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Originally Posted by signupdamnit
It appeared to carry over the right PA and CA ids and sub-account to the join form for me in my test. But are you sure you didn't use a site like signbucks.com before you joined the sponsor? I ask because they used to stuff a cookie and I used to see their PA come up in my tests after joining from their site and think the sponsor was cheating before I figured out that a 3 day cookie with their PA was already set and this was causing my PA not to appear on the join form when testing.
It is also possible for a sponsor to hardcode the PA or change the CA or subaccount (with grouping off) to avoid crediting affiliates. For the ones which dynamically load the form first through a php script it would be possible in theory to shave a certain percentage off using tricks (90% it goes to the normal form, 10% hardcoded with their own PA). I'm not saying that's happening here though. Just something to watch for. CCBill isn't shave proof as some believe.
I would copy the existing ccbill cookies you have now somewhere and then use a clean profile or another browser for any other tests. Make sure no previous cookie exists to be sure.
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Thanks for the tips and tests signupdamnit! I had gone straight to the sponsor page as I already knew of it and had been meaning to test them out for quite a while. CCBill confirmed that no affiliate was referred for these sales. Then they had the same issue when they attempted a test sale.
There are definitely ways that people can cheat the system, like you say. I remember years ago there was a sponsor that never converted for me, after many hits, so I asked CCBill to take a look. It turned out that the sponsor had shut down their old CCBill account, then opened a new one, so all my links were incorrect. There had been no attempt to contact me, so of course I didn't bother with them again. It was these guys
http://www.missplaya.com/main.php
On another note, I was checking out the BVCash Cookie in this tool
http://www.rexswain.com/httpview.html and I just spotted it was 1 day, so even if I do eventually get the sale through, I'm not feeling good about this sponsor; 1 day never feels right for me.