I have just noticed a website that is simply copying all discount codes from my site and adding it to theirs. I have no issue with standard codes, but ones that are issued to me exclusively? Bang out of order!
They have a big EXCLUSIVE image next to them, and are even MY company name!
Any ideas apart from resort to violence?
It is no coincidence that EVERY single one is listed, so it is definately not a case of an occasional visitor wrongly submitting a code, its a case of visit, grab and use!
why not band together and persuade merchants/networks to allocate the commission to the person the code was given to rather than to the affiliate link that sends the user who uses the code
would make codes useless (ok no revenue earning anyway) for sites that nick unique ones
maybe it's something that can be coded at the network side.. ie code "freebie1" is allocated to aff id 2949 regardless of cookie set ? .. can't be brain surgery can it
can't see how that would annoy non discount code affiliates, at end of the day they'd lose the sale anyway to a cookie being set when user accesses most codes in the first place,
can't see how that would upset other genuine discount sites as they would be in the same boat and it would protect their codes ... in fact basically it would only upset the affs that nick exclusive discount codes methinks
Exclusive codes are generally not handed out on a plate. I personally have to spend a couple of days per month negotiating new codes or extensions to existing ones.
I do that work as these codes add value.
So I too don't like seeing these codes being propagated around.
Some networks will contact the other affiliate for you to kindly ask for the codes to be removed.
Yep its a real pain the the royal backside Frostie isn't it. Just run a google search for 'dvcouk' and see how many sites have my codes on board.
To be honest I normally drop the sites an email and they get removed - that is apart from a small number of voucher sites which never answer to my emails.
Sometimes you have to take a drop in commission to get an exclusive discount code - and if someone else is using it for traffic and getting the full commission it is well out of order!!
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Andrew Clapham - Fashion Blogger & Fashion Discount Codes.