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Originally Posted by TheDoc
Shaving is the manipulation of statistics shown/given to the Affiliate, normally done through code. Here is the thing... with NATS, you aren't taking something before/after it has the data, and changing it, and the re-giving it back to nats.
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There are so many ways to intercept the data before it even gets to NATS through moving files, wrappers, and so on... it's really not that difficult.
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Think of it like this.. If you tried to shave random people, you could shave yourself, your own traffic, your best webmaster. How crazy would it be to shave your own traffic buys?
Thus you need something to help calculate who should be shaved, when, how much they have been, the levels of shave, where it should happen, countries, etc.
Doing that in NATS means data is different, time stamps, member poll won't come in correctly, webmaster stats aren't going to post in time, clicks/sales, rebills, something is going to be behind. If it's a going program, it's going to change when all other nats programs don't..
Anyway.. it's software based 
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It can be done. How cleanly and how pretty you want the admin graphs to be are up to your programmer... Generally the people doing the shaving are just happy knowing their payouts are lower and income higher.
Personally I don't see the point of shaving, in this day and age of shitty conversions, the more sales your affiliate sees the more likely he is to keep on sending and potentially send more. I would think "reverse shaving" would be more popular, but then you still have tons of idiot gfy members who won't get off the "omg shave!~" thing.