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Inforcer said:
There are a few things I don't understand and would like to have an answer to. I am asking them here, since asking them via support email only generated generic replies, which did not answer my questions.


1) I saw that f.e. by month, you charge 9.99$ and 9.99 EURO alike, although 9.99 Euros are >13$. I feel that the european customers will find any price >10$ (or the equivalent in Euro) too much, as they are used to lower pricing from other filehosts.
But my question is, if someone buys Premium for 9.99 Euro, will I receive 90% off THAT or off 9.99$?

2) Rebills?
I saw that in the Folder View, which is the view I use 99% of times, you emphasize the '3 day Premium', which is not even paid for at all (!) if you choose the Fixed PPS Option. If the user takes that, isn't he automatically rebilled after that? Cause if yes, then this sucks for me, as I will receive 1/3 in revenue as with f.e. FileSonic and the user will not really "buy again".
Or is his subscription cancelled after 3 days and getting him to buy new premium is open game?
OR do you maybe offer, like FileFat f.e, a smaller revenue share on the REBILL (like f.e. 70% PPS, 30% Rebill)?

3) I read in your original post:
"Referrals get 25%, but only eligible under the PPD plan!"
So when I refer affiliates via my referral link, while I am on the PPS plan for Premium, I earn nothing for my referrals??
This does not make any sense. The 25% I make (or not) on the earnings of the people I REFER to you (as Affiliates), have nothing to do with my activity in terms of earning from my downloads and selling Premium (to Users). Affiliates are people who sign up with you because they want to earn money, just like me. (Premium) Users are people who pay so they can download the stuff I upload to you faster and have nothing to do with the Affiliates. So why should the way I earn with you (PPD or PPS) have any effect on the 25% I get cut in on the earnings of AFFILIATES I refer to you?

It would be nice if you could address all 3 of my questions and elaborate on them.
Thanks!
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i really would like to know the answers to these questions too...
 
"Referrals get 25%, but only eligible under the PPD plan!"
So when I refer affiliates via my referral link, while I am on the PPS plan for Premium, I earn nothing for my referrals??
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Actually, this is the thing that I don't like about their affiliate program. Almost all of the serious uploaders go for PPS, not PPD (or at least the serious uploader friends of mine do). On the other filehosts, we get paid for PPS plans.

In fact, my referrals who are all on PPS earn me around 200 USD a week on the other filehosts! I got those same people to sign up and use FileJungle, and so far, they've brought me ZERO... Not one single cent for the referrer although they've been making quite a few sales per day. (To those who don't believe my statement above, I can attach my earning stats from my other filehosts...)

That's why I don't recruit referrals anymore for FileJungle. I might as well sign them up under me on the other filehosts who pay for the sales they get. If I sign them up here, I won't get anything from their sales, AND I lose them as referrals on the other filehosts... Double whammy for me!
 
teks0427 - You wont get referral earnings via PPS. Serious uploaders upload for themselves and make money for themselves and do not rely on referrals to generate their earnings. If you feel you have the potential to make money yourself why don't you bring in your own sales? Then you won't have any worries in regards to not receiving extra payments for the sales your referrals generate.

phantom - Check your inbox.
 
Look at it this way. I'll give you an example...

Let's say I have an uploader who makes 2000-4000 USD a month on PPS on another filehost. Since he's my referral, I gain 25% of what he makes, so I earn 500-1000 USD a month from him.

If I sign him up here, he'll most probably still be making what he used to make, 2000-4000 a month. But doing that would make me LOSE the 500-1000 USD a month that I get as referral commission since he won't be selling for the rival filehost anymore. (We don't mirror files).

Also, imagine how much revenue he brings to the filehost if he makes 2000 - 4000 in sales commissions per month.

So, given that, why would I bring him over? To lose the 500-1000 USD a month that I get from him? And that's just ONE referral.

I also upload and post files to forums, blogs, groups and sites. I also earn my commissions from PPS, but I get my bonuses from my referrals. Who doesn't like bonuses? Only the people who don't want to give them out probably.

Anyway, I guess you already understand what I'm trying to point out. I suggest you consider those points seriously.

Oh, BTW, the example I used is actual... And so is everything I said... :) A picture really paints a thousand words....

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Those caps were taken just a few minutes ago. And I can honestly say they are totally unretouched, except for the blurred area where my referral's userid is.. Now tell me, why would anyone pull him out of those filehosts to bring him here? And lose all that?

Seriously now...
 
filejunglegreg said:
teks0427 - You wont get referral earnings via PPS. Serious uploaders upload for themselves and make money for themselves and do not rely on referrals to generate their earnings. If you feel you have the potential to make money yourself why don't you bring in your own sales? Then you won't have any worries in regards to not receiving extra payments for the sales your referrals generate.
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Sorry Greg, but you cannot be more wrong. Actually, from some point, to let others work/earn for you is the evolution of our "job". As you can see I am advertising AFFILIATE REFERRALS (NOT Premium!) heavily on my pages f.e. http://www.downloadelite.com/5692 and I actually will no NOT start working with you myself, but change to PPD so I can earn the 25% I am entitled to. I have a lot of people rallied behind me, who trust me and listen to me. I would be very stupid to not put this trust to good use and maybe, some day, don't have to upload anymore myself. Please reassess your position. You are basically K-lining your own growth by punishing quality Uploaders to choose between referral earning or Premium Sales. The result is, to resolve this conflict, to just go somewhere else altogether ...
 
You are basically K-lining your own growth by punishing quality Uploaders to choose between referral earning or Premium Sales. The result is, to resolve this conflict, to just go somewhere else altogether ...
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Yes, exactly my point. Filehosts earn money not from the downloaders who buy premium accounts. Filehosts earn money from the UPLOADERS who bring in files, which in turn bering in the downloaders who buy premium. So, the more UPLOADERS you can recruit, the more revenue you can generate.

Now, the filehosts themselves cannot do all the recruiting of uploaders, so they give incentives to people who can recruit for them. The incentives they give are commissions on the premium sales that the people they recruited can generate. Now, if you take that incentive away, why would they go to you when they could just as well go to the other filehosts who would give them what they want?

In fact, the other filehosts are waging a "referral commission percentage war" raising their commission percentages, just to try and outdo their rivals. And now, FileJungle comes out doing just the opposite of that? I don't think setting that sort of trend is gonna be good for the business.

To put it bluntly, if you pocket the 25% that's supposed to go to the referrer, thinking that you'll be making a few more bucks, you'll lose the referrer and all the referrals he could have brought in. Like in my case, you just lost quite a bit of sales because of that marketing strategy...
 
FileJungle should increase free download speed to 175-200KB/s for more competitive with other filehost like fileserve, filesonic..., and move Japan to group B
 
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