Mansion Productions Severs Ties to Third-Party Processor SegPay

[Forest]

does anyone else find it a conflict that TMM now owns an affiliate software program a processing company AND several affiliate programs

Too Much info in one hands. Would YOU process thru a company that owns a competing affiliate program? Would you feel that your surfers reg info would be safe and secure?

[RawAlex]

In the end, I think the worst part for TMM at this point is that they have moved themselves into a position of directly competiting with the companies they need to make their product valuable. Multiple billing options / layered processing doesn't work if you are only supported by one processor. NATS needs to have all of the processors possible on board and providing support to the NATS way of doing things, otherwise they quickly become Segpay's affiliate system only.

Mansions move to cut ties with Segpay is just the first in what I think may be a series of companies picking sides in a fight that is just a negative for the paysite owners.

The net winner in all of this may end up being CCbill and their "new" affiliate system.

[Toby]

Originally Posted by Forest

does anyone else find it a conflict that TMM now owns an affiliate software program a processing company AND several affiliate programs...

My thoughts exactly. If I were a user of NATS I'd be very uneasy about that.

[Jace]

the shave feature in mpa was a HORRIBLE mistake, I agree, but I also think that Mansion has done a superb job in the past few years rectifying that mistake and taking steps to gain trust back

but this segpay / too much media shit is kind of weird for sure and I am not quite sure that I fully agree with the step TMM took

[Hell Puppy]

IMO...

Your host, your software provider and your processor should all basically be like Switzerland. Lines are beginning to blur.

It ultimately comes down to how ethically each is run. Take your host for instance. They may not own an affiliate program. But they have root access to all of your data. Wonder what a monthly dump of email addresses of people who have joined paysites across multiple programs' servers would be worth if discreetly marketed.

You count on their ethics not to use it.

Now I'm not sure what kind of proprietary technology mansion could possibly be doing with postbacks, but if that is the REAL concern here, then why not switch SEGpay to use a non-proprietary method instead of cutting it off completely?

Shit flying everywhere with the software right now, I can see it's gonna be a busy Vegas trip for me. I'll make no decisions and not a lot of comments until after getting out there and talking to some folks face to face.