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Originally posted by DialerNET
You think so? I hated them. Not because they weren't good - they were. But because they were all too formulaic. You could see a banner you've never seen before, and know instantly that it was a XPics banner.
I too always got paid by them, and I saw no evidence of shaving. Although at the time i didn't have a huge amount of traffic to work with.
Cyberthrill were my first real scammers. Dayum those guys are legends now.
Jason.
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I actually worked for them for about five weeks in webmaster relations. If shaving went on, it went on in a back room and was never discussed.
However, since they did pay so much per click, they were very quality conscious and analyzed their customers' traffic closely. They looked at how profitable a person's traffic was (not just conversion ratio), and if it didn't meet their standards, the partner was cut off.
In the end, it was not shaving but their mistreatment of members' credit cards that got them in trouble. It was notoriously almost impossible to figure out how to stop recurring billing of XPics sites and even once you figured it out, it was very iffy whether billing would actually stop.
Whether this was due to dishonesty or honest inefficiency I was never in a position to know. At any rate, I was too much of a free spirit and big mouth to have lasted with them for very long. They canned me and left me high and dry in Stateline, NV, where their webmaster relations operation was located. It took about five more months for me to earn the resources to get myself back home.