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> You want your affiliates to pay full price
> so you get all the money - BUT - you are
> quite happy to get half of that for every
> sale your affiliates makes.

I think you're missing the point. I want my customers to pay full price. Sure my affiliates can buy it themselves and they are certainly entitled to getting the 50% off if they use their affiliate link - that's not my problem.

I guess what I need is a way to restrict this commission payout to only a select few joint venture partners, without them worrying about their commission being stolen also.

> So if the total market is 10,000. And each
> of ten affiliates can sell 999, you are
> happy to only get half the money for 9,990
> sales but want the full price of ten sales.

Your example only makes sense if I do no promoting myself and let my affiliates handle all of the marketing, which obviously won't be the case. I will be making the majority of sales myself so to sell the majority of my software at 50% off would be the same as if all sales were affiliate sales. If this is what I wanted I wouldn't do any promoting myself, would I? There would be no point. Which brings me back to my initial post.

> It doesn't make sense to want your
> affiliates to sell sell sell and be willing
> to only get half of their sales, but want
> full money for the initial sale to your
> affiliate.

And yes, it makes perfect sense for the affiliates to promote for 50%, why is that confusing? And why shouldn't I get the full 100% on sales I make myself. I'm sorry but it is you that is making no sense.

> You're trying to operate on double
> standards. You're better off diverting
> energy to increasing sales instead of
> stopping the few who will buy through their
> own affiliate link.

> Michael Ross