ePassporte Official Statment

[Mr Spock]

As an affiliate payment option they are dead , granted the Visa side isn't even needed to make affiliate payments to the wallet and you can safely transfer form the wallet to your bank , credit card. However finance is all about faith and it seems that ePassporte have used/lost that. Several affiliate programs are opting out and no longer offer ePassporte as an option.

Payoneer is already stepping into the gap and I will be looking at that option. if the problem with ePassporte were fixable it would be fixed by now.

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by Mr Spock

Payoneer is already stepping into the gap and I will be looking at that option. if the problem with ePassporte were fixable it would be fixed by now.

I looked into Payoneer when it looked like my current processor was about to disappear. Two things struck me, and scared me away:

1) If you want to use their service to pay affiliates they don't have a published fee schedule, instead you have to contact them with your details and a rep will talk to you. Or in other words, they work out the maximum they can screw you for on a case by case basis. Not very encouraging.

2) If you are the person receiving funds, and you want to find out how much it will cost you in advance of signing up, you cannot. Their FAQ states:

What are the costs associated with the card?
Costs are listed and explained when you sign into "My Account"

Or in other words: Their fees for the person receiving funds are so damned high that they dare not tell you the fees until AFTER you have signed up!

All I can say from that is "Come back ePassporte, all is forgiven"!

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by Mr Spock

Several affiliate programs are opting out and no longer offer ePassporte as an option.

Lesson one in how to make a bad situation worse for yourself!

If ePassporte do come back, affiliates who signed up for those programmes to use ePassporte will simply drop them and go elsewhere. And with an increasing number of WMs using ePassporte there will be a less new WMs signing up for their program.

And even if ePassporte is a dead duck, a lot of WMs are expecting them to come back, so will leave those sponsors anyway.

So expect those sponsors who drop ePassporte to appear in the "Cemetery of Sponsors" thread in the near future!