Brytex, If the affiliate program loses money, it won't be long before they would cancel it and then, as you say, there wouldn't be too many affiliates left anyway....I would think that paying commssions on trial period subs would be just too great an invitation for the fraud you mention...and in all fairness to the affiliates, it really wouldn't be fraud, just poor planning on the part of the company in giving away "free" money...JMHO