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Here’s my 5 cents worth… I feel it’s up to the sponsor to decide if they want to charge a fee for check or epass payments, and up to the affiliate if they want to use that sponsor, or continue using that sponsor.
Every sponsor pays out differently, 50%-80% revshare, some deduct processing, some don’t, some make almost impossible to see what you actually make per revshare sale, some are $25 pps, some $60 pps, some vary depending on the amount of sales you make each month. Every sponsor program varies in how much they pay per sale, it’s up to affiliates to work out their per click income and decide if the sponsor is worth promoting. If there is a $5 fee per check you need to factor that in to how much you make per click.
As far as charging a fee to cut checks, I completely understand why a sponsor program would want to do so; it’s a real pain in the ass. I do find $5 excessive for the work involved but $2.50 sounds about right to cover the costs of the check, processing, stamp, etc.
E-Passporte is a great system and although it can actually costs more to pay via epass then by check with the $2 per transfer, $35 wire fee and $50 Epass load fee, it makes life a heck of a lot easier.
In either case the fee should also be reasonable and relative to the minimum payout, if the min payout is $50 and there’s a $5 fee that’s an extra 10% loss every 2 weeks for the smaller webmasters who just reach the minimum.
I do think it was proper of Mayor to inform all his affiliates of this and not just start charging the fee with no notice. He went the right route as far as informing affiliates of changes to their account, something we don’t see so often these days.
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