Overseller Web Hosting Providers Spoil Website Owners!

A partner of mine, who maintains a high traffic website, created to promote and support a CMS said that he has been contacted by a hosting provider starting with Bluehost and the hosting provider offered hi $120 affiliate commission per sale. This commission looks so big that my friend accepted it. But let’s see if a commissions like this a real?

The above mentioned company sells overselling web hosting for $6.95 per month ($83.40/year). If the $120 commission is real they have to keep the customer for 2 years to avoid bankruptcy. I’ve spoken to Bluehost live chat representative and asked him a few questions.

My Question: Hi, I would like to join your affiliate program. Can you please tell me how much do you pay per sale?

Answer: $65 per sign up

My Question: That’s good. Thanks. Someone in WHT forums posted you are paying $100 and above… Is it a special rate?

Answer: We are not paying $100 they are confused

Me: OK. Thank you for your time!

So, according to Bluehost official the company pays $65 per sign up. If you however go to this page -http://www.affiliatewatcher.com/21-top-paying-web-hosting-affiliate-programs/ you’ll see that the web host pays $120 per sale.

In CJ.com, probably the world’s biggest affiliate network Bluehost pays $90 per sale. Action Referral Period of the company in CJ is 120 days.

So, where is the truth… The web host is probably offering different commissions to its affiliates. Those who sign up with CJ get better deals. Is that proper? At the same time I remember that 2 years ago one of the owners of the company complained that “the costs of acquiring new customer” is very high and blamed affiliate networks for asking high commission per sale. But I believe that oversellers are those who offer unrealistically high payouts and then impose various terms that allows them leagally to avoid paying commissions.