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While I don't think 12clicks should have called the owner of one of the most profitible adult sites on the web an idiot, I can see why he'd take some offense to the statement. Shaving to me at least connotates actually stealing sales. Someone sends a company 10, they only count 8. That is what I consider shaving. I don't consider upsells, etc shaving.
And I also think rabbit is primarily talking about revshare programs that do this. There are a lot of them too. They grab a sale and instead of trying to keep them, they pull a ton of shit on the backend that has no benefit to the affiliate. I don't think shaving is the correct term to use though, but I can't think of anything right now. PPS programs are a different beast as once that sale is made, that guy is out of the affiliates hands.
I don't think there is an argument about what is being done, I think the issue is in the use of the word shaving when talking about upsells and such.
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