Quote Originally Posted by Lee View Post
Unfortunately, people started abusing that payout model a lot and it seems to have died away
Exactly! Greedy cheating bastards always ruin things for others. Heck, that is half the reason we pay more for physical goods at most stores (insurance costs etc).

Back in 98’, we paid ... get ready ... $35 & $40 for ALL trial memberships!
$0.00
$1.00
...
$4.95

It went fine until more and more webmasters started getting lazy and fucking around, forcing us to partly terminated the project (many honest DEDICATED webmasters still prosper from that deal)!

We also did the PPC thing, and yah, we noticed all that bunk traffic, you bastard - guilt by association (j/k).

We kicked around the idea of payouts based on a webmasters worth *ducking*, but the problem is, many seem to think they deserve what the hard working webmasters deserve.
It was something like:
traffic divided / earnings (sign-ups + up-sells) * 'X'
'X' = pre-designated percentage

We had hoped this would motivate many to work more, and harder, but the test piglets did not like!
Until many had the audacity to ask the outrageous: so, you'll apply a value to my traffic AND still pay me $35-40/trial SU.
He yah, and if you undo your zipper I'll suck yah till your rich, but only after I washed your dirty car, laundry and whatever else. Oh heck, while we're at it, I'll assume all your debts, too!