Have You Ditched Next Directory And Other Low Paying Programmes - Poll

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[Elaine]

I've just made my first Next via buy.at sale and even though it's only 2% commission it's money for old rope as Frostie puts it.

I am more concerned about Thomson Holidays who reduced their commissions for voucher sites to £5 without warning or consultation. So where I once would receive £50 for a booked family holiday I now get a fiver. And I don't have a voucher to help induce a sale in the first place.

I won't ditch that merchant either, just won't promote them over-and-above other better performing and rewarding merchants.

and what you gonna do Ray when all the Merchants have reduced their commission to ridiculously low levels? Wouldn't pack that full time job of yours in just yet!

[loquax]

I've just made my first Next via buy.at sale

Any reason why you didn't pull the links?

it's money for old rope as Frostie puts it

And as affiliates we wonder why merchants perhaps have their issues too. Sorry (both of you), but really you can't expect a merchant to be dancing around jumping through hoops to sort out their side of the bargain, when we're saying "hey, cool money for old rope"!

Jason

[befuddle]

Any reason why you didn't pull the links?

Yeah. My site visitors were/are searching for Next and I'd just made sales via Aff Win. So I knew the page would be visited and convert.

[Cheapdvds]

and that is y some companies will always think affiliates dont matter

[befuddle]

Wouldn't pack that full time job of yours in just yet!

Sadly (for me) I didn't even earn a fiver in commission yesterday after Google had issue with my site. So in those circumstances every penny counts and I'll still be playing with phones for a long time to come.

[dougs]

more please sir....

[Shane]

lol Doug

Yeah. My site visitors were/are searching for Next and I'd just made sales via Aff Win. So I knew the page would be visited and convert.

sometimes nothing is better than anything .. if that anything would be short term and the something, when it came, due to nothing happening with anything, would be far bigger for the long term and outweight the short term benefit of anyone settling for just anything.

that's it I'm out of tongue twisters

[dougs]

You been talking to this bloke too much


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Doug

[Frostie]

Ray

Think about this my friend...

Next were found to be advertising on M&S trademarks. Why? Well maybe because their market research told them that the same type of person who shops at M&S could also be the same type of person who would shop at Next? Different on clothes, but everythings else such as homewares, gifts etc.... When I read about this on Shanes blog, I made a note, and now use my Next page to point to another merchant.

It works!

I won't ditch that merchant either, just won't promote them over-and-above other better performing and rewarding merchants.

Question is Ray, who will be next to treat you and other affiliates like this? Eventually you will not be pushing anyone over and about anyone else. Its a vicious circle that once started will be hard to stop. That was the main message of my post!

[jess1]

Agree with Kev.. if its making money for affs, they are not going to pull their links. As Kev says, there are lots of other examples where by the merchant has altered their program and I dont see any threads about them. I wonder if Next were not a big brand, would they have coveted so much attention?
Nope.. is the answer and history shows this.

Wallet always wins, its capitalism and where money is concerned, its pretty ruthless out there. I can only say, the best way to deal with programs that don’t fit our own criteria of what is deemed as good... just don’t promote them, move on.

I would ask what the ideal objective is anyway, is this to get Next to change their ways? Is this to just send a message? Is this to educate or prevent other affiliates from promoting next? I think the fact that Next are aware of this, is enough. Now they have to do some merchant damage limitation. Have they learnt anything? Yeah...I think so.

I do think reducing affiliates commissions to 1% during Next sale was insulting and if I were a network I would rather have quit my job then send out that info to affiliates, but that’s just me and Im aware that probably a lot of affiliates still made money. It does annoy me, but like I said thats just me and I wouldn't have NEXT as a client for all the tea in china.

[dougs]

LASTMINUTE and EXPEDIA - we pulled all our traffic to lastminute and expedia on a point of them wanting to play games

Anyone want a million uniques per month? The reason we started building ASAP.co.uk : Compare and find the best deals on flights - cheapest airfaire worldwide from asap.co.uk sick of them playing with the deals

Doug
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[dougs]

Anyone care to see if they can outrank NEXT in the serps for their brand name?

Doug

[Cheapdvds]

and point the traffic to M&S

[Qui Gon Jinn]

Doug,

There might be a few up for the challenge.

Notice: Elaine has added a new poll as this one is fairly old, please could you update your votes on the following one.

http://www.affiliates4u.com/forums/a...t-part-ii.html