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Originally Posted by fuzebox
At some point in the mid 2000s conversions dropped enough that shaving was counterproductive and programs started reverse shaving to keep affiliates enticed to hit minimum payout.
When you run your own sites and do a lot of daily sales, you do get inexplicable bad days, and are at the mercy of things like processor scrubbing and bank declines.
What's funny is everyone complains about a bad sales day and no one says anything about a record good sales day, despite the odds of both being equally true (poisson distribution theory)
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Oops didn't pick up on the trigger for these speculations being a bad day.
Just thinking in general with sites where customers spend endlessly rather than simply paying a recurring membership. There should be a fair amount of ways for a bad actor to skim on top of that without anyone noticing.
Not trying to say I've been a victim, just an interesting thought if it's still a thing and what would be more up to date methods. I could come up with a few but it would seem like unnecessary risk taking at least for the larger platforms.
I think back when new programs were launching constantly, and insane payouts ruled everything there was more incentive to run these kind of schemes since you had a large affiliate base that couldn't care less who ran the program, or how, as long as the payouts were high.