Buying Commission Cycle: the six checks, then the two ways in

If you are about to pay, six things are worth confirming first. All six take under a minute, all six pass, and knowing that is worth more than another hour of reading reviews.

The six checks

1. The seller is a real, traceable person. Mark Ling founded Affilorama over twenty years ago and has run a September launch every year since 2022. That is a public record you can verify in a search, which is more than most sellers in this category offer.
2. The price is published, not revealed after a call. $2,497 in full, or six payments of $497. No application, no discovery call, no bracketed pricing that depends on what you say you earn.
3. The closing date is real and stated. Thursday 24 September 2026, 11:59pm Pacific. A deadline that exists in writing behaves differently from one that keeps moving.
4. The checkout runs through a recognised processor. You will see the processor's name on the payment page rather than a bare form asking for card details.
5. The refund terms are on the checkout page. Read them there, at the moment you pay, with the wording in front of you.
6. There is free material to judge it by first. The workshops run before the cart opens and cost nothing, which means you can hear the actual teaching before deciding anything.

The two ways in, and why most people take the second

Pay in full at $2,497, or start with the first of six payments of $497.

The plan exists for a specific reason and it is worth being clear-eyed about it: it lets the start date be today rather than whenever the full amount is available. For most people the choice is not between the two prices, it is between starting in September and starting next year, and the plan is what makes the first option real.

What you are actually buying

A current programme with a running order and live sessions attached, rather than another folder of videos to add to the ones already unopened. That distinction matters more than the price does.

Courses do not fail people because the information was wrong. They fail because nobody finished them, and the thing that gets a person to the end is a schedule with other people on it and a date attached. That is what a launch provides and an evergreen course cannot.

The check most people skip

What happens if you do nothing. It is not a neutral option - it is choosing to be in exactly this position next September, weighing the same decision, a year further from having built anything.

That is the real alternative to buying, and it is the more expensive one. Not because the course is cheap, but because another year is not.

Before you click through

Open the checkout, read the refund wording on that page, confirm the price matches the figures above, and take a screenshot of the terms. Thirty seconds, and you are buying with the terms in your hand rather than in your memory.

The full price breakdown · How the payment plan works · The legitimacy check in full