What are sponsors going to do due to the decrease of dollar?
 

Talking of USA affiliate programs, most of the time. There are a lot of international webmasters. Any thoughts? Are they going to raise the prices or keep it this way?

Get a day job!

Why should one have to raise payouts due to the fact that their own money is worth less?

raise PPS!

they are going to loose a nice share of traffic comming from international webmasters (non US). i'm sure when the situation becomes unbearable, they are going to switch to competition paying out in EUR (for example). i don't believe US companies are the only ones in this market... :)

thats funny.
are we forgetting that the majority of porn buyers are located in the us and its the currency of choice?

try charging british pound sterling to americans and see the chargeback ratio.

americans making american dollars shouldnt really affect their purchasing power. as for international markets.. either you hedge your bet or just take it as another cost of doing business with the USA market.

Not in the game yet, as far as having a billing site, but I have thought about this.

We will charge American dollars, since that is our market.

Once the money is in the bank though, I am considering converting it to Euros. My confidence in the US economy is pretty low, at least for the next 3-5 years.

you can only give so much. sucks, but thats the bottom line for programs. with it being a 50/50 "to the table deal" (you bring traffic, we provide the content and product) between partner and affiliate, the program is always the one taxed to "give more"

bottom lines only allow so much, no matter who they are.

2cents.

who is paying in Euros?

I don't believe we're the only ones...i just believe we're the best.

Closely followed by Canadian companies.

European companies are respectable...just not as profitable. (in general)

You really think americans are going to spend $100+ on a porn membership right now? Just wait...the next 3 months are going to be horrible.

Rising gas prices + decline in value of dollar + holiday spending = max'd out cards

If they raise prices then volume will decrease so in the end you're in the same boat. Doesn't make any sense.

When $1 was worth 1.5 CAD (or whatever) were you asking sponsors to lower prices because you were getting paid too much?

holiday spending is seasonal

max'd out cards is a typical characteristic of the american economy for the past.. 30 years thus its somewhat seasonal

decline in value of the dollar wont affect their purchasing power NOW. why would they spend less if their currency is worth less COMPARED to other currencies? From what i remember CPI has not increased significantly. Prices wont jump significantly as they did with the fluxuation of the american dollar in the past 3-4 weeks.

rise in gas prices is the only thing americans can see as an increase in expense... for your argument :D

hey why don't you take that book learning into another thread :pimp

For some reason most of the non U.S. webmasters in these dollar threads lately just don't understand that people in the U.S. haven't been affected by the dollar's value vs other currencies....and other than the occasional blip on the nightly news most of them don't even know about it.

We are with Verotel so we charge US dollars for every county outside the EU and GB. So we can charge Pounds in Great Britian and Euros throughout Europe. Works great....:thumbsup

I simply raised my membership fees one month ago.
Same amount of signups and rebills and more weak $$$

I will be forced to get a regular job since dollar falling on daily bases.I wont be suprised if one day it will 1$ for 1 HRK.

sorry, its the only way i know how to get a top poster's attention :thumbsup

The US dollar is gay! That's all I have to say. Everyone is just going to make less money. The biz runs on the greenback, it always will because 90% of the customers are in the US. Stop voting that Bush guy in and in 20 years things might turn around.

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A join is a join is a join. Every join has a certain VPS, regardless of currency. Sponsors should and will do nothing, when you deal in a foreign business, you expose yourself to currency risk.

If anyone can find surfers to pay $40 euro a month for a site, then I would happily pay $30 - $35 euro on that.

How many paysites would survive billing at US$57+ per month?