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Why I’m Paying Affiliates 20% And Why That Shouldn’t Be Shocking
I’m going to say this straight because I’m tired of pretending it’s normal. Most affiliate programs are garbage. You help sell a product, you bring in the customer, you put your name behind it, and what do you get? Three percent. Maybe five if you’re lucky. Ten if someone wants to act generous. Meanwhile, the company is stacking margins all the way up the chain. That never made sense to me.
I’m Done Paying for the Same Product Three Times
I’m going to say this the way it actually feels, not the polished version companies want you to hear. I’m tired. Not just mentally tired, financially tired. I’m a single dad in this economy, I’ve lived through enough cycles to know when something is broken, and right now the way products are priced is completely out of control. You see it everywhere. A simple item gets manufactured overseas for pennies or a few dollars, it moves through a chain of middle hands, gets repackaged, rebranded, maybe assembled somewhere else for optics, and suddenly it’s being sold for ten times, sometimes a hundred times what it cost to make. And people just accept it because that’s how the system has always worked. But that doesn’t make it right.
The Market Is Fluctuating. That’s Not the Problem
Prices jump. Then they drop. Then they spike again for no clear reason other than “market conditions.” That’s the phrase everyone hides behind now. Supply chain. Inflation. Demand. Tariffs. Shipping. It’s always something, and somehow it always lands on the consumer paying more.