Freemans

**getvisible** · 12-09-06

If I go to a product via froogle to a product on Freemans the purchaser get's 20% off their first order. But if they go via a POR affili link the purchaser only gets 10% off their first order?

**Supercod** · 12-09-06

Thanks for alerting us, I will have the Account Manager contact them and see if we can get the same deal for our Affiliates.

**getvisible** · 12-09-06

No probs matey!

Thought it was just me with my eyes failing with old-age!

Gratton £15 off looks fine though!

**Elaine** · 12-09-06

Freemans started with a 20% discount for first timers - then reduced it to 10% not too long ago.

**befuddle** · 14-09-06

All the creatives still shout 20% off, so these need updating quickly too.

**Supercod** · 20-09-06

Creative has been updated.

Reply from Merchant was

It was unfortunate that we had to reduce the affiliate discount, but it had to do with the customer behavior, and the affiliate referred customers weren't as long-term profitable. So we had to drop the affiliate discount to 10%, though certain other online discounts remained at 20%. I'm sure I could get a temporary rise now and again, but for the time being at least, it is a permanent change.

As you know with Paid On Results, Merchants have to offer the same publicly available rate of commission that they offer on any other network, so you know you will always be assured of getting the best commission rates, when it comes to what offers they wish to push via the different channels then that's up to them to decided what works best for them, personally I would like to have seen Affiliates on same rate as Froogle but not very much we can do as this decision is one for the Merchant to make.