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Originally Posted by signupdamnit
I'm hesitant to talk about it in this thread given the person who started it and some of the people it has attracted but what the hell. Who gives a fuck?
It could be legit. Especially if you are doing a high volume. But it's also the most sophisticated and professional shaver type as well. A performance based shaver which "shaves the growth". It sets a baseline and then shaves any growth over that in a period say 30-90%. A very sophisticated setup might also utilize "fake refunds and chargebacks" (for affiliates who cannot verify them). This would be the type of shaver a multi-million dollar company would be using if they would use any shaver at all. Perhaps with additional functions added in to try to find test signups or add in a degree of randomness while still keeping the shave. The advantages of this setup are numerous as are the possibilities. It might also have built in functions to relax the shave if it detects a huge amount of growth so as not to piss off the new whale.
People don't realize that there is a ton of money involved and it's not always going to be the old style "straight 30% shaver" of the past when it's in use at all. Anything is possible with the programming. Any programmer will tell you that.
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On the affiliate side - something I know little about, or not as much as on the Sponser side - I can totally understand this phenomenon and have experienced it myself with regards to cams and dating upsells.
On the Program Owner side of things I often wonder if something similar (tho I wouldn't classify it as 'shaving' per se but perhaps this is all just semantics) happens with 3rd party billers. They calculate your basic volume and any growth above that is red-flagged somehow as suspicious and the scrub increases. A LARGE uptick in form hits etc might shake things up but a 'slow rise/growth' seems difficult. So I'm wondering if something like this happens with processing, too.
But I like how you pointed out this may be happening with large companies. I agree with that, since they have the resources, etc.