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My experience is that often the EPC isn't close to what CJ says it should be. Maybe the EPC is high because the links are used in PPCs such as Google's Adwords. Since it benefits merchants to have high EPCs, they probably have several methods to get them reported higher than what they would actually be for you and me.
I'm pretty certain that the merchant's stats would be similarly skewed, and I don't think that this is an isolated case.
Therefore as the poster above says, pay attention to just one thing - does it make YOU money?