matt 26z, a surfer is more likely to sign up for a $2.95 trial than a $30 anything. a lot of sites that pay per sale have great front ends and terrible member areas so if you promoted those sites with a recurring option you wouldn't do very well.

but a lot of sites with really REALLY good member areas have really terrible tours. i see it all the time doing reviews. so you would be a lot less likely to make an intial sale with those sites even though they rebill like crazy.

and i know for a fact that a LOT of surfers would rather sign up for a higher-priced NON-rebilling membership. we were selling our non-recurring 1-month membership for $10 more than the rebilling membership and half our sales were non-recurring. on the other hand, if they don't want to rebill that much, they're going to cancel before they enter your site - so might as well take the extra $10 since you were very unlikely to see a rebill from those guys anyway. i've seen this on several sites - not all my own. the members cancel BEFORE they see the content. the ones i emailed said they wanted to be sure they weren't rebilled. and they'd apparently rather spend more so they won't have to worry.

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This is a fairly new method of what I'd group into open sponsor shaving (meaning, fucking around that they don't try and hide) that is catching on more and more with sponsors. Like you said, if the surfer likes the site they'll sign right back up and the affiliate doesn't see any credit for that.

Do you think a surfer will sign up for $35 non-recurring, but not $30 recurring? A few may be that way, but for the most part it's just a way for sites with good members areas to bring back surfers without having to pay affiliates.

I generally do not promote sites that offer a non-recurring option unless it's for multiple months. You can't have revshare on one month. It's basically $15 PPS or whatever. If they are going to offer that billing option, then the affiliate payout for it needs to go way up. Either that or don't offer it to affiliate traffic at all.

Another thing.... I believe it is Lightspeed Cash on the straight side who issues credit when a referral signs up again at a later date. You sure as hell don't see other sponsors rushing to copy that model.