Non Recurring Memberships - Maintaining A Balance?

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Originally Posted by Squirt

So wouldn't your ethics dictate that your loyalties are to your customer, who's puting money in your pocket? Bottom line they are the ones you're loyal to right?

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Yes it is.

On paysites I have run my customers were number one. Videos I filmed I even gave them the tools to burn their own VCD's. I went out of my way for my customers. Hell, my sex life become public on a webcam and I was talking on aim to my customers. (My BF had a personal cam site). i also went out of my way to the handful of affiliates I had.

Surfers who I have earned their trust, I treat with respect. In the case of pimproll I gave them what I felt was the best deal even though i made less money... Though what I thought I was making the less money on I actually made more as I found the $15 a month converted like crazy.

The "problem" I guess with a program like Pimproll's is I actually find value in their sites compared to 80% of the other sites out there. There is a lot of good quality content and I can offer a $14.95 price per month that actually makes me the most money. And gives them good value.

I guess at the end of the day I can live with myself by marketing a site that has what i consider to be a good value to the consumer at $14.95 a month even though other consumers are paying $24.95 a month after they rebill from the trial. (Which I ultimately feel everybody should be offered the same price. But then again I also feel Al Gore won the election. So what do I know?)

But if that is the biggest question I have about my ethics I am not all that concerned. Both surfers are getting good value which is more than I can say for 80% of the sites out there.....

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Originally Posted by CorbinFisher_BD

I'm curious as to what people think about the ethics involved in offering different options to surfers based on where they were referred from.

For example, is it entirely ethical for a surfer to not be given any idea that:

- Others are able to join at a non-recurring option
- Others are able to not see exit consoles/upsells/popups
- Others are being given cheaper join options

I think this question certainly falls within the scope of this discussion. It's just that... all too often I think many of the demands of certain affiliates can result in surfers being treated unfairly.

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I really don't see a problem with that. Lets take hotel guests booking a room for example:

1. call the hotel directly for a room: $200
2. Call the hotel but say you're a triple A member: $180
3. Book online at the hotel directly: $190
4. Book online at the hotel through orbitz: $185
5. Book through priceline.com: $110

Mainstream companies offer different prices to different customers and many times its relative to who refered them or how they contacted the company.

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Originally Posted by djdez

Mainstream companies offer different prices to different customers and many times its relative to who refered them or how they contacted the company.

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Actually just goto Dell.com and the same item will be a different price depending on if you chose to shop in the home section or the small business section.

Check out the second monitor

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