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Originally Posted by TheButcher
saw a thread or two on another board about this topic but if her's my take on this, if you use a third party software then there's always a chance something might go wrong. Surprised some of the really big affiliate programs that do millions of bucks in business a year don't hire a programmer to write a custom program for them, what would it cost $10k-$15K?
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for a custom coded solution you'd be looking at a minimum of $100-200K... just one programmer wouldn't be able to do it, unless you gave him several years to complete it... and a lot of amphetamines...
realistically you'd be looking at a team of programmers... plus months of development with bug fixes and testing... which is why so many opt for a 3rd party solution...
I heard one major program looked into NATS and some of the other 3rd party software but decided to go ahead and write their own custom software instead and dropped a little over $250k on it...
you can't outsource stuff that complicated to the 3rd world for pennies anymore... those days are long gone... you'll end up with half-assed programmers writing buggy code that doesn't work half the time... all the good outsourced programmers are earning wages comparable with US peeps and most have been snapped up by the larger outfits...
it's gotten to the point where some of the software companies are moving their outsourced programming operations back to the US...