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Originally Posted by deltav
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.
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I agree 100%. For that reason, if 2 programs were paying me the exact same amount with one shaving and the other not shaving, I'd send my traffic to the one who does not shave. However, since investigating it all would cost me money and two programs almost never pay an identical amount per click... it becomes moot.
Incidentally, I have a paysite network and affiliate program. I've never shaved a single click from anyone. I don't think it's ethical to do it... I don't think it's profitable to do it... and that's a lot of why I don't anyone is doing it. However, even if someone was.... $/click protects affiliates no matter what else happens as long as the checks come on time.
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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.
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Not sure how that is comical. I don't find libel or slander funny.