Copied / adapted from my previous post on a similar thread:
"You need to understand that running the highstreetweb or any similar pop up alongside an affiliate programme is simply not acceptable to affiliates. It conveys a lack of respect and communicates a desire to abuse the partnership at affiliates' expense.
Have you ever gone to a supermarket to buy, say, fruit, but also come out with, say, toilet rolls? Of course you have. It's called shopping and everyone does it.
Many affiliates offer their users access to a range of merchants across different sectors. Many will send users who are interested in CDs (fruit) off to your site via a new window, leaving their own site open for the same user to pursue any other of their interests (eg toilet rolls).
It is highly disrespectful to such affiliates for CD WOW to present the affiliate's user - sourced and sent you at their expense - with an alternative source of toilet rolls and all manner of other items that the user might otherwise purchase via the affiliate's own site.
The deal between the affiliate and CD WOW is that the affiliate will send traffic to CD WOW in order for CD WOW to try and sell CD WOW's own products. That's it.
The bottom line is simple: if you want to work with affiliates, you don't send their users to their competitors, however indirect you think they might be or impressive their client list might be.
Whenever one of hsw's clients has employed the hsw site in association with its affiliate sourced traffic (sometimes it's happened by accident, sometimes by design), it has experienced an instant, significant and often total loss of goodwill and a withdrawal of affiliate traffic.
All experienced affiliates know that hsw is not only able but perfectly willing to work with its clients to stop its site being launched in connection with affiliate-based traffic, so this should have been your arrangement from the outset.
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