Originally Posted by jake_pa2001

Thanks for all the replies - seems some think it happens, some say it doesn't..

At any rate, I think there is good motivation for sponsors to do it. I just signed up with 3 sponsors. Guess which one is given the most prominence on my site right now - yep, the one that gave me a signup almost immediately - maybe it is fake, but it's the best choice to go with since it's 1 more than the other sponsors.. I like your orgasm analogy, lightspeed, but I don't think it's so applicable here. If an affiliate has decent traffic, all sponsors are competing for it, so if you can make the affiliate think you convert better than the other sponsors, you have motivation to do that.. In your analogy, if the guy wanted a woman he could make come and he'd buy her gifts and shit if she did, and all she wanted was the money, it would make sense for her to fake it, cos she's competing with all the other women out there who are going to fake it too. It's also never happened to me of course :-)