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Originally Posted by Jay
Anyone who runs an affiliate program will tell you thats just plain stupid.
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FYI, some of them will be lying. If you think NO program in the industry "shaves" right now, you are mistaken. Having seen the source code of many programs, I can assure you it is being done, and being done incorrectly with many of them where it's easily found out heh.
Generally though, it's easy enough for someone to test a program out for themselves and draw their own conclusions.
Also, IMO, the ones shaving are generally found amongst those who offer ridiculously high payouts. Their thinking is probably "hrm, we can afford to pay $50/join but if we shave we can offer a very attractive $100/join but still really only pay $50". What they don't notice is a lot of affiliates (obviously not large ones) STILL look at conversions, not RPC (revenue per click) when comparing sponsors and will drop them even if they make the same money if the ratio looks bad. Thus their shaving doesn't necessarily help them
That said, as you guys show solid conversions from the different places we've sent you traffic and pay in the $35-50 range, I would NOT suspect you guys of shaving anything...