Your application has been declined this time.

[garbo]

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Why is it that almost every program I apply to join at buy.at comes back with the reply Your application has been declined this time. With no Reasons why. It then wastes so much time emailling buy.at who email the merchant, who email buy.at and we still get declined and we get NO REASONS. This is really driving me crazy, and makes me wonder if it's worth all the effort. It needs to get better buy.at or i'll be hanging up my boots.

[MattSweet]

Whats the url of your site(s) on your login area?

I've been declined on some Buy.at programmes but they've always reversed this if I email.

Usually it's because I want to promote the programme on a new site but haven't bothered to put it in my website info section. So the merchant only sees an unrelated site and wonders why I applied.

[garbo]

It's Code Hot UK. www.codehot.co.uk - The British website for entertainment, travel, lifestyle, music, song lyrics and online shopping. UK Chat. Compare Online Dating. Broadband, Lotto results. Jokes and Puzzles. Get a Free email account., and also UK Online Shopping sites at www.armchair-shopping.co.uk. The best UK Shopping sites. Alpahabetic Listing of UK Online Shops. UK Shopping Directory.. We've had a few problems with other networks too over the domain name - codehot.co.uk having the word "code" in. Merchants assume it's a voucher code site and dismiss it because of the taboo that discount code sites have created. It's not a discount code site, and I have had to justify this to get accepted on some progs. My latest denial has been RAC, who we did well with when they were with OMG.

The most frustrating thing to me is that a refusal never comes with a reason - so if there's something wrong with our sites we never get the feedback to do anything about it.

[Dan_Wright]

Hi Garbo,

Sorry you've had this problem - as you can imagine Account Managers here are appraising lots of affiliates over lots of programmes, and specific reasons can be difficult to give directly to each affiliate.

There's lots of reasons an application may be denied - as you say, merchants who don't work with voucher sites etc. or merchants who give us very specific guidelines as to the type of affiliate that can be approved onto their programme.

A lot of larger financil merchants in particular can be very specific and only work with purely finance sites - the reason for this is often quality of the leads generated through them. This is only an example, I don't run RAC but hopefully can put it in context. Also, merchants will often give different guidlines when they change networks - again, I'm only talking generally, so don't quote me!

If you can email me - daniel.wright@platform-a.com - with some of the programmes you're particularly confused with, I can investigate it further for you with the account managers.

Thanks Garbo, hope that helps.

Cheers,
Dan.

[lauriebred]

Put a site up which is relevant to, or all about, the merchant that turned you down and stick Google ads on it. Promote the site and sometime in the future you may decide to apply again to that merchant, in which case you can show them that you can definitely produce business, or then again you may decide it's not worth the hassle. You could well find that Google ads can produce more profit than affiliate ads with a lot less bother.