Originally Posted by Relentless

Lucas is NOT testing those things. He is 'threatening' to test those things and making claims based on a single data point which are being taken (at least by some of the shortsighted people in this thread as "fact"). If he actually wanted any kind of answers about a specific anomaly all he would have to do is ask CCBill. They aren't hard to get a hold of for anyone.

You have zero way to know if someone is "cheating you" by the way. Whether they shave a sale, intend to go out of business without paying you, are data mining your sites to find your traffic sources, are building sites to compete with yours, are about to sue you to take over your domain name or any dozens of other ways they could do things to you. The idea that you will somehow identify cheats ahead of time is ridiculous. Want proof?

Why didn't anyone see Epassporte failing before it did? Why didn't anyone see all the programs that closed without paying anyone before they went out? Why didn't anyone see Ibill about to fuck people. Hell, why didn't any of the millions of mortgage holders see the global financial crisis coming?

Your best security is in your own stats which will tell you to the penny how much people are paying you per click. That is the only reliable data you own and you already have it all. Base your decisions on it and you will be safer than you'd ever be by 'guessing' who may have cheated someone. More than that, you'll never smear good sponsors by having faulty assumptions, because you'll be too busy watching real stats and cashing real checks.

Incidentally that is exactly how program owners think. When you send them traffic and they send you checks, they aren't trying to decide if you are fucking around based on conspiracy theories. They can see how many clicks you sent, how many joins you caused, how much each of those joins earned them and how many chargebacks they had to deal with... so they also have all the stats they need to be able to decide your value. That's the whole basis of affiliate marketing, each site already has all the stats needed to evaluate the other party.