Originally Posted by signupdamnit

Except it goes both ways. If you're still using 1999 type tracking to track affiliate sales then it's true that the affiliate is increasingly losing their commission while you're keeping it. Cookies are being retained less and less every year.

Then you have the "oops! we forgot to credit you for that processor" or "oops! there was a 'programming error' and your link code wasn't tracking when people clicked join from the tour page. It's now been fixed and no I won't compensate you for the last six months of it being that way. I'm entitled to that money." (or invariable the sponsor claims that this only affected three affiliates.... blah blah blah)

Of course the program owner still gets the sale the affiliate doesn't in these cases. So the program owner doesn't care and goes on to GFY and writes about how lazy the affiliate is or how they are a bum because they sent 5,000 hits this month and made no sales (because due to errors, shitty tracking, or shaving the program owner kept the sale without crediting them).

GFY is 90% reps, sponsors, shill affiliates, and service providers so I know I'm going to get slammed but where there is smoke there is fire. Affiliates aren't leaving that part of the industry because it is too appealing to them. This is lost on most and that's the bottom line.