Affiliate commission theft – Affiliates, There goes Your Affiliate Commission.

Oct 08 2009

Posted by Webmasters-central.com as Affiliate Marketing

Recently many vendors are following a method that steals the affiliate commission from their affiliates. I think some of them are doing this unknowingly …

They offer an affiliate program (inhouse or hosted one). We join and get the affiliate link. This affiliate link only credits the sale if the buyer buys through Paypal or whatever their primary payment processor is.

Here comes the tricky part … On order page, they will add another payment processor, the sale which don’t credit the affiliate.

Example: I got affiliate links where main payment processor is Paypal. On order page vendor says – ‘You can buy through Regnow.com here.’. What is this? So if buyer I sent to his site buys using Regnow.com link, I don’t get the affiliate commission.

See the example below:

Vendor is offering affiliate program through Commission junction and Clickbank. Point is I can send the visitor ONLY through either one of the links. So what if the visitor buys different link if I send him through Clickbank link?

On the order page this same vendor is offering Clickbank link and Money order option. So there is no way the vendor can know that I sent the visitor to his site.

So what I did was, I spend sometime on my site and I even updated some of my affiliate links to links who have one Payment processor. When I promote them, I’d like to get paid. What do you say?

Take time and check the prder pages of the vendors. I really don’t know they wantedly doing that or unknowingly stealing their affiliate commisions etc, but be careful to promote such programs.

Author: Radhika (c)
http://www.webmasters-central.com/

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