[Simon]

If CashFetish wasn't a CCBill-based program, we'd still want the available minimum payout to be $25 or less. Since webmasters can merge affiliate accounts for the purpose of payment (and ease of stats checking) at CCBill, we know almost everyone will get paid for their work. But looking over the year-end stats from the sponsor side of the admin, I can see that there were plenty of webmasters who didn't make a lot of sales last year. Maybe they're new to the biz, or just don't have much fetish traffic yet, or maybe they're hobbyists or dabblers or whatever the reasons might be. But the bottom line is, if we had our minimum payouts set to $100 or more, then a lot of those webmasters would still be waiting for the checks they've already gotten.

I agree that it would be good for sponsors to pay webmasters who aren't reaching the minimum after a reasonable amount of time. It might even be done by sending an email to the unpaid webmasters at year-end asking if they prefer to keep the account open and wait for the commissions to build or close the account and have a check sent to them. It could actually result in some increased signups for the sponsors that way, from affiliates who do want to keep the account open and who then start promoting them more heavily. Probably get as much revenue in new signups as it would cost to pay out the commissions they'd be holding otherwise. Plus it would generate more goodwill, which some sponsors could really use.



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