Moose on the Loose

Isn’t it disappointing that during the busy christmas shopping period some merchants are reducing commissions to a whopping zero percent on Wii’s (one of the most sought after items again this festive period).

I will give the list of culprit merchants in a moment, but a lesson learned is to remember who your friends are (and I use that word very loosely), for shunting affiliates on popular products. Yet these merchants quite merrily sell them in bundles with other games & accessories for which they receive obvious margins (stock levels permitting).

As a result, perhaps they should be not given or expect any favourable treatment when their need arises & start pimping off us. However, some affiliates with gold fish memories will no doubt embrace them.
What surprises me is that their products have been & a few still appear in their product feeds from various networks, giving them free traffic. Come on networks, please have some consideration & sort out your clients.

• Toys R US – No commission on all consoles ! Read Here

• Comet – No commission on Wii’s
• Game – No commission on Wii’s (also complaining about their server load, please get a grip, oh and this is a merchant which restricts bidding on the generic term Game – lol – which in my opinion is a keyword which is fair game)
• Woolworths – No commission on Wii’s
• PC World – No commission on Wii’s & bundles.
• Currys – No commission on Wii’s
• Dixons – Commissions reduce to 0.5%. Yet again, DSG group & their amoebic brain approach to affiliate marketing
• eDirectory – No commission on Wii’s & bundles.

Come christmas why is it that a few merchants (a rafter) seem to go devoid of reasonable logic & reasoning?

Note: A group of turkeys is called a rafter.

On the plus side it has helped me indentify a couple of other excellent merchants, courtesy of being in Affiliate Window Shopwindow, which shall in future gain precedence over those turkeys mentioned above.

So in effect this woe does have a silver lining.

“However, every cloud has a silver lining (except for the mushroom shaped ones, which have a lining of Iridium & Strontium 90). “

Bringing up to the present date the immortal words from Queen Victoria on the toilet in 1901

“Wii Are Not Amused!

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