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Originally Posted by lagcam
This sounds like a pretty unique situation.... an affiliate with sufficient connection to his referred members to be in a position to question the actions of a major sponsor.
In AWE's defence primarily, it is more than possible that a bad sale does not come to light until 2 months after the event, but it sounds as if this is AWE's "gut feel" rather than specific chargebacks.
Whilst it is not uncommon for the discovery of one fraudulent transaction to cast doubts on many others that share similar characteristics, it is certainly "abusable" as only the program owner is in possession of all information.
Would be nice, if AWE explained their suspicions a little better tham saying something didn't pass a "sniff test" but the end result here will almost certaily be that they won't pay, and another of the large camsites will pick up the future referrals.
AWE will suffer a little PR damage, but it won't affect anything and people will still promote them, because there are already enough reasons not to promote them, and everybody ignores them.
I obviously don't know the facts but CXA and his website appear legitimate to me, and the very least he deserves is one of Mikey's "I will look into this personally" responses and a little more respect.
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I agree that it can sometimes take more than 2 months for a "bad" sale to come to light, but you aren't going to refer to it at that point as "not passing the sniff test". I can see where it might have been one guy with a stolen card running up a number of sales, I wonder if all 31 of those sales deemed fraudulent came from one member.