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Originally Posted by pompousjohn
Paysites and processors are still making plenty of money. It's the affiliates that are getting squeezed out of the mix.
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I think affiliates are taking the brunt of it but I notice sponsors are getting hit too. Especially the smaller and medium sized ones. Reading the Signbucks.com Important Changes page at
http://www.signbucksdaily.com/adult-...rtant-changes/ confirms it. Sponsors are dropping, pay sites are closing. Processors are raising fees. I see sponsors here looking for alternatives to nats and mpa3 because they can no longer afford the monthly fees. At the low end I think Nats is $100 a month and Mpa3 is $50. So presumably at their current revenues it isn't worth it to pay that any longer. Some sponsors are posting their stats and revealing less than 50 sales a month or showing that they process under $100 a week. Then there are all the other anecdotal pieces of evidence such as the people posting, the bling factor at the shows, lack of people skinning the boards, and people otherwise appearing broke.
If the small and medium sized sponsors and affiliates who tend to use ccbill, zombaio and verotel are getting hit then I would think so are these processors. Sure some other customers in mainstream and bigger sponsors might be softening the hit but I would bet good money that it's less than previous years overall.