Was told by Affiliate Window merchant store to delete affiliate tracking cookie

[drivetowin]

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Looks like Digital Direct and Sound and Vision are back up and running again on Affiliate Window although they are not showing on the search results page. A soft launch perhaps?

I can't see them anywhere on AW, where did you spot them?

[nickhx]

They're listed on my current merchants page and also the product feed sections, although you can't access them through search.

Cheers
Nick

[Itchy]

Prior to making any decisions we wanted to find out what all your thoughts were first and would again welcome your input.

Kind Regards

The Affiliate Window Team

well you took no notice i see remind me to take a big pinch of salt when reading anything AW has to write again ...... your networks starting to lose appeal me thinks

[8601cam]

On the contrary we listened to ALL the affiliate feedback including PM's, direct email's and phone calls.

The weight of affiliates in favour of re-opening the programme with caveats and controls was by far the greater.

However rather than just negate the other parties input, we decided to only open it up to the existing affiliates who were promoting the merchant and 'hidden' for all others. That way we could monitor performance and activity over a period of time to ensure stability.

Sorry if some of you feel we have let you down this was not our intention, but with passions running high it was inevitable that some would be unhappy with the outcome.

As a network we do have principles and have remained true to the fact that educating merchants will do more in the long run for affiliate marketing than simply killing a programme. With approaches from at least two other networks offering no fees / no changes / no controls and no guarantees they would have re-surfaced without the affiliate protection we have secured on your behalf.

Kind Regards

The Affiliate Window Team

[BigB]

With approaches from at least two other networks offering no fees / no changes / no controls and no guarantees

No surprises there, then. Please can someone point me towards a network that does some ongoing proactive QA of what they are offering to affiliates - merchants' sales tracking, data feeds, business practices, etc.

[KieronD]

I can't see them anywhere on AW, where did you spot them?

A representative from the company was at the Glasgow get2gether. I urged him to reply to this thread with some form of statement. Hopefully he will.