Sponsors who charge $7 for a check....
 

Don't you think that's a bit too much? seriously...

The ink for the signature is so pricy!

Btw. CCBill charges less than 1$!

At least you know that sponsor arent going to get bankrupt printing all these affiliate checks :1orglaugh

who dat? expose them....

the most i have seen that sponsors want for check is 3-4$ but 7 is way to high...

Yea 7 is pricey, 3-4 bucks is ok I guess.

Well I did get this email, I also remember someone else charging the same because I just recently changed to checks.

Yes, $7.00 is too much but I had one sponsor charge me $12.00. Needless to say, I dropped that sponsor.

Looks like it might be a way to try to gently force you to use the electronic pay providers? Some have "kickback" programs for referring customers.

It makes you wonder what's next. Perhaps they will take their bandwidth costs and divide it evenly among the number of affiliates in the program and charge them each their fair share per month? Thankfully affiliates still have plenty of choices and don't have to do business with such programs.

No one should charge you a dime to cut a check period.

You are doing them a great service. They should kiss your ass.

yep, $0.98 per check

the word should is what is causing all the problems...

Cash Maniacs.

We charge $2 .
Start promoting www.RaiderCash.com

We don't charge for checks, wires, or Paxum payments because seems greedy to charge affiliates to get their money. :pimp

It's kind of ironic that direct deposit is listed as costing more money than a paper check.

When direct deposit was introduced all those years ago, the entire selling point of it was that it SAVED MONEY for the company and bank by not needing any paper.

$7 seems kind of too high.

checks should be $1-$2 max.

too much indeed

Yep, that's poop

excessive for sure

I've seen $2 but 7..damn..

$2 seems reasonable.....$3 max, any more then that is just skimming.

i agree 7 is way too much

How does anyone justify $7 for a check. $1 I can understand but not $7.
We don't charge for checks and never have.

:thumbsup

If you're only charging $1-$3 then you could as a program just as well leave it and not charge.

What's more important, cutting the checks @ $2 and giving the affiliate the feeling "ok, they don't charge much but they did charge me" or charging nothing and giving the affiliate the feeling "swell program, going to promote it more, at least they do not charge me for cutting checks"

sometimes the little things in life have a huge consequence

From Money Cult's FAQ:
MoneyCult currently has the following payment options:
Paper Check - the minimum payment is $130 (12$ fee),
Paxum - the minimum payment is $130 (3% fee),
Wire transfer - the minimum payment is $1000 (50$ fee),
WebMoney - the minimum payment is $130 (5% fee),
eCoin - the minimum payment is $130 (1% fee),
ePayService - the minimum payment is $130 (1% fee),

for that money you'd expect their site to actually load....

It depends. $7.00 isn't just for the check in my opinion because it helps to pay for things such as accountants, accounting services, accounting software, bank fees, affiliate / payee support, lost check recovery, sales and financial reporting software and technical support assoicated with that software, etc.

I remember Gamma always took a couple bucks off my checks, which at the time was the only sponsor I can remember charging for "check processing". But now it is much more commonplace.

At SellHealth we never charge a dime for checks sent by regular mail. We also deliver checks by Fedex for free for payments over $1,000, and charge a reasonable $20 for checks below $1,000.

Caught on the news today a bank charging $2 to check your balance via ATM.. at their own ATM. Another who charges $6 a month if you DONT use your debit card that month. Another charging $8.95 monthly service fee for an account titled "Totally Free Checking".

These sort of "bill stuffing" is going to get smacked down hopefully. Or be forced to itemize (how much exactly of my check that you charge me to receive the money you owe me is to pay the employee pressing the button? lets see it on the stub)

Not exactly on-topic, but close enough for jazz.

Thats too high for me...

FatPays has a 7$ check fee too.

Thank you.

You always knew how to take care of affiliates.

Lol, dropping a sponsor because of $5? Doesn't make sense..

One of my friends used to payout 25+ checks every two weeks.
So he would get at least $50 back every two weekends for dropping mail..(when it was 22cents per mail)

Makes a lot of sense actually. It shows the way the sponsor thinks about the affiliate. Read between the lines. There's a lot of stuff like this.

It's not always a simple matter of "cutting a check" though... A lot of international banks will charge $5-10 to write up a US-negotiable USD bank draft.

5$ there ,5$ overthere,and soon you lose hundreds.

Hi All,

At Wishing.com we have never charged a cent to our affiliates for sending a check - cost of doing business.

We never charge to re-send a check....

Also, we will get ACH payments setup soon and will not charge for this either.

Happy Holidays,

Todd

standard practice around here, you should see my bank's fees you will shit bricks.

I get your point, but..

Go with what sponsor makes the most profit from your traffic. Changing a sponsor because they charge $5 more to send a check just seems stupid imo. What if the cheaper one makes you wait 2+ days longer to get your check? Or on average converts just 1 less sale per period. Is the fuss over the $5 check fee really worth it?

Try telling your hydro company or the government that your tax check will have a $12 fee for you to send them your money.

Any fee to pay someone money they've earned is ridiculous. You should charge them a fee for the inconvenience of using a paper check in this day and age.

To me it is all ridiculous.

I seems most revshare/affiliate programs are offering BIG bonuses if you send them 100+ sign ups per month (How many people actually make these?) or $75 PPS specials where you need to generate at minimum $250+ in sales first before they will send you anything plus you need to send them an email notifying them you participated in the special $75 PPS within a specified time frame and finally you have to wait to see if any sales generated don't look fraudulent to them.

On top of all that they nickel and dime their affiliates to have a check sent to them for $0.44 cents. $1 at most if overseas.

I'm sorry but I'm in the same business as all of you and it appears to me that that a lot of the revshare/affiliate programs out there are just as deceiving as some websites are to their consumers in regards to billing practices

Join today for $1.95 and get free access to 100 other sites.. In small "quotes".. $49.95 will be billed to your account if you don't cancel within 30 seconds. (Exaggeration)

Same thing is going on with $7 charges for revshare/affiliate checks and the misleading advertising on the consumer end.. It is all wrong in my opinion..

out of all the checks i've ever received i've never paid a dime for one.

that tops the one i found $6 for a damn check.

they should eat the fee
even ccbill is not that high

Well most of sponsors dont charge anything for checks anyway.Usually high fee are applied from non usa sponsors.

That's way too high. A reasonable amount would be the postage fee plus a nominal amount for the check, $1-2 max. Beyond that, its simply a way to skim off affiliates.
WG

quit whining you affiliates should be happy the program even lets you make you money for them while they do nothing.