New Affiliate Program!! $10.00 USD - Just for signing up!!

It's not on the site yet and I wanted to offer this to current customers first.

Our all new affiliate program is 100X better then our old one. More options, better banners and easier for us to pay you guys or credit your hosting account.

http://affiliate.vortechhosting.com/idevaffiliate/

If you have questions or suggestions for the affiliate program please let us know. Thanks

[dpyers]

Could you explain the basis of the 10% used in the Pay-Per-Sale calculation. I assume it's not ongoing for the life of the new account. Is it 10% of the initial sign-up payment regardless of the pay period the signee selects?

[Francisco]

Can the money be added to my reseller account as credit?

dpyers, the 10% is of that sale. So if they order for 1 year and it's $2,000 you would make $200. Also this is a 3 level system. It's not reoccuring for the sale, would be a bit hard to track to be sure they are here.

level 1 10% or flat $10 per sale or per click 0.01
level 2 25% or flat $15 per sale or per click 0.02
level 3 40% or flat $20 per sale or per click 0.03

Leve 1 is 25 and below in sales.
Level 2 is 25 to 50 in sales.
Level 3 is 50 sales and above.

Those are per month. So if you get 26 sales you move up.


Francisco, we can send you a check or add it to your account, of course we would rather add it to your account. Saves a stamp.

[Francisco]

How do I request to add it to my account? thats what I like to do.

When we do payouts we will email you and ask how you would like it, mail or credit. I am also looking in to paypal as well as another option since it supports it. But I really hate paypal.

[awen]

Originally Posted by admin

When we do payouts we will email you and ask how you would like it, mail or credit. I am also looking in to paypal as well as another option since it supports it. But I really hate paypal.

At the risk of drifting off topic, I use PayPal considerably for years and have never had a problem, would you to care to enlighten me what it is you hate about it? PM Reply is fine too to maintain the thread. Anyone with issues with PayPal is welcome to PM me, I'm really curious as to what I'm missing.

The kept shutting my account off saying I was charging back to them and never did charge back anything to them.. It was a mess.. The said I charged back over $100 and they had over $400 in my account with them. I never had to charge back to them because they took care of everytime I had an issue.. So I no longer use paypal.

awen, I have had several wretched experiences with PayPal. Just to give you an idea, I purchased some merchandise from someone & paid via PayPal. A month later the merchandise never arrived so I contacted the seller who said they shipped the merchandise. I asked for a tracking # and they didn't have one. So, I contacted PayPal about getting my money back. PayPal let the seller keep the money even though they could not provide proof of delivery, which according to PayPal's TOS is against their own rules. If that wasn't bad enough, I later sold a server case for Brad on Ebay. I sent it FedEx to a guy in Miami. The guy picked up the server case and then told PayPal he never got it. PayPal took the money away from my account even though I had a tracking number showing that the case was picked up from a FedEx location. I have a couple more tales of horror about PayPal but I think these 2 show enough.

Basically what it comes down to is PayPal applies their rules when and if they see fit. I will **never* recommend that Brad use PayPal for any types of payments here because I can just imagine how much money we would lose.

[logic404]

Just like to add my own two-cents on PayPal - I used to have a PayPal account, which got hacked. I contacted PayPal about getting it back in my name - they were useless via email, I spent heaps in IDD charges calling them (I'm in Australia) and 1.5 years later I STILL do not have access to my account. I've given up - they kept promising to send things to allow me to reset my password which never happened, etc. I will not be using them again - they're very bad about International customers. We don't get to do things half as easily as people in the US and have all sorts of restrictions placed on us just for not being in the US, but yet PayPal always go on about how "International" they are and that they support Aussie accounts. I'm sorry, but I just can't regard Australia as being a particularly "high risk" country for fraud.

[mresell]

I now have to ask. Since we are resellers...isn't putting an affiliate banner on our site a bad idea? I have never heard of reselling and using an affiliation program for the same product. I realize different strokes and all that.

I will correct that, nowadays I see people everywhere selling direct and to resellers via the same product...I just think it's a bad idea, (seems like more money for you less for resellers, no offense) but like I said different strokes. Since it is voluntary I guess some resellers have different types of marketing it might suit.

I just want to add that it has come to my attention that our affiliate banners have been added to some adult type sites. Please be aware that we do not offer adult hosting under Vortech Hosting and you will not be paid for any adult sites that sign up.

[Brangwyn]

I'm a happy Paypal Customer personally, been using them for several years had one or two issues with customers, but with paypal nothing but good service, they've been more than helpful the odd occasion I've needed to contact them (including recently when it was discovered one of my new signups was trying to launch a paypal phishing scam but thanks to Vortech's keen eye following up on a spamcop report they caught the first account, and I knabbed the second signup trying the same thing).

I think you'll find much has changed at paypal since eBay brought them out.

Unfortunately, I had one of my bad experiences with them AFTER Ebay purchased them. I won't be going back and if I am lucky, Vortech will never use them either.

Hell, I am still waiting on them to return the money for some monitors we never received that Vortech paid for via my PayPal account. I think it's been 6 months now and not a penny has been returned.

[logic404]

Originally Posted by mresell

I now have to ask. Since we are resellers...isn't putting an affiliate banner on our site a bad idea? I have never heard of reselling and using an affiliation program for the same product. I realize different strokes and all that.

I guess you might put it on your personal site or something? I agree, I wouldn't really want to put it on my business site - simply for the fact that, at least here in Australia, "resellers" seem to have a really bad name and I don't want to draw attention to the fact that I am a reseller.