[Starfire]

I don't mind you deleting the url's I had listed, they serve no purpose other than to show which Shopster members receive the largest number of visitors on a daily basis. Affiliates receive a commission from the parent company they represent - I would venture it's either a fixed dollar amount, or a percentage of the potential member's fee to join and/or their monthly fee to generate residual income.

Unfortunately, for Shopster members (not affiliates), they are either locked in with either a 2% or 6% profit markup, or they can set their own retail prices - very foolish if they set them higher than Shopsters already inflated prices.

After joining Shopster, I loaded 4,000 products into my online catalog (Rshop). The following day I did more research and learned that only 720 items would yield a profit of $5 or more! The majority of the remaining 3,300 products would have produced profits of less than $1 per product - and the profit for many were in the pennies. One I had listed would have given me 11 cents profit.

I would like to know, from people who spent the $99 to join Shopster, how many stuck with it, and why those who dropped out, did so. I would venture to say it's because Shopster's prices are too high, their profit of margin is too low and it's difficult to get search engine exposure because most Rshops have the same header and meta tags - this "sameness" is frowned upon by many search engines/directories.

As an affiliate, you may make money bringing the beef to market, but Shopster is definitely no Utopia for making money, as a paying member.