Merchant Code of Conduct

My biggest dispute as an affiliate is  merchants competing against their affiliates. If you are a merchant you should only sell your products. But hundreds of merchants are adding affiliate programs on their website competing against their affiliates.

Publishers work hard to send traffic to merchants we can not afford to send our customers to a website that does not track ALL sales.

This goes for linking to any other stores. Merchants should not have any link to outside websites that sales will not be tracked for their affiliates. There is a way around this. 1. Programmers can make the links not accessible when customer comes from an affiliates website. 2. Provide a website specifically for your affiliates without outside links.

It is bad enough software programs are hi jacking publisher’s sales but what really takes the cake merchants are too.