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Sometimes I'm just baffled by the mindsets for what's acceptable in this industry. If a company shaves your sales that's wrong. Plan and simple. I don't care if you *still* make more money per-click or whatever with them than another program, they are still essentially stealing from you, as per the original agreement/contract.
As Matt26 said (and it pains me to agree with a holocause-denying conspiracy troll), if a company is paying me $40/hour, but they dock 5 hours off my weekly total, that is fucked up and completely dishonest even if my paycheck still exceeds a $20/hour job.
Beyond being an indicator of future dishonesty, accepting it as a matter of course also *normalizes* such behavior. It breaks the contract - which in various forms is the figurative cornerstone of any business environment - and results in a breakdown of trust and paves the way for future contracts to be broken. I'd argue that latter dynamic was and is a challenge for this industry.
That being said, I've never complained about shaving myself and I do think it's mostly used as a scapegoat these days for affiliates frustrated at the declining value of their traffic and the overall decline in conversions, traffic aside. I had one affiliate a couple years ago imply to me that I was shaving, which was comical - he'd gone from maybe 2 sales a week to 1 sale a month, it was just so far off my radar as to be ludicrous.
But even if it's more myth than reality these days, that doesn't make some of the rationalizations I'm hearing healthy for our industry.
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