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The only one losing in this situation is the affiliate networks and oddly they are the ones who don't seem to be thinking about it
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.... and hard working affiliates who work within the rules to promote merchants who lose sales and users to other sites (some with forced cookies too...) because they won't publish non-affiliate codes!
The simple fact is that Tesco don't want affiliates to publish codes - they've told Buy.at, Buy.at have told the affiliates - that's all the information there currently is available - but I guess Buy.at will come back with a further explanation on how Tesco intend to move forward from here?? (Tyson? yes/no?)
E.g. perhaps they'll work out that if an affiliate link has been followed no codes will work? Or perhaps, and if I were Mr Online Tesco, I'd suspend all discount codes right now, apologise for taking that step, offer customers a discount if they register when codes will be reintroduced, and then use some of that £6billion profit to devise a system that can accommodate code usage.
The thing is that affiliates & misuse of voucher codes has perhaps been a nice little earner for some - and things are (hopefully) starting to change - so that affiliates work within the rules and merchants devise better systems to ensure they manage codes properly.
Jason