Signups only paid if surfer stays 4+ hours

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Originally Posted by CD Smith

Maybe sponsors should be checking their affiliates from time to time and oh, I don't know, maybe cancelling their accounts if they are found to be promising things that the site doesn't deliver? Most of my sponsors provide approved text and I generally base my descriptions on that information, and not on something I pulled out of my ass.

I'm sure there are plenty of good sponsors with excellent sites that do NOT have the 4-hour caveat in their TOS though. Like a few others have said here, it also smacks of being an excuse to shave the affiliate.

You're right, it IS a partnership, even when it is a pay-per-signup agreement.... but I consider my job done if I have properly and honestly referred the intitial sale. After that it is the sponsor's job to keep that sale. Period. Not to mention all the work I did to build my sites and traffic, that's all part of the scenario too. If given a choice between promoting a "4-hour" sponsors and one with no "4-hour" caveat, I'm very likely to go with the latter.

You are obviously a responsible webmaster and I am assuming that preselling the surfer responsibly is 2nd nature to you, but not to most.

The fact of the matter is that even a small-medium webmaster program wouldn't have the time to check their webmasters for anything but the worst breaches.

Hell I agree with just about everything said in this thread except for the suggestion that its exclusively the sponsors fault if they dont conver/retain.