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By: How Did Eric Nagel Win ‘Best Blogger’ at the Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Awards?

How Did Eric Nagel Win ‘Best Blogger’ at the Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Awards? — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:45:23 +0000

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By: Get Involved with the Performance Marketing Association | Eric Nagel

Get Involved with the Performance Marketing Association | Eric Nagel — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:41:36 +0000

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By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:06:43 +0000

Woo, bad news. It seems to be one of the worst things a company can do these days is wrong do someone over the internet. When it goes viral you are pretty much screwed. I guess she never really understand what she was doing and how easily it could be exposed. I hope something was done to restore some faith and honor the original agreement for all’s sack?

By: Ron Bechdolt

Ron Bechdolt — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:12:14 +0000

Nice job of exposing this Eric. Frankly I can’t believe this kind of thing happens in this day and age, but evidently it does.

By: Dirty Affiliate Contest from Panties.com | Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:53:48 +0000

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Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:23:16 +0000

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By: Kellie Stevens

Kellie Stevens — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:22:19 +0000

You hear so much about affiliate fraud, this is a reminder that fraud isn’t limited to just affiliates. If it breaks the contractural agreement or is intentionally misleading, it’s fraud in my book.

While I wait for all the facts to be given (hopefully more will be forthcoming from SAS), I have to say it isn’t looking too good for the merchant at this point. I have to agree the explanation isn’t holding a lot of water for me at the moment. Test transactions should never been done on an affiliate’s site unless the specific affiliate is having a potential tracking issue. And if it was testing, it shouldn’t have tracked the way it did. Why would not clearing the cache make a difference? It wouldn’t. If they were testing off their own link, they would have been the last cookie in anyway.

The promotion itself had diaster written all over it. Terrible promotion from the get go IMO. Now it’s a train wreck.

Trust is hard one and easily lost.

By: Jim Kukral

Jim Kukral — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:14:37 +0000

When will the rookies learn. This is the last industry in the world where you should think you could get away without paying or trickery with commissions. What a shame that now there program is in ruins. Or was it ever even anything?

By: James Seligman

James Seligman — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:13:37 +0000

I read her “response”, I can’t believe what she is saying: “We also made a series of test transactions at the end of the month to test tracking.”

Who in the right mind does something like that, during a contest no less. So is this something that they do every month (testing links) or it just so happens it was this past month? What BS!

By: Todd Farmer

Todd Farmer — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:05:12 +0000

Wow, that is such a shameless, scammy way to get affiliates to promote a merchant! How short-sighted, and…. dirty. (gross!)

Great case study on how to screw your brand in the affiliate space, eh?

Good catch, Mr. Programmer.