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Wherever mvc is critiscised, someone will always peddle the mvc line that it's just jealousy, thus diffusing the real facts, there is nothing that pearson has or is that I would wish to have or be.Originally Posted by Sparkster
confuscius (11-02-10)
Well mvc certainly aren't doing themselves any favours - I can't understand why a company with their turnover would even consider stealing an email news letter or ripping off a $200 web site design. But its also undeniable that a lot of the comments stem from jealousy. Everyone might think he's a dick, but he's a successful dick
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The issue surrounding the reputation of the affiliate industry is interesting.
At the end of the day every apple cart has a bad apple. Entire industries operate by his sort of behaviour.
One of my neighbours was arrested for smuggling £250k worth of cigarettes and tax avoidance. He's just gone and bought a new Mercedes.
Your always going to get people cheat. But in the new economy they can be easily exposed.
Why not play him at his own game?
Register any of the muvouchercodes domains that are available (you will get some typo traffic if nothing else!), accidentally port a similar looking site using wordpress mu as the basis of the site (seperate directory blog for each merchant) and although the names are similar then your new site perfectly matches your underlying technology.
Any takers?
Mark is extremely talented in what he does, and with that talent he deserves to be successful, some people may be jealous, but that is completely irrelevant to the issues being raised, and so I do wonder why certain people do keep trying to push the jealousy thing.
Some issues maybe petty, but even petty issues will eventually start to annoy people if they are happening time after time. It's nothing to do with success, it's to do with constantly trying to rip off your fellow affiliates, regardless of if the outcome is success or failure.
Lee
iCodes - Free Voucher and Offer API Available.
I agree with you, Mark is extremely talented in what he does, but what is he talented in, cookie fraud, stealing design, ripping off other people. I think who ever says this is jealousy needs a reality check. I agree with you this is not about jealousy.
Lauraluu (25-11-10)
If it was about jealously it wouldn't be targetted at just one person.
People would be making comments about a number of successful people in affiliate marketing.
However the relationship towards everyone is very friendly and constructive because they deserve it.
What is he doing with cookies that all the other big vc sites arent doing?
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He is combining it with all the other sly underhand imoral things he is also continuosly doing, and over a long period of time and on a larger scale and with no intentions of stopping.
Why don't you just say 'what is he doing which any other immoral person isn't doing'... that will justify everything he is doing, as to why you wuold want to justify it is beyond me.
Lee
iCodes - Free Voucher and Offer API Available.
Why should he stop? He's making money without breaking the law or the networks rules. You can't cry about him handling cookies the way he does when every single other vc site is doing the same.
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Okay, would it be fair to say every successful VC site is doing the same? I might be looking at it wrong, but it looks like vouchercodes.co.uk etc are handling their outlinking/cookies in the same way that he is.
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Thats news to me.. but then again I don't have the experience to know otherwise!
Lee
iCodes - Free Voucher and Offer API Available.
Okay lets compare mvc to the next biggest vc site:
Currys Promotional Code, Currys UK Voucher Codes, Currys Digital Promotional Codes, Currys Discount Codes, Currys Discount Vouchers - My Voucher Codes UK - My Voucher Codes UK
Currys Discount Codes - Currys Voucher Codes & Currys Vouchers
Seems the same to me?
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Most voucher code sites use click to reveal, and that is another discussion entirely.
There is a distinct difference in those 2 pages:
The presence of a 'click to reveal all vouchers' button sitting above the fold on MVC, with every individual vouchers being below. vc.co.uk doesn't have that so users will only get a cookie dropped if they like a particular voucher.
It's one of Marks clever ways of bending the rules - I think technically he is within IAB regs with that one, but when he uses a simple above and below the fold page design, he can manipulate the user better.
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