What is your opinion of cookies and sales?

[Jace]

it just amazes me what people think is good business when it comes to affiliates

I have no problem with the current webmaster getting the sale, but when it comes to me not getting a sale because someone 22 days ago sent one click, that pisses me off

and to top this entire fleshlight thing off, here is some more fun

check out my stats from right before I pulled my links:


notice the referral on the bottom? now you see why I was trying to contact someone at siccash.com, WHY would I get a referral from a siccash site you might ask? well, here is the fleshlight explanation:

If you initiated the sale first, then you as an affiliate will get credit for that, even if the surfer goes to another ad before purchasing....but, this is because of the cookie, which only has a life of 30 days.

I said, "huh?"

he replied:

The referring url's are coming from all traffic hits, not just click thru traffic. This is also referring url's from sales not just click thru stats.

once again, I said "huh?"

this was his last response before I pulled my links:

It's simple, we have locked cookies.

So no one can take that sale from the first person that initiated that sales within 30 days.

If a surfer goes to your site

clicks on fleshlight for the first time thru YOUR ref code

our cookie then embeds your ref code for 30 days

however, within that 30 days if they go to fleshlight via another persons ref code you will still get the credit for that sale and their link is going to show up in your stats, because thts where they came from

we no longer offer a lifetime cookie