shave me

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First - as far as the definition of shaving - Steve has a good point that what most of us from the "old school" would consider shaving is very possibly different than what someone newer to the biz might think is a shave
A real good example is what a "newer" Wm confronted me with at a show - he said that while the sponsor was tracking hits to the site ok, and paying him for signups to that site just fine - he wasnt getting a cut on the sales generated from the little checkbox on the join form that sponsors use (usually pre-checked and known as a cross-sale).
And of course the sponsor had in black and white in their terms and conditions that they did not pay their affiliates for these sales - which I wouldnt expect them to knowing that this where sponsors get a good percentage of their overhead taken care of - it just baffled the WM though

As far as CCBill - there are quite a few programs out there that rely on the fact that since they are using a middleman you will expect things to be on the up and up - something I learned from another WM here - that I should have known but didnt take the time to look at - was that each sponsor can set the number of rebills that get credited to the refferring WM and how much gets credited over time - although you would think that programs advertising rebills at 60% would pay that for the life of the surfer - it might be worthwhile checking that in your ccbill stats to see how long you really get rebills for - I was amazed to see one program had it set for 1 rebill and another that had it set for no rebills.

As Alex also pointed out - it really doesnt matter whether a program uses CCbill or any other software out there - and I dont care what any rep or even owner of an affiliate software company says - if a sponsor "wants" to shave - they can - just depends on how much they are willing to spend towards accomplishing that shave.