[qeorge]

Wow, that's a whopper. (the bit about cookie stuffing being normal)

As I understand it, they would do something like this: on every 1 of 10,000 page views (to Digital Point's forums, or other sites), they would embed a page from eBay (as the source of an image), which had their affiliate code in it. The visitor was none the wiser.

Keep in mind digital point gets a ton of traffic. Though only a small percentage had a cookie dropped, it added up to many.

Purely through coincidence, some of these people would later buy something on eBay in the next 30 days, earning them a commission. Its hard to argue they earned the commission, TOS or otherwise.