Did you ever notice how you get sales from other people with topbucks?
 

So you made a sale, check the referral url and see someone site, you go there and see his topbucks ad with his code on his site yet you get credit.

I have had this several times. Which is good :) But i dont like the fact that other people also might get credit for my sales.

So you are the one that is stealing all my sales?!!!??!!??!!

Yeah both of em.

Bastard :BangBang: :ak47:

:1orglaugh oh damn...

:1orglaugh

You have sure gotten my sales! :( :BangBang:

Wouldn't the honest thing to do be to contact Topbucks and notify them of the error so they can credit the correct affiliate? ;)

Steve Lightspeed

:1orglaugh

Maybe, maybe not. Its not my responsibilty that sales come and go but theirs. This been happening for quite some time so they had PLENTY of time to fix it. Maybe its fixed now since i dont check my topbucks stats anymore but im just giving a heads up to people to keep an eye on that because i know it happened quite a few times.

And i have bad experiences contacting company reps about stats problems as we both know.

Although I can't speak for TopBucks here, as someone who wri-tes affiliate software for a living I can tell you that this may not be a miscredited sales problem at all.

In one example where this was happening, we determined it was caused by the tour tracking system. Say a user goes to Affiliate 100's website, clicks the link to a site, and then leaves. Later they go to Affiliate 200's website, click the link and go to the same site. They're now tracked as an Affiliate 200 referral, but because they'd been to the site from Affiliate 100 the coo-kie which tracks their referring URL is already set to Affiliate 100's coo-kie. The fix in this case was to flush both referring URL and affiliate ID coo-kie when the supplied affiliate ID doesn't match the coo-kie.

And before you jump on the use of coo-kie, note that the Affiliate ID should be pushed around the tours in the URL somewhere, and that the hahahahahahas are only used to make sure you get credit if they come back on their own accord.

I would suggest you send an email to support@ letting them know of the issue. :)

Buran

Edited to remove 'hahaha'

But what about the hahahah when opening a hahahah in a hahahahah of someone elses hahahaha would that give credit for the hahahaha of someone elses hahahaha?

hahahahaha

Yeah sorry I didn't know that everyone's favorite baked dough good was a banned word. I edited my previous post.

B.

Why not saving the ip with the referer and id in some database, and then when they signup you grab the referer and id from the database again using the ip.