I don't like them and I think they are one of the things that give this industry a bad name. I think if you want to use them, go ahead, but how about trying to use just one. And how about respecting the fact that users are employing pop-up killers. Within days or weeks of the pop-up killer in XP, code was circulating on the boards that killed the pop-up killer. I think this is wrong and does nothing except piss people off further.

I think if you have a good quality website, you shouldn't need to use pop-ups to get sales. And like I said, if you want to use one pop-up, fine. TopBucks is one of the worst in the business with their seemingly never-ending chain of pop-ups. AVN is another one that pisses me off with their freakin' Brain Cash program pop-up every time I open a news article. And I wish program operators would stop putting pop-ups in their webmaster areas ... that's just dumb.

MidWestMale, just so you know, one of the reasons that pop-ups are so vigorously used is to prop up the $30 Per Signup promise made by program operators. In order to be able to pay a $30 signup on a $1.95 trial signup, the program operator has to be getting revenue from somewhere else. They're not just hoping most of their trials rebill to a full-monthly membership. One of the ways they do this is to use exit pop-ups that promote other programs paying $30 per signup. It's a vicious circle.

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