shane, this is how it was explained to me:

A person with cash and webmaster skills signs up with an OP. BeachRx uses EVA Global (now Hope Mills Universal) as a backend, so you actually become a Hope Mills affiliate, not a beachRx affiliate.

The person gets a login and password, and the Hope Mills website gives them the links to the order pages. The person then builds a website, making drug information pages for each drug, some "about us", contact info, etc. pages. They throw it together, and when a customer clicks on one of their "buy now" links it goes to a Hope Mills page that has the order form. The customer puts in their information, then goes to the questionnaire, which is also hosted by Hope Mills. That goes into an order queue, and a doctor reads the questionnaire (he can also see everything you have ordered in the past from any EVA/Hope Mills site), and if he approves it, it gets sent to a pharmacy electronically for fulfillment (they do too huge of a business to have paper scripts). The site owner then gets a commission check (each rx sold you get paid for, depending on the volume you can do).

It sounds like it's easy, but you need to know how to make a professional looking webpage AND have the cash to promote it. Promoting it is where it gets expensive, for example, in Google the word "viagra" used to cost $14 a click. In search engines, you bid on a word and pay each time it gets clicked. That can add up pretty quickly, and just because someone clicks obviously doesn't mean they'll buy (competitors could be clicking your ad as well). So, you need quite a bit of cash to advertise. If you've got the cash, it's a good investment if you think these places will be around for some time. I was told by an OP owner on the board it takes between $2000 and $3000 to get a new affiliate site off the ground and promoted to the point where multiple orders can come in daily.

-yawkaw