I have used an adult affiliate program for some time and I cant reach its minimum payout $100, then I think my website traffic is not good for their network, I want to give it up, then I asked for payout but they say my earning is under minimum payout, its their policy and cant give me payment, do you think its true?
The minimum payout threshold is usually stated in the terms of service somewhere and should be available in the affiliate login area. So yes, I think it is true they probably have a $100 minimum payout amount. I think that amount is too high and with an amount that high, many smaller affiliates will never get paid. I have money sitting in Google Adsense I cannot receive because it is under the $100 minimum, unless I close my Adsense account permanently then I can get paid (which I do not want to do just in case I ever decide to use Adsense again in the future). If you are past the halfway point, you might find it beneficial to promote them more heavily so you can hit your minimum and get paid before you stop using it. Otherwise, you can cut your losses and promote another service.
ok, I got it, thanks for your input, I gave it up, the good thing is my earning is just less than half way, bad thing is I feel its no fair, that earning is through hard work even if its just small, if thousand of people cant make minimum payout, the owner of affiliate network get rich without pay anything. and also I found out they do the trick like this, create one network and another one similar network, I signed up the first network and somehow its automatically registered on second network, I dont know they are actually from same owner at the beginning and then I promote both network on my site, make couple sales on both network but cant reach minimum payout, which means I still earn nothing, if I focus on one network, I may get the first paycheck, sigh
True. But making payments also costs money. Plus the affiliate program wants to incentivize you to produce more revenue. I have earnings in Google Adsense and another affiliate program I will probably never get because it is below the minimum payout. I know Adult Friend Finder works in a way like that. When you sign up for one of their programs, you can promote all of them. That is nice, especially since if someone clicks on an AFF ad on your site then goes to AFF and clicks on another ad and signs up for the second program, you can get paid on that. But the minimum payout is $50 (I think) on each individual program, so you can hit your minimum on one and still not get paid on another because it is below minimum.