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Purely fictional, but lets assume that the following sponsors ALL shave.
1. ARS
2. CE
3. MaxCash
You send your traffic to each of the above for 2 weeks at a time. The most important thing to you should be how much money you made during those 2 weeks.
Lets note that I don't agree with shaving at all. I think it happens with every sponsor. Some intentionally, and some unintentionally by traffic leaks, improper tracking, 3rd party billing company issues, etc.
In some cases it might just be number manipulation. They know that paying per-signup, partnership/recurring, per-click, needs to work out so they are making a decent profit and costing them about the same while catering to your preferences.
Maybe you would normally send 100 signups and get paid $25 per signup ($2500). So they manipulate it to proudly claim they are paying $50 per signup, while shaving 50 but still paying you $2500. Maybe you're making more money with them, than other sponsors you've tried and the sole reason you tried them in the first place was that $50 per signup. You might have never bothered with them at all because they were only paying $25 per signup.
However, most of your webmasters are really only going to care about who is making them the most money. If I'm making more money with sponsor #1 and they're shaving more than anyone else.. I'm still going to keep using them.
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