Originally Posted by biskoppen

Well, I've seen'em work in two ways...

1) They detect when a surfers hits the tour of a paysite, and even before the the surfers browser loads the tour they replace the ID with their ID = stolen sale

2) They redirect the traffic to their network of sites.. (TGPs etc)

So.. they are stealing sales now, and building up traffic for the long term... so when there's not affiliate traffic left to be stolen they have huge site networks on their own.. and they will be the only affiliates left (more or less ;) )