Nina Meiers wrote:
Hi - are you sure?
Hi Nina - yeah I'm very sure this is yet another traditional DNN
"hey lets completely change how we do things and not give any warning, or any thought to how it affects the ecosystem" episodes. Remember how Professional edition was launched? Or when DNN purchased open search engine and took it off snowcovered. (And thats just some of the more recent examples)
This sudden announcement is a big slap in the face of anyone who was working diligently as an affiliate for any period of time.
It is like showing up to your job one day and your employer says "hey we aren't going to pay you anymore, but we still expect you to keep working".
I thought it was being revamped to make it better for us all. How can you tell if the referral link is so limited?
Once the user closes their browser, you will not get any credit. Most people need to make a decision about buying/not buying a module, so I wouldn't expect many sales to occur on that one session. Session cookies are insulting and is I don't waste my time with merchants who aren't serious about their affiliate program.
What good will it be for me to have on a site that just points to snow and doesn't actually point to a specific product?
It wont do you much good at all. If you were linking to a specific product, then you will at least have some small hope (but for me that small hope is not enough to justify the effort).
What about if a developer has his products for sale and links them to snow in an effort to get a little more out of the deal?? Will this now not work unless people actually buy at that time?
Nothing will work unless the person buys sometime between when they click the link and when they close their browser window.
I am a bit confused - I thought it was going to be an improvement.
Nina
Session cookies are what companies use as a way of saying "we don't want any affiliates anymore".
http://www.abestweb.com/forums/showth...
http://www.abestweb.com/forums/showth...
http://www.abestweb.com/forums/showth...
http://www.abestweb.com/forums/showth...
(etc)
Session cookies are a blatant attempt to cut affiliates out of the picture and save money. But like any greedy affiliate program that tries to rip off their affiliates, they will soon find themselves with no affiliates left - and substantially lower sales as a result.
Oscar