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Offline BehindBlueEyes

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3rd Party Ad Frustrations
« on: July 07, 2010, 04:49:54 AM »
No, I'm not complaining about nasties or fraudulent codes (for once)

For some reason I've been in shopping mode, I start my Christmas shopping in July and try to find unique things.  Rather than go to Google, I looked to banners on PTP pages and found some that met my interests.  The first three I tried redirected me to Smiley Central or told me it not available to me. The second three did not ship to Canada (and one was even a Canadian company  :o) 

The seventh (this one was the last straw) was a cook book which I really really wanted for myself and several for gifts... but it was not for sale, it was only to sign up as an affiliate for a 49.95 start up fee... but upon reading further even if I paid the 49.95 and signed up, it was not to sell the books, that fee was so I could get more sign ups.  There was absolutely no way even by going directly to the site to buy the books.  I wonder if they actually have any books at all.   
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Offline Esperanza

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Re: 3rd Party Ad Frustrations
« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2010, 10:03:21 AM »
In my opinion these online stores in the US that redirect everyone abroad to crap sites like smiley traffic are wasting an awful lot of potential sales.
What they should do is open affiliate accounts with stores that sell similar products and do ship internationally.
Then redirect non-US visitors to a page on the website itself, where is explained that they don't ship internationally but that the visitor is welcome to browse their products anyway and if they find something they like they can buy that or a similar product at one of the online stores (which, of course, do ship internationally) that are listed on that same page .
They'd probably get more affiliate earnings that way than blindly redirecting everyone outside the US to the same useless sites.
« Last Edit: July 07, 2010, 10:20:50 AM by Esperanza »
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Offline BehindBlueEyes

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Re: 3rd Party Ad Frustrations
« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2010, 10:49:02 AM »
I agree, it's a complete wasted opportunity for those stores.

Another point is that I have many relatives and friends in the US and probably many of us do.  It costs me a fortune to package and send stuff across the border.  Just because the purchase is from a non US person doesn't mean that the shipping would be non US.
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