What cookie time is OK for YOU when it's about promoting RevShare paysites?

[Simon]

Originally Posted by Voltar

i still stick with the 30 day being fair...that's what i had on all my paysites and no one had a problem with it...and i can tell you the unaffiliated signup was a rare beast anyway...very rare...porn is and will be an impulse buy..

I set the cookie to CCBill's maximum of 255 days on mine. We generated around 85% of the traffic on our own so affiliate traffic and signups were extra revenue, and I thought then and still do now that if an affiliate sends a surfer to my site I should pay them for their work if that surfer ever signs up, no matter how long it takes. I know it may not make logical sense to many, but it feels right and I believe using long expiration cookies helps keep sponsors from thinking affiliate traffic is somehow free.

Originally Posted by Jel

Why should you not get paid on a sale that you possibly didn't generate, at the behest (fucking cant believe that's the only word coming into my head lol) of sales that you possibly did generate?

That's truly the other part of the equation. We all know that some of our valid sales don't get credited to us for many reasons, from processors who scrub too hard to cookie eraser programs and the many browsers running in Safe Mode. So my thinking is a good sponsor will do every thing they can do to ensure that every single signup which can be credited to an affiliate is, in fact, credited to them.

JMHO/YMMV