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