Originally Posted by phil-flash

Can you all take me to school on this please? I want to understand why it is preferred to have hosted galleries that do not cookie the user until after he has clicked through.

Why not cookie him from the initial click. It seems to me, that it's possible to lose a sale by not setting the cookie on the initial click. I think I understand, stats look better on sales to click throughs instead of sales to total clicks. But still, there is a chance to lose the cookie/sale.