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Originally posted by gregtx
Acid Max and Natalie...
Let me ask you a question... as webmasters.. if you are not converting your traffic with a sponsor.. do you leave it there??? or do you move it around to manipulate and maximize your dollar?
we at SICCash are here to be profitable.. when we go through accounts.. we go through them once.. then we revisit them weeks later to see if they have improved. if an account is not profitable... we used to just close the account. WE instead recently offered the webmaster a lower payout to remain an active account.
I understand that its easy to throw the blame at the sponsor and say.. "isn't it their responsibility to keep the member"... yes it is... but when an account is 20% below our company average.. there is a problem.. it may be that the traffic/surfer has become more educated and savy.. knows the game of bookmark.. join, jerk and cancel.. thus the traffic is not as profitable to us...
NOW with that said.. we can either close an account, or we can offer a new pay structure, so that we too can try and gain some of the monies back that we have already paid out in normal payouts, without doing some shady shaving trick... (sorry we are straight shooters... and havn't been in biz this long b/c of cheating our affiliates..) we chose to offer you something that may prove a win/win for both you and us..
thank you Greenguy for the suggestion of the $.04 rule... as I see AcidMax seams to be still doing ok 
times get tougher for everyone everyday... and if we are not being business savy and maximizing our traffic daily.. we won't be in business to pay you for your traffic in the future...
and trust me.. we want to be here for you...
peace
ps.. if you had a question.. its easy to contact me.. as stated in the email
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Greg I understand you are in business just as well all are to make a profit. I look at it like this. I didnt signup to SicCash for $20 payouts. Granted I am still doing OK, however, my job is to drive the surfer to your site. Most of my traffic is SE traffic or link trades with other sites liek Greenguys that also have good SE traffic. There is nothing blind, nothing shady, etc.
The point of the matter is that you are paying me per click (essentially) in hopes to drive more traffic to your sites where you guys make the recurring monies. If you were not making money off (hypothetically I dont know if you guys do this or not) cross sells, upsells etc., then you wouldn't be offering a higher payout amount. I look at it like this is the way for you to put a little bit more into your pocket without consulting the person sending you traffic.
I equate it to this...If I was to go out and by traffic for 5 cents a click then said, "You know what, your traffic doesnt convert for me so I'm only going to pay you 3 cents!" The traffic guy would tell me to get bent, yet you guys just did this to me.
Granted I am still making 4 cents a click, on raws, but we will see how it pans out. I am not trying to be an asshole I just think its kinda shitty that you guys just lower the payout like that. I typically look at my stats and see who is converting descent and use them for my free sites, right now it doesn't look like I will be sending any of my freesite traffic to SicCash even though my conversions were descent.
Andy