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Originally posted by pornjudge
I agree with this Fletch XXX here, allot of webmaster referral pay sites now offer three different payment methods but we only get credit from one of them. This is BS if you ask me. They want to run a webmaster referral program, well make it so when a surfer decides to join via a referral code that the referrer gets the sale threw the CC processor he signed up for under your site ex: ccbill.... Putting up another processor like ibill for cheques & another processor for 1-900 numbers is just a scam to rip us off from our hard earned traffic that we send you. I understand its your pay site but you decided to make it a webmaster referral program so that makes it a part of ours also & we are entitled to 100% of sign ups that are sent from our referral codes. Here is my 2 cents on this.
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This is probably the most common method of shaving. By only crediting some of the sales, sites are able to offer a larger amount per sale. When we were designing our affiliate program, we had to make a conscious choice: did we want to pay people the real value of their real traffic or did we want to pay people an inflated amount for a limited number of signups. Affilitates get credit for signups to any of our sites, through any processor, and we don't exit their traffic to other sites. While some people appreciate this, the vast majority seem to be oblivious to anything other than the fact that we appear to pay less.
It seems like most webmasters want to be told their getting $50/trial even if only half their trials are counted.