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That is one of the reasons why we carry the affiliate ID in our URL, with our CCbill program. This way, there's no manipulation, everything is transparent, and any affiliate can see, and follow his code going through our pages.
I wonder why everyone doesn't do it. CCbill did this for us, but it's available to every site now.
I have seen a couple of sites doing smarty things, thinking that referrers would not notice. The same 2 sites where turning off rebills credits, every once in a while, but got caught, when CCbill introduced a feature that warns referrers of such changes. Of course, CCbill was blamed for some kind of malfunction, but in reality they were turning off rebills for webmasters. Many referrers wrote us expressing concerns about these 2 sites not rebilling at times...The answer was pretty easy. The same sites put their own referral code in the tour, and when they got caught, they blamed it on an unfaithful employee, and claimed they fired him (false). Stupid tricks.
Some people still do not realize how the net is a small place. They're playing clean now, as far as I know, but it took them two years to become good boys, and stop stealing your $$$.
Force the sites you send traffic to, to carry the ID like we do, your sales are going to go up.
Do not forget that there's nasty spyware to, that steals traffic. We've been target, last year, for a week, of a popular company, that stole our traffic, and 10 other top CCbill clients too, for a week. When caught, they lauched an attack on the site, with their spyware program, for 3 days.
These guys used to be on GFY all over the places. It was a popular program.
You never know who's going to screw you. I think that we've ben doing so good, for so long because we always run things clean, and always pushed CCbill to make good changes.
Believe us, CCbill is VERY responsive to good changes. If you have a good, and effective idea, they are going to listen. You just have to tell them.
MET Staff
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