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Originally posted by SmokeyTheBear
any sponsor can redirect rotating ip blocks and shave , regardless of if they use nats or any other software.
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this is from another thread:
"How about I cronjob firewalling out the primary billers IP range from the sales postback 6 minutes every hour? 10% shave and nothing you can do against it."
and NATS' answer was:
"First of all, none of those mmebers would get access to your members area in case you use NATS for member management, and in 99% of the case this will be the case and it would be difficult to NOT use NATS for member management.
On top of that, we double check if initial sales got entered into the system and if we see they got missed by problems with the postback from the biller we add them later.
Also, for iBill, this would cause more than just initial sales do get dropped fully, you would also start missing cancels, credits, chargebacks and rebill posts. Of course you do not care about rebill posts, but I am sure you care about the others.
Now you will come and argue "oh well, I will just block the biller ip also when you request the information for doublchecking if its there". Sure you could, but in that case again you would (a) start missing credits, chargebacks and cancels also, which you really do not want, and (b) in case of epoch this does not work at all, out of various reasons.
On top of all the above, of course you YOURSELF would be missing the sale info also, giving you all wrong admin reports inside NATS making it harder for you to even figure out if you are really making any money or not."