Are you promoting more Epoch & CCBill sponsors in the current economy?
 

Are you promoting more Epoch & CCBill sponsors in the current economy? Obviously billers do come and go, so do you have the sense that individual programs which do their own payouts are safer or that specific third party billers are safer.

As SpookyCash is an Epoch-powered program which cascades to CCBill (Epoch pays on both), I'm hoping more people are shifting to these sorts of programs, but I'm wondering whether they actually are. What do you all think?

If you're testing out a sponsor, the worst thing is not making the $100 minimum payout. Do this for 5-6 sponsors or more and the money that's just sitting there really adds up. I think that's a real advantage of CCBill and Epoch powered affiliate programs.

i dont, and will not even consider doing so. from an affiliate side you need to trust the program you promote, you need to know which biller they use. the names you mention might be with a great reputation, but until you tried them from a sponsors side aswell, considered from the risk managements side also, and had a chance to compare them with a trustworthy merchant solution such as ie vxsbill, you would think as me.

You are totally right about that adding up. I recently ran a report for the last few years combined on my little stats desktop thingie and I was like, damn, that's a lot of small amounts of money at random sponsors I've tried out. With my primary niche traffic, I might sell just about anything while a girl with tattoos and crayola hair is the most recent update, but later not so much.

Yeah, I've had a lot of NATS-powered independent-pay sponsors get slow or unreliable with my money lately, or even just repeatedly fail to pay (SpankBuxx). When trying out new stuff, Epoch or CCbill is definitely a plus at this point.

That said, I do think their scrubbing is more vigorous -- sales come harder and slower and with worse ratios.