4 Ways Affilates Commissions Get Stolen
Posted on March 30, 2008 - Filed Under Business
Many affiliates struggle as affiliate Internet marketers because of commission thieves. How rampant is this problem? For many struggling affiliates commission thieves could the reason why they are struggling to get sales.
You might wonder how people are able to steal your commission. Well, there a different ways your commission is stolen.
One way your commission can be stolen is when a person realizes that you are an affiliate and decides to prevent you from getting the commission by logging out of the website and re-entering the website again to buy the product. Some people will do this under the misapprehension that they will get the product cheaper by cutting the affiliate out of the commission. Commission is seen as an add-on and not as part of the cost of the product.
A merchant doesn’t discount the price by the affiliate’s commission. A commission is seen by the merchant as a necessary marketing expense, just as any form of advertising is a necessary marketing expense. A full sale price is really what the merchant wants, as this contributes more to the bottom line.
A second way your commission can be stolen is when someone sees your hop-link and decides to become an affiliate before purchasing the product. Get a number of people doing this and you will see a week’s worth of sales go out the door very quickly.
A third way commissions can be stolen is when the merchant makes a point of deliberating finding reasons why a commission should not be paid. This, of course, is hard for the merchant to do, if dealing with a commission house like Clickbank, so the merchant sets up a means by where every third or fourth sale is accredited to himself as an affiliate registered under another name. But if the commission is run from in-house, then the merchant can rob you blind. You have no way of knowing whether you have got a sale or not. All you know is visitors are going to the site but you are not getting any sales.
While those are the ways most people would probably expect their commission to get stolen, there is another more deceptive way commissions get stolen. This is done with the use of adware. Actually it is estimated that 90% of computers are affected by adware.
The tell tale sign is usually a pop-up which will often be a duplicate of the sales page. The unsuspecting customer is not aware an interception has taken place. They just go into the site and make their order. But what has happened is your affiliate I.D, has been supplanted by the thief’s I.D. who probably is using a number of different affiliate I.D.s on the site to mask the fact that it is the same person.
The only way you can find out is to place an order on a suspect site and see whether you I.D. is being recorded as the affiliate I.D. Where you would normally see the affiliates’ I.D. on the payment page is you will be able to see whether you commission is being stolen or not. You don’t continue with your order, because you are just checking.
As an affiliate you must be vigilant and treat what you are doing as a business, otherwise you will be wasting your time and money.
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