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Old 09-12-2011, 08:41 AM  
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I've had this happen too. It's somewhat normal except it should usually be more like

Day 1 - 15 sales
Day 2 - 6 sales
Day 3 - 4 sales
Day 4 - 3 sales

Going from 15 to 3 is strange but entirely possible. As people have said it's because most of your visitors would have already seen it the first time and would have bought then. If you have any doubts and are going to be pushing some volume then do a unannounced test sign up.

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Originally Posted by alf6300 View Post
hey Jack
I totally understand the concern - but if the new sponsor is doing payouts through a long established firm like ccbill or verotel, how can you risk to be screwed? or are there other concerns?

(it's a totally open question - i'm really interested to know, as it may help us getting more affiliates for our program)
It's still possible to shave on ccbill or verotel. I've personally seen it happen quite a few times using different methods. It's just that it's easier to detect and you have a few things less to worry about. Examples include changing the duration for which the affiliate gets rebills, hard coding the affiliate ID to be a house code, turning off grouping or the cascade credit temporarily, switching around sub-account ID, etc. CCBill could potentially make all of these more easily detectable but has not yet done so except for with the rebill situation.
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