Originally Posted by adultmobile

I disagree I waste time with these guys, for these reasons:

1) It is my job to answer to affiliates, whatever the question or the matter, after all. Other admins talk with cam girls, developers fix the code, and I am supposed to reply to affiliates... Our best affiliates bringing lots of real signups never ask anything, they are super silent. Our top 3 affiliates generating thousands of signups never wrote us anything, really, they appear from nowhere sending tons of traffic and that's it. The only ones writing, are those with issues, who are not many, or who are generating themselves issues and cheating, who are the most. If I stop to talk with cheaters, I literally have nothing to do in my daily job.

2) Years ago when I started dealing with affiliates, I was replying quite quickly to cheaters: "you made fake signups / you used stolen credit cards / [whatever], so you will not be paid, please go doing this to some other site, bye". However, since I did not provided details of how I figured they was cheaters, they was replying with things like: "My signups are legit, you are the cheater, I will write in every forum that your program do not pay". Then, I learned to add enough details of their obvious cheating in the reply, such as a list of IP addresses with DNS reverse showing all proxies/vpn and hackish hosts (and in some cases, all using same IP, guess how smart...), use of same temp email provider for all accounts, use of a same pattern for account names or emails like bob001, bob002, bob003, bob004, and so on. This takes 5 minutes extra to reply because I have to copy & paste some stuff, but, totally avoids the type of reply: "My signups are legit and your program is the cheater I will tell everyone you do not pay". However, while some say "sorry" or simply do not reply... many others will say "a friend helped me to make signups and he is who cheated, poor me". Delegating the fake signups to the rogue friend who helped it is more common that you would expect. Then, the affiliate becomes the honest victim of the rogue friend or "coworker" who, for some reason, would not create an own account to cheat us, but instead do this inside the account of this other affiliate, who knows nothing about that is a proxy or vpn. Again, this type of excuse happens more often you can imagine. At this point, you hear sad stories of needing money to buy medicine for sick relatives, to complete studies or let a small kid complete studies, and things like that. At this stage I do agree with you guys, this is too much, and then I reply in sarcastic way.