appealing to get a check and more appealing to get your money instantly with Epassporte. Hell I am even paying for your new Epassporte account and I will set it up for you. If you don't like getting your money instantly then you may CHOOSE to pay $5 and get a check.

Up here? Where are you? The Keys :) We're in South Florida man!

Wire fees are the same as they always have been. Domestic wire 30 Int 40.
Epassporte FREE (and we'll set up your account for FREE)

This has convinced me I'll never promote Mayors Money. Sorry, but dude, you seem to be a complete idiot.

Correct me if I am wrong. To get money by epass is a $2 charge for them to send it. To withdraw it is another $2. So to get paid by epass is $4 and check is $5 so a $1 diff to get checks?

Wow, charging $5 to cut a check? That's ridiculously high. Meatcash charges like $2.95 to cut a check and I thought that was bad. Well, if sponsors are going to start charging us affiliates this much to cut a check, they might as well start charging us for the bandwidth we burn using their free hosted galleries. Or maybe charge us a licensing fee for the free content we use to promote their sites.

Fuck them thats shits for the birds I'll never use anyone charging for checks. does the lazy ass bitch payroll clerk need a fucking raise or something

Not to worry man, I am sure your application would have been rejected anyway. :)

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Very weak

pfft . . . epassporte is of very little value to a US resident.

I believe the question was directed to the Canadian that I quoted.

some people prefer checks over epass payments, easier to keep track of money made when you're not relying on an online service for balances :2 cents:

your a fucking idiot and hope you lose affiliates because of this

Tie your epass to your bank account and save the fees. Most people I pay would have to pull cash out every day if they were trying to hit the ATM lol.

Damn I'm sure we will go under for sure without your 5 hits a day...

That has to be the dumbest comment you have ever made. Seriously.

Oh this is great. Mayors Money sure are a class act. :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Mayor's Money fucking blows cock.

They would rather have 1:3000 TGP traffic than 1:20 SE traffic. Simple enough.

wow... i hope ramos can clean things up for you guys, thats not cool...

I find it very convient on Fridays that when I hit "pay" 1000's of people have the money that second regardless of where they live. To me, that's of GREAT value. But like I said, it's a choice, no one is forcing anyone.

If an affiliate makes a deal and he's not some GFY moron with 8 clicks, I'll go add a 100 bucks to his account and cover his next 2 years of check fees :)

For those that obviously don't know us, we actually have a great relationship with all our affiliates. We host many of them on dedicated servers shoot content for them, hang out etc. . . A couple morons from GFY with no relationship with us or our affiliates won't change that LOL

wowzer, this thread took a dive fast

I don't get ANYTHING but checks because my accountant says so...period

checks mean a paper trail...a paper trail means solid accounting on my part..if the irs ever comes I just pull out my big envelope from that year and hand it over

Mayor's business, Mayor's rules. I doubt he'd have been around this long if he weren't doing quite a few things right.

just raise the min. payout