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Originally Posted by adultmobile
Really you all can not believe an affiliate sent a customer who chargebacked all? Perhaps you guys never ran a cam site yourselves, but chargebacks do happen. Especially who spend bigger, is more likely doing so because he knows this is not his money (carder), or it was his money but he will do "friendly fraud" later, telliing to bank: "it was not me".
Also, use logics: let's say as a cam program I want to shave and scam affiliates. Really I am an evil one. I would not show to affiliates +$1000 sales, then after, subtract a -$500 "chargeback". I would simply shave on the sales, by not adding these $500 in first place, so the affiliate just seen a +$500 with no any chargebacks. And he would not write posts in GFY.
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Touche on the chargebacks happening. But as for the program wanting to shave fake chargebacks and refunds are an easy way to do it after the webmaster has already seen the signups. It's the only thing left to do without causing alarm bells to go off. It's very easy for a program to instruct their reps to go do some fake chargebacks across some affiliate accounts in order to improve immediate cash flow. I'm not saying it's happening here but it's very easy for them to do and there is little oversight. This type of shaving doesn't preclude the possibility of the type of shaving you describe occurring. There could easily be BOTH where the fake refunds are simply a last minute way to raise cash flow and stop payments from being due.
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A last word about affiliates who complain there are too few cam sites so they can do all they want: this is the same the models say, that there's few cam sites so they pay low and shave etc. etc.; but then, when a new cam site is launched... each one would increase competition and make better conditions for affiliates and models... the affiliates and cam girls do not join it; but instead wait 6-12 months to see if it collapses or not - they wait the site to become bigger, before to consider it. And cam sites obviously collapses, as no any support from models and affiliates 
So, affiliates and models who just join and support the same 5 old cam sites, should really not say any word about how is bad there are so few cam sites who "abuse" them from oligopoly - since it is affiliates and cam girls who created and keep up such monopoly/oligopoly. The same goes for lots of other sites/products, where everyone complaints on the top 5 providers, still they all just buy from there, and ignore new ones.
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The door is open for a small cam site to be affiliate and model friendly and to then take market share from the big guys. But for some reason often the smaller players like to be the exact opposite of affiliate friendly and instead they act more anti-affiliate than anything. Even in public on the boards where they tend to blame affiliates for almost everything possible. Don't ask me why. I don't quite understand it either.