I see. I was assuming they would bookmark sites they like for future reference over remembering the site url and typing it in later. This explains it a little more.
We are going to NATS, which is what started this affiliate's anger trip to begin with (I'd have to assume he doesn't like NATS, or something). Anyway, thanks for the explanation,
I wasn't looking at it that way because the affiliate in question himself said that we should just have a sperate tour for ccbill affiliate links ouside of NATS.. which kind of made his point... pointless, imo anyway.
I'll gladly accept all feedback on this matter as I don't want any affiliate to feel we are trying to screw them over. I should note though, we only had this separate tour link live for 48 hours to ensure our secondary biller was actually working before we integrate them into NATS (one step at a time). And this whole thread will be pointless once we go live with NATS as then everything will go through that. But it's been bugging me for 2 days so I wanted to get feedback from others. I know there are a lot of shitty fucking theiving crooks in this business, but we have never been, and never will be one of those. Which is why this is bothering me so much...
As an aside, I thought a 3 year track record of never having one affiliate complaint would give us some leadway into our NATS integration.. but it doesn't look like that's the case
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Originally Posted by StariaDaniel
The point is ...
1) User visits site via affiliate => gets affiliate cookie
2) User doesn't sign up and closes the browser
3) 3 days later he's horny again, thinks about the site site, type's in www.domain.com or types your sitename into google
4) Goes to your index.html => tour => biller without affiliate
5) You've a sale that's not credited to the affiliate
If you've multiple tours and billers you usually use a system like NATS that tracks your sales independent of tour/biller. |