What is your opinion of cookies and sales?

[Jace]

I just got the fleshlight.com newsletter and was suprised to find this

We're excited to announce the revision of our current traffic referral system. As many of you know, the former system implemented cookies that could be overwritten by another affiliate if the surfer failed to place a sale or visit our discussion board. As of Friday, May 12th, we've implemented a new system which will offer all of our affiliates a locked 30-day cookie on traffic generated and sent to Fleshlight.com irregardless of sales or registration on our forum.

Personally, I don't care for this strategy, that means if a surfer clicks on a link from thehun.com today and then 3 weeks from now clicks on my link because I sold him better, I won't get credit for the sale I made from him, because thehun put his link up top and had one of his millions of uniques a day click that link

What is your take on this? I am interested to hear opinions