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Old 10-24-2006, 11:45 PM  
Brad Mitchell
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Originally Posted by RawAlex View Post
Losing the affiliate code on the way around... like making your tour echo the code on every link to make sure, but then either having the code missing from some links, or worse, replaced by another code.

Not having a good enough tracking system to know where sales come from.

Counting only 10% of the hits, claiming it is second page uniques or some other bullshit excuse.

Not knowing the difference between a blank day (no traffic) and zeros (the shaving machine rounded down).

Raising your payouts through the roof while actively limiting the chances that your affiliates can make a sale.

Adding links off, leaks, email collection, and other nice features to your tour without notification, but then sending out an urgent email when you update the wording on a tour from "fuck her" to "have sex with her".

Adding a whole pile of galleries, and then pulling them all down 1 week later.

Moving from XXX stats to NATS and not providing proper old code following / conversion.

Using the processors 5 year old tracking system instead of investing in NATS or MPA or whatever it is you like.

Redesigning your affiliate site 10 times, but never bothering to issue a single new banner or promotional tool in the same time period.

Making your hosted gallery codes incomaptible with default settings on popular TGP software.

Someone else keep this going.

I always enjoy your posts, Alex

Brad

P.S. - Let's add to the list programs that don't regularly check to make sure their "post back" from processors to their accounting software is always functioning! lol
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