Following on from my iPhone confusion post yesterday Kieron posted this morning about how affiliates are being banned from promoting the iPhone but that they still get £20 commission if they happen to make a sale.
This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard, here is the email from TradeDoubler that I got this morning:
Hi Patrick,
As a follow up to our communication earlier this week from the Carphone Warehouse, we have a very positive update regarding commission payments against the new iPhone.
Following discussions, it has been agreed that the Carphone Warehouse will pay affiliates £20 for each approved iPhone sale.
The iPhone goes live on the site on the 11th July, however they will also pay affiliates for all the Apple iPhone orders from the 7th July that go through as sales.
This is based on one important factor. Affiliates will not be able to advertise this product under any means, no links can go through to the Apple iPhone page, and if you been found advertising the Apple iPhone we will not be able to pay any commission on the sales generated.
Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
Kind Regards
Glen Blake
Account Director
glen.blake@tradedoubler.com
Words fail me. How can they tell people who have probably been writing about the iPhone for 2 years to suddenly stop promoting it? What about sites that have hundreds or thousands of visitors a day arriving from search engines looking for the iPhone? You can’t just turn this traffic off.
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