My Voucher Codes

[Spartacus]

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Spookie. I just read an article on this dude in Money Week:

Entrepreneurs: Mark Pearson of My Voucher Codes - MoneyWeek

[aotagain]

It is unfortunately the case that being an affiliate is 50% like a game because for the most part its done remotely and doesn't involve any personal selling.

If it was offline, then a lot of 'grey area' affiliates would never have succeeded because if they were 'tricky' as they were growing they would never have gained the power to force others to do business with them - word would have got around early on and they would never have got any traction.

Online, if you get to the top of Google and you've got that many customers coming to you, you can dictate terms to a large extent. Its a bit like discovering oil. Once you've got it, you'll get customers regardless.

Until the majority of merchants know enough to make informed decisions of course... and get enough time with the directors to explain why they are doing what they are doing.

I've been in a position to try to explain it to several very capable high flyers and you can see their eyes start to glaze over within 10 minutes or so. If you're faced with that, or just reporting the apparent success of the affiliate program, then quite justifiably many affiliate managers will no doubt take the second option. Who wants to go to the board and say 'hey, we've got a bit of a problem with the program...'

[Spartacus]

I'm not really sure to the extent of this bloke's crimes but appears to me one of the scenarios is that an marketeer does all the promotional ground work only to see the customer trot off to MVC to make the purchase at a discount the marketeer can't offer?

Is the answer not to promote merchants that offer voucher codes?

[Mogga]

I'm not really sure to the extent of this bloke's crimes but appears to me one of the scenarios is that an marketeer does all the promotional ground work only to see the customer trot off to MVC to make the purchase at a discount the marketeer can't offer?

Is the answer not to promote merchants that offer voucher codes?

Sort of.
If he displayed the codes without forcing a click then he wouldn't cookie-nap us.

I believe the solution lies in cookie setting when stuff gets put into the basket.
If another site adds extra items after I've got someone to put stuff in the basket then the commission could be split according to the value of who got what in the basket.

It's desperately unfair on content sites that do lots of pre-sell and up-sell, as well as on those other sites who do offer a voucher but havent got such a big discount like you say.

It's also unfair when sites pretend to have a mega discount offer - get the cookie and the the discount isn't actually what they said. The article in the press this week touched on this.

After all how ethical would it be to claim you've got a 50% discount voucher for a shop, set a cookie and for the customer to then only find a 5% discount?

[loquax]

After all how ethical would it be to claim you've got a 50% discount voucher for a shop, set a cookie and for the customer to then only find a 5% discount?

Example

findmeagift vouchers - Google Search

Look on the adwords for a company claiming to have "40% off Findmeagift Vouchers"

Jason

[Supercod]

Example

findmeagift vouchers - Google Search

Look on the adwords for a company claiming to have "40% off Findmeagift Vouchers"

Jason

Nuked ... while we can't take down the PPC advert, we can block Affiliate Links and stop them from getting commission so please report violations to me directly, always on Twitter @ClarkeDuncan or can use support request tickets (preferred) as this is the quickest way to let me know as I don't read ever post in the forum ;-)

[buspassjohn]

Funny, you get the same ad on prezziesplus vouchers search, still advertising FMAG, see here:-
prezziesplus vouchers - Google Search

guess he's not our affiliate list!

[scriptmonkey]

Nuked ... while we can't take down the PPC advert, we can block Affiliate Links and stop them from getting commission

Thats the way it should be, networks responding directly and immediately, no questions, no kow-towing, just action. Thats made my day, cheers.

[hairycornflakes]

Nuked ... while we can't take down the PPC advert, we can block Affiliate Links and stop them from getting commission so please report violations to me directly, always on Twitter @ClarkeDuncan or can use support request tickets (preferred) as this is the quickest way to let me know as I don't read ever post in the forum ;-)

nice work (as always) clarke

would it be rude of us all to click their ad? :P

wonder how long itll take them to notice lol

hc

[confuscius]

Perhaps someone could enlighten me on what the difference is between :

40% Off Findmeagift Vouchers
xxxxxx .com/Findmeagift+Vouchers Get upto 40% Off On Gift Items with Findmeagift Vouchers

AND

Free UK Discount Codes
xxxxxx .co.uk/FindMeAGiftCode All the Latest UK Discount Codes Save Upto 65%.Updated Daily

What are they upto? Is the answer upto 25% at findmeagift?

[Barry]

Perhaps someone could enlighten me on what the difference is between :

40% Off Findmeagift Vouchers
xxxxxx .com/Findmeagift+Vouchers Get upto 40% Off On Gift Items with Findmeagift Vouchers

AND

Free UK Discount Codes
xxxxxx .co.uk/FindMeAGiftCode All the Latest UK Discount Codes Save Upto 65%.Updated Daily

What are they upto? Is the answer upto 25% at findmeagift?

(First of all - sorry this post does not relate to MVC - its strayed a bit.)


-To most people nothing when it comes to searching the internet and finding stuff.

But in the 'industry' you have to be pedantic about the wording of your ads.

The first states that there is a discount for 40% off Find me a gift - which is wrong

The second states that on the website in question you could get upto 65% off an un-named company thats somewhere on the site - which is vaguely right. - oh and its updated daily

Ta

Baz

[confuscius]

The second states that on the website in question you could get upto 65% off an un-named company thats somewhere on the site - which is vaguely right. - oh and its updated daily

That would be why the url references findmeagift - I must just be thick in thinking that this was alluding to upto 65% off at findmeagift given that I had searched for findmeagift - just shows how stupid I am and not having a clue about what constitutes misleading and false advertising. I could have sworn that there was some consumer protection legislation that I have used several times to talk to different company's local Trading Standards departments especially on Mondays.