If someone is shaving you you're never going to know about it, and there's no sense in worrying about it.
Just send your traffic to the program that makes you the most money.
For me the most money has come from solid revshare programs, and I see all the PPS program owners on the board talking about how they're "superior" to the revshare programs and "if the revshare program was so great then why don't they pay per signup and keep all the extra?"
It's all hogwash if you ask me. With plenty of revshare programs I make way less than $35 per signup but for some reason I'll do more than twice as many signups with the revshare program as opposed to giving a PPS program the same ad position. (things that make you go hmmmmmm)
Really all that matters is what your net profit is at the end of the week/month/year. Everything else is just details
I think most webmasters would be best served by keeping their eyes on the bottom line and not worrying about conversion ratios, per click $$, per signup payout, $$ per banner impression, or any of the other bazillion ways you can look at your stats.
You can't put your stats in the bank and feed your family with them, the net profit is all that matters.
