"Whatever the rights and wrongs of brand name bidding groups, I can't see why the likes of Buy.at - a great bunch and one of my favourite networks in other respects - can't set them up via a transparent, publically-advertised RPF process."
Hi Nadeem,
Hope you’re keeping out of trouble mate. love you're soft words. Ok, I think you'll find that we do publicly announce when a group is being created. More publicly than most IMO. As for the RFP, Steve B and I created buy.at's over a year ago. We send out an email to all aff's signed up to the program, post on the forum. etc.
This was our announcement in early 2007:
buy.at rolls out intial steps of an inclusive RFP process
This one as recent as last month:
The Co-Operative Bank PPC Group
It’s interesting to see that we were voted the network with the most managed Affiliate Search Groups (Brand Groups). I think this should help us strategically support our Merchants and Affiliates significantly come May 5 with the Google TM restrictions being lifted. But that’s another story and another thread…….
Cheers
Tyson