Funny Affilliate Story

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Deliguy

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Funny thing happened the other day that I thought i'd share with ya.

On one of my affiliate sites the price was wrong cus the product feed the advertiser gave had an error. Apparently a customer saw it and called in and bitched and moaned about it. So the rep on the phone went to the site and clicked on the link. Sure enough the price was wrong.
This is where it gets funny...
After all was said and done the rep forgot to clear his cookies, so for the rest of the day every single order he took over the phone gave me credit. This was like a percentage commission of $1,000+ products mind you. Tons of them!

When the affiliate program account manager called me she was all upset at me about it like it was my fault. I couldn't help it i just started laughing so hard. You should of heard how mad she was. It was hilarious.

Of course i let them reverse the transactions that came from their ip but the whole thing was definitely share worthy.
 


That actually happens a lot among merchants that use an affiliate network. idiots
 
I've heard abouth things like this happening before. The best one though came from Alex from Azoogle. If you ever see him at an event, you gotta ask him about the Target/Staples story. Too funny.
 
yeah its just one of those things you're bound to run into every once in awhile, both on the publisher and merchant side.
As long as proper credit is given where its due thats really all that can be done about it...well that and laugh.
 
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