Quote Originally Posted by gaymoviesblog View Post
found this thread very interesting as i've noticed an odd trend in my ratios that indicate a possible skim.
I was at a show in 2004. The owner of TopBucks was there, there were 3 of us standing in a corner talking to him about where to send traffic. He said, "You start sending traffic to anyone and everyone you can, whoever pays you the most is where you send it." The conversation overturned to "skimming and shading of stats." He said, "Everyone skims stats, you send your traffic to who pays you more. That's the only way you can stay afloat." Fuck, I can't remember the guys name. He's short, I'm wanting to say Pacific Islander. I am pretty sure his name is Don.

We caught them on several occasions skimming stats on their VOD Product Yappo. We purchased transactions through 4 anonymous credit cards. - Credit cards that did not show our name or be matched with our address.
We did this through the white label site they set up for us. About 2,000 minutes were viewed on our movies. Movies that had minimal minutes. On one movie, 110 minutes were used on it. The movie showed it only earned 61 minutes.
The whitelabel only credited 1/4 of what it should have.

I also find it very funny that no one of TopBucks ever replied to that thread backing up the accusations that I made against them.

Shortly after we overturned our evidence to Top Bucks, our affiliate rep was terminated. We waited some time and then sent the studio evidence to them... Our studio rep was terminated.

Never once has anyone from TopBucks, Yappo, or any other Pink Visual entity has came forward with any explanations, not an I'm sorry, not even a word about it. That's what infuriates me so much about their practices.

They may not skim now, or at least for now because the truth is starting to seap out about them. Not just from us, but others.

This is the exact reason we do not trust NATS programs. The Nats software allows you to "shade" affiliate stats. Some use it, very select do not. Remember, your in business for yourself and to make a living for you. Many in this industry are heartless... as you can see.