There clearly are merchants who do that today. Last time we have a card stolen, we got tons of random bullshit merchandise in the mail (weird cosmetics and such), presumably for the affiliate money.
You are clearly arguing from the perspective of a 'good' consumer.
But think about it for a second, those charges were inflicted on good merchants, the affiliates are not the merchants, they're in the same boat that you are in, except they lost their goods, the affiliate pay-out and a chargeback fine on top of that.
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There clearly are merchants who do that today. Last time we have a card stolen, we got tons of random bullshit merchandise in the mail (weird cosmetics and such), presumably for the affiliate money.
You are clearly arguing from the perspective of a 'good' consumer.
But think about it for a second, those charges were inflicted on good merchants, the affiliates are not the merchants, they're in the same boat that you are in, except they lost their goods, the affiliate pay-out and a chargeback fine on top of that.