Okay WTF

archcommus

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Do you ever get mad when you see or hear of a friend/someone you know who's doing something illegal or immoral to make money? Because you see them making money doing sh!t while everyone else works hard for their dough.

Here's an example.

Talked to an old friend from high school today, for some reason he was very open to discuss what he's been doing. He's been affiliating with cheap POS companies that pay $2 for affiliate sign ups for stuff like filling out surveys, etc., and then, he hops on over to starclicker.com, pays them $5 to do 20 sign-ups for him, and the employees of this website sign up using his banners to give him affiliate commission. So he spends $5, makes $40, and has been doing this for months.

W-T-F. There's nothing in place to prevent this kid from so easily stealing affiliate commission from these companies?
 

MikeMike

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Originally posted by: archcommus
Do you ever get mad when you see or hear of a friend/someone you know who's doing something illegal or immoral to make money? Because you see them making money doing sh!t while everyone else works hard for their dough.

Here's an example.

Talked to an old friend from high school today, for some reason he was very open to discuss what he's been doing. He's been affiliating with cheap POS companies that pay $2 for affiliate sign ups for stuff like filling out surveys, etc., and then, he hops on over to starclicker.com, pays them $5 to do 20 sign-ups for him, and the employees of this website sign up using his banners to give him affiliate commission. So he spends $5, makes $40, and has been doing this for months.

W-T-F. There's nothing in place to prevent this kid from so easily stealing affiliate commission from these companies?

thats not stealing, thats using the system. all i see in that is smart thought.
 

archcommus

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It's a scam because it's against the TOS of those companies to offer an incentive for signing up. That is what you're doing by paying starclicker.
 

archcommus

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There's no exploit, you're flat out violating the terms you agreed to when signing up.