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Originally Posted by Qui Gon Jinn Competitor Brand Bidding - Did Buy.at provide that bull, becuase they certaining didn t believe us or did their merchant Waterstones when book generic terms appeared for teh phrase "waterstone". Off course one rule for one, one for another. Also ads are still appearing for other marks & spencer variations intermitently.

Google advised i-level of the reasons why next appeared under the specific term.

Originally Posted by Qui Gon Jinn If you do competitor bidding yourselves, then you won't mind if merchants & affiliates reciprocate the pleasantries in paid search.

Bidding against competitor terms and allowing affiliates to brand bid are two seperate issues.

Originally Posted by Qui Gon Jinn I didn't know Buy.at were in Europe more than the likes of Webgains or Tradedoubler or CJ

Buy.at will be managing Nexts promotions in Ireland

Re Tenders

Originally Posted by Qui Gon Jinn Did you actually sit down in person & listen to all the networks tenders? Or shall I bring up my earlier posts in this pertaining to selected networks.

The tender involved a three stage selection process which involved myself, senior i-level staff and next sitting down personally with the networks. These pitches were held at both i-levels and nexts offices.