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There are quite a few companies that don't pay for "cross sales" but still credit you for your normal sales. Years ago Vivid Cash used to be one of them (back before the new guys took over, maybe about two years ago?). Doesn't mean they are shaving but you need to know up front what you are getting into with any company you do business with. Those of us who were doing business with them years ago knew that if we sent them our traffic, we weren't going to get credit for any additional sales they made ... aka cross sales. I don't like it but it wasn't unethical because well we agreed to this up front and we knew what we were getting into. *** TO BE CLEAR VIVID CASH TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE CURRENTLY DOES NOT DO THIS.
Shaving is when you send a company X amount of traffic, some of that traffic you don't get credit for. This means if you send company X 4,000 uniques, they my not give you credit for say 500 of them. Someone from those 500 signs up for a membership you don't get credit for that sale.
A "leak" however is something very different and also just as bad because you lose sales. Let's say you send X amount of traffic to a free hosted gallery page. In theory anyone who joins the website through visiting that FHG page you should get credit for right?
Not always the case. Sometimes they "accidentally" mess up a link in the page or sometimes two and as a result the link is hard coded without your tracking ID and if anyone joins the site via clicking that link on the page, you are screwed out of the commission.
This is more common that you may think and it costs you god only knows how much in sales. The long and short of it is CHECK EVERY SINGLE LINK ON EVERY SINGLE PAGE YOU SEND TRAFFIC TO!
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