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Operated by industry veterans PersianKitty and Bama, the program is a unique offering of paysites and programs that allows a surfer to join one website and instead of canceling that membership, elect to transfer it to another website without having to re-join. Think of it as a shared password provisioning and access management system offering access to the member's areas of hundreds of sites from dozens of affiliate programs. But unlike the familiar AVS sites of old, however, the surfer is only granted access to one site at a time.

Based on a customized NATS installation, Adult Cartel provides program owners with increased sales and exposure to a wider affiliate webmaster base. A script is uploaded to the web server allowing member's area access to Adult Cartel members — for which the website owner is paid.

According to the company, Adult Cartel charges surfers $34.99 per month, of which after processing costs, the company takes a 15 percent commission — of which 10 percent is held for referral reimbursements. After these top-line deductions, the company splits the sale 50/50 between the paysite owner and the referring affiliate, with recurring payouts for the life of the membership. When the member switches to another program's paysite, the first site's owner will receive that 10 percent reimbursement.

"Instead of offering webmasters a 10 percent webmaster referral bonus, we're offering program owners the bonus for bringing the surfer into the program," states the Adult Cartel website. "It's our way of saying thanks for being a part of our program."

The Adult Cartel system is an addition to, not a replacement for, traditional programs, so existing programs are not required to close and all current member's area upsells are the site owner's to keep. "We pay you — not the other way around," the site offers.

Tours, member's areas and promotional materials are provided by the participating site owners themselves.

Affiliates benefit by sending traffic to Adult Cartel, and can promote the same sites from the same programs that they're used to promoting — plus be paid for any joins a referred surfer makes on any other site in the network. Tracking via NATS provides a familiar interface while all approved tours are free of traffic leaks, cross-sales and popup ads.

Adult Cartel claims to enjoy a six month average retention rate and offers affiliates a 50 percent revenue sharing payout. Processing is provided by CCBill, Epoch and WTS.

For more information, visit AdultCartel.com.