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I know of one very big GFY poster (that everyone here seems to love) who operates a program that has in the past fucked around with affiliate cookies when he ran big payout bonus days. This is especially problematic since the type of site in question usually isn't sold on the first visit.
Another fairly well known program overwrites affiliate cookies if the surfer comes back through a typein. As soon as they click enter on the warning page, the affiliate cookie is changed to their in-house code.
Paysite URLs on banners. This isn't pay per impression, so I don't know why so many affiliates go along with giving them free brand building.
Non-recurring billing option on revshare sites. $30/mo recurring, or $35-$40 non. The idea here is that a really good paysite knows the non-recurring member will join again right away, and they'll only have to pay the affiliate for that first month. This scam has really started to grow among sponsors recently.
Cascading billing, but affiliate payouts limited to the main biller. There can also be secondary billing options that affiliates don't see credit for.
Severe over-branding on FHG's. They put the URL all over the pace hoping the surfer will just do a typein so they can defraud affiliates out of their traffic.
Ref ID doesn't appear in the bookmarked URL. This is a HUGE problem.
No pay for join page upsells. I don't really have a problem with this on PPS, but revshare needs to be paid out if the upsells go to the same sponsor.
No affiliate notification when a revshare site isn't going to be updated any longer.
Revshare sites that aggressively promote other sites in their network in the members area, but affiliates don't see credit if the surfer leaves for one of these other sites. I just had to deal with a revshare site that apparantly hasn't been updated in months, so they are upselling one of their good sites to it's members.
A links page pointing to various offerings from other companies. The idea here is that everyone in the ring puts up a similar page, and they each get stolen affiliate traffic from one another. This can also be done in the form of sending affiliate traffic to seemingly innocent link lists and whatnot.
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