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Originally posted by psyko514
What exactly is wrong with that? I'll explain it to you in easier terms as it's obvious you're not too bright.
Say you're pushing a program run by ccBill and you get caught signing up multiple times with stolen credit cards, so ccBill suspends your account.
Now say you have a gallery listed on a TGP from a few months ago that still gets a few hundred hits a day. If someone clicks through to the affiliate program you cheated, instead of going to a page saying "This affiliate is cheating scum", they'll be brought to the website, but the sale won't be tracked as yours.
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That's just one possible scenario.
Another much more likely scenario is that a sponsor wants to shave, so he suspends your account, even though your traffic is fine and no fraud is occurring. In this scenario,
the affiliate is not notified that he will recieve no credit for his traffic, but all the clickthrus are being sent to the sponsor site. And the sponsor keeps ALL the money from any referrals during the period of "suspension". If this were not intended to make it easier for sponsors to shave, then affiliates would be notified when their accounts were suspended.