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Re:The big, ugly affiliate marketing scam by dangrossman on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @04:08AM (#6204549)
Affiliate networks require you put their code on the "thank you" page shown after checkout. Conditionally removing that code would be seen as an attempt to scam the network and get out of paying commissions owed. What you're proposing doesn't work anyway -- you don't know that they didn't come through an affiliate link a week prior; the cookie isn't on your domain, but you owe a commission for that referral.
Re:The big, ugly affiliate marketing scam by endymi0n on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @04:18AM (#6204572)
Correct. There's a "blind" tracking pixel at the checkout page that will usually catch the sale in a "last cookie wins" fashion. So on top of the advertisers, anyone actually facilitating the sale by advertising is ripped off by the coupon sites. It's a major pain for the industry - the only surefire way to protect yourself is to get rid of drop either affiliate marketing or coupon codes.
Re:The big, ugly affiliate marketing scam by martin-adams on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @05:28AM (#6204766)
"you don't know that they didn't come through an affiliate link a week prior"

Does that mean you have to fully trust the affiliate with how many referrals they claim to have made?

Re:The big, ugly affiliate marketing scam by johnward on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @09:12AM (#6205454)
Many times it's the last referral that gets the commission. This is why coupon code sites are a pain to both affiliates and site owners.