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Old 10-22-2012, 10:01 AM  
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Originally Posted by Axel_Crak View Post
Right, we will never completely know for sure that a program is 100% honest

But if your stress about it, there is many things you can do,, heres some:

- Go read forum like here and others. use the search tools for the sponsors you want to try

- Google the sponsors name with scam, fraud words in the search

- Work with established and good reputation brands

- Find sites that talk about it and have list likes freeone hall of shame and other like that

- Test yourself and make few sign up with differents cards/name/trackers and look in your stats if its there. Try to find someone from another country to do it to

- Go on the landing page often and click EVERYWHERE and verify if your trackink ID is still there

- Try with different, tablets, mobile, android, iphone to see how it works

- Take a proxy and try different geos to see if theres is any redirection or anything suspiscious (geosurf is the best for that)

- Look in details all the stats admin ,watch for pattern or non sales period

etc etc etc



Feelfree to make your homework about crakrevenue we have nothing to hide
Good post. This is one of the better posts from an affiliate rep/owner/partner which I have ever seen on the subject.

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About shaving to google the program name it is not reliable. Anyone can do fake nicks to write in every forum or site that a program scammed them even if this is not true, or to defend program who really is scammer. Plus there's paranoid affiliates who are sincerely convinced they got shaved stats even this is not true and will post conspiracy theories, every big program got these guys writing bad "hey program is big so they must be evil".

I think googleing it is useful to find the complete non-payers, so if a program stopped to pay or reply anyone in 2011, you can find this.

Also about rep's and affiliate links... they are pushing sites who at least are alive, got affiliates and rep's, it is not totally negative
But where there is smoke there is fire. Most affiliates aren't going to complain unless they are to the point where they are ready to say fuck it. They want to be paid what they are owed and sometimes complaining will harm the chances of that happening.

If a good program gets badmouthed on a forum usually other affiliates will speak up and share that they aren't seeing problems. When others don't speak up or it's only the usual "bro club" which does so then that also suggests something too.
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