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Relentless, not "trying" to be a dick but sometimes I am one without even trying ... However, is your stance that a sponsor deliberately and consciously shaving sales from an affiliate is simply "lowering the actual $/click"? You don't class this as theft?
If I sign up for a sponsor promising me $30/sale then that is what I expect. If that sponsor tells me it will cost $1 per sale to process it, then I know before hand that the actual net worth of each sale is $49. Similarly, if a sponsor tells me that for every 5 sales, he will deduct a sale then I can choose to accept this since it has been disclosed.
Simply stating as fact that what they pay me is what I actually earned isn't entirely on the up and up. I earned $87 from 3 sales, I got paid $58 because I was robbed.
Would you think differently if a billing company charged 100 members for memberships to your site but only paid you for 90 of them (their charges not included). But you stick with said billing company simply because they provide you the best throughput?
Why should it just be affiliates that adhere to a TOS? Why can't sponsors be held to account for wrongdoing? I mean what's a few fraudulent joins when the affiliate is sending you some real ones too?
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