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Originally Posted by adultmobile
In fact, use logic: each program who really shave so much will lose most or all the affiliates, as they compare with the higher sales/conversions of other programs who do not shave. No one uses one program once and for life, there is competition and free choice enough, I don't see a monopoly where you can choice only one program per niche, so he can do as he wishes. Let's say every program shave 50%: but then even one program who does not shave, would show double the conversions/earnings. As result, every affiliate would end up using it, and dropping all the others. I am not seeing this happening, people try a little of every program. In a competitive market, it is not logic to believe every program can shave and do well like others, they would be outperformed by even the only one not shaving as it existed.
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You make many assumptions.
1. Affiliates don't have perfect knowledge of shaving and they don't always know of all the other sponsors and how they convert.
2. Not every affiliate has an easy means of swapping out links without intense labor. With some methods it may not even effectively be possible.
3. "In a competitive market..." It's not a competitive market in adult. Especially for cam programs there are just a few and they all have various issues or skeletons in their closets.
4. Many programs aren't relying on affiliates anymore in 2013. Affiliates are bonus money with many of these guys. For the blatant shavers it's easy free money by taking advantage of the suckers. Why wouldn't they take your traffic and pay you for 10% of it if you are willing to do it?
Shaving does exist and it has existed for a long, long time. There are thousands of messages of proof and somewhat reliable declarations on webmaster boards. They range from affiliates sharing convincing data and accounts to screenshots of shaving software (see sig) or programmers openly acknowledging that shave capabilities are one of the main things affiliate programs ask for when requesting custom software.
Here is an old thread I was just reading earlier today in fact:
https://gfy.com/showthread.php?t=169587
In my opinion anyone who says shaving doesn't occur or tries to say that it almost never happens (like under 10% of the time) is either new to the industry or is dishonest as hell. I would NEVER trust such a person by default.
EDIT: Let me be clear I am not saying that chaturbate shaves. This is just a general discussion on shaving and the industry.