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Originally Posted by Getsu
if the sponsor is NATS based, then it's all transparent and they can't just take away your sales
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Are you sure about that in regards to refunds? What do you think happens when a customer calls in to the paysite and demands a refund? They have to be able to manually enter in a refund. Think about it.
It's pretty trivial to just set up a duplicate account for the customer without being tied to the affiliate too. All you do is send the customer an email saying "We had to change your account login for security reasons....everything else is the same...here is your new login name and password...sorry for any inconvenience but we take security seriously for your protection..blah". For all we know it may be possible to keep the same username and password too and be totally transparent for the customer.
It's a safe bet that a dishonest sponsor will always find a way to do stuff like this. The only way to prevent it is by the software being designed to anticipate it. In this case it would mean making sure to notify the affiliate about what is happening to their referred user.