RXL Increases Wire Transfer Payment Threshold

Although RXL offers one of our favourite affiliate programs, we’re disappointed to see affiliates hit with a big increase in the minimum payment threshold — from 500 to 1000 dollars. So, if you’ve become accustomed to seeing a regular wire every week, two weeks, or month, plan to see that increase to two weeks, four weeks, or two months.

Although we’re a big fan of the RXL affiliate program, we’re disappointed to see the program discriminating against smaller affiliates by bumping up the minimum payment threshold for wire transfers from $500 to $1000.

This change has at least two immediate effects:

It means lower volume affiliates have to wait longer to receive payment, and
It means lower volume affiliates have to accept a larger level of risk associated with non-payment.

What I mean by that second one is that at some point, probably, this program (like any other) will cease to function, and at that point affiliates may or may not be paid what they are owed. Sorry if this sounds harsh, but veterans of the industry know that it’s a fact of life! So for lower volume affiliates, your potential loss if and when that happens has just increased from $500 plus current earnings to $1000 plus current earnings. Or to put it a different way, for lower volume affiliates, the back payment which might never be made when the program shuts down has just doubled.

It could be worse, but it could also be a heckuva lot better…

This article was last updated on Friday, 24th February 2006 at 5:37 pm and is filed in the Affiliate Program Updates section. You can leave a response below.