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Old 10-09-2009, 01:43 PM  
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So, as our affiliate program has become more developed, we've run into issues we didn't originally anticipate.

Example: A guy comes to our site roboticblowjob.com from a link placed by an affiliate on a blog, etc. He looks around and doesn't buy. Two weeks later, he comes again and buys, but he arrived by clicking the affiliate link of another affiliate, on a different blog.

Since we use NATS, we are able to see where both of the visits came from.

What is the fair way to handle this situation? Who gets the credit?

I would think the second guy gets the sale, but seems my programming team thinks its fair that the first guy gets it! So, I thought I'd post here to find out what the industry standard might be, if such a thing exists.

Thanks guys.
That will work like shit when I surf websites and click thru on a paysite link of an affiliate
then decided to join your pay site as a affiliate and then do a test sign up and don't
get credit for it.

Then I quit your program rightfully because you actually do not give
me credit for everyone that signs up on my link.

But then I get smart and re-join your program with a tube site with stolen content
that get 200k hits per day and I open a chained popup on my site that opens
every single paysite you have so I can steal all the sign ups for myself even though
they all went to other sites to join because they hated all my pop ups.
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