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Meloman · 01-07-2008, 01:22 AM

Shaving to most people means the deliberate removal of affiliate sales from accounts. The deliberate "shaving" or not crediting the correct amount after a legitimate sign-up happens. It's when a surfer clicks your affiliate link, goes to the tour, actually signups up and then you're NOT credited with the sale.

That's what most people consider "shaving". It's the equivalant of stealing in most peoples eyes.

A traffic leak is something different.

Just symantics...but none the less "shaving" is something much worse than possible "traffic leaks".

And then when the traffic leaks are the 2257, webmaster & customer support link it just makes this whole thing funny. Those are hardly true "traffic leaks". Ok maybe the "webmaster" link could give the affiliate credit (if ars does that), or if these extra pages then have links back to the tours then maybe now they should carry the affilaite code all the way through. But really not a big deal in the big picture and are something completely different than true "shaving" as described above.

01-07-2008, 01:22 AM
Meloman Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Sacramento,CA Posts: 1,540	Shaving to most people means the deliberate removal of affiliate sales from accounts. The deliberate "shaving" or not crediting the correct amount after a legitimate sign-up happens. It's when a surfer clicks your affiliate link, goes to the tour, actually signups up and then you're NOT credited with the sale. That's what most people consider "shaving". It's the equivalant of stealing in most peoples eyes. A traffic leak is something different. Just symantics...but none the less "shaving" is something much worse than possible "traffic leaks". And then when the traffic leaks are the 2257, webmaster & customer support link it just makes this whole thing funny. Those are hardly true "traffic leaks". Ok maybe the "webmaster" link could give the affiliate credit (if ars does that), or if these extra pages then have links back to the tours then maybe now they should carry the affilaite code all the way through. But really not a big deal in the big picture and are something completely different than true "shaving" as described above.