Just my curious, if product affiliate manager just pulled down tracking pixel on their sales page "sometimes" to prevent pay commission to publishers but got sales and reported to mother company as sales. They just pulled sometimes as random so CJ cannot track them down because they still have paid their 30% cut to CJ but not for all transactions. Is it possible?
That would only hurt them in the long run. Lowering their epc with cj and moving them lower on the list for future affiliates. If publishers don't see commissions, they will drop the program.
Yes it's possible, no it doesn't happen. This is explicitly not allowed in CJ's contracts with advertisers. Also, most websites cannot modify tracking code on their website with even a week's notice. Top affiliates (5-bar publishers and CJPs who usually generate between 40 and 80% of a program's volume) wouldn't stand for this.
It happens more than you think. We, over the years, have caught several "big name" advertisers modifying, removing and purposely cheating on the tracking/sales. Sometimes it's a simple mistake that an advertiser makes a change to a page and it "breaks" things. Some have been caught showing different pages to different people and some of those pages not having any tracking on them at all. Others have setup things to remove tracking altogether and then put it back up when they want. It can be a simple mistake. However, there HAVE been CJ advertisers that have cheating publishers. From tracking issues to outright not paying them at all for sales or leads. Publishers can't trust everything and should watch over their numbers like a hawk. It's the very lifeblood of your business. If you feel something is not right then by all means start asking questions. You might suddenly find the advertisers numbers start going back up.
That's weird, Is this happened to only CJ or others network like Shareasale, Azoogleads, Performics, etc.? Could you PM me the name of "Big name" which always cheating on publishers? That would be confidential and I would stay away to promote their products.