I have been reluctant to doing extensive testing out of fear of what I would find. I am afraid I would have next to no one to promote if my choice was to drop the thieves lmao. I don’t know that end of the business at all, but it is my feeling that the way most shaving takes place in this business is with a simple formula. For example, instead of getting 100% of the revenue and signups we generate like we are suppose to, they code it to give us like 60%, 80%, 90%, 95% ect.. I have run several tests in the past and just about all of them failed at one point or another, and this is after buying a brand new computer so that takes out all of the common reasons a referral might not be credited to us. Its just a simple formula built into the tracking program and it adds up to big time money when its done across the board.
This would also explain why so many affiliate managers are so adamant that the stats are 100% correct. As far as they are concerned the stats are in fact correct, they have no reason to think otherwise since the theft is done under the radar. Point being is I think the affiliate managers are the innocent ones in most cases, its actually the top dogs at the program who had this programing done or its the actual software providers themselves that provide the tracking who would rather keep their licensees financially fat so they can pay another $100K next year rather than give it to us. Pretty easy, just make 20% of our referrals house deals. Nothin to it, just a formula in the code. This also make the programs themselves the innocent ones and the actual software providers themselves the thieves.
At any rate, I have learned to be happy with what I get. I obviously keep the ones I have the most faith in at the top, but I don’t rock the boat too much. This is just my gut feeling to how the shaving takes place in this business. We all know its done and in many different ways, this is just how I think the majority is done and its just a feeling folks. I really don’t know that end of the business at all so I could be way off base, but there is an answer for everything, and I think its silly to think that there are so many honest errors in a programing code. Its programmed to do something and it does just that.