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Old 12-06-2001, 10:33 PM  
Amputate Your Head
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I'm sorry... have I been unclear?

Roberto... you got a ref code to my site. Someone clicks on the banner with that ref code. BAM! You got the credit until that cookie's duration runs out. Whether that's three days or ten seconds.

Mr. Surfer decides tomorrow that he does indeed want to buy a membership. But has a buddy named The FLY who he knows has a ref code for the same site... so he goes and clicks on The FLY's ref code and signs up....

Who gets the credit for that sale? Roberto.

The only way FLY would get credit for that, is if Mr. Surfer waited until the cookie expired... or went into his hard drive and deleted his cookies and THEN clicked on FLY's ref code.

What is so unfair about that? How else are you going to track a surfer for any length of time? Or do we just NOT track them at all? Is that MORE fair? Bullshit..... first ref code in gets the sale. Provided... it's within the set time period.

I see nothing unfair about it.
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