Kelli58

Not all, but with more than 10 years experience I can say most of them in fact do shave ... just some worse than others.

What we as an industry have come to accept as standard adult business practices are in fact very shady and what I consider far from acceptable.

If you want me to be fair and honest about doing business with you, I expect the very same thing from you.

I think that if a company gives FOR ANY reason doesn't give you credit for the traffic you sent them, it's fraud. Call it shaving or whatever you want, but in the end it's fraud. Up sells, redirection of foreign traffic - any and all of that is shady, shady, shady.

As for cookie expiration, if the company has told you in advance the cookie will expire in say X amount of time, then I think that's more than fair. As long you know in advance, it's not unethical to me.