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Originally Posted by xxxjay
As a program owner I don't even see where shaving makes any sense in this day and age. The only kind of manipulation I have ever done to any affiliates pay is adding sales to get them motivated to send more traffic. There just aren't the sales to go around these days to even make sense of shaving, but everyone's entitled to their views.
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What OldJeff said about revshare should be true, if all businesspeople were rational actors. I have always offered only revshare and attempted to promote only revshare, on exactly this logic. But it does not always work out.
What xxxjay said about number of affiliates is very relevant. I think it used to be very profitable for some program owners (ones not using CCBill or Epoch to power their programs) to shave and especially to shave smaller affiliates. There were so many affiliates that robbing a few thousand people of a couple hundred bucks was a lot of dough.
That said, even today, the programs most likely not to pay are never the ones I push a lot of joins to. I think a lot of the bad payers bank on a webmaster not being willing to make a big deal out of pursuing $200 when it would probably take as much effort as just making another $200. The difference is that the low number of affiliates still in the ecosystem makes this much less profitable, so fewer programs are going to do it.