There's also one thing that hasn't been mentioned here - the cookie swapping. If a surfer stops using your site to get to LiveJasmin, he doesn't necessarily belong to AWE after 14 days. That surfer can still make any other webmaster money, all he has to do is stumble into another site that has a LiveJasmin ref link and click it. I believe this can happen even after he registered and spent money under you.
The same can happen to you, a surfer that regularly spends money at LiveJasmin and that's been 'owned' by several other webmaster in the past, may come across your site and make you an instant sale. With some luck you can net a known whale for a few days and ride it till it lasts, although more than likely the big whales have the LiveJasmin url bookmarked or get there by typing in the domain.
Having said that, I wonder if anyone else noticed a drop in sales when the sale amount of the top 5 webmasters of the AWE list increased dramatically? I honestly don't remember seeing such high sale amounts like now. For about a year the highest I would see there was $45K maybe, but for the past few months there's 3-4 webmasters with making $70-$200K in sales per pay period!? They must be making it hard for many webmasters to get their own cookies, no? Or maybe I'm just paranoid.
