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Originally Posted by Relentless
If anything, an intelligent company would be adding affiliate sales to its best whales, hoping to prevent them from moving their traffic elsewhere. Shaving a few sales is a meaningless amount of money compared to preserving traffic from meaningful providers.
In the one sale every few months crowd shaving makes zero sense. Nobody making millions a year is sitting around thinking about ways to scam twenty bucks from a one sale affiliate. In fact, many companies don't want to deal with one sale affiliates at all anymore.
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^What he said (except for the adding sales bit. Pretty sure that doesn't happen)^.
Affiliates like myself watch our stats religiously and anything that doesn't match our carefully tracked performance stats is quickly noticed. They know that many of us are just as sophisticated in our strategies and analysis as they are. Notice something peculiar or traffic isn't performing, and in my case I can change where my traffic goes with a single line of code.
Be rest assured, the large reputable companies aren't going to risk losing their top earners. That being said, there are some low life scum on this board that undoubtedly consider shaving to be an active part of their business strategy.
I would argue that one sale affiliates do have value as well. I would assume that they account for over 95% of the affiliates. (Programs like AFF have thousands of affiliates, but from past experience, I would say a handful of 50 or less account for the vast majority of the gross). And if you only make one sale, you are never going to reach the minimum payout, which means the program wouldn't have to payout anything on that single sale...no shaving required.