My commissions got clawed back — was it in the terms?

My commissions got clawed back — was it in the terms?

Q: A reader earned $4,200 one month, then saw $1,500 reversed. They felt cheated. Were they?

A: We read the offer terms together. Buried in the fine print: a 60-day return window, and a clause excluding 'incentivized traffic.' Their source ran a rewards angle ('sign up, get points'), which technically violated that line.

The reversals were legal under terms they'd agreed to without reading. Painful lesson.

Fix: they switched to two offers that explicitly allowed incentive traffic and had a 14-day return window instead of 60. Reversals dropped from 36% of revenue to under 5% over the next two months.

Short version: read the traffic-source restrictions and the return/hold window before you scale. The terms decide what you actually keep.

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